AOTY MAY UPDATE!

May AOTY Update!

The competition is heating up for sure now! Ocean Rockfish is open now for all state, so we're starting to see a trickle in of our saltwater friends. We expect to see some large lingcod, cabezon and rockfish from our Lost Coast contingent soon.

Ocean Salmon is open in some places, although for the most part out of reach of most kayakers, so far. Trout season is open throughout the Sierras, Bass/Crappie are biting well, Shad have moved into the rivers meaning that some of our big Striped friends will be on the gorge. It's a wonderful time to fish right now, so get your plastic boats out on the water!

Right now we have migrated everything to the new AOTY website at https://aoty.norcalkayakanglers.com . If you have not been able to login yet, please contact us. There are some issues with folks getting password resets to sbcglobal/ATT e-mail addresses due to spam filtering. So we may need to change your email address to another one if you are using that.

Here are the top 10 as of today:
1. ThreeMoneyJ/John Meteyer - 1051 points, John's still picking away at the fish, with a nice solid 150 point average. He's got 7 species and a nice variety of salt and freshwater, doing great!
2. Supervato/ Amos Foreman - 963points, with a 138point average. He's got up on the board with the opening of rockfish season, but that point average won't hold up 2nd place all year!
3. FreshNSalty/ Bee Xiong - a close third with 941.5 points, but he's got a very solid 157 point average, including that big spot from earlier this year.
4. SeaChumm/ Aaron Coon - 769 points. Aaron's only got 5 fish so far, but a nice solid average.
5. Uminchu / Uminchu Naoaki - 759 points - Naoaki's got an excellent nearly 190 point average with some really nice fish so far! Hopefully he can find some time to keep going fishing, right?
6. tommcdo - 753 points - Great start for one of our newer competitors, who has a very nice sized crappie to help bolster his scores.
7. Orange Chicken/ Matt R. Wong - 727 points - Matt continues to do really well for a relatively new competitor, and word is he's got a few more fish coming in soon to post.
8. Midwest/ Kyle Monte - 692 points - Kayak Fish Sonoma is his name, and fishing the ocean is his game. Now that rockfish season is open, I'm sure we'll be seeing a bunch more fish coming in from Kyle!
9. The Kraken/ Scott Keller - 673 points - Scott is a very accomplished freshwater fisherman, but now that the season is open he'll start making treks to the salt as well, so watch out!
10. Sam Elliot - 580 points - Sam is the top placing fisherwoman on our list so far, and spends a lot of time fishing with our first place competitor 3MJ. So you can expect her to continue rising up the leaderboard for sure!

Some other recent catches -
Sue Vang got one of the largest crappie we've seen in the competition, a 16.5", 198 point PIG caught at the recent Rollins Roundup. Nice job Sue!
DrunKnMunKee/Vinny Dau caught a solid 31" striper recently, a very nice fish no matter how you cut it.

Good luck to all our competitors in the upcoming months! Also, don't forget about all of our awesome sponsors:
Hobie Fishing
Kayak City
Mustang Survival
Lockrack USA
Clavey Paddlesports
Kayak Connection
YakAttack
Branson Baits
Amadeo Bachar
Suspenz Storage and Transportation
Eddy Willis
Tails 2 Tales/Javier Perez
Fillet Away Fish Mats
Salty Nutz fishing krew

I’m digging the monthly updates. Thanks for doing these. I might even go fishing this month!

Right on!

Hey, I made it to the top 50 

I like the updates. That first place won’t last for long, I’m only getting little fish so far., but I’m having fun doing it!

Excellent update, thanks BMB.  I love the photo of Vinny Dau's FAT striper!

Whadya mean it "MAY" update.  Looks like a thorough update to me!

Bushy

Thanks for the nice recap, BMB.

For those of you that haven’t signed up for AOTY yet, jump on it. Still plenty of great fishing left this year.