Team KooLau calls Neptune Beach, Florida home and sets out in a 35 foot Wellcraft 352 CCF equipped with Evinrude triple 250 E-Tec's. Captain Conrad Lau has been fishing competitively since 1990 and has racked up an impressive record of many top ten finishes, as well as winning the SKA's "Most Professonal Angler of the Year" award. The team is involved with FLW, as well as the Southern Kingfish Association (SKA).
2005 FLW Kingfish Tour: Venice, La. • 7th place
2005 SKA Pro Tour, Morehead City • 4th place
2005 SKA Division 4, St. Mary's Kingfish Classic • 2nd place Junior Division:
The team headed to St. Augustine and stuck with their spot until 2 p.m. without any payoff – just then, “in 40 feet of water, a ribbonfish with a pearl baby duster on a long line went off.” Landed smartly by Chelsea Lau and weighing in at 41.55 lb., it earned Team KooLau second place honors in the junior division.
2003 SKA National Championship, Biloxi, Miss. • 3rd place:
Fishing the West Delta, they had early indications of their strong finish. Landed their first day fish by 10:30 a.m. – hooked by a hardtail on the surface by Andy Seeker – it weighed in at 53.46 lb. Day two looking for a repeat performance, they pulled in a 42 and a 48 – just not enough to put them over the top. After a short move, “first the downrigger line went off and then the two outrigger lines…one king ran through another boat’s lines. Everyone around us was hooked up. One king died and we had to pull it up from the bottom.” The top king weighed 53.93 lb. and netted Team KooLau a 3rd place finish.
2002 Division 10 Junior Angler of the Year (Chelsea Lau)
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