JCAA 22nd Annual Fluke Tournament

The JCAA 22nd Annual Fluke Tournament will take place on Saturday, August 6th and the Awards Presentations will take place on Thursday, August 11th at the Clarion Hotel on Rt. 37 in Toms River, NJ.

Entries have been coming in. Affidavits will be mailed soon.

In this edition of our newspaper there is a four-page insert advertising our fluke tournament. Contained within that insert is an application. You can fill that our and either mail or fax to our office.

I apologize that our website does not yet contain our 2016 tournament information and our online entry form is not yet ready. There is major work being performed on the server and it is a major undertaking to switch all the websites from the old server to the new server. The work should be concluded soon and we will have everything up on the site.

As I wrote last month, we have some exciting changes this year! There will be the normal 1st place prize of $1200 cash and 9 merchandise prizes for each port. Last year we introduced four cash calcuttas, a $50 & $100 calcutta for each port and a $50 & $100 calcutta for the overall tournament. We will continue the calcuttas for this year as they were very popular last year with a lot of interest and participation.

Last year we also offered a $25,000 cash prize for the largest fish weighed in over 12lbs by 1/100 of a pound. This year we are offering $50,000 cash to one lucky angler who catches a fluke over 12lbs by 1/100 of a pound!

Some facts from last year’s tournament:

• We paid out $10,800 in 1st place prize money
• Other port prizes paid out: $16,776
• Total port prize money paid out: $27,576
• We paid out $19,643.75 in Calcutta money
• Port prizes, calcuttas given away: $47,219.75
• Plus Door prize value: Approx. $3,500
• Total: $50,719.75
• Plus Boat, Motor & trailer: Approx. $10,000
• In total we paid out over $60,000 in cash and prizes!
• The overall tournament winner, Dan Nykyforuk won $11,000 plus a free $500 mount of his fish!

The Grand Prize Drawing at the Awards Presentations this year will again be a 14’ G3 boat, 20hp Yamaha engine and a trailer.

Our Major Sponsors this year are:

• Yamaha Outboards
• G3 Boats
• Tica Fishing Tackle
• Canyon Reels
• The Fisherman
• Interlux Paints
• Costa Sunglasses

We have three 1st Place Port Sponsors for this year. Please support our sponsors! They are:

• Hoffman’s Marina
• South Harbor Marine
• Fisherman’s Headquarters

For the first time this year, we will be having free food and drink at the Awards Presentations on August 11th at the Clarion Hotel. We will have sliders, hot dogs, soft drinks, etc. Yes, free! So bring the whole family and crew and have some fun and let’s load up the banquet hall and make a nice impression for our tournament sponsors!