2009 Youth Fishing Tournament

2009 Annual Meeting

2009 Casting Seminar, Tommy Farmer National Champion and NCBBA Member #13043

2009-2010 NCBBA Scholarship Recipients

NCBBA and UMS Education Scholarships

NCBBA proudly supports post High School education for Outer Banks' students. The 2010-2011 school years represents NCBBA's 12^th consecutive year awarding $2,000 renewable scholarships to Dare County students. More than $42,000 has been awarded since the inception of the program.

This year NCBBA introduces a Member-Member's children post High School Scholarship renewable for 4 years. Your organization recognizes the many members are facing retraining or returning to college as part of the economic downturn in our country. This scholarship is funded by NCBBA to assist our members and their children in this process. Contact Director Mike Metzgar at Mike.Metzgar@NCBBA.org. for an application.

Applications for Dare County NCBBA scholarships are available from HS Guidance Counselors or by contacting Director Mike Metzgar at Mike.Metzgar@NCBBA.org. Please enter 'scholarship' in the email subject box when requesting the application.

UMS (United Mobile Sportfishermen) also supports higher education and offers a post secondary education scholarship to all Members/Members Children of UMS Organizations. NCBBA is a member of UMS. Information on this scholarship may be read and downloaded at...www.umsnet.com, click on member services and UMS scholarship. At the bottom of the page there is a link to download the application.

2009 NCBBA 1st Annual Red Drum Tournament

October 22-24, 2009

The NCBBA Officers, Board of Directors and the staff at Frank & Fran's Tackle Shop in Avon, NC are busy gearing up for the 1^st NCBBA Red Drum Tournament to be held October 22nd, 23rd & 24th. Presently there are 265 registered anglers and 26 judges from 18 different states. Registered are: 20 Females, 3 Senior Females, and 30 Senior Males plus 6 Junior Anglers. Longtime Head Judge for the Frank & Fran's Tournament, Ron Parenti will be the Head Judge and Nags Head resident and past NCBBA Vice-President, David Flanigan will assist Ron and will be our Head Judge for future tournaments" comments Tournament Director David Joyner.

BJ's Carolina Café will be providing all participants with a sampling of their famous appetizers for Wednesday evening's meeting and a buffet of pork BBQ and chicken with all the fixin's for Saturday night's Awards Banquet.  BJ's is located at 7069 (RT 158) Caratoke Highway, Jarvisburg, NC.

Holiday Ice will supply all participants with a free bag of ice. We will be collecting non-perishable items for the Hatteras Island Food Pantry during registration and throughout the tournament at Frank & Fran's.

2009 NCBBA Ocracoke Island Tournament Fishing Team

Each year NCBBA sponsors a team to represent you Association at the Tournament.