[caption id="attachment_22990" align="alignright" width="300"]<a href="http://www.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/DSC0174.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-22990" src="http://www.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/DSC0174-300x221.jpg" alt="Kirk Shelly, left, and Todd Fusco won the second leg of the 2015 Lowcountry Redfish Tournament." width="300" height="221" /></a> Kirk Shelly, left, and Todd Fusco won the second leg of the 2015 Lowcountry Redfish Tournament.[/caption]

By Bob Sofaly

If someone ever tells you “size doesn’t matter” they have never been in a fishing tournament.

During the second leg of the Lowcountry Redfish Cup on Saturday in Port Royal, only 1/30 of a pound separated the winning fish from all the others and netted the angler an additional $560 in prize money.

Kirk Shelly, and his fishing partner Todd Fusco, won the tournament with a two-fish aggregate weight of 7.32 pounds and Shelly won the “biggest fish” sub-tournament with a 23-inches long Redfish that weighed 4.36 pounds, according to Ashley Lowder, assistant tournament director.

The next stop of the multi-location tournament will be Savannah, Ga. and then it is on to Charleston for the championship. The winner of the tournament gets a 2015 East Cape Flats Boat powered by a new Mercury engine, and a new trailer to go from tournament to tournament.

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