Buddy Harris · 3 names since 2001

The Buyout

FormerlyFrog PileTwin Fin

A Buddy Harris custom Carolina documented in December 2001 as Frog Pile. Later Twin Fin of Salter Path, North Carolina, she has fished as The Buyout out of Cape Carteret since 2021.

Her story, name by name

  1. From 2001

    Frog Pile

    Reported · cgmix.uscg.mil

  2. Undated

    Twin Fin

    Reported · U.S. Coast Guard

  3. 2021 – present

    The BuyoutCurrent

    Confirmed · U.S. Coast Guard, cgmix.uscg.mil, reeltime.app

    Renamed from Twin Fin by June 2021, when she was entered in the Big Rock as The Buyout of Cape Carteret, NC. The Coast Guard file carried Twin Fin of Salter Path, NC through July 2021 and The Buyout from January 2022. Official number unchanged.

  4. June 2021

    Tournament

    63rd Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament, Morehead City: one blue marlin release (unverified) and a 7.5-pound dolphin; 99th in billfish release with 125 points. Entered as a 55' Buddy Harris of 2001. Captain Joey Rivenbark.

    Reported · reeltime.app

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