4th Annual AOTD Kayak Fishing Challenge Results/Pics(heavy)

The 4th AOTD is now in the books and by far the best yet!

17 anglers signed up including one awesome Woman. This is the first year that all registered participants actually made it out. The conditions were decent but not perfect, with some swell and fog but best conditions yet for an AOTD tournament. The fishing was good and the potluck was kick ass!, all the food was excellent and the company was as well.

I just want to thank all the people that showed up, You guys did great and nobody got lost(well, too lost) in the fog. I hope to see you all for next years tourny!

To all the sponsors that stepped up:

Waxer's Surf Shop
Englund Marine
Caddis Fly
Eugene Skin divers
Mazama Sporting Goods
Sea Fare Pacific
Turman Tackle
Bites On Tackle shop

Thanks for your continued support and the great prize packages!

Thanks too to Scott(surf12foot) for making the great shrimp flies for the captains bags and the raffle prize of the box of many large saltwater flys, awesome!

Thanks to Dana and Anthony for cooking up the great fried fish.

Thanks to Langston from Kayak Shed for making the trek down and bringing some swag..

I really want to thank Brian and Lia Menten  From Waxer's Surf Shop in Coos Bay for stepping up with a $500 Dollar Hobie credit for first place this year, along with a 200 and 100 dollar credit also. Thanks Brian and Lia, you guys ROCK!! 


The winning stringer this year included a monster almost 38 inch, 25 pound Lingcod that would have have won any ORC so far...Yes we do have big fish here!   The locals kicked some butt in the tourny so i expect you guys from out of town/state to come flocking in next year to knock them off the pedestal!


So here are the results:

1. Chris Hyde(ling,ling,herro?) with a 4 fish bag of 602 points! 37.5 inch huge Ling, 18.5 inch Rockfish, 22 inch Cabbie, 14.5 inch Greenling.

 

2. Evan Merz(Merz) With 4 fish and 532 points. 25.5 inch Ling, 19.75 inch Rockfish, 18 inch Cabbie, 15.10 Greenling.



3. Dana Hilden(yaksurf) with a 3 fish bag, 378 points. 26 ich Ling, 20.25 Rockfish, 13.25 inch Greenling.



4. Michael Rischer(jammer) with a 3 fish bag, 371.875 points. 26.75 Ling, 18.25 Rockfish, 13.75 Greenling.



5. Jeremy Beard with a 3 fish bag, 270.375 points. 25.75 inch Ling, 17.25 inch Rockfish, 15.75 onch Greenling.



6. Dennis Butler(DB) with a two fish bag, 258.75 points. 18 inch Rockfish, 14.75 inch Greenling.



7. Dave Mason(goldendog) with a two fish bag, 253 points. 17.5 inch Rockfish, 14.5 inch Greenling.



8. James Crumpton with a two fish bag, 250.75 points. 23.5 inch Ling, 20 inch Rockfish.



9. Erik Schmidt(browneyesvictim) with one fish, 139.5 points.  Nice 31 inch Ling!

 

10. Paul Walker(PNW) with one fish, 129.5 points. 18.5 inch Rockfish.



11. Alan Boschee(AMB) with one fish, 127.75 points. 18.25 inch Rockfish.



12.  Langston Kriel(langcod) with one fish, 122.5 points. 17.5 inch rockfish, a 17.5 Red Irish Lord! never seen one that big here..

13. Josh Rogers(flyguy) with one fish, 105.75 points. 23.5 inch Ling.

Thanks again for all who showed up, and all who supported this years AOTD, You made it a blast. Make sure you get here next year, it's gonna get exciting!!

Nicely done gentlemen and Dudi!  I like the taking of pics of all the entries like that!

-Allen

Very nice fish guys. Great report.

Cool pics. Nice to see everyones fish, and put faces to names. I appear to be asleep in my picture. I was pretty tired.

Very nice Roy!

Damn Chris, that's one sexy lady you got there!

Very nice Roy!

Damn Chris, that's one sexy lady you got there!

I had the video of your monster ling in my mind the whole time I was trying to get the lip grippers on her. They barely clamped down on that fat lip!

Good job guys. Wish I could have made it; looks like a blast!  1st and 2nd to local guys? How'd that happen? 

Wow Chris, that's a huge ling!

Good job guys. Wish I could have made it; looks like a blast!  1st and 2nd to local guys? How'd that happen? 

Wow Chris, that's a huge ling!

We had to represent our home town stomping grounds! Evan almost beat me! I got really lucky. The cabbie sealed it for me...it was definitely the hail Mary for me. I caught it with just enough time to make it in to check in.

Good job guys. Wish I could have made it; looks like a blast!  1st and 2nd to local guys? How'd that happen? 

Wow Chris, that's a huge ling!

We had to represent our home town stomping grounds! Evan almost beat me! I got really lucky. The cabbie sealed it for me...it was definitely the hail Mary for me. I caught it with just enough time to make it in to check in.

Yeah I'm kicking myself for not making it.  Next year I'm going to try and plan the family camping trip during this tourney.  Problem is that Sunset SP seems to fill up with reservations close to 5 months in advance.

Is there another campground nearby?

Yeah, bastendorf camp grounds is a mile or so closer than sunset. I think it fills up pretty quick too but it's worth looking into.

Congrats guys.  I wish I could have made it down this year.

Looks like you put on another awesome event this year Roy!  One of these days I have to make it down for this....

Congratulations to all the participants.  You guys rocked it!

-Spot-

Looks fun and awesome! Way to go Ling Ling - nice fish! I guess until I win a tourney or something I have to stop arguing with you about rigging... 

Good job to everyone!

Looks fun and awesome! Way to go Ling Ling - nice fish! I guess until I win a tourney or something I have to stop arguing with you about rigging... 

Good job to everyone!

The first step is entering into one of these events! That would have been an interesting fight on anything lighter than what I was running!

Here's a pic of the early morning launch conditions, and also one of Browneyesvictim with his huge ling.

A special thanks to Roy and Dudi for putting on a great tournament, also for putting up with me as a house guest!