![]() ![]() #Wicc bluefish tournament plusThe total cost of entry is $41 per angler ($36 for entry plus a $5 fee). Anywhere inside these boundaries is fair game while you duke it out for bluefish fame! ![]() The tournament is confined to the waters of Long Island Sound with the westernmost boundary being the Whitestone Bridge and the easternmost edge being the Colregs Demarcation Line (a line running from Orient Point, New York across Great, Little & Gull Islands, to Race Point on Fishers Island and from the East Point on Fishers Island to Watch Hill Point, Rhode Island which includes Fishers Island Sound). There are 16 weigh stations this year, eight in Connecticut and eight on Long Island and they are pretty evenly spaced along the shorelines of each state. Each weigh station is given a calibrated scale (which is retrieved afterward). on Saturday August 27th and runs through 5 p.m. Weigh in your fish at one our participating advertisers (AW Marina in New London, J&B Tackle in Niantic or Fisherman’s World in Norwalk) and your catch may be featured in our reports section! That’s still not all, the heaviest blue hung on the scale at each weigh station will also nab a $100 port prize, there are 16 port prizes and no contestant may take home more than one prize. But that’s still not all, fourth and fifth will take home $500 each, places 6 through 10 get $200 each, 11 through 15 will grab $150 each and places 16 through 20 will each take home a cool C-note. In addition to the $25,000 grand prize, the second-largest bluefish landed will net $7,500 and third place will deposit a check for $2,500. This is not a ‘winner take all’ tournament either, there are many ways to take home some prize money. Saltwater anglers across New York and southern New England know to expect it, on the weekend before Labor Day, the unofficial end of the angling summer is marked by this longstanding event that gets anglers of all ages and tackle shops all over Long Island and Connecticut involved in the hysteria. It’s back! The Greatest Bluefish Tournament on Earth along with its $25,000 grand prize. Joe Gallo, the 2021 WICC grand prize winner poses with a check nearly as large as the fish he caught to win it! ![]()
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