Mar
13

March Merkin Permit Tournament: 2009 Benson and Allen Victorious

Posted under fly fishing news by Dave Teper

It was a tough 3 days fishing in Key West.  Day 3 of the March Merkin yielded 0 fish on the board resulting in a wire to wire victory for Will and Mike with a total of 2 fish and 197 points.

Congrats

On another note, the Madfin Shark tournament is about to get going, and look who showed up…the Holemans.  Both of them.  Travis was waiting in the driveway at Rathole Studios with this shiny new Lake and Bay that looks like it just came out of the mold.  He going on and on about chum, wire leaders, bloodbath, and all that other googan fishing shit.

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It looks like I’m going meat fishing for a few days…I’m not too proud.

  1. Cole Said,

    Congrats on the win, fellas!

  2. jeremy Said,

    Nice work! Wow! The Permit were pretty much a no show. Maybe the folks who market the Merkin Tournament, forgot to add “The Permit” to the tournament update email list?? :) — Anyway, when any fish are spread out and concentrations are thin (which it sounds like that was the case) … ya definately gotta make every shot count – and that’s especially true with permit – because ya gotta do that even when there IS a high concentration of fish. So, I don’t know I’m just a guy who like to cast to pretty much anything that crosses my path, but it seems that winning under these circumstances says a lot more than if the concentration of permit had been higher. Nice work FINDING the few fish that did show up for the tournament, setting up on the fish and making the relatively few “shots” that you did have COUNT. So often, the art of FINDING THE FISH gets trumped by the art of making the perfect presentation and “selling” the fish the fly .. but .. if ya can’t find ‘em .. well then .. the presentation and “selling” the fly don’t matter much .. infact, they don’t matter at all. Nice work finding the fish, presenting the fly and selling the fly! Not easy to do – under any circumstances – especially when there are “No” fish! ..

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