Kayak Fishing Blog

Get Outdoors Kayak Fishing Tournament, Greensboro, NC - March 14, 2009

It’s been said countless times in North Carolina.. if you don’t like the weather, wait a few hours. In this case, in a weeks span, we went from sunny with a high of 80º to solid rain with a high of 38º… perfect conditions for the 2nd Annual Get Outdoors Kayak Fishing Tournament. Thirty anglers entered this year, some as far away as Virginia Beach, VA and Charlotte, NC. Launch time was 7:30 AM and all contestants had to be inline with their score-able CPR fish by 4 PM. Despite a few frozen hind ends I believe everyone had a good time. A number of good fish were scored but none bested my 20 1/2” LM Bass, which was a surprise, I fully expected the top place to be 22” plus. Over $300 was raised to benefit The Haw River Assembly, a non-profit citizens group dedicated to restore and protect the Haw River and Jordan Lake, from raffle items. This could not have been accomplished with out the backing from these fine sponsors.

Kayak Angler Magazine
Get Outdoors
KayakBassFishing.com
Precision-Pak
Gander Mountain
St. Croix Rods
NRS
Native Watercraft
X-Tools
Kokatat
Sea to Summit
Scotty
Astral
Thule
Ram Mounts
Immersion Research
Lateral Line
Stick-It Anchor Pins
Yakima
Werner Paddles
Yak Attack
Exclamations Catering

Exclamations catering did an outstanding job filling our cold and empty stomachs with a variety of choice eats such as Salmon, Chicken and Steak Kabobs as well as awesome Crab Cakes. A big thanks and recognition also goes out to Will Cimino, Will Seely and the rest of the crew at Get Outdoors for organizing the event.

Tournament results

Place - Angler - Fish - length - Award

1st - Philip Ruckart -  20.5”  - Heritage Kayaks Redfish 14
2nd - Ray Montes - 19”  - Precision-Pak YakPak III
3rd - Scott Inge -  18.25”  - Yakima Bowdown carrier
4th  - Brian Mosley - 18” - IR Zephyr Dry Top
5th - Ron Washburn - 17.75” - NRS Chinook PFD

Ed Stevens was one of three fly fisher entrants and the only one to enter a score-able fish so he won 1st place and received a Werner Tybee paddle. Because there was no one to place 2nd and 3rd those places were shifted to the conventional division as 4th and 5th place.

The winning fish -

by Philip Ruckart

Our Group on Facebook

Yard Sale Results

Saturday we had the 1st annual Hook 1 Fishing Yard Sale.  We had alot of sellers and a consistent stream of buyers.  I think Grego was salesman of the day bringing in a booming $700  or so … 

Thanks go out to the sellers who made it a great day and to the buyers who made it a greater day !!

Thanks to Hogans Bait and Tackle Shop for helping promote the event - Hogans is located in Dana Point - (949)493-3528.

We even had our local fire department make a stop …

When they pulled up, I thought I was in trouble!  But… they came to shop.

A few more pics:

See you all next year!!