Hampton man earns TrophyCatch ring for 14-pound, 9 ounce bass

Posted on January 9, 2015

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s (FWC) TrophyCatch program awarded the Season 2 Hall of Fame winner, Joseph “Brooks” Morrell from Hampton, with the TrophyCatch championship ring from the American Outdoors Fund. Morrell caught, documented and released a 14-pound, 9-ounce bass to earn the top prize for Season 2 (Oct. 1, 2013, to Sept. 30, 2014).

He also documented a second Hall of Fame bass during Season 2 – a 13-pound, 12-ounce bass – becoming the FWC’s first angler to submit two Hall of Fame bass. Each Hall of Fame bass is memorialized with a fiberglass replica from New Wave Taxidermy, presented by the FWC and TrophyCatch to the angler after the end of each season.

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