California Bass Contenders

It was an outstanding finish to the 2024 California Bass contenders season on a beautiful cold November morning. This wasn’t no Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul event, it was a showdown and a battle between twenty two Bascontenders with the AOY and Top Five anglers hanging in the balance. Unlike the Tyson v Paul fight […]

Congratulations to DVL Champions Frank Schwamborn and the Iron Man Dave Mendez for the win at the Jewell under picture perfect weather and flat calm conditions. Once the morning chill turned to sunny 85 degree weather 22 CBC anglers went mano-a-mano searching for the best five fish bag they could wrangle. When the dust settled  […]

Sometimes life throws you a curve ball. Our original scheduled tournament at Pyramid Lake had been closed due to the raging Post Fire in the Angeles National Forest. The change of venue was the curve ball and Piru Lake was the hit that landed out of the ballpark. We gathered early before the general public […]

The weather had been cold, windy and wet for weeks going into our fourth tournament of the 2024 CBC season, and by all accounts the pre-fishing sucked. That didn’t stop twentysix eager Bass Contender anglers who converged in the dark early before 5:00AM on Hwy 138. Not too long after we gathered, we were greeted […]

Twenty two Bass Contenders gathered with the beautiful Arizona sunrise as their backdrop. Hopes were high, the weather was pleasant and so was the fish catching as eleven teams blasted off in different directions. Havasu 2024 had it all, it had severe wind and heavy rain, it had bright sun and flat calm water. When […]

Round 2 of the CBC 2024 season took us back to San Diego so we could fish the beautiful San Vicente Reservoir.  Water was HIGH and the weather was cold.  While the “spots” were usually filled with other boats, most of our teams managed to get their 5. Good times and Big smiles! 1) Bi […]

1) Johnny Abyad/Joe Nava 5/5 13.42lbs 2) Kenny Isago/Chris Graciano 5/5 13.0lbs (BF 4.94) 3) Randy Estrada/Sherman Wray 5/5 1.66lbs 4) Frank Schwamborn/Robert Terrazas 5/5 11.66lbs 5) Derrick Yoshinaga/Thomas Riley 5/5 10.95lbs 6) Raul Velderrain/David Mendez 5/5 10.91lbs 7) Dean Leslie/Tom Creasy 5/5 9.59lbs 8) Big Ed Cazares/Mark Chadeayne 5/5 8.09lbs Air temps 50-64 partly […]