Carp Tournaments
CARP Tournament Series ends run in Baldwinsville
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Bartlesville, OK --- A four-year run bringing international
and North American carp anglers to Baldwinsville has come
to an end for the Oklahoma-based CARP Tournament Series.
The Central New York community has gained momentum as
a destination for recreational and professional carp anglers
in just a handful of years in a joint venture with the
organization.
The partnership with CARPTS and the Baldwinsville community was centered on the
historic Red Mill Inn and was spearheaded by Greater Baldwinsville Economic Development
Agency.
“We’ve been privileged to be a part of the ‘carp revolution’ in Baldwinsville,”
said David Moore, CARPTS tournament director. “Our original mission was to bring
a tournament to this amazing fishery for three years. The warm hospitality and
support of the people of Baldwinsville made it hard to refuse their invitation
for a fourth year in 2010.
It’s tremendously rewarding to see the interest from
local carp anglers increase each year of the tournament.
We are thrilled by the news that the locals in Baldwinsville
will continue the tradition in 2011 on the Seneca River.
We’re confident Baldwinsville has a very bright future
in carp angling. Our sincerest thank you to the core host
committee, the numerous businesses, sponsors, volunteers
and government agencies who welcomed us to Central New
York.”
Since the inaugural year of CARPTS Northeast Regionals
in 2007, the Seneca River earned a reputation as a prolific
fishery for the common carp and produced unprecedented
quantities of fish during the action-packed competitions.
Over 112,000 pounds of carp have been caught and released
by more than 325 anglers during the 50-consecutive hour
contests throughout CARPTS tenure each May.
“The Baldwinsville Carp Tournament Committee would like
to thank CARPTS for the direction and assistance they
provided over the past five years. We greatly appreciate
the high level of professionalism, organization and energy
that CARPTS provided,” said Jake McKenna of Baldwinsville’s
host committee.
“The record setting tournaments that many carp anglers
have experienced and enjoyed would not have been a reality
without the strong commitment from CARPTS tournament director
David Moore, Baldwinsville native Kathleen Kelly-Ori and
their staff. We wish CARPTS great success with the Carp
Angling World Championship in 2011.”
CARPTS will focus on September 2011 when they host the
Carp Angling World Championship on the St. Lawrence River.
Contests in Oklahoma, Connecticut and New York have been
suspended next year to put all of the group’s efforts
toward the CAWC - one of the largest world-class events
with approximately 400 anglers from Africa, Asia, Europe
and North America expected. A new line-up of venues and
tournaments for 2012 will be announced at a later date.
CARP Tournament Series is based in Bartlesville, Oklahoma,
and is under the direction of David Moore, who is considered
a carp angling visionary in North America and the foremost
authority on carp angling in the United States. He is
a world-class carp angler – competing around the globe
– and a founding director of the American Carp Society
(ACS), director of the Carp Anglers Group (CAG) and the
U.S. Representative to the International Carp Fishing
Association (ICFA).
CARP Tournament Series is dedicated to catch-and-release
carp angling through promotion of tournaments that exemplify
good sportsmanship, sound environmentalism, and stewardship
of our lands and waters, as well as education of the sport.
