Catch and Release Professional – CARP Tournament Series – Carp Fishing Tournaments

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Coppell TX — The American Carp Society LLC today announced the departure of director David Moore from the organization. Moore’s exit leaves directors Wayne Boon and Sean Manning at the helm of the association. The trio founded the membership-based American Carp Society in 2003 to promote the sport of catch-and-release fishing for the common carp species in the United States. (more…)

“Carp Fishing Tournament (Courant.com)

If you see people fishing on the Connecticut River this week at midnight or 3 a.m., this may explain it: There is a professional carp fishing tournament from 9 a.m. today through 9 a.m. Saturday, 72 hours straight, day and night.

“The Connecticut River carp are large and healthy,” said Kathleen Kelly-Ori, who heads up publicity for the CARP Tournament Series. “This is the only U.S. tournament where we fish on tidal-affected waters. That is a challenge to the anglers who do not fish that type of water.”"

Read more at Courant.com

Channel 3 Eyewittness News (Wfsb.com)

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David Moore (right) of CARPTS met up with Angling Publications editor Martin Ford (left) and publisher Tim Paisley (center) on the St. Lawrence River in July and discuss the upcoming World Carp Championship in Lac de Madine, France in September 2009.

Two U.S. teams will compete in the 2009 World Carp Classic this August against 128 other international teams. David Moore of Bartlesville, OK, as team captain, and Louis Cook of Philadelphia, PA comprise one of the two teams from the United States. Louis is the President of the Carp Anglers Group and David is the director for the CARP Tournament Series and a founding director of the American Carp Society.

Team USA 1 and 2 comprised of the following members: top left: Louis Cook, top right: Tom Brooks, bottom left: Colin Peters, bottom right: David Moore

North Carolinians, Colin Peters and Tom Brooks are on the second U.S. team. Brooks and Peters qualified for the WCC by winning CARPTS South Central Regionals at Lake Hominy, Oklahoma in April.

Their trip and entry to the tournament are sponsored by CARP Tournament Series. (more…)

North Carolina Team Lands First Place in Baldwinsville NY

For immediate release - May 31, 2009

Bartlesville OK – An amazing 33,283 pounds – over 16 ½ tons – of carp were caught and released throughout the non-stop 50-hour CARP Tournament Series Northeast Regionals May 13-16 in Baldwinsville NY.  This year’s total makes the three-year tally an unprecedented cumulative 98,109 pounds of carp for the annual competition on the Seneca River.

Teams representing Romania, Hungary, Poland, Canada, Bosnia, Czech Republic, England and ten U.S. states – New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Illinois – participated in the competition. (more…)