Pigzilla Rockfish Tournament Results

[Capt13]

Quite an impressive array of slobs made it to the scales !!

From their facebook page:

Thanks to everyone who fish 2018 Pigzilla. Full leaderboard results.

1st Open wide 60lbs 11oz
2nd Aquatreatment 58lbs
3rd No regrets 57lbs 8oz
4th Daddy dog 56lbs 5oz
5th Allfloor up 55lbs 11oz
6th Breedlove 55lbs 10oz
7th Dewy 55lbs 10oz
8th Rob C 55lbs 2oz
9th Horse play 55lbs
10th Sho Nuf 54lbs 13oz
11th Play hard 54lbs 5oz
12th Top Dog 54lbs 2oz
13th Henry Vu 53lbs 5oz
14th Offshore Fabrications 53lbs 3oz
15th Kin lin 52lbs 10oz
16th Bruce Francis 52lbs 10oz
17th Fish Freaks 52lbs 10oz
18th Champ 52lbs 8oz
19th Ava Marie 52lbs 6oz
20th Scumline 50lbs 12oz
21st Dan The Mann 50lbs 5oz
22nd On the Rocks 48lbs 11oz
23rd Enforcer 48lbs 5oz
24th Gal-O-mine 46lbs 4oz
25th Jerry Harris 45lbs
26th Pappa John 45lbs
27th Don Jamie 44lb
28th Daniel mccoy 43lbs 14oz
29th Amazing Grace 41lbs 11oz
30th Wet Paint 41lbs

Junior Angler
1st Fisher Zimmerman 57lbs 8oz
2nd Aaron Edwards 55lbs 10oz
3rd Anne King 55lbs 6oz
4th Gregory Lessard 54lbs 13oz
5th Matthew Breedlove 53lbs11oz

 

[cany]

Cows

 

[wader]

OMG beautiful catches

 

[Capt13]

Va Beach I believe ...... your neck of the woods !

 

[MOJOE]

wow some bass there ,, well done!:cool::cool::cool:,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,><))):>
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[eyeglassjoe]

SLOBS !!!

 

[wader]

where did this take place?

 

[Capt13]

Virginia Beach I believe. It was ongoing the whole month of December

 

[wader]

and I missed it? I'm an hour ride from there.....................

dang!!

 

[crabby]

and I missed it? I'm an hour ride from there.....................

dang!!

Were you going to fish or watch?

 

[Roccus7]

Very mixed emotions on this post. All beautiful "Fish of a Lifetime" catches, and congrats on catching, but to encourage extra pressure on the coast's key prime breeder population by holding a tournament named "Pigzilla" promotes activities that are not in the best interest of the fish, especially with the rumor that the latest assessments are showing a continued drop in the overall population.

I hope that these fish were used for food, but the back of my mind brings up old images of shark tournaments with piles of bluedogs being towed out to sea. This just reinforces my thought that a slot limit and a few trophy tags would be very beneficial for the striped bass population.

 

[wader]

Were you going to fish or watch?

I would have tried to get on a boat somehow..............

 

[crabby]

Very mixed emotions on this post. All beautiful "Fish of a Lifetime" catches, and congrats on catching, but to encourage extra pressure on the coast's key prime breeder population by holding a tournament named "Pigzilla" promotes activities that are not in the best interest of the fish, especially with the rumor that the latest assessments are showing a continued drop in the overall population.

I hope that these fish were used for food, but the back of my mind brings up old images of shark tournaments with piles of bluedogs being towed out to sea. This just reinforces my thought that a slot limit and a few trophy tags would be very beneficial for the striped bass population.

I looked around the net and didn't see anything about the disposition of fish, such as a food pantry. Do you think those fish would be released if it weren't a tournament? Perhaps some, but I doubt that the majority of trophy fish get released.

 

[wader]

Bass is highly prized as food down here. My guess - most, if not all were consumed.

Bass is a lot different from shark, especially if they don't restrict the take for the tourney to edible species (i.e. Mako, Thrasher, etc.). If they include blue dogs - of course there'll be a pile of carcasses as they're not edible.

 

[Roccus7]

I looked around the net and didn't see anything about the disposition of fish, such as a food pantry. Do you think those fish would be released if it weren't a tournament? Perhaps some, but I doubt that the majority of trophy fish get released.

If there wasn't a tournament I don't think as many folks would be targeting the bigguns.

 

[Roccus7]

Bass is highly prized as food down here. My guess - most, if not all were consumed.

Bass is a lot different from shark, especially if they don't restrict the take for the tourney to edible species (i.e. Mako, Thrasher, etc.). If they include blue dogs - of course there'll be a pile of carcasses as they're not edible.

I'm sure they are, but most folks who love eating bass, myself included would rather be eating 15 lb fish than 50s... Of course I'd rather catch a 50 than a 15...

 

[AllyKat]

Funny..I mentioned this tournament to my cousin who lives in Norfolk. He never heard of it, even though he knows the port and marina very well. Besides owning a Prop shop down there, he also runs a small salvage company and Dive business that cleans and services lots of boats in the area. He fishes most major tournaments that the area holds. They came in third in the Rockfish shootout this year, and placed first in the VB Tuna Tourney this summer also.

 

[wader]

On my across the Chesapeake I have to pass what is without a doubt the biggest B&T on the Shore. They usually post things like this on a large billboard on Route 13 just outside of the shop. Didn't see anything about it but that may have been simply timing.

 

[Capt13]

This is where I found the results:

Pigzilla Tournament

 

[AllyKat]

On my across the Chesapeake I have to pass what is without a doubt the biggest B&T on the Shore. They usually post things like this on a large billboard on Route 13 just outside of the shop. Didn't see anything about it but that may have been simply timing.

Chris's B n T or, or on the other side....Oceans East II?