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Conversations with Kayakjak! The inaugural Yakoff Awards, Round 1: Austin Hoover vs Gerald Smith

You could win a huge prize package from Hoodoo Sports just for voting!

With March Madness coming up what better to warm up your bracket picking ability with the Kayak Angler Magazine “YakOff” Awards!

The YakOff Awards were created to provide an opportunity for the kayak fishing community to engage socially, learn from one another, ask questions, give answers and ideas so we can MacGyver our plastic boats to best suit our personal needs and enhance our precious time on the water.

This is an NCAA bracket-style tournament-the inaugural YakOffs pits professional kayak anglers against one another en route to becoming the YakOff Champion!

Plus, the winner earns:

• A spotlight in Kayak Angler’s 2025 Summer Print Issue

• A branded spotlight page on kayakanglermag.com

• The YakOff Trophy and bragging rights

• $2,500.00 USD cash prize!

Through stories, pictures, videos, interviews and engagement, audience will vote weekly on who moves forward in the competition and is crowned the inaugural YakOff Champion!

Follow along on their socials, vote weekly and watch for ways to earn extra entries for a chance to win a decked-out, motorized kayak of your own valued at over $5,000!

You can listen to the second set of anglers Austin Hoover of Alabama and Gerald Smith of Texas who are duking it out this week! You can even start voting at https://kayakanglermag.com/yakoff-awards/ today!