NorthWest Kayak Anglers
Kayak Fishing => Events => Topic started by: Captain Redbeard on January 09, 2022, 09:24:19 PM
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HOW TO SIGN UP
- (If you have participated before you do not need to sign up again.)
- Go to http://aoty.northwestkayakanglers.com/ (http://aoty.northwestkayakanglers.com/)
- Click the "Sign Up" button and follow the instructions.
- If the state where you live does not require you to buy an adult angling license yet, you are Youth. Otherwise you are not.
- Signing up does not mean you are done! (See below)
HOW TO DONATE
If you would like to participate but cannot afford the donation, please see this thread:
https://www.northwestkayakanglers.com/index.php?topic=22912.0
We are using the same donation method this year that we used last year:
- Donate directly to HOW by going here:
- Northwest Washington Chapter (https://www.classy.org/give/326797/#!/donation/checkout)
- Southeast Washington Chapter (https://www.classy.org/give/326799/#!/donation/checkout)
- Portland Oregon Chapter (https://www.classy.org/give/326744/#!/donation/checkout)
- North Coast Oregon Chapter (https://www.classy.org/give/326743/#!/donation/checkout)
- Please donate $50 or more.
- PM me a screenshot of your receipt that clearly shows the date. If you need to email instead please send me a PM and I will give you my email address. Include your AOTY screen name! (I don't know all of you, even though I try, and also I'm horrible with names.)
- Give me a couple of days to activate you.
NO NEW RULES THIS YEAR
Same rules as 2019, 2020, and 2021.
GENERAL INFO
If you are interested in Angler of The Year but aren't sure what it's all about, check out previous years' threads and the AOTY home page:
- AOTY Home: http://aoty.northwestkayakanglers.com/ (http://aoty.northwestkayakanglers.com/)
- 2021: https://www.northwestkayakanglers.com/index.php?topic=22589.0 (https://www.northwestkayakanglers.com/index.php?topic=22589.0)
- 2020: https://www.northwestkayakanglers.com/index.php?topic=21901.0 (https://www.northwestkayakanglers.com/index.php?topic=21901.0)
- 2019: https://www.northwestkayakanglers.com/index.php?topic=21077.0 (https://www.northwestkayakanglers.com/index.php?topic=21077.0)
- 2018: https://www.northwestkayakanglers.com/index.php?topic=20528.0 (https://www.northwestkayakanglers.com/index.php?topic=20528.0)
- 2017: https://www.northwestkayakanglers.com/index.php?topic=18859.0 (https://www.northwestkayakanglers.com/index.php?topic=18859.0)
- 2016: https://www.northwestkayakanglers.com/index.php?topic=16731.0 (https://www.northwestkayakanglers.com/index.php?topic=16731.0)
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In the next week bsteves will roll all of the AOTY stuff forward to 2022. In the meantime, you can sign up, fish, etc. I'll start getting the new approvals in and when the leaderboard is updated for 2022 you should see yourself on there. If you don't, please reach out to me (PM/DM). Thanks, and tight lines!
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I went ahead and reset the AOTY website for 2022. All of the 2021 leaderboards are in the archive and the new leaderboard is for fish caught in 2022.
If for some reason you still have a catch from the last couple days of 2021 and want to get it entered under Rule# 10 ( "Entries must be posted within 2 weeks of being caught and photographed. No "hoarding" of entries.") which would potentially allow you to enter a Dec 31, 2021 fish as late as Jan 13th, 2022... Please get that in now and let me know and I can update the archived leaderboards if there is a change. Thanks.
Brian
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Awesome, thanks Brian! I will get the 2022 people who have already paid up ASAP!
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I think I have everyone that I've gotten a receipt from set up for 2022 but if I missed you just PM me and remind me and I'll get it done.
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...and Rustyski is on the board.
Good luck in 2022 everyone.
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I have confirmations from Lancer Jigs, Next Adventure, Big Hammer baits that they will all be continuing to sponsors our AOTY!
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I have confirmations from Lancer Jigs, Next Adventure, Big Hammer baits that they will all be continuing to sponsors our AOTY!
Great start to a new year Sgt. Dan. You did a remarkable job for the 2021 event rounding up so many sponsors and great awards. Folks are really missing out on a nice opportunity, from the charitable contribution going to a good cause, to the personal challenge as well as the rewards. Everyone is a winner.
(http://klondikekid.com/NWKAimages/21SmileyThumbsUp.png)
You better not have any wild fires drag you off the battle field this summer because I'm outside this evening getting in shape already....moving about a ton and a half of snow that has fallen in the past 3 days. And formulating my game plan. I was always looking up the list at your tail pipe last year. LOL. I've sharpened my cross hairs after missing so many potential opportunities last summer and think I'll do better. Just to keep you on your toes.
