2010 World Championship Tournament
July 13, 14 & 15, 2010
Welcome to the Florida Keys Outfitters/IGFA Inshore World Championship website. The championship began in 2001 and has grown into the sports premiere inshore fishing series. To receive an invitation to this prestigious all release event, anglers must win one of 40 qualifying tournaments. Winners of 2009 calendar year qualifying events are invited to participate in the 2010 World Championships. Qualifying tournaments were held throughout the US, Trinidad & Tobago, Sweden, Belize, the Bahamas and Australia.
In 2009 Florida Keys Outfitters began managing the event which was previously run by The International Game Fish Association. This partnership has allowed the IGFA to focus on its core mission of conservation, angler education, rules and record keeping.
The FKO/IGFA Inshore World Championship is an all release multi-species inshore competition held in Islamorada in the Florida Keys, a unique fishery in which all five target species, bonefish, tarpon, permit, redfish and snook can readily be found.
In order to recognize the different skills, techniques and expertise required in both light tackle angling and fly fishing, the FKO/IGFA Inshore World Championship crowns both an Inshore Light Tackle and Fly Fishing World Champion. Anglers are invited to fish light tackle or fly based on the type of tournament through which they have qualified.
On the eve of the event, anglers will draw his or her guide/team-mate for the following three days. Anglers and guides overwhelmingly embraced this format during the 2009 event as it allows teams to develop a rhythm and work more effectively together over the course of the tournament.
This is a fun and exciting competition bringing together the year’s “best of the best” anglers and guides. Invitations to qualifying event winners will be sent in November 2009.
The 2009 Florida Keys Outfitters/IGFA Inshore World Championship was made into a TV program by ESPN Outdoors and will air as part of the network’s Saltwater Series, kicking off the second quarter of televised programming in April 2010. ESPN Outdoors will make the 2010 Inshore Championship into a show as well, to air in 2011.
View all qualifying events for the 2011 World Championships.
