Marty Slade and his team on Slade Em won the 21st annual Charlie Rice Memorial Fishing Tournament Saturday at Treasure Island. Fishing with his father, Richard, and wife, Vanessa, Slade won master angler for the inshore division with an 8.56-pound snook and a 6.88-pound red drum, and he won $420. Slade also caught a speckled trout, the third target species, but was beaten by David Metheney, who weighed a 1.92-pound trout. In the offshore division for grouper, mangrove snapper and amberjack, Double D won all three master angler awards. Dennis Cline took honors with a 43.44-pound amberjack and a 14.24-pound gag grouper, and he won $288. Rhonda Morris won the women's master with a 9.20-pound gag grouper and a 5.52 mangrove snapper. Trevor Kincheloe caught a 34.64-pound amberjack and a snapper of 4.72 pounds to be youth master angler.
Vanessa Slade won the inshore women's division. Slade weighed an 8.14-pound snook, a 6.70 red drum and a 1.29 trout.
The youth inshore award went to Morgan Kien, who weighed two out of the three species. Kien, fishing on board the Off Da Hook, caught a 1.52-pound trout and a 3.12-pound red drum.
Rick Frazier runs Lucky Dawg Charters and can be reached at (727) 510-4376.
