The 10th Hudson River Fishermen's Association Annual Surf Fishing Tournament

The 10th Hudson River Fishermen's Association Annual Surf Fishing Tournament is set for October 15th, 2011 in both Seaside Heights and Seaside Park, New Jersey. This is an ASAC sanctioned surf fishing tournament ([You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

Teams and Individuals are invited to participate. 4x4 permits have been waived with paid registration for the event. This year, we anticipate over 100 sponsors will contribute to the prizes of this tournament. Everything from the smallest rig companies, to private plug makers to custom rod makers to cooler rack manufactures and everything in between. Don't forget also, there are some cash $$$ prizes too. To to get an application or to ask questions, send me an e-mail at [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] and I will send it to you.

The HRFA is a 501c3 non profit organization. This is a fund raiser event for us. If you wish to become a sponsor, please send me an e-mail at the same address above. For more information about the HRFA, go to [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] If you select the surf tournament link in the middle of the home page, you can see more about the surf tournament itself.

Thanks and see you on the beach!
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Carl Hartmann
Director, Hudson River Fishermen's Association

A great event you have there Carl.

Hey guys, this is one of our larger prizes for the surf tournament. A custom made surf fishing pole by Joe Miani. The description is below.

The rod is a custom made eleven foot one-piece surf spin rod. It is built on the Lamiglas GSB132 1M blank. The rod is contructed with Fuji black frame Alconite ceramic ring guides specifically designed to handle all monofilament and braided lines. The handle is built with a Fuji deluxe reel seat and the actual grip material is a navy blue diamond pattern over a powder blue heat shrink rubber tubing; to compliment the handle the guides are wrapped in metallic navy blue over pearlescent white metallic thread. This is a truly one-of-a-kind custom rod. It is finished with three coats of epoxy and is adorned with the HRFA club logo. The equivalent factory Lamiglas rod is an XS111MS graphite surf & jetty rod. It will comfortably handle up to eight ounces (with bait) or lures in the 2-5oz range (for plugging). The factory specifications set the line rating at a maximum of 40lb test; but most of the people that use this blank are fishing with Power Pro in the range of 30# test (for plugging) to 50# test for bait fishing, or mono in the 15#-25# test range. This rod will accomodate just about any full size surf reel ( a normal 2.25"-3.00" spool lip diameter) but the matching reel should weigh at least 20ozs. to balance the rod weight and length.
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Carl Hartmann
Director,
Hudson River
Fishermen's Association
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Guys, both Lemires plugs and Black Label Plugs are sponsors for this events. They have both committed to donate some of their plugs.

Support them please.

Thank

Carl

Can't wait... by far one of the best tournaments of the year. Have some plugs for yea also Carl.



Bluesfish[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

Guys,

Striper Bites is another sponsor....

Please support them.

Carl

Hey Carl here's one That's going to the tourn.
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Bluesfish

That is beautiful... Can I use these photo's to promote the event?

Thank you so much Striper Bites!

Carl Hartmann
HRFA

Sure. I'll be posting more of what I'm bringing soon.

Jeff

awesome work Jeff

Couple more for the Tourn.
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Bluesfish

Jeff,

These are beautiful. Are you going to the Avalon tournament this weekend?

Carl

Won't be able to fish this weekend Carl, but I'll be on the beach for next weeks Tourn.

Jeff

Thanks,

I would like to get these to show off at our meetings. Perhaps I will see at the Ocean City tournament.

Thanks for your help.

Carl

I'll be at the OC Tourn. I'll bring them with me. I'll also have some others with me . See yea next week Carl.


Jeff

Here are two more prizes for our October 15th fund raiser surf tournament. I had a picture but could not upload it.

The item on the left is a sand cart from Anglers Mate

The item on the right is a live well with pump from Keep Alive.

Everyone is invited to register for this surf tournament. Just e-mail me at [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

Both donated for our tournament to be given out as prizes.