Lineup set for $100K Redfish Cup Championship
Ten teams will compete for their share of a $100,000 purse when the 2024 Yamaha Bassmaster Redfish Cup Championship presented by Skeeter travels to Apalachicola Bay Friday through Sunday, Oct. 25-27.
Tournament launches and weight reveal will be at Scipio Creek Marina, at 301 Market Street, in Apalachicola.
“We are extremely excited to bring this Redfish Cup Championship to Florida for the first time,” said Hank Weldon, executive director of tournaments for the B.A.S.S. (Bass Anglers Sportsman Society). “Showcasing the waters of the northern Gulf live on both FS1 and Bassmaster.com will provide great entertainment for fishing fans.”
The fourth annual no-entry fee event will feature four Bassmaster All-Star teams made up of four Bassmaster Elite Series pros and four Skeeter/Yamaha saltwater pros. The four Bassmaster All-Star teams are:
- Forrest Wood Cup and St. Croix Bassmaster Opens presented by SEVIIN champion Justin Atkins and St. George island charter captain Krista Miller, known in many circles as “Krista Redfish.”
- Elite Series champion John Garrett and sixth-generation Floridian and charter captain and guide Chad Manning.
- Five-time Elite Series champion Brandon Palaniuk and three-time Redfish Cup Championship qualifier Chris Cenci.
- Six-time Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Classic qualifier Shane LeHew and Plant City, Fla., charter guide Mike Goodwine.
The Bassmaster All-Star teams will be joined by defending champions Fred Myers III and Cody Chivas as well as five additional teams — two from the Power-Pole National Redfish Tour Presented by Mercury: the team of Carter Myers and James Drysdale and the team of Ryan Rickard and Pat Marsonek, two from the Elite Solo Tour and one from the Professional Redfish League.
The format for the Redfish Cup Championship will be a catch, weigh and release format. Teams will be able to weigh their two largest legal slot-limit (18 to 27 inches) fish per boat, per day.
Coverage of the Bassmaster Redfish Cup Championship will air on FS1 on Saturday and Sunday from 8 to 11 a.m. ET. Bassmaster LIVE will be streaming on Bassmaster.com all three days.
The local sponsor of the 2024 Yamaha Bassmaster Redfish Cup Championship presented by Skeeter is Florida’s Forgotten Coast.
John Solomon, director of the Tourist Development Council, said the TDC has invested $20,000 for promotional advertising during the event.
“Fishing is great all year in Franklin County,” he said. “We have some of the most experienced guides in the country.”
Meet the Editor
David Adlerstein, The Apalachicola Times’ digital editor, started with the news outlet in January 2002 as a reporter.
Prior to then, David Adlerstein began as a newspaperman with a small Boston weekly, after graduating magna cum laude from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He later edited the weekly Bellville Times, and as business reporter for the daily Marion Star, both not far from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
In 1995, he moved to South Florida, and worked as a business reporter and editor of Medical Business newspaper. In Jan. 2002, he began with the Apalachicola Times, first as reporter and later as editor, and in Oct. 2020, also began editing the Port St. Joe Star.