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> Hello all, > >I know this message is really old, but I am wondering >if anyone who reads this might have an email where I >can reach Jim Cox. I played for the Mysticks for two >seasons from 1997-1999. I would love to know if he >could help me get my hands on some old game tapes. If >anyone can help me out it would be greatly >appreciated. Thanks > >Russ > >monteitr@hotmail.com >> >>Jim Cox's yellowfin tuna tips scale at 172.2 pounds, >>breaking old mark >> >>07/21/03 >> >>By DAVID RAINER >>Outdoors Editor >> >> >>DAUPHIN ISLAND -- The 71st annual Alabama Deep Sea >>Fishing Rodeo's final day started with a bang and >>ended the same way. >> >> >>When the weigh station opened Sunday, Capt. Brian >>Swindle's Hard Time was waiting to weigh in a >>156-pound swordfish, not a rodeo category, but an >>unusual sight at the rodeo. >> >>About an hour before the cannon fired at 5 p.m., the >>second rodeo-record fish came to the docks. >> >>Jim Cox, who did the radio broadcasts for the defunct >>Mobile Mysticks hockey team, brought a 172.2-pound >>yellowfin tuna to the scales, bumping the 171.4-pound >>fish caught last year by Daniel Robinson. >> >>"I'm telling you Capt. Mike Rogers is hot," said Cox, >>who was fishing on the Amante. "He tagged a blue >>(marlin) in the Memorial Day tournament, and we tagged >>a blue Friday. We were trolling a big rip this morning >>with an Islander with a ballyhoo. There was a huge >>explosion." >> >> >>The tuna hit the lure that was a 30W reel with >>50-pound test. >> >>"We were afraid he was going to spool me, but he just >>sounded," Cox said. "While I was fighting the fish, a >>huge waterspout was barreling straight for us. So we >>had to move the boat. >> >>"Then when I got him to the boat, two guys couldn't >>hoist the fish over the side. It took four of us to >>the get the fish in the boat." >> >>But back to the swordfish, Matthew Johnson tagged a >>blue marlin at the Ram-Powell before Swindle moved the >>boat to the Marlin rig and caught the swordfish on a >>hardtail about 400 feet down with a glow stick. >> >>"We bill-hooked him so he didn't put up a fight," >>Swindle said. "We just kind of reeled him up. Then I >>shined a light over there and saw it was a swordfish. >>There weren't but three of us up at the time, so I >>started waking people up. >> >>"We gaffed him and threw it in the back of the boat >>green, and he started tearing stuff up. I've got a >>knot on the back of my head from trying to get out of >>his way." >> >>Of course, during a fishing tournament, there has to >>be a tale about the one that got away. >> >>Wesley Williams III, on the Deliverance, fought a huge >>yellowfin tuna for four hours before the line finally >>gave way. >> >>"We were chumming with pogeys and this huge yellowfin >>came right up to the back of the boat," said Jonathan >>Dunnam, captain of the Deliverance. "We fed him about >>15 pogeys before we got him to eat one with a hook. >>And we had to do on a suicide rig. He wouldn't take >>anything with a leader. It was 60-pound test line and >>it just wore through." >> >>Williams had to fight the tuna in stand-up gear. >> >>"I thought for a while I had a permanent back >>problem," Williams said. >> >>The Deliverance still managed to take second place in >>tuna with Allen Andrews' 126.41-pounder, which also >>won the tuna jackpot. >> >>Although the number of large tuna was down from last >>year, there were big dolphin everywhere offshore. >> >>Bancroft McMurphy led the way with a 47.47-pound >>dolphin, caught trolling around the deep-water rigs. >> >>"We were letting dolphin go because we didn't have >>enough cooler space," McMurphy said. >> >>Capt. Mike Thierry on the Lady Ann said the same thing >>after Mark Goncalves won the dolphin jackpot with a >>33.81-pounder on his boat. Goncalves also won the >>wahoo jackpot at 43.8. >> >>"We were throwing back 15- to 20-pound dolphin," >>Thierry said. "It was a great trip." >> >>The first tarpon of the rodeo were weighed in Sunday. >>Greg Zieman caught a 90.5-pounder, while Justin Toomey >>weighed in an 81.6-pounder. >> >>Joseph DeGeer was the master angler with a first place >>in gafftopsail catfish at 7.74 and triggerfish at >>8.34. He also had second in flounder at 5.69. >> >>In the jackpots, Sheree Dees on Top Producer claimed >>the king jackpot at 62.27 and the Polar boat package. >> >>Twelve-year-old Dillon Winstanley of Irvington was the >>lucky angler whose name was drawn for the 21-foot >>Contender boat package, while Edward Anderson of >>Gautier, Miss., won the Sea Chaser boat package in the >>speckled trout drawing. >> >>UNQUOTE
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