Fyffe Fishing Team starts season

By Marla Jones, Sports Editor

marla@southerntorch.com

FYFFE, Ala.— The 2016 Fyffe High School Fishing team will start their season at Lake Martin this weekend. There will be five boat captains and eight team members this year. To qualify for the team, students must fish in two fall tournaments. Garrett Thrash and Tyler Kinard are two Fyffe students who qualified this past fall along with their boat captain, Chris Capps. Thrash and Kinard finished first out of 168 boats in one tournament and placed 3rd in their second tournament at Guntersville. Hank Woodall and Parker Broyles had a 7th place finish in one of the fall qualifiers as well.

This is the third year that Fyffe has had a fishing team. Fyffe is one of four schools, including Plainview, Ider, and Fort Payne that host fishing as a competitive sport in Dekalb County.