WADDINGTON -- An English duo walked away with the Carp Angling World Championship cup after defeating nearly 60 other teams from 16 countries and 14 U.S. states during the recent 115-hour battle on the St. Lawrence River.

Lee Jackson and Ian Chillcott representing Team Carp World of Angling Publications landed 122 fish totaling 1857 lbs. 3 oz. at the newly developed fishing site near Massena.

When asked about the event, champion Lee Jackson said, “It was the maddest swim I've ever fished in."

It was only the second time in history that a competitive world-class professional-level carp fishing event such as the CAWC has be held in North America.

Anglers representing Canada, the Channel Islands, Greece, the Czech Republic, England, Jersey, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, South Africa, the Ukraine and the United States participated in the international endurance contest along a 35-mile stretch of the St. Lawrence River from Ogdensburg to Massena.

A total of 1,472 common carp were caught and released totaling 25,346 lbs. 04 oz.

Champion Ian Chillcott best summed up his experience on the St. Lawrence saying, "If fishing is an escape, then carp fishing is the great escape."

40-pounder

With a reputation for large fighting fish, the St. Lawrence River rewarded Carp Angling World Championship participant Pavel Hastik of the Czech Republic with a beautiful common weighing just one ounce shy of forty pounds. Hastik - a well-known and talented pro-circuit angler – banked the beauty at a peg in Ogdensburg on the fourth day of the tournament.

Hastik and partner Petr Mikulicka also took the Big Fish of the Day on day 2 with a 32 lb. 14 oz. fish, garnering the duo a quadruple play winning twice the Walmart Big Fish of the Day prizes plus the overall Big Fish of the tournament and the Big Four total weight prizes.

Ray Scott impressed

BASS founder, Ray Scott walks among the fishing gods, and he walked among the world’s best carp anglers during the Carp Angling World Championship the last week of September.

Scott said he was amazed by the level of expertise and technical aspects of carp angling that the contestants exhibited when he visited their swims each day of the contest. Comparing bass tournaments to carp tournaments, he noted that he was intrigued and tips his hat to the organizers for the amount of detail and behind the scenes logistics that occur.

The Standings

$16800 1st PLACE Peg 59 - 122 fish, 1857 lbs 3 oz

CHAMPIONS

ENGLAND - Ian Chillcott & Lee Jackson

$14000 2nd PLACE Peg 56 - 107 fish, 1610 lbs 9 oz

USA - Al St. Cyr & Jack Curry

$11200 3rd PLACE Peg 61 - 93 fish, 1397 lbs 9 oz

ENGLAND - Marcus Tackley & Jeff Skerratt

$8400 4th PLACE Peg 55 - 94 fish, 1397 lbs 3 oz

USA/ENGLAND - Stewart McKenzie & Pat Kerwin

$5600 5th PLACE Peg 6 - 66 fish, 1351 lbs 11 oz.

ROMANIA – Ioan Paul Dinea & Iaon Iacob

$7000 WINNER NATIONS PRIZE 138 POINTS Tito’s Vodka Happy Hour Express

(USA-TEXAS) Captain Jim Kirkman & Chad Edwards

(USA – TEXAS) Al St. Cyr &

Jack Curry

(USA - ROMANIA) Ioan Paul Dinea & Ioan Iacob

$2500 BIG FOUR OF THE CAWC 132.01 Peg 15

CZECH REP - Pavel Hastik & Petr Mikulicka

$2500 BIG FISH OF THE CAWC 39.15 Peg 15

CZECH REP - Pavel Hastik & Petr Mikulicka

$1500 BIG MIRROR OF THE CAWC (13 total caught) 23.12 Peg 48

SERBIA/SLOVAKIA – Vlastimil Vrskovy & Vanja Nikolin

Day #1 WALMART BIG FISH OF THE DAY 33.02 Peg 17

USA - Shawn Rafter & Jen Terriah

Day #2 WALMART BIG FISH OF THE DAY 32.14 Peg 15

CZECH REP - Pavel Hastik & Petr Mikulicka

Day #3 WALMART BIG FISH OF THE DAY 34.07 Peg 4

ENGLAND - Paul Musson & John Lilley

Day #4 WALMART BIG FISH OF THE DAY 39.15 Peg 15

CZECH REP - Pavel Hastik & Petr Mikulicka

Day #5 WALMART BIG FISH OF THE DAY 34.12 Peg 10

USA - Chris Jackson & Tom Brooks