APOLLO BEACH – The South Shore Anglers are looking for residents who’d enjoy to fish, succeed prizes and advice fight pediatric cancer.
The neighborhood fishing club will certainly host its 2016 Longest Trout Tournament Friday and Saturday at The Alley at SouthShore, 10221 Big Bend Road, Riverview, and the entry fee is set to attract a crowd.
“As always, our objective is to grab as lots of people as feasible to enter our tournament,” said Steve Hoffman, event organizer. “That’s why we just ask for a $25 donation to participate.
“Every cent will certainly visit the 1Voice Foundation at USF so Dr. Cameron Tebbi can easily further his pediatric cancer research,” Hoffman said. “Every test he runs to sustain his project going costs in between $3,000 and $3,500.”
The 1Voice Foundation supplies services and solutions for kids battling cancer and their families in the Tampa area, said Mary Ann Massolio, 1Voice Foundation executive director. It funds and operates a pediatric cancer research lab at the University of South Florida under Tebbi’s direction.
“We are the legislative voice on Capitol Hill annually for Childhood Cancer Action Days and are opening the initial school in the United States for kids along with cancer, the 1Voice Academy, in partnership along with the Hillsborough County Schools,” she said.
Tebbi has actually been functioning on developing and formulating a vaccine for leukemia for the past couple of decades, said Massolio, a pediatric oncology social worker in Tampa for much more compared to two decades and the mother of a 9-year-old son lost to leukemia in 1997.
“Despite the fact that he has actually treated lots of kids along with leukemia, Dr. Tebbi’s focus is on prevention,” she said. “He has actually identified a healthy protein Located in the blood of leukemia survivors that kids devoid of leukemia don’t have. Moving forward, babies and kids will certainly one day be tested for that healthy protein and if Located they would certainly be vaccinated prior to creating the disease.
“The supreme objective is to eradicate leukemia by preventing it from ever occurring,” Massolio said.
The 378-member South Shore Anglers fishing club sponsors four events each year – the Longest Trout and Longest Redfish fishing tournaments in March and September, Tampa Bay Cleanup Day in April and Feed the Bay in November – all which reward some kind of charitable cause.
The 2016 Longest Trout Tournament begins along with a 7 p.m. captains meeting Friday at The Alley to be followed by fishing at 6 a.m. the next day. Anglers can easily fish “from anywhere in Tampa Bay, except about MacDill,” Hoffman said. At the 3 p.m. “weigh-in” spine at The Alley, anglers will certainly present photos of the trout they caught and released.
Winners will certainly be determined solely by the length of their fish. Last year’s champ caught a 24.5-inch beauty.
Up for grabs are a $1,300 Energy Pole by JL Marine, a $500 Loadmaster Trailer certificate – to be used to a brand-new trailer or for maintenance, and two matching Capt. Mike Anderson signature edition Bull Bay rods.
Kids younger compared to 15 fish free, if they compete in the children’s division, which has actually its own prizes.
For added information, visit southshoreanglers.com, email southshoreanglers@yahoo.com or call Hoffman at (813) 545-9988.
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