Here are your 2009 King of the Cats Champions!

[HotPocket]

Thanks Darren and Brian for all you did this year. I had a great time. Next year should be just as fun, and Congrates to everyone in the top ten! Alot of fishing was done.

Winter is not to far off, Time to get the ice castle out and ready, If any of you KOTC guys want to go out some time shoot me a e-mail. Have a good winter you cat freaks!

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[SteveD]

WOW!! Great summation of the year's results. Thanks for everything, Darren. The contest just keeps getting better every year and the competition gets tougher. I guess I can chase sturgeon for a few weeks and then take some time off.

Thanks again, Darren. Job well done.

Steve

[Gordie]

Thanks to everyone involed in this contest I had a really great time on the river. Along with meeting new people along the way this was by far the best fishing contest that I have ever been involed in. The jokes and laughter were my favorite part of this.There were a lot of LOL moments in front of my computer and on a sandbar or in the boat.Speacial thanks to Darren and Brain for all their hard wark for this. You guys Rock!! hope to see you on the river next year for the 2010 KTOC

Again congrats to All the winners and yea Ed do you really need another rod thats a dumb question because you can never have enough rods in the boat

[wastewaterguru]

I guess "hibernate" may have been a little severe.

I could hunt some birds, or walleyes, or sturgeon........

A guy has got to just change gears thats all.

Last night we boated 5 fish including a 25 pound flat on a bobber with a very large bait underneath it. What a great way to end the season.

In the last couple weeks I've thrown the bobber out 5 times.....been hit four of those 5 and boated 2 flats. I think i gotta get me some more bobbers. Thanks to Rushing for getting me hooked on a new technique........just what I needed.

[DTro]

Maybe a KOTC branded bobber for next year eh?

The LOL moment last night was when John say, “uh guys, I think I’m going nutz…….where is my bobber?” So the three of us spend the next 15 seconds scanning the water for a larger than pop can size object floating on the water. Should be obvious right? Wrong.

“I don’t see it, do you see it, nope I don’t see it, where is it, is that it, nope, where did you cast, did it come off………thinks it’s under?”

[TylerS]

Thanks for the opportunity to do this! It was a lot of fun and I can't believe I won! I figured I'd get bumped out of first place right away after all the big cats I witnessed caught this year on the Red. Then, when the spawn hit, I figured it was just a matter of time until the Fall frog bite was on and I'd drop down a few pegs.

Who'da thunk it?

Anyway, it was a ton of fun! Congrats to Ed for winning the rod!

[Gordie]

And the star of tonights movie WWG in DUDE WHERES MY BOBBER

[Larry FlatCaster]

I found in some instances when there were other distractions around...... The clicker would help out with a little notice when the bobber decided to dive.

[pureinsanity]

And the star of tonights movie WWG in DUDE WHERES MY BOBBER

Gordie shoot me an email I got something for you.

[Lowblazah]

Wow...good job guys...even bigger props to Jake for putting a whoopin on the previous high score. 229.5??? good grief.

[audemp]

I wonder what the count was for the number of 50 lb fish caught? That I think is what impressed me most. Our fishery is getting really fat!!

[harvey lee]

So am I. This being down for the knee replacement and the back stinks. Sit home and enjoy another hamburger and beer way too much. My wife tells me Snap Fitness starts tomorrow am.

[DTro]

Well it appears as if there might be a "clerical" error on my part that could effect the eventual outcome. I am going to lock this one down until I get this cleared up.

Stay tuned.....

Well as hard as it was to do for me, I had to award the 5th King of the Channels spot to uppdacreek (hard because I hate that I made a mistake).

Per the KOTC tiebreaker rules, a tie goes to the person with the biggest fish between the two. In 5th place SteveD and uppdacreek were tied with 157pts each. Tony had the biggest fish so the title rightly goes to him. Congrats Tony!!

I truly apologize for the mistake. The way the spreadsheet displays the green, it will only take the top 5 (even if a tie) and then display them alphabetically. I totally missed that one and I feel bad about it.

Big tip of the cap to SteveD, he is actually the one that pointed it out to me a while ago, and if that isn't sportsmanship, I don't know what else is.

Thanks Steve for your honesty and understanding. If that is not the epitome of deserved honorable mention, I don't know what is.

[ec30_06]

Maybe a KOTC branded bobber for next year eh?

The LOL moment last night was when John say, “uh guys, I think I’m going nutz…….where is my bobber?” So the three of us spend the next 15 seconds scanning the water for a larger than pop can size object floating on the water. Should be obvious right? Wrong.

“I don’t see it, do you see it, nope I don’t see it, where is it, is that it, nope, where did you cast, did it come off………thinks it’s under?”

That, and the channel on the panfish pole was great too.

[ec30_06]

Tom I will think about that rod a little and shoot you an e-mail

[fishuhalik]

Congrats to the winners! I didn't participate, actually I don't fish for cats, but it's been fun reading the stories and seeing the pics of some nice fish!

[riverrat56]

Congrats to the winners!

Nice to see Ed get another rod for me to trip over....

[Scott M]

Congrats to all. Had a lot of fun fishing with some of the guys on here and hope to meet some more of you.

[MinnesnowtaWild]

Congrats Steve for being a true sportsman.

[Slowhand]

Big thanks to Dtro and Aanderud for throwing this event and maintaining it; good job guys.

Thanks to all the fellows in this contest, because if it wouldnt have been for you I would have talked myself into a few more "empty memories" sitting on the couch instead of out on the river listening to coyotes, owls, and the like, and just taking it all in and truely enjoying life.

The only drawback in I found in the contest, and this says more about me than the contest itself is I should have appreciated more of my catch this year. There were times this season where I hooked into some nicer fish, that I would catch myself frowning upon because it wasnt an "upgrade". That wouldnt have happened years prior, but this is the 1st such contest I have been in that ran so long.....definitely a marathon.

[ec30_06]

Congrats to the winners!

Nice to see Ed get another rod for me to trip over....

I think that was usually the net, and it's not like we even needed it.

[proguide]

What a year. I want to thank the guys for working on this. It made the fishing year much more interesting to say the least. I had the fish to put me in first at least a dozen times but being the net man doesn't count here at KOTC, just being in the green is all that counts anyhow.

2010 will be a great year. Only 7 months to wait now.

[Gordie]

Hey just wanted to say congrats to the guy that was only supposed to be able to catch channel cats and what do ya know he took first in flats and fourth in channels!

WAY TO GO JAKE I always got open seat for ya and again congrats...

[HotPocket]

Hey thanks elwood.

[DARK30]

You guys need a QUEEN Of The Cats division

Nice Gloves!