1946-1984 Derby Winners List

From 1946 to 1984, with the exception of 1980, the fisherman catching the largest striped bass was the Grand prize winner.

* =Derby Record
# =Grand Prize Winner

Year	Name	Town	Weight LB.	OZ.
1946	Gordon Pitman	New York, N.Y.	47	0
1947	George Marshall	Vineyard Haven	45	13
1948	Al Doyle	Edgartown	42	14
1949	George Marshall	Vineyard Haven	46	14.5
1950	Frank Drake	Vineyard Haven	40	14
1951	Freeman Caswell	Attleboro, MA	43	5
1952	John O. Sylvia	Oak Bluffs	48	1
1953	James Walpole	Edgartown	51	11
1954	Wallace Pinkham	Vineyard Haven	55	9.5
1955	George J. Silva	West Tisbury	43	14
1956	Dick Hathaway	Edgartown	52	9
1957	Ralph Grant	Edgartown	47	8
1958	Oscar Flanders	Chilmark	51	11
1959	Anton Van Breeman	Medford, MA	50	12.5
1960	Philip Baron	Wollaston, MA	42	4
1961	Adam Kurpat	New York, NY	51	14
1962	Harold Benway	Vineyard Haven	52	4
1963	Serge de Somov	Hampton Bay, NY	52	13
1964	Serge de Somov	Hampton Bay, NY	54	14
1965	Serge de Somov	Hampton Bay, NY	49	10
1966	Edward Souza	Lowell, MA	53	15
1967	Fred Kiener	Vineyard Haven	52	6
1968	Robert Rose	Oak Bluffs	48	6
1969	Serge de Somov	Hampton Bay, NY	51	6
1970	Gordon Lingberg	Fairhaven, MA	42	10
1971	Albion Alley	West Tisbury	49	12
1972	Wayne Iacono	Vineyard Haven	56	9
1973	Robert Black	Somerville, MA	54	7.5
1974	Raymond Metcalf	Edgartown	51	14
1975	Roger Silva	West Tisbury	53	14
1976	Rick Connell	Vineyard Haven	48	0
1977	Al Doyle	Edgartown	56	6
1978	Dick Hathaway	Edgartown	60	2	*
1979	Dick Hathaway	Edgartown	55	3
1980	Francis Bernard	Oak Bluffs	49	5
	(Bluefish) Lee Welch	Edgartown	20	0	*
1981	Richard Landon	New Haven, CT	56	14
1982	Thomas Bassett	Edgartown	46.77
1983	Steve Morris	Oak Bluffs	49.96
1984	Jack Coutinho	Vineyard Haven	48.75