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Moonshine Rods will again be sponsoring us in the fly fishing category! Woohoo!
KK, I am hoping to do a better job of maximizing the time that I do get to fish! If I get sent out of state on another wild fire I will just have to take my kayak with me!
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Add Swoosh to the list of returning sponsors!
I use a Swoosh Big Catch kayak seat in my OK Trident and I love it! Check them out at WWW.skwoosh.com/watersports/
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New sponsor!
Bone Head Tackle!
https://www.boneheadtackle.com/
Pretty excited to see their crappie tackle!
Show them some love
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New sponsor!
NW Tackle Shack out of Vancouver, WA.
Check out what they have to offer on their Facebook page!
https://m.facebook.com/592445790923492/
I first laid eyes on his products at the booth he had set up at the Scappoose Bay Next Adventure Kayak festival and demo day.
He makes some dual purpose wobbler/dodgers that are solid brass then nickel coated. Man they look awesome! Called the Swagger Wobbler.
He also has a product called Blazing Blades that is a bait ball style of flasher that looks pretty amazing! I think I need one of these before I head over to the Brownlee Crappie Shootout!
Thank you Ruben and NW Tackle Shack for the sponsorship!
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Does anyone else see the scores messed up on the GOAT leader board? Might just be a problem with my browser.
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Do you mean the vast amount of decimal places on some scores? Not just you. Took me a while to find the goat board.
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It shows everyone with around 4400 points. Also, when I click on a fish, it just brings up a random fish and not the biggest one. Might just be my phone.
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I think there was a couple links and one was goofy. This one is showing the right scores on my desk top but still showing random fish. Not the biggest http://www.aoty.northwestkayakanglers.com/leader_board/goat
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That one seems to work, other than showing the wrong fish when you click on them. Not a big deal though. Hoping to move up a couple spots this year
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Do you mean the vast amount of decimal places on some scores? Not just you. Took me a while to find the goat board.
That "decimal" anomaly happened to my scores last summer. Captain Redbeard identified the phenomena when a specific condition exists on the entries.
If you enter a species in the General tackle catch category, and at some point enter the exact same size fish in that species in the FLY category, the algorithm "freaks" on a duplicate [valid] entry so the tiny tweak on the length is necessary to accommodate both fish in the two categories. By adding 0.001" to the length of the identical fish it creates a monster decimal number in the points calculation which really doesn't affect the standings.
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With an assist from our current AOTY leader, SD20R We have a new sponsor! WOOHOO!
Hookup baits, out of San Diego, CA has joined us and will sending some awesome looking prizes!
Check out their products at
https://www.hookupbaits.com/
I am really looking forward to checking out their products. They have jigs of every size imaginable!
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Truly my pleasure.
For something like a decade or more, the smaller size jigs in chovy color, have slayed trout and bass for me. The smallies really like em!
I started using their bigger sizes for bottom fish, once I moved to OR, and they do not disappoint.
Durable and easy to use.
Just yesterday, I was on the Willy, had a Hookup Bait just hanging a six or eight feet below the kayak, rod in holder, whilst I drifted, and tried to eat lunch.....
I had several interruptions!
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I have caught a 15lb cutthroat trout out of pyramid lake on one of their smaller jigs... I do not care much for the owner of the company because he is a dirtbag poacher but I do like the baits. they last longer than bass tube baits and I do like that they are made with owner hooks. I havent bought them since he came to Klamath an illegally fished for browns on closed waters and then posted them up all over social media.
"during the summer of 2010, he was cited twice by the California Department of Fish and Game for two independent fishing and boating violations. Additionally, Chad Gierlich was falsely reporting his poached deer to the California Bowmen Hunter's Association as legitimate kills and had several of his poached deer listed as records."
https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/news/poachers08.htm
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Perhaps sponsoring AOTY is his way of cleaning his karma? Whatever. We should thank Hookup Baits for their generous donation, being mindful that a thank you is not the same as forgiveness.
Just my opinion and I do not fault anyone for theirs.
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I have tried to sign up a few times but the site didn't like my password.
I am behind where I should be but would like to get started.
What should I do?
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Well, I am not sure what to tell you. Did it say what it didn't like about the password? Maybe just add a special character? I know that I had to use my regular password, except I had to add an ! to the end.
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Captain Redbeard looking into it. You are all set other than you need to submit a photo of your donation receipt to Heroes on the Water.
Thank you
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Captain Redbeard looking into it. You are all set other than you need to submit a photo of your donation receipt to Heroes on the Water.
