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Team SponsorsChampion/Lambert in new rig for 2012
TailinReds Pros' Champion and Lambert are preparing for another year on the HT/Academy Redfish Invitational Tour. One major change for 2012 will be a new 23' Stingray from Simmons Custom Boats. Looking forward to 2012 beginning in March @ the Louisiana Crawfish Festival in Chalmette, La. Other tour stops include Kemah Tx, Port Aransas Tx, and Destin Florida.
(read more...)Welcome Category 5 Outdoors as Official 2012 Sponsor of Team TailinReds!
We are extremely excited to announce Category 5 Outdoors to the TailinReds Team for 2012. Category 5, makers of the Suicide Croaker, Shrimp Minnow, Mudbug, and split tail shrimp { just to name a few }, is a new bait company out of Slidell, La. For those who have not heard of them, they will soon hear loud and clear! These baits are hands down the best soft plastics that we have ever used. I know we have said it before, but it is worth repeating. Below is a brief history on Category 5.
New Orleans, LA (PRWEB) November 04, 2011
The company, started by two fishing buddies after Hurricane Katrina, is supplying every contestant in the 2011 IFA Cabela's Redfish Tour Championship with its signature pack of lures. The lures will be given out in the registration booth.
When asked about the company contributions to the event, Richie Bulot, owner of Category5Outdoors.com, says, “It’s a way for us to give back to our community. I’ve lived here all my life and have seen the problems we’ve faced. Louisiana has been through so many disasters, yet the people have been keeping our company alive. The fishing industry was really struck by the BP Oil Spill, and this competition brings some spirit back into the community and Louisiana. I wanted to be a contributor to show that we’ll be here—somehow we’ve survived Katrina, the recession, and the BP oil spill. It’s a miracle.”
Category5Outdoors.com began after Bulot began helping local communities get back on their feet after Hurricane Katrina with a website that offered companies an online presence. The website had so many aspects to it that it prompted Bulot to create Category5Outdoors.com.
In the creation of the company, Bulot propositioned one of his talented charter fishing friends, Capt. Kenny Kreeger, the current Louisiana state record holder for the second largest speckled trout ever landed in Louisiana waters. Together, Bulot and Kreeger designed lures and other outdoor products for Category5Outdoors.com. After offering to prototype, produce and distribute any lure designed by Kreeger during the summer of 2009, Kreeger agreed and delivered his unique lure, the “Shrimp Minnow,” along with his son’s “Split Tail Shrimp.”
Bulot and Kreeger received their first prototypes near the end of October 2009 and they showed such great results that they dove in head first, purchasing several cases of each lure, even before securing their first retail location to sell them in. Just as the three new Category 5 designs arrived in mid-April of 2010 ready for distribution, word of the BP Oil Explosion was delivered to Bulot by a close friend.
Bulot and Kreeger chose to hold their new baits back until they could truly understand how the oil spill would affect their beloved coastal marshes of Louisiana and Mississippi. Ultimately, the devastation was such that it nearly destroyed the livelihoods of many of their friends and family members in the fishing, crabbing, shrimping and oyster harvesting fisheries industry, as well as nearly wiping out Bulot’s “Islenos” family heritage with it. They immediately began doing fundraisers for the United Commercial Fishermen, located in St. Bernard and serving greater N.O. Fishermen, as well as reaching out to the Plaquemines Parish oystermen and other fishing related businesses. They also created a Facebook Page “SAVE OUR GULF COAST FISHING HERITAGE” to guard against any misinformation or propaganda being put out about the spill. To learn more about the company’s history and its achievements, visit the Slidell Independent: http://slidell-independent.com/news/the-little-hometown-business-that-could%E2%80%A6/.
Bulot has been supporting the fishing industries in Louisiana and Mississippi all his life, and his dedication to restoring the Gulf Coast is seen in his contributions to the 2011 IFA Cabela's Redfish Tour Championship. Category5Outdoors.com has survived major environmental disasters and recessions, but Bulot claims, “the lures sell themselves!” (read more...)Foster and Rooker with Top 5 finish at Lay
Team TailinReds' Bobby Foster and Todd Rooker had a great day on the water Saturday Nov. 5th in the Nelson Lewis Benefit tournament @ Lay Lake. Finishing 4th with a 5 fish limit of 16.35# only 1.90# out of the top spot. Nelson Lewis was a respected friend to many anglers, especially here in central Alabama, he is and continues to be missed. Proceeds from this tournament went to the Lewis family.
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