Ebony Anglers Go To Big Rock!

Join us this weekend as we compete in the tournament that inspired the formation of our competitive fishing team!

(Pictured in order: Lesleigh Mausi, Glenda Turner, Gia Peebles, Tiana Davis, and Bobbiette)

One year ago this month, our Captain Gia Peebles, saw the phenomenon of hundreds of ladies getting off boats with fish at the annual KWLA ladies tournament at Big Rock in Morehead City and 3 weeks later the Ebony Anglers was born!

This weekend, we have returned to the very same tournament in our full circle moment and we couldn’t be more excited!!

We started the weekend with an EPIC Captain’s Dinner for the KWLA Big Rock Tournament and we excited to show up as the survivors of Gilligan’s Island 2021! With hundreds of participants in attendance we saw some amazing costumes and got to meet some wonderful new friends including our wonderful sponsor, Linda Rike of Linda Rike Real Estate!

Two lovely ladies posing with Bobbiette from ”Breastfast at Tiffany’s” the Best Dressed Contest Winners for the 2021 contest benefiting Breast Cancer Awareness! Great job, Ladies!

We had a BLAST yesterday at the kickoff! Wish us luck tomorrow during our fishing day on Sunday! Tight Lines ladies!

See you at weigh ins!!! 😉🎣

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Watch our Interview with Renee Chou of WRAL!

It's hard to believe that less than 8 weeks ago, we formed a fishing team that would become nationally known and is currently making its way around the world! But the sometimes making a big splash (...see what we did there... *winks*) in your local community is THE most rewarding experience ever!

Today, local ABC affiliate WRAL covered our story in a BIG way! The lovely and talented, Renee Chou interviewed teammates Gia Peebles and Lesleigh Mausi about our origin story, our sisterhood, our team's recent accomplishment in the Carteret Community College Spanish Mackerel and Dolphin Tournament the very first tournament on our journey toward competing in Big Rock's KWLA tournament in June of 2021.

Watch the interview and read the article here:

Ebony Anglers: Women of color come together for fishing and friendship

XM Radio Interview with Sway in the Morning helps Ebony Anglers reach first 1,000 fan goal!

Friday, August 21, 2020: Originally posted on EA's Instagram page

Sooo, today we were featured on #swayinthemorning with @siriusxm Radio host, producer, rapper extraordinaire,  Sway Calloway @realsway and Heather B @thehappyhourwhb and Tracy G @itstracyg on @shade45!!!!! WE ARE BLOWN AWAY! 🤯 

LISTEN TO THE INTERVIEW HERE

So blessed and thankful and truly humbled at the amount of support we are receiving from all over the world! Last night we had 197 followers and in a matter of hours that number octupled!! (Yes that is a real word! We looked it up on Google ) 

Looks like we need to set a new follower goal!

Thanks to that gracious interview with our beloved team captain @giachevelle we will likely surpass our 1st follower goal of 1K fans! Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU to the wonderful team and our AMAZING fans that woke us up with HUNDREDS of messages, DMs and new subscriptions on our website to tell us TO HURRY UP AND CALL IN! 

After recovering from the sheer shock of it all we quickly dove into action! We are so grateful to you for sharing our story and encouraging black women to call in with their own fishing stories, hopes and dreams and show that we can and DO support one another! 

Make sure to subscribe to us to learn more about how to support our team, journey and get involved with our nonprofit aimed at teaching our little black and brown girls and boys how to fish and boat! We will always be grateful! 🖤

Read More about Sway Calloway:

Sway Calloway (born July 3, 1971) is an American journalist, radio personality, executive producer and rapper. Known as Sway, he is known for hosting music, news, and culture programming. He was the co-host of the nationally syndicated radio showThe Wake Up Show as one half of the duo Sway & King Tech. Sway now hosts “Sway in the Morning” on SiriusXMShade45 as well as the MTV show TRLAM.

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