Thank you
Well, that is submit it to Captain Redbeard in a PM. Not to HOW just in case you interpreted the note that way. ;D {No Malice intended Drifter!}
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I have tried to sign up a few times but the site didn't like my password.
I am behind where I should be but would like to get started.
What should I do?
Howdy Mr. Fisherman - I sent you a PM but just in case you don't notice - check your private messages and give me a holler. It looks like you're set up to me.
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any word on the GOAT board update? I will be able to fish outside of town so I am trying to figure out how to figure out my big kid board standings.
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any word on the GOAT board update? I will be able to fish outside of town so I am trying to figure out how to figure out my big kid board standings.
I wouldn't hold my breath on any substantial changes to it, but what exactly are you looking for?
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Shout out to two AOTY sponsors - Pitbull Tackle and Hookup Baits, both of which helped me put fish in the kayak last weekend.
I don't fish a lot of flutter or other iron jigs but the Pitbull Tackle flutter jig got action immediately. On the Hookup Baits front, I fished the 1.5oz. version and it got plenty of bites. It's also plenty spendy, but it did hold up well to lingcod teeth.
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A reminder to please take good pictures to make sure you get all the points you earned and the fastest possible turn-around time on your entries.
We really want to award as many points as possible and fair, so please make our job as easy on us as possible. We haven't yet required specific measuring devices like most tournaments, hoping some common sense basic rules will work. Please review the AOTY rules which include rules about measurement:
4.) Photographic evidence of fish size (total length) against a measuring device must be provided. Photographs must be clear, with measurements easily read. It is recommended to use a sharpie on measuring devices that are not clearly marked. All entries must be rounded down to the nearest quarter inch. The ENTIRE fish must show on the measuring device in at least 1 picture. Missing portions of the head or tail will result in a disqualification of the fish. Any fish that has the appearance of possibly being not qualified for entry (such as the appearance of an adipose fin from a non native retention body of water) will be disqualified. Participants are responsible for ensuring the pictures are of sufficient quality to demonstrate the legality of the catch as defined by the laws of the respective state. Fish may NOT be gutted, have their throat cut or ripped through, or manipulated in any way prior to photographs being taken. Cutting of gills is permitted. Tails may be pressed together or tilted.
Measuring some fish, especially large fish that you intend to release, can be very difficult. It's difficult for all of us, so we get it, but it's also critical that you are prepared for that situation and take the best pictures possible. In cases where the picture does not adequately follow the rules or in some way does not allow for an accurate measurement, deductions or disqualification will be considered on a case-by-case basis by the panel of judges.
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Congrats everyone on this years AOTY... dang near the most overall competitive year there has been since I started. had to break 1300 just to get in the top 10. I had a lot of life stuff this last year but hopefully the next year see's me on the water a little more... and hopefully making JED an honest man... lol. As an aside we can start a side fund on cutting the valve stems on Jeds car just sayin... J/K congrats again to everyone!
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I agree with Dean, great to see the new competition. I achieved my goal of posting 10 species and that barely kept me in the top 10. Going to up my goal for next year. I have never broke the 200 point mark so I am going to add that to my goals. Hopefully not send my phone swimming either.
Good luck in 2023 everyone!
Not sure that taking out his tires will be enough, but it is a good start!
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Yeah, it was a record-breaking year from my end of the world too. This was the rainiest summer I have experienced in 53 summers here. Broke all kinds of records for rainiest this month, that month, the next month, most consecutive rainy days, most volume of rain each month. I swore that if this WX trend continued into winter we would have 20 feet of snow.
Well, this has been the most snow here on the Kenai Peninsula before Christmas of the 53 winters I've been here. I'm buried. Had a 2 foot dump in one storm followed by snow every day for a week straight more than once. Probably over the 4+ foot accumulation so far.
So I'm lucky to make it on the board this year. At least its not a goose egg. As they say, There is always next year...which I guess starts today. Gonna be a late breakup to open water this coming spring with the thickness of lake ice and the snow cover. Probably have to focus on Whisky Gulch spring halibut to get the boat wet.
Still have my eagle, Denali, visiting every day for his meal. New Year's Day Dinner Special for him today was sockeye salmon cubes with chunks of sea duck breast meat as a special treat! (My neighbor is a taxidermist who supplies me the bird meat.)
Here's hoping HOW will continue to see the benefit of NWKA's AOTY challenge.
HAPPY SAFE NEW YEAR TO ALL.
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Was my first year doing AOTY, and I had a blast!
Gonna try to fish less but smarter in 2023. I spent WAY to much on gas, trying to stay ahead of Jed the past few months.
Moving to Eugene this week, gonna have a bit of a learning curve fishing new waters.
Is there any change to minimum donation amount for 2023, or any change in rules or process?
I hope to see n fish with as many of y'all as possible this year.
Thanks to everyone who helped me, offered advice, and provided good company on the water in 22!
Gonna try for my first ever lake and bull trout this year.
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My first AOTY too after moving to Oregon in Spring of 21. Changed the way I fished a bit. Spent a lot more time looking for specific fish rather than just hitting a normal cycle of lakes. Got to a bunch of new lakes looking for big trout and eventually got me into the shallow end of the big salt. Loved the change in styles and all the new places. Shoot, I went all the way out to Ana Reservoir from Eugene looking for a Hybrid striper. Weather and fishing sucked, but talked to a local guy and I ended up at some drying up reservoir in the area catching a pile of nice largemouth and trout in the little water that was left. Didn't catch a giant trout (jealous of SD2OR's brown and BasinKayak's rainbow) but fished 11 new lakes looking for one and caught a good number of good fish along the way. Lot of gas money spent headed to the coast or into the mountains.
Already looking for some nicer weather to get out this week. Also scheming a road trip to look for some of those giant yellow perch JED posts every year.
Keith
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Congratulations, all. It was interesting to watch the leaders as the year went on. Going kayak fishing six times in a year does not get one too far in this contest. I resolve to catch more and bigger fish in '23.
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Got out on the kayak just twice this past year. Watching everyone else is pretty inspiring. Looking forward to a great 2023.
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I get a lot of inspiration from these anglers.... Congratulations to the winners!!
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It was a competitive year for sure! I had a mixed bag of fun successes and heartbreaking failures this year, including what would have been my personal best lingcod escaping my grip and my personal best flounder flopping out of my kayak. Still, it's hard to complain when I was able to get out on the water as much as I did and enjoy this awesome sport. It remains to be seen how much time I'll have to fish in 2023, but here's hoping.
Reminder: You're welcome to donate and get set up for 2023 at any time, but we won't roll over the AOTY leaderboard, etc. until mid-January as people technically have 2 weeks to enter fish. Any catches made after donation will be honored.
Great to see some folks who haven't competed before or not for as long placing in the top 10. I really thought SD2OR had it there for a while, but, barring any late entries, hats off to jed once again for doing what he does - simply amazing consistency over the years! Congrats to all the competitors for making 2022 a really fun year for the competition.
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My first AOTY too after moving to Oregon in Spring of 21. Changed the way I fished a bit. Spent a lot more time looking for specific fish rather than just hitting a normal cycle of lakes. Got to a bunch of new lakes looking for big trout and eventually got me into the shallow end of the big salt. Loved the change in styles and all the new places. Shoot, I went all the way out to Ana Reservoir from Eugene looking for a Hybrid striper. Weather and fishing sucked, but talked to a local guy and I ended up at some drying up reservoir in the area catching a pile of nice largemouth and trout in the little water that was left. Didn't catch a giant trout (jealous of SD2OR's brown and BasinKayak's rainbow) but fished 11 new lakes looking for one and caught a good number of good fish along the way. Lot of gas money spent headed to the coast or into the mountains.
Already looking for some nicer weather to get out this week. Also scheming a road trip to look for some of those giant yellow perch JED posts every year.
Keith
This is what the AOTY is all about. In the early days, this lead to a lot of 1st water and 1st of a species from a kayak attempts. I'm glad it's still driving people out of their comfort zones and into more fun fisheries!
-Mark-
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What's the over/under on how many 200 pointers Jed has yet to turn in? ;D
Congratulations to everyone catching a new species, trying a new technique, or fishing a new body of water.
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Nah, I don't think so. Now, if Jed had been below 1st place then hell yeah!
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Congrats to those who placed high in AOTY this year! I agree, it was fun watching the top standings change back and forth in the closing months of 2022. Placing high takes dedication, and 2022 gas prices must've made it an expensive year for you guys :o.
Looking forward to seeing what's landed in 2023! Fish on!
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I agree, it was fun to watch the scores for the last few months :D
Congrats to everyone that participated this year and especially those that fished new areas or got personal best catches. Had fun fishing with some competitors this year and hope to fish with more of you this year. Let me know if you plan on heading out East and I'll try to meet up. I'm bummed the gas prices kept me away from the salt but I did get to dial in water closer to home. Walleye on the Columbia is quickly becoming on of may favorite fisheries. Since I'm only 1.5625 points ahead of Snopro on the goat board, my goal for 23 is to find some bigger fish;) Good luck to everyone this year and stay safe.