It was a very cold winter morning 37 degrees in Otay Mesa when twenty two Bass Contenders went mano to mano in the “Battle At the Border” down south in San Diego County. We were pleasantly greeted by a field of 40-50 boats as the San Diego Team Series circuit was also ready to go to battle with Lower Otay Reservoir. The little green SD County Lobina fish had plenty of room to spread out as the recent rain storms had brought the water level up to near capacity. Along with the rising water level came dark brown chocolate water that added dimension to everybody’s game plans.

After an extremely cold morning and a lot of fun at the busy launch ramp everybody took off in different directions as the night gave way to a beautiful clear morning. I had the pleasure of fishing with long time friend and former CBC member Chris “The Goose” VanGeest. It was a blast catching up with Chris as we made the long 2.5 hour track down south to the border. The fishing is always