{"id":251640,"date":"2026-04-29T22:04:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T22:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/251640\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T22:04:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T22:04:43","slug":"king-of-the-beach-fishing-tournament-is-back-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/251640\/","title":{"rendered":"King of the Beach fishing tournament is back this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 29, 2026 &#8211; The Spring King of the Beach Fishing Tournament returns Thursday through Saturday at Madeira Beach\u2019s R.O.C. Park, marking its 33rd year as one of the oldest and richest kingfish tournaments in the U.S. The three-day event features nearly 400 boats competing within a 30-mile fishing radius for an estimated $300,000 in prizes, along with a kids\u2019 fishing slam, live music, vendors and fireworks. <a href=\"https:\/\/oldsaltfishing.org\/fishing-tournaments\/spring-king-of-the-beach-kingfish-tournament\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/zaps\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More Zaps<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frontpage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 29, 2026 &#8211; The Spring King of the Beach Fishing Tournament returns Thursday through Saturday at Madeira&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-251640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}