Here are your 2009 King of the Cats Champions!

[DTro]

First I would like to thank each and every one of you for making this such a fun contest. Without your eager participation, this contest falls flat on its face. With each year, we are seeing more contestants and bigger fish! That is what it’s all about!

Secondly I would like to thank Aanderud for his maintenance and updating of the KOTC HSOforum, not to mention helping me out inputing any entries that I got backed up on.

Let’s start with the Channel Cat division:

On the Channel Cat side it was all about the spring bite on the Red River. Basically all of top channel cats came during the prespawn bite. It was pretty obvious that if a guy wanted to finish in the green he needed to take a road trip.

Here are some interesting stats:

11 fish 35” and over were entered (approx 20lbs and bigger)

55 fish 30” and over were entered (approx 10lbs and bigger)

Without further adieu, here are your 2009 Kings of the Channels. Congrats to all of you!

[DTro]

Finishing in 1st with 177pts is Tyler S

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Finishing in 2nd with 176.5pts is Kent H (Tropy Cat Adventures)

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Finishing in 3rd with 172pts is Brad D (ProGuide)

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Finishing in 4th with 162pts is Jake R (HotPocket)

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Finishing in 5th with 157pts is uppdacreek

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Now for the Flathead division. Not much to say here other than WOW lots of big fish!!!

Here are some interesting stats:

30 fish 45” and over were entered (approx 40lbs and bigger)

75 fish 40” and over were entered (approx 30lbs and bigger)

Here are you 2009 King of the Flatheads Congrats to all of you!

[DTro]

Finishing in 1st with 229.5 pts is Jake R (HotPocket)

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Finishing in 2nd with 228pts is Ted A (Slowhand)

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Finishing in 3rd with 224pts is Roman K

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Finishing 4th with 223pts is Scott K (4wanderingeyes)

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Finishing 5th with 221pts is Gordie M (Elwood)

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Here are those that have qualified for the custom catfish rod drawing donated by Tom H (Harvey Lee) and Midwest Rod and Reel:

Tyler S

Kent H (Tropy Cat Adventures)

Brad D (ProGuide)

Jake R (HotPocket)

Steve D

Ted A (Slowhand)

Roman K

Scott K (4wanderingeyes)

Gordie M (Elwood)

John K (wastewaterguru)

Eddie C (ec30-06)

Andrew W (captain fireman)

Andrew T (lowblazah)

Tony V (uppdacreek)

Darren T (DTro)

Rusty M (wiskers)

Larry H (LFC)

Alagnak (via the shootout)

Aanderud (via the shootout)

I will let you know who won the rod after I do the drawing. Stay tuned.

(I just received an email from Tom and he did a drawing with his wife this morning)

and the winner is.....

Eddie C (ec30-06)!

Please contact Tom to work out the details on the rod. Thanks again to Tom and Midwest Rod and Reel for the generous donation!

For those of you that are now KOTC champs, you now have now earned the title 2009 King of the Cats Champion and an appropriate title has been added to your signature.

Thanks again, and I look forward to next year!

[DTro]

whew....

I'm going to bed now

[MinnesnowtaWild]

Congrats guys! It's been a great season and it's good to see our fishery is doing quite well.

[zepman]

All super impressive fish guys...congrats and thanks for sharing the photos!

[Roman_K]

Thank you Dtro, and anyone else who was involved, for organizing another great KOTC year! Congratulations to all KOTC winners!

[aanderud]

Congrats to the winners. Everyone in the top 5 for each species definitely earned it, with lots of hours on the water.

Great recap, Dtro. Thanks for all the hard work keeping up the photo gallery and leaderboard and managing the shootouts, etc.

It's a fun contest, for sure!

[wastewaterguru]

I am going to hibernate now until May. Congratulations to all the winners. Well done.

The total number of quality fish caught was unbelievable.

Even more impressive is that I believe nearly all the fish caught were safely released.

See everybody next season.......

[harvey lee]

Congrats to all the winners and boy, there were some big point totals.

Ed, call or e-mail me in regards to the rod you won. I will build it this winter when I have the specs you would like to see on your new rod.

[Scott K]

Thanks everyone, I had a blast fishing this contest. I can truly say that a no money contest is far more fun then involving any money. I can't wait until next year to start from scratch!

Congratulations to all the winners, and to Ed for winning the fishing rod. My son Travis had Tom make me one, and it is a very nice rod. Thanks Tom for donating the fishing pole, and also thanks for making the fishing pole that Travis got from you. Well done!

[harvey lee]

I hope it catches you many large flats Scott. Travis was really excited to get it done for you.

Thanks to all who put this on. It was fun but I wish I could have fished all my days.

[Shack]

Does Ed need another rod

Congrates to all the winners and it was a great spring for me, even though my mid-late summer saw no catfishing Got to pay the piper every once and awhile and this year was the year. If you do not, the piper takes half of everything you own, including fishing gear and boats

Next year though, watch out

Thanks Darren, Brian and "That's all folks"

[pureinsanity]

I am going to hibernate now until May. Congratulations to all the winners. Well done.

The total number of quality fish caught was unbelievable.

Even more impressive is that I believe nearly all the fish caught were safely released.

See everybody next season.......

So if you are going to hibernate does till may, does that mean chasing some roosters in a few weeks is out of the question?

[DTro]

I had a great time with the contest, at times bombarded with entries and photos, but it was fun.

I have a few ideas for a couple very minor tweaks for next year and I look forward to keeping this a “for fun” contest and adding in a few more prizes here and there on a qualify for drawing basis.

As said earlier, the title is well deserved, I know guys fished long and hard for the crown!