The JCAA 16th Annual Awards Ceremony on June 18th attracted over 1000 people with about 400 boats represented, all there for the chance to win door prizes from our sponsors and the Grand Prize of $10,000. Pat Donnelly was our MC again and as usual Pat did a terrific job. There were plenty of door prizes to go around. What a great night, especially for Steve Lutz of Columbus, NJ. Steve won the $10,000 Grand Prize. Steve also reminded us that he was part of a 3-man crew that won the Grand Prize in 2002 of the boat, motor and trailer package. What a lucky guy! Congratulations, Steve!
JCAA would like to thank our sponsors for their generous contributions that always make this tournament and fundraiser a tremendous success.
The following companies provided the twelve port prizes for the ten ports:
| * Shakespeare Uglystik | * Penn | |
| * Spiderwire Ultracast Invisi-Braid | * Berkley Gulp | |
| * JCAA | * West Marine | |
| * Minn Kota | * Costa Del Mar | |
| * Costa Del Mar | * Fisherman’s Den, Belmar | |
| * Nor’east Magazine | * Interlux | |
| * NJ Angler Magazine | * Canyon Gear |
Listed below are the companies and organizations that supplied part or all of the $1200 for the top prize at one or more ports:
| * Contender |
| * Fisherman’s Headquarters |
| * Yamaha |
| * JCAA |
| * Hudson River Fisherman’s Association |
| * Ocean County board of Tourism |
CAA would also like to thank the following Door Prize Sponsors for their donations to help make this year’s tournament a success:
| * Berkley | * Berkley Gulp | |
| * Big Ed Custom Rods | * Blood Marine Services, Inc. | |
| * Canyon Gear | * Capt. Cal | |
| * Carlson Machine & Tool, Inc. | * Chambliss Marine | |
| * Costa Del Mar | * Fisherman’s Den, Belmar | |
| * Folsom Industries | * Interlux International Paint, Inc. | |
| * JCAA | * Minn Kota Motors | |
| * Miss Belmar | * Miss Belmar Princess | |
| * NJ Angler Magazine | * Ocean Explorer | |
| * Pells Bait and Tackle | * Penn Reels | |
| * Pro Fish | * Pure Fishing | |
| * Spiderwire Invisi-braid | * TTI Companies | |
| * Tackle Buddy | * Trump Marina Casino | |
| * Tsunami | * Uglystick Ultracast | |
| * West Marine |
JCAA would encourage everyone to support these sponsors for without their support and generous donations this tournament certainly would not be successful year after year.
I personally would also like to thank the many volunteers who chipped in and helped me at the registration desks this year. It sometimes can be a little hectic checking in at the desks but things ran silky-smooth this year. And also on behalf of JCAA I would like to thank the many other volunteers and their spouses who help out year after year. Thank you, all.
