Ken Zwirko and Gary Corsetti with 41.93 pound winner on the Showtime. |
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Article printed in the Angler, October, 2004
The weather was beautiful at 6:30 a.m. Saturday morning for the first day of fishing the M & D Tackle-Zecco Marine Massachusetts Striper Slam. That was to change suddenly when Tropical Storm Ivan decided to pay New England a surprise visit. Torrential rain and strong wind came from nowhere at 10 a.m. and sent most participants scrambling for safe harbor. Boy did it blow! We did have three boatloads of brave souls make it to Wareham to weigh fish.
First in were Dave and Chris Mullahy on their new 34' Fountain, the 5 for Fighting. They caught their fish early in the day fishing near Gay Head in 20 to 40 feet of water using eels and trolling tube & worms. They caught a dozen fish all around 20 pounds. When they tried to move further out in the Vineyard Sound, conditions were too bad to fish they headed back to Wareham to weigh their 21.94 lb. fish to finish in third place.
Next to the dock was the On-Line; Skip Stritzinger's Mercury powered Contender.
Skip and Chuck Masso fished the Southeast corner of Block Island where they caught their second place 35.81-pound bass fishing eels in 50 to 60 feet of water. "We caught seven or eight small fish early." said Stritzinger. "We moved out to deeper water and immediately lost a really good fish, much bigger than the fish we brought to the scales. Then the 10 knot breeze shifted to the North and the skies turned black and all hell broke loose so we headed back to Wareham to weigh our fish."
Last in to the Zecco Marine fuel dock were Gary Corsetti and Ken Zwirko on Corsetti's little Contender, the Showtime. They also fished in Rhode Island and made the long hard run back to Wareham to weigh their fish. Their striper would tip the scales at 41.93 pounds to take home the first place award.
Thanks go to Mike Thomas and his family from M&D Tackle and Tony Zecco and his crew at Zecco Marine and Dick's Marine, our local ProLine dealer, for all their help.
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