WB Inshore Challenge Welcome

July 19 – 20, 2024, at Tex’s Tackle and Wrightsville Beach Marina

WELCOME

Welcome to the Wrightsville Beach Inshore Challenge, the longest standing Fisherman’s Post tradition, and as it’s our oldest child, we like to offer numerous features to make it an even more memorable time for those anglers that choose to spend the weekend with us.

For the first time in over a decade, Tournament HQ won’t be at Wild Wing Cafe. This year we are grateful to be hosting Friday’s Registration, Captains’ Meeting, and Captains’ Party, as well as Saturday’s Awards Dinner and Awards Ceremony, at the iconic Tex’s Tackle. Though the location has changed, we will still be offering drinks provided by Anheuser Busch/Adams Beverages on both days, and Saturday’s Awards Dinner will feature Papa Murphy’s Pizza and hot dogs and sides.

The weigh-in remains the same, though, and we’re excited to return to Wrightsville Beach Marina for Saturday’s 2:00-4:00 pm weigh-in.

Like previous years, the WBIC will feature an eight-place leaderboard focusing only on red drum, and with a leaderboard based on only your single heaviest red drum, we believe more anglers can be competitive in a search for one instead of two upper-slot red drum.

Of course everyone likes the idea of walking away from the event with a big check, and this year our Wrightsville Beach event offers optional Single Big Red Drum, Two Red Drum, and High Roller Single Big Red Drum TWTs as a way to further fatten your winnings. And like we’ve done in recent years, we’ll also be offering a “Trash Fish” TWT. The “Trash Fish” TWT payouts will go to the boats that weigh in the heaviest oyster toad or lizardfish.

The tournament will also be offering the $50 guaranteed bounty for the Junior, Lady, and Senior anglers scaling the heaviest single red drum in the event. In addition, we’ll be featuring the popular Specialty Weight prizes where anglers closest to the designated weights receive a $50 Intracoastal Angler gift card. And if those fish closest in weight are brought in alive, then they’ll receive an additional $25 gift card.

Finally, we are proud to continue the SeaTow prize, where SeaTow is awarding a $100 gift certificate (to Tex’s Tackle) for the single heaviest red drum weighed in by a current SeaTow member, as well as the Mudpuppy Salt Stix Prize–every boat that weighs in a fish will be automatically entered into a drawing for a Mudpuppy Salt Stix custom rod (valued at $300+).

For those that like the chance to win even more cash prizes, the Wrightsville Beach Inshore Challenge is the third qualifying event in the Inshore Trail, a season-long points competition running in the background of the five Inshore Challenge events we host every year. Any boat can use Wrightsville Beach fish towards the Inshore Trail, both for additional payouts in Wrightsville and to try and qualify for the invite-only Inshore Trail Championship at the end of the season–click here for more info and the complete rules of the Inshore Trail.

Fisherman’s Post is committed to conserving the resources that make events like this a possibility, so we’ll be awarding bonus cash payouts to all fish making the leaderboard that are alive and in releasable condition. We feel this encourages live weigh-in without penalizing those anglers who don’t have the ability to keep a large, slot red drum alive over the course of a full day of fishing.

The volunteers from Wilmington Elks will be helping us release fish, and we’ll be donating proceeds from the event to the Wilmington Elks to aid their mission of helping children, enhancing communities, and honoring the service and sacrifices of our military veterans.

If you’ve never fished a tournament before, this event is a great way to join in the experience. We hope to see you—old and new friends alike—at Friday’s Registration and Captains’ Party, as well as Saturday’s Weigh-In and Awards, for a weekend of eating, drinking, and fishing.

Gary Hurley / Tournament Director
(910) 452-6378
trail@fishermanspost.com