{"id":269664,"date":"2026-05-13T16:58:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T16:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/269664\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T16:58:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T16:58:06","slug":"lcec-fishing-tournament-reels-in-nearly-85000-to-benefit-the-united-way-of-lee-hendry-and-glades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/269664\/","title":{"rendered":"LCEC fishing tournament reels in nearly $85,000 to benefit the United Way of Lee, Hendry, and Glades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 29th Annual LCEC United Way Fishing Tournament total is in, raising nearly $85,000 for the United Way of Lee, Hendry and Glades counties. This catch and release tournament was held at D&amp;D Bait and Tackle in Matlacha where it has taken place for decades. In total, 79 boats and over 240 anglers participated in the tournament and took part in the winning and bidding on nearly 200 raffle and auction items.<\/p>\n<p>Fishing tournament winners include:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022   Grand Slam \u2013 Team Hamilton &amp; Hamilton<\/p>\n<p>\u2022   Largest Trout \u2013 Team Cozy Kittenz<\/p>\n<p>\u2022   Largest Red Fish \u2013 Team Hamilton &amp; Hamilton<\/p>\n<p>\u2022   Largest Snook \u2013 Team Hamilton &amp; Hamilton<\/p>\n<p>\u2022   Mystery Fish \u2013 Team Landis + Gyr<\/p>\n<p>LCEC is extremely thankful to all tournament participants, sponsors, and volunteers! For photos of the 29th Annual LCEC Fishing Tournament, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/lcecfish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">facebook.com\/lcecfish<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>LCEC is proud supporter of the United Way in their mission to serve those who need help the most in the Southwest Florida community.<\/p>\n<p>About LCEC<\/p>\n<p>LCEC is Southwest Florida\u2019s Electric Cooperative providing reliable, cost-competitive electricity to members throughout the region. The LCEC headquarters are in North Fort Myers, the same location where the cooperative originated in 1940. Approximately 450 skilled employees are positioned throughout the six-county service territory, including Immokalee, Cape Coral, North Fort Myers, Sanibel\/Captiva, Pine Island, Useppa, Cabbage Key, Marco Island, Everglades City, Ave Maria, and parts of Lehigh Acres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 29th Annual LCEC United Way Fishing Tournament total is in, raising nearly $85,000 for the United Way&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-269664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269664","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=269664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}