2023 Tournaments
2023 Tournaments
1st Tournament - Belhaven
Results from tournament:
Thank you to everyone who made it out to this year's first tournament in Belhaven. It was a great day to have everyone together and an even better day for fishing!
1st place in the main tournament and biggest trout winner was Sean Braly with a total weight (2 fish) of 9.23 lbs and largest trout weight was 4.83lbs
2nd was Jason Soper with 6.45lbs
3rd was Justin Sanders with 6.27
Largest and only redfish was caught and won by Bob Hills weighing in at 5.1 lbs
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2nd Tournament - Wilmington
Results from Sunday tournament at Wilmington
Redfish :
1st place with 23.75" -
2nd place with 17.75" - Larry Hardee
Black Drum:
1st place with 18.5" - Evan Jacobs
2nd place with 17" - Dan George
Sheepshead:
1st place with 19.5" - Larry Hardee
2nd place with 17.5" - Evan Jacobs
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We had a turnout with 12 Anglers competing!
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3rd Tournament - Swansboro
Results from Sunday tournament at Swansboro
Redfish :
1st place with 88.75" - John Coiro
2nd place with 85.75" - Bill Chapman
3rd place with 70.50" - Mark Patterson
Black Drum:
1st place with 19.75" - Greg Johnson
2nd place with 12" - Bob Hills
Sheepshead:
1st place with 52.75" - Ivan Juarez
2nd place with 32.50" - Harrison Letchworth
3rd place with 23.50" - Greg Johnson
We had a great turnout with 22 Anglers competing!
I would also like to thank Pogie's Fishing Charters, Coastal Tours, Kayaking, and Rental Center for letting us fill their parking lot up on such short notice!
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1st Annual Flounder Tournament - September
Winners of the First annual CCKF Flounder Tournament!
1st place at 23 1/4 Greg Johnson
2nd place at 21 1/2 Christopher Hand
3rd place at 21 1/2 Cameron Norris
Congratulations to the winners and huge thankyou to everyone who participated!
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SEPTEMBER FLOUNDER TOURNAMENT LEADER BOARD!
1ST - Gregg Johnson 23 1/4"
2ND - Christopher Hand 21 1/2"
3RD - Cameron Norris 21 1/2"
4TH - John Truong 20 3/4"
5TH - Michael Carithers 20 1/2"
6TH - Mark Patterson 20"
7TH - Tyler Duffy 19 3/4"
8TH - Kyle Bell 19"
9TH - Nathan Pate 18 1/4"
10TH - John Galante Jr 16"
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4th Tournament - North Topsail
Results from Sunday tournament at Wilmington
Redfish :
1st place with 44.5" - Ryan Gleason
2nd place with 42" - Larry Hardee
3rd place with 41.75" - Bob Hills
Black Drum:
No black drum caught
Sheepshead:
No Sheepshead caught
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There was some trash fish caught and the winner was Larry Hardee.
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We also had for this tournament a side trout pot due to see them in the area. The winner for this one was Larry Hardee.
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We had a turnout with 14 Anglers competing!
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5th Tournament - Vandemere
Long post alert
23 anglers fished in the final tournament.
The Vandemere tournament was a huge success FIRST OFF let me just say we raised 400$ just from the tournament alone and another 200 from a few awesome members who wanted to help out. THANKYOU BOTH!
Alright tournament results.
Main Tournament (heaviest 4 trout)
1st place : Mike Santos with 7.26lbs
2nd place : Sean Braly with 6.62lbs
3rd place : Larry Jones with 3.49lbs
Longest redfish went to Alex Derby with 24inches
Heaviest single trout went to Larry Jones
with 3.49lbs
We also had a few drawing for items given to us from our sponsors!
Great Outdoor Provision Co. gave a 30$ gift card
Louisiana Custom Kayaks gave us two $50 discount codes!
Pettiford creek custom lures sent 4 custom lures (1 was even out of his secret stash)
Nocqua Adventure Gear gave us a Pro power kit to give away as well. This prize was done by a drawing of the people that attended 4 or more of the tournaments.
This was not announced but MasterBait company will be sending our 1st place winner Mike Santos some free packs of swim baits to add to his winnings!
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