2017 AOTY FINAL Top 10!

Hello Everybody!

Final Top 10 Standings for 2017 NCKA AOTY are below:

1st Place - Matt Mayes (MattSwayze) - 1,877 pts, with largest point value fish of a 207.5pt, 41.5" Lingcod, which is 2nd largest Lingcod ever registered in AOTY! What a beast, and congratulations to Matt!  For his win, Matt will win a brand new Hobie Fishing Kayak!
2nd Place - Ryan King (Live2Fish) - 1,822 pts, with a big fish of a 200pt, 40" Ling!  Great fish and great job to Ryan.  For his placing, Ryan will earn an NRS Sidewinder bib!
3rd Place - Robert Bray (Matanaska) - 1,756 pts, with a big fish of a 202.5 point, 40.5" Lingcod!  Another huge ling and great work to Rob for pushing it out to the very last day of the season.  For his prize, Rob will get a prize package from Adventure Sports Kayak City in Sacramento.
4th Place - Nick Chatelain (Cod Almighty) - 1,736 pts, with a big fish of a giant 188 point, 23.5" Cabezon! 
5th Place - Uminchu Naoaki (Uminchu) - 1,718 pts, with a big fish of a 198 point, 22" Alabama Spotted Bass!  What a huge fish and of course Naoaki had a great year fishing all sorts of varieties of fish.
6th Place - Aaron Coon (SeaChumm) - 1,704 pts, with a big fish of a 195.25 point, 17.75" kokanee, the largest kokanee ever scored in AOTY!
7th Place - John Meteyer (ThreemoneyJ) - 1,693 points, with big fish of a 194pt, 24.25" gigantic Cabezon that was released! 
8th Place - Matt R. Wong (Orange Chicken) - 1,687 points, with a big fish of a 181.5pt, 33" Catfish!  Great job to Matt in his first year of AOTY competition!
9th Place - Rob Knoles (RacinRob) - 1,648 points, with a big fish of a 197 point, 25.5" Rainbow Trout, which was the largest fish caught in the trout category this year!
10th Place - Kyle Monte (Midwest) - 1,575 point, with a big fish of a 188.75 point, 37.75" lingcod, and Kyle caught only one of two sturgeon registered in the competition all year!

Congrats to all of our Top 10 finishers, and best of luck to everyone who is competing in 2018! And a special thanks to all of our sponsors, including Hobie Fishing, NRS, Kayak City, Native Watercraft, Kayak Connection, Amadeo Bachar, YakAttack and Branson Baits!

That represents a lot of hard work. Congrats to all of the winners!

Congratulations everyone on slaying all year!

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Some amazing results for all of the top 10.

Congratulations!

Congrats to everyone in the top ten! Another amazing year for AOTY.

Congratulations everyone! You guys caught some nice fish°

Congrats everyone!

Congrats Everyone!!!
Thanks to all the sponsors!!!


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Those are some major scores. Cheers to you guys! And good luck to everybody in 2018!

Strong work and Congrats EVERYONE!!!

Congrats to ALL participants!