Every August a cool offshore fishing tournament takes place in Falmouth, Mass. The Skunkmeister has been going every year for two years now; here is this year’s report:

In order to prevent a repeat of last year’s stampede, the famous Skunkmeister showed up this year in a generic tourist get-up, incognito, as it were.

But this clever disguise did not work, and, as you can see, a crowd gathered instantly. Even the famous Dave “Pops” Masch, author of the hit cookbook, Cooking the Catch, was overheard saying to the Skunkmeister, “Yeah, I know you.”

Here is Dave (on the left) cooking up a storm (or wondering what to do next) with uber-piscator Andy Nabreski from On The Water magazine and a groupie (I understand that you can catch some pretty big groupies in the tropics. I gotta see that some day).

The air was so electric with excitement that one young lady on the last boat to come in actually swooned. In the photo below you can see people ignoring some fine yellowfin tuna and looking over toward the lady.

Eventually, she was taken away by rescue personnel but appeared to be fine, calling out “Save me some!” as she was loaded into the ambulance. The tuna appeared to be fine, too, but had no comment on the whole affair.

You know what the best part was (besides the free freshly-grilled fish)? The Skunkmeister didn’t even use a boat and still finished in the top ten! The man is a genius.

At next year’s tournament they had better plan a police escort or there will be pandemonium.