Randy Fry Big X Tourney Results

We are going to have to add more divisions for kayak anglers next year. Great turnout, guys!

The Movie:




And the winners are:

OPEN   
1   Kevin Smith/Justin Smith
2   Charles Brandenburg/Peter/Alexander Yavorski
3   John Park/Dan Silveira
   
PRO/AM   
1   Dave Edlund/Jamie Delahaye
2   John Hayes/Edward Zhu
3   Sylvie Stulic/Mark Weitz
   
BEGINNERS   
1   Brian Mathews/Peter Mu
2   John Hague/Todd Wagner
3   Santino Bernazzani/Daniel Forland
   
MASTERS   
1   Manny Silveira/Carlos Silva
2   Frank Delahaye/Ed Olson
   
POLE SPEAR   
1   Brian Ishida/Dan Rujan
2   Art Li/Renaud Waldura
3   Andrew Hash/Albert Larcina
4   Ali Mills/Joe Jackson
   
KAYAK ANGLING   
1   Brian Steves/Jenna Shinen
2   Mike Malone/Jim Martin
3   Sean White/Chris White
4   Bill Leivia/Sean Parks
   
ABALONE   
1   Charles Brandenburg/Peter/Alexander Yavorski
2   Brandi Easter/Milo Vukovich
3   Chris Jason/Bill Andrews
   
MOTORIZED    
1   Brandi Easter/Milo Vukovich

And Joe Campi won the Ocean Kayak Big Game Prowler:

Jim,

More divisions for kayak anglers?  I thought a field of just 7 teams was pretty small.  No doubt next year's event is likely to draw more kayak angling teams, but we're used to events where there are 40+ teams and one division.   I suppose you could break the divisions down to awards for largest rockfish, largest ling, largest combined stringer, etc.. I'm just not sure we're ready for "Beginners" and "Open" divisions.   There have been many kayak fishing events in the past were it seemed that only newbies were destined to ever win.

Anyway, there were many things I liked about this tournament (other than winning my division).  For one, I really liked the team format (I wouldn't have won otherwise), and I liked the chance to hang out with the spearos.   I would have really liked having a day where we trade tips from each other.  In particular, if I a spearo could have spent some time and introduced me to spearfishing or helped me with my Ab hunting I would have been more than willing to lend him or her my extra gear and take them kayak angling for a few hours.  Maybe that's a bit difficult to arrange, but maybe each group did some sort of general introductory demonstration for the other group.  Anyway, just some thoughts.

Thanks again for inviting us kayak anglers to your party,

Brian

Great feedback, Brian. I agree, I wanted to get more time with kayak anglers to find out about how they rig their yaks for fishing. The spearos are more than willing to share their knowledge, There needs to be some format to do that.

Maybe have the tourney on a Sunday. Would be a lot easier for some to head up Saturday, camp and hang out with everyone and share such tips.
If the tourney was Sunday I could have had time to gear up and enter.