Mobile Register: Stripers rodeo The fourth annual Mystic Stripers open fishing rodeo is scheduled June 17 from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Dauphin Island Marina.
Rodeo categories include: Spanish mackerel, king mackerel, speckled trout, white trout, red snapper, bonita, hardhead catfish, croaker, amberjack, ling (cobia), jack crevalle, flounder, bluefish and slot (16-26 inches) redfish.
Tickets cost $20. Each person on board must have a rodeo ticket. Speckled trout and king mackerel jackpot tickets are available for $25 per boat (80 percent payout). Each person on a jackpot boat also must have a regular tournament ticket. Twenty percent of jackpot proceeds plus Stripers matching funds will be donated to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
A $500 award in memory of Chris Steiner, donated by his family, goes to the master angler. Cash drawings of $50, $100 and $200 -- donated by Dennis Langan Construction -- will go to the mystic angler.
Ticket outlets include Boaters World in Mobile and Daphne, Ship and Shore, Southern Bama Bait and Tackle, Fowl River Speedy Mart and West Marine on Highway 90. For more information, call 422-3045.