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Chivas brothers share fishing honors in Redfish Series
Article published on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2007 |
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| Brothers Kyle, left, and Cody Chivas advance to the Wal-Mart FLW Redfish Series Championship in Orange Beach, Ala. |
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BELLEAIR – Completing an implausible rookie season, brothers Cody and Kyle Chivas of Belleair tied the veteran redfish team of Scott Guthrie of Jacksonville and Rick Murphy of Homestead in winning the 2007 Land O’Lakes Eastern Division Team of the Year award on the Wal-Mart FLW Redfish Series.
Both teams accumulated 540 points over four qualifying events, and those points qualified the two teams for the 2007 Wal-Mart FLW Redfish Series Championship in Orange Beach, Ala., Oct. 18-20.
The Chivas’ started their Redfish Series careers off with a second-place effort in Clearwater. At the next event in Titusville, the teenage brothers finished fifth. They cooled off somewhat in the final two events of the Eastern Division season, placing 16th in Englewood, and 41st in Fernandina Beach.
“To tell you the truth, it’s been absolutely unbelievable,” said Kyle Chivas, a 17-year-old senior at Palm Harbor University High School. “A lot of the guys we’re fishing against having their own TV shows. I’m still in high school, and my 18-year-old brother goes to college at the University of Central Florida. This award is definitely the biggest accomplishment of our young careers. We’re super excited. Every time I watch the shows on FSN, it makes me smile.”
Although the two are new to the Redfish Series, they’ve been competing together in saltwater fishing tournaments for five years.
“We have no idea what redfishing is like in Orange Beach,” Kyle added. “We’re going to head up there early and put in a bunch of time prefishing.”
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Article published on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2007
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