HMB tourney

Congrats to Javier for catching that 1st place cab and winning the $1000 prize.  He deserved it.  I watch him and his brother Tony sticking in out in a mine field of boilers.  It looks like it paid off big!

Congrats to Ben and Scott for coming close with 2nd and 3rd place.

Thanks to all of the participants.  You guys are a great bunch.  You helped make this our biggest event to date and it can only get bigger and better with your continued support.

Thanks again to our sponsors:  CCK, Okuma, Hobie, Norton Bass Rattler, Outdoor Pro Shop.  Thanks also to Tote, Alfredo, Chris, and Bill who contributed raffle prizes.

Thanks to everyone who contribute food for lunch.  It must have been all good, because there was almost nothing left when I got to it.  All I got was a small piece of cake or cobbler and that was delicious.

Finally, thanks to all that stepped up to help out during and after the event, and that incudes Stu's wife Sue, BrianG, Alex, and Sean.


Chuck

Congrats to the big$ fish!  Missed y'all but thanks for all the good descriptions so I can at least imagine the good time everyone had.

Got to town the afternoon before, met up with Mooch, Shawn, Jim and his wife Jessica Tote and his son CHUB and by the time we hit the brew co. for dinner, there were 12 of us. We had salmon fis-n-chips, halibut fish-n-chips and regular fish-n-chips. It made me wonder what people were going to target the next day. Epic morning, almost 50 kayaks in a line, like an invasion force. easy launch, very big water past the jaws, but got a little easier on out a bit.
Basically I was looking for underwater table-tops and fishing all around it, using big jigs. Probably sacraficed a lot of rf hits with the size, but was waiting for a lingasourus, or a cabzilla. Nailed the cabzilla on top of a 14 foot deep table-top on a 6 inch # 120 blue and silver knife-jig, no bottom hook, 2 stingers on the top with an extra split-ring. I knew he was a contender, if not the winner, when Javier nails another fatty 20 feet behind me and when he said it was 24" I knew my 20" was eased out of first. Hats off to Javier, you landed that big spiney fish with ease and patience in a big swell.Not an easy thing to do.
So thats when I started to want to puke. It took ALL my willpower not to chum. Headed back to easier water and tried for the winning halibut, but the halibut had different plans. 2nd place won me a killer rockfish combo from Okuma, the raffle got me the rad lip-gripper and a CAT hat for Anita. Had a GREAT time, thanx to all the sponsers and to the good folks at NCKA!

The night before...

Javiers thousand dollar cab.

My 2nd placer

Freddies "Savage" stringer...

Check this out, The girls of NCKA...

Not sure whos this is...

or this...

BTW, if anyone found any keys, pm me Ill call down there and ask tommorow, thier closed today. See 'yall real soon! Ben

Ben did you set up the picture with the Girls? See  the sign on the window.
Nice Job everyone looks like you all had a blast.

Man, Freddy is just killin' it recently.  Nice looking stringer there.

We need more NCKA hotty pics!

MolBasser

Great pics everyone!!
I need some help answering a question between CHUB and I.
Anyone who saw the firepit has to admit it was a pretty cool design. My question is : Did the fire ring represent waves or fire???
Help end this debate please.
Tote

Ill say waves.