Team Diversion & Various Pics from SBO 2004

[biggsy]

With a last second charter thrown together my pops and I joined up with team Diversion with Mike Melcher and Sam Jones for a beautiful day of diving in our first tournament. We had hoped just to make the table and shoot some fish and come back safe. I accomplished that and was happy to take my 23.6 pts. to the prize table. My pops had a rough day, but still made some nice drops and had a blast. Someone said to me at the tournament, if they did not make the prize table they were sure going to eat 100 bucks worth of BBQ. Most everyone got a chance to get something from the prize table, so doing that would not be necessary.

Our team made a decent showing, but the fish were not to be found. It was not from lack of effort. We loaded the night before and met at the dock at 5 AM. We were heading out of John's Pass by 5:30 am and in the water by 8:30 am. We hit around 15 spots from 160 fsw to 35 fsw. The gumbo was real thick in shore.

Thanks again for Mike and offering up two spots on his beautiful boat. You made our tournament one to remember and we had a blast diving with two people we had just met the day before. I only wish we would have shot more fish and made a better showing for our team, but we got back safe and got some fish, so it was a success in my book! Thanks for the lessons in how to operate the boat, it was educational and fun all in one.

Everyone from our team had a great time and Scott and Kim and all of the volunteers made our first tournament experience a memorable one.

Enjoy some of the pics from my perspective of the 2004 Spearboard Open.