Surf Fishing Series Welcome

SURF SERIES TRAIL WELCOME

Welcome to the second year of the Fisherman’s Post Surf Series Trail, a season-long competition running in the background of the five surf fishing events that Fisherman’s Post hosts every year. Our goal is to encourage more people to make the effort to fish more of our events in the chase to be one of the first ever champions of the Surf Series Trail.

The Surf Series Trail is made up of one division: the Aggregate Weight Division. This division adds up the total weight of up to five of your heaviest fish weighed in over the course of the five qualifying events. The “up to five fish” can be from any event’s leaderboard species (including TWT fish) weighed in during that event; however, no more than one of any one species in any one event can count towards Surf Series Trail points. For example, if you weigh in more than one bluefish over the weekend in the Pleasure Island Fall Surf Fishing Challenge, only your single heaviest of those bluefish will count towards Surf Series Trail points, but you can have one bluefish, one sea mullet, and one pompano (etc.) from the Pleasure Island Fall Surf Fishing Challenge count towards Surf Series Trail points, and you can have one bluefish count from multiple events (ex. one bluefish from Topsail Spring, one bluefish from Hatteras Surf, and one bluefish from Topsail Fall).

The five qualifying events in the Surf Series Trail are the Pleasure Island Team Surf Fishing Challenge, the Topsail Spring Surf & Pier Fishing Challenge, the Hatteras Island Surf Fishing Challenge, the Pleasure Island Fall Surf Fishing Challenge, and the Topsail Fall Surf & Pier Fishing Challenge.

Anglers don’t have to fish all five qualifying events. You can fish as many or as few of the five events that you wish. The more events you fish, though, gives you a better chance at weighing in more fish and upgrading your five heaviest fish weight total.

We will be paying out $4,000 in prize money (based on 50 anglers) to the top five anglers in the Surf Series Trail. That’s $4,000 in addition to all the prize money anglers can win from the leaderboards of the five individual surf fishing events. To be clear, you don’t have to pay the Surf Series Trail entry fee to fish any of the five surf fishing tournaments. Any angler—whether in the Surf Series Trail or not—can still fish any of the individual events, as the five surf fishing tournaments we host continue to be great stand-alone events, but you will need to enter the Surf Series Trail for the opportunity at the additional Surf Series Trail prize money.

Fisherman’s Post will be recording, updating, and posting each angler’s running Surf Series Trail score at the conclusion of each of the five qualifying events, and we have made the following datasheets available to help you record your own fish weights throughout the Surf Series Trail: Aggregate Datasheet and an Example Aggregate Datasheet.

There is no deadline for signing up for the Surf Series Trail, but none of an angler’s fish in an event can count towards Surf Series Trail points unless they have paid the Surf Series Trail entry fee prior to that qualifying event.

There are more details on the Surf Series Trail online. You’re also welcome to call Fisherman’s Post at (910) 452-6378, or send an email to surf@fishermanspost.com.

Just make sure you get entered for what is sure to be an exciting and competitive year of the Fisherman’s Post Surf Series Trail.

Gary Hurley / Surf Series Director
(910) 452-6378
surf@fishermanspost.com