Time to shout out a few more of our 2026 Mixed Bag Winners!
Top Woman Angler - Nina Apperley - For the second year in a row, Nina, brought home the Top Woman angler award. Nina finished 4th in our overall standings, landing six species including a 22.5” Speckled Trout that earned her a lunker bonus!!
Beach Cleanup Award - Laken Taormina - Laken,
@lakent23 , managed to collect 22.47 lbs of trash as she fished the beaches last weekend edging out strong competition that saw ~75 lbs of waste turned in at the weigh in hosted by
@clean.horizons
Unique Catch Award - Wes Frazer - Wes,
@touched.by.an.angler , finished up the weekend with six species submitted including a Belted Sandfish & Northern Sennet!! It was his SQUID on the fly that put him over the top, however, as our first non-fish Unique Catch in four years of the tournament!!
Finally, a quick shootout to everyone in our Top 10. It was a hard fought tournament this year with impressive totals put up by many anglers! Most of the names were familiar, but two newcomers managed to find themselves on that final leaderboard: Clint Hathcock and
@megan.woodd
In Megan’s case she took her first casting lessons at the Classic early Saturday morning and landed her first speck, catfish and pinfish later that evening.
Big congrats to everyone! Stay tuned for our youth awards announcement