Bob has posted the 2012 Carolina Yakfish schedule on our website. You will see there are two TBAs listed. We are planning on Randleman for the May tournament and Michie for the September tournament but need to talk with lake officials before finalizing. Shouldn't be any issues though. We are also very pleased and thankful to announce that Native Watercraft has agreed to donate a kayak for our 2012 Angler of the Year prize!
1) Shearon Harris-undecided, we would like to do it at the Holleman ramp but space may be limited. Will announce soon.
2) Randleman-We will announce this later. I believe Bob said there is an electric only portion though and that's where we'd like to have it if allowed.
3) Fort Fisher-yep the ramp
4) Michie-ramp beside the boat house
5) Jordan-Ebenezer (secondary ramps without the docks in the back of the parking lot)
Also, as the events get closer, we will post maps of the launch areas on here and on our website.
Man this has peaked my interest, even though I've never done any freshwater fishing in a kayak. Or any fishing tournements. I think it would be fun just to get out there w/ my jelopy of a yak amoung all these nicer, newer kayaks I've seen in the photos.
Designed some new Identifiers for the 2012 Carolina Yakfish Series.
They will be 2 sided and a smaller (2 3/8” x 3 ½”) size than previous years.
Front will have the Body of Water, Date, ID number and Yakfish Logo.
Back will have a area to write in your time and/or size of catch. (optional)
The new size allows for the ID’s to fit into various fishing license holders. Might be a good idea to purchase a lanyard, to attach the holder. This is optional ...just wanted to give notice to those who would like to be more organized come tourney time.
Also...I am running the Carolina Yakfish Facebook page, if you haven’t already, stop by and “friend us” and then feel free to share (post/tag) any/all fishing adventures. Will be keeping it updated with tourney picts, info and such.
OK after looking over this I think I'm going to go for it. Only worry is I am on call for work every 5 or 6 weeks and hope that doesn't get in the way. I also will have to see how my health goes but I hope to be much better by the start of this. I'm sitting at home right now on short term disability with a broken back. They still aren't sure what going on but I'm going to doctors and having tests done about twice a week. I hope it's under control soon so I can get back on the water.
I have the same oncall rotation - I am lucky enough to be able to let them know im going to be out of town and wont be answering a phone so that they can make the change in rotation ahead of time.....
I like the ID cards!
I have seen several tournaments use the wrist bands like those given at concerts etc. This could also be an idea, but I could see where having a wrist band could be problematic while photoing the fish, the waterproofing of the glue, and fisherman ID.
I cannot wait for the tournament to go down. Maybe this year something nice will happen to me from the green fish gods. I am going to go to everyone this year so wish me luck!!!!!ahhaha
<If the Hawgs are a biting then my fish caller is working>
I'm hoping to make 3, maybe 4 of the events. Randleman might be a little far from the coast. The last 2 events are right in the middle of hurricane season as well so I'll have to call those tenative. If there's hurricane swells coming in, I'm going to have to trade my paddle for surf wax. Looking forward to April 14th!
The biggest change is that we are doing away with the 1/2 inch rule due to popular demand. If we can tell that 2 fish of the same length are obviously different fish, we will count both. All fish that place will be put on our website so everyone can view them. If any problems arise, we reserve the right to reinstate the 1/2 inch rule at any time.
One thing we would like to ask participants is to make sure the numbers on your measuring devices stand out and are easy to read. It can be difficult to near impossible to read some of the measuring devices out there, so take a few test photos and make sure they stand out. If we can't read them, we may have to disqualify the fish. Hawg troughs are the best and we encourage the use of those. Contrast is the best way to make numbers stand out. For example, if you have a white board and white numbers, trace over the numbers and lines with a black sharpie.
One other thing, we announced a little while ago that Native agreed to donate a kayak for our Angler of the Year prize. Bob and I are excited about that but have decided to take ourselves out of the running for that prize in case one of us gets lucky and wins AOY. And just like last year, the 20% of entrace fees that we deduct for the AOY prize, will instead go to HOW since we already have a great AOY prize. We also have implemented a tie-breaker scenario for AOY which can be seen in the rules.
This remains a totally non-for-profit series, 100% of the proceeds are either paid out as prizes or donated to charity and we intend to keep it that way.
Lastly, someone asked about launch locations. The first one at Shearon Harris will be at the Crosspoint Rd launch. That is the ramp on the southern end of the lake near the dam. The Randleman launch will be Southwest Park. And the one at Jordan will be at Ebeneezer. The other two only have one launch area, so they are self explanatory. Maps of the launches can be seen here:
Fireyakker-Usually we aim for 6am arrival and 7am launch. That gives everyone an hour to unload and be ready to fish, go over rules, hand out identifiers, tell 3-4 lies, etc. We will make the times official at each event and post them on our website as the events draw near.
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