Why?

Why aren't the stats up for the 2006 AOTY season?

History was made & the story should be told.

Please add 2006 to the forum. Thank you. jim

yeah, I was pretty upset about that. It was my year Apparently all the info/stats were not saved.

I'm sure those that participated would know/remember what fish they caught and how big they were. Might be as simple as pm-ing those folks. Of course some of those lengths might have grown over the years.  I think it would still be very worthwhile to persue the stats for posterity's sake. I would love to see what went down as that was the year I joined and I don't remember any of it. I was too busy falling out of my kayak, vomiting, and getting skunked to follow AOTY at that point.  jim

In 2005, we had our first version of AOTY = Big fish of the year awards....

2005 Big Fish Awards

Salmon (Ocean Caught): Joel with his 27 pound chick magnet
Halibut:  Chef with his 24# 9 oz Butt
Striper:  Sean with his 11 pound Lake Mendocino beauty
Rock Cod: Papa Bill with his 10# Cabezon in full fishsniffer pose.
Lingcod:  Abking with his 24 pounder
Sturgeon:  Erik Kunz 71.75 incher from Shell Bank

Here's what I found on the 2006 AOTY....

http://www.norcalkayakanglers.com/index.php/topic,6739.0.html

Are there pics and/or a thread with the 2005 entries?

I'm sure we have 'em somewhere in the site - just need to find 'em. I'll make it my winter project

Cool. I think it would be great to get both 2005 and 2006 up for all to see.
I didn't even know that Freddie took 2nd and KZ took 3rd in 06'. jim

Here's what I found on the 2006 AOTY....

http://www.norcalkayakanglers.com/index.php/topic,6739.0.html

That 'Abking' is a funny guy...   

Here's what I found on the 2006 AOTY....

http://www.norcalkayakanglers.com/index.php/topic,6739.0.html

That 'Abking' is a funny guy...   

And we sorely miss him! 

I don't think there was an official 2005 event, was there?  I think it was sort of after the fact.  Over the winter, the question was asked, "who is our angler of the year".  And people started posting the amazing accomplishments of that year.  And then ... the AOTY as we know it was born.

-Allen

I don't think there was an official 2005 event, was there?

Ya, it was actually an official event. We actually held the awards ceremony at Ono Hawaiian Grill at HMB (when it was still open).

Here's the link. Unfortunately the pics were somehow "X" from the report....

http://www.norcalkayakanglers.com/index.php/topic,2786.0.html

Here was the un-official AOTY thread for 2005..

http://www.norcalkayakanglers.com/index.php/topic,2031.0.html

Yeah... 2006 was a great year... back when I could actually go fishing more than a couple times a year.

My most memorable catch was this big mama... my AOTY point factory... 27 inches and 11 pounds... one of my most memorable fish ever.

In 2005, we had our first version of AOTY = Big fish of the year awards....

2005 Big Fish Awards

Salmon (Ocean Caught): Joel with his 27 pound chick magnet
Halibut:  Chef with his 24# 9 oz Butt
Striper:  Sean with his 11 pound Lake Mendocino beauty
Rock Cod: Papa Bill with his 10# Cabezon in full fishsniffer pose.
Lingcod:  Abking with his 24 pounder
Sturgeon:  Erik Kunz 71.75 incher from Shell Bank

My striper was bigger!! But I didn't enter the striper pot. It was species by species that year.

HOLY HANDGRENADES ERIC !!!!!!!  I had no idea that fish like that even exsisted.  Where did you catch that monster?