Team SeaVee Che landed this 151-pound Warsaw grouper The first time Sam Crosthwait Memorial Tournament committee members attempted to stick this hefty Warsaw grouper on the hook to determine its weight, the giant steel hook bent, and the grouper flopped to the stage floor.
The gallery of spectators shown above exploded into applause. Maybe part of that appreciation was tied to the fact that this 10-inch hook bent, yet Brian Beukema of Team SeaVee Che managed to crank the grouper 300 feet up, in 3- to 4-foot seas, with heavy fishing tackle and a dead pinfish.
In any event, Crosthwait members rigged-up a rope through the grouper's gill and out its mouth and hoisted it in the air.
The reaction was that as above: Cameras snapping pictures, hands clapping high in the air, mouths agape, eyes fixed on a monster.
That's one of the things the Crosthwait is about. Every year, it seems, at least one offshore boat manages to bring back a person-sized fish.
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