[StBernard] 2010 HT Professional Redfish Series to Host Tournament March 26-27 at Louisiana Crawfish Festival in Chalmette, LA

[Westley Annis]

2010 HT Professional Redfish Series to Host Tournament March 26-27 at
Louisiana Crawfish Festival in Chalmette, LA

 

Building on successful professional fishing tournaments held in St. Bernard
Parish in 2004, 2005, 2008 and 2009, a new Redfish Tournament will host its
event in Chalmette. The HT Professional Redfish Series will call Chalmette
its home bringing to town 60 professional teams from the Gulf South Region.
This year the tournament will be held in conjunction with the Louisiana
Crawfish Festival with live weigh-ins on March 26th and March 27th at 3 p.m.
each day.

 

St. Bernard Parish will welcome the 60 teams to our community that includes
some of the best professional anglers from all over the South including
Florida, Georgia, Texas and Louisiana who will compete at the Chalmette
event for $20,000 to the 1st place team. 

 

The public is invited to come out and enjoy a great sport fishing event
featuring exciting live weigh-ins at 3 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. The
weigh-ins will be held during the Crawfish Festival on the grounds of the
Frederick J. Sigur Civic Center at 8245 W. Judge Perez Drive in Chalmette.

 

St. Bernard Parish President Craig P. Taffaro Jr. will hold his second
annual President's Challenge Fishing Tournament on Friday as well with teams
of local officials competing for the coveted trophy hand crafted by local
renowned artist Luis Colmenares that was won last year by a team headed by
Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu. Landrieu will compete again this year to defend his
title. The weigh-in ceremony is Friday at 2:45 p.m. 

 

This event is sponsored by the Louisiana Office of Tourism and St. Bernard
Parish Government and many generous local businesses that help support the
success of this event.

 

For more information contact the Office of Tourism at (504)278-4242 or visit
our website at www.VisitStBernard.com <http://www.visitstbernard.com/> 

 

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