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Outdoor Channel Offshore Classic January 14-16 2007 Islamorada, Florida |
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Outdoor Channel Offshore Classic January 14-16 2007 Islamorada, Florida |
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This year's tournament was a very special one for all of us, we flew 13 wounded Iraqi war Veterans from Walter Reed Army hospital in Wash, DC down to fish the tournament with us. The PVA Heritage Fund is a great program and we have been able to do many great things like this every year thanks to all of our great sponsors. A special thank you is owed to a special group of guys, they are ALWAYS there when we need them for projects like this, because as you might imagine the volunteers are the people that make it work. Ken Onion (Designer, knife maker, Kershaw & ZT knives), Jeff Goddard (Kershaw Knives), Steve Michels (ZT knives), Brooke Smith (SureFire flashlights), Al Noraker (Wright and McGill/Eagle Claw), Jim Sifers (retired).
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*Clicking on all photos will take you to a larger photo
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Team 1 Doug Warren Ken Onion Patrick Rose Rob Kislow Boat: Pretty Work
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Team 2 General Randy West Joe Fox Sr Jake Keesler Al Noraker Boat: Man O War
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Team 3 Brooke Smith Jack Franklin Derick Harden Corey Smith Boat: Sachem
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Team 4 Steve Michels Carl Flemons Jim Sifers Boat: Class Action
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Team 5 Barry Yancosec Alexander Lane Jr Noah Bailey Jeff Combs Boat: Genesis
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Team 6 Joe Fox Jr Jeff Homuth Jeremiah Homuth Boat: Killer White |
Team 7 Steve Springer Brent Hendricks Doug Beckley Ross Graden Boat: Gon Fishin |
 Captain Peter Wright from Marlin Magazine and the World Class Sport fishing TV Show working with the guys from Walter Reed prior to the kickoff party. Special harnesses had to be created for our amputee anglers and they worked great and the guys caught plenty of sailfish. It is amazing what you can come up with using spare parts, belts, pvc pipe etc.
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 More practice |
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Making sure their are no kinks in the system
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The Kickoff party |
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Chatting with the teams
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Morning one: After setting out the chum bag we are waiting on the baitfish (Ballyhoo) to arrive. |
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Ken Onion battling his first salifish |
 Joe Fox fighting a sailfish with PVA Heritage fund board member and USMC General Randy West. (Photo courtesy of AL Noraker of Wright & McGill)
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Joe Fox Sr and Randy West fighting Joe's sailfish (Photo courtesy of AL Noraker of Wright & McGill)
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Joe's fish in the air (Photo courtesy of AL Noraker of Wright & McGill)
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Sponsors that helped make
this happen for our wounded Veterans and the PVA Heritage fund Blade Magazine and Krause Publications Field and Stream
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Photos from the Boat Genesis
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PVA Heritage fund- www.pvaheritagefund.org
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