"Angler of the Year" Award Winners

2007 Angler of the Year, Roy Leyva with Director Wayne MacCallum and Commissioner Mary Griffin Beginning in 2003, the Division of Fisheries & Wildlife has recognized the angler who weighed in the most species which qualified for the Freshwater Sportfishing Awards Program for the previous calendar year. This is being done in part to promote the awareness of some of the Commonwealth's underutilized species and to recognize an angler's ability to catch a wide variety of trophy species.

Some anglers become specialists, studying the habits of specific species and learning how to target them, while others become generalists seeking out all the species that the state's waters have to offer. This award is also a way to recognize that the motivations for angling are as diverse as the anglers themselves!

Anglers of the Year
Year	Angler	Species and Waterbody
2007	Roy Leyva Plymouth	Carp, Brookline Reservoir, Brookline Crappie (2) Oldham Pond, Pembroke and (2)Brookline Reservoir, Brookline Catfish,White Charles River, Cambridge Perch, White Wachusett Reservoir, West Boylston Perch, Yellow* Hoxie Pond, Sandwich; (2) Little College Pond, Plymouth Pickerel,Chain Long Pond, Yarmouth Pike, Northern Concord River, Carlisle Salmon, Broodstock* Cliff Pond, Brewster Shad, American North River, Pembroke Sunfish Pond Meadow Pond, Peabody Trout, Brook Jamaica Pond, Boston Trout, Brown Jamaica Pond, Boston Trout, Tiger Jamaica Pond, Boston White catfish (2), Charles River, Cambridge Yellow perch at Pond Street Pond, Dunstable
2006	Joe Baker Lowell	Bullhead, Plugs Pond, Haverhill Carp, Merrimack River, Methuen Chain pickerel,* Laurel Lake, Lee Channel catfish,Connecticut River, Springfield Crappie (2)Oldham Pond, Pembroke and Concord River, Billerica Landlocked salmon, Quinapoxet River,West Boylston Smallmouth bass, Long Pond,Harwich Sunfish (2), Concord River, Billerica Tiger trout, Peter's Pond, Sandwich White catfish (2), Charles River, Cambridge Yellow perch at Pond Street Pond, Dunstable
2005	Todd Matera Palmer	Chain pickerel in Long Pond, Yarmouth Channel catfish and Walleye in the Connecticut River Largemouth bass at Garrett's Pond, Barnstable and Quabbin Reservoir Smallmouth bass at Quabbin Reservoir Sunfish at Ludlow's Red Bridge Impoundment on Chicopee River White perch at Quabbin Reservoir Yellow perch at Spectacle Pond, Sandwich and Rocky Pond, Plymouth
2004	Roy Leyva Hyde Park	Broodstock salmon, Brook trout from Peters Pond, Sandwich Brown trout, Smallmouth bass, Sheep Pond, Brewster Bullhead, Snipatuit Pond, Rochester Carp, Neponset Reservoir, Milton Chain pickerel, White perch, Harwich Reservoir, Harwich Channel Catfish, White Catfish, Charles River, Cambridge Landlocked salmon, Wachusett Reservoir Largemouth bass, Little Cliff Pond, Brewster Rainbow trout, Walden Pond, Concord American Shad, Indian Head River, Pembroke Sunfish, Concord River Yellow perch, Bakers Pond, Orleans
2003	Scott Osmond Lowell	Carp, Channel catfish, American shad, Sunfish from Merrimack River, Lowell Brook trout, Rainbow trout from Deerfield River, Deerfield Walleye, Connecticut River Chain pickerel, Nashua River, Groton White catfish, Concord River, Concord Broodstock salmon, Jamaica Pond, Boston Bullhead, Attitash Lake, Amesbury Black crappie, Smallmouth Bass, White perch, Quabbin Reservoir Yellow perch, Spot Pond, Stoneham
2002	Roger Pyzocha Ludlow	Crappie, Smallmouth bass, Landlocked salmon, White perch from Quabbin Reservoir Carp from Connecticut River

*Gold Pin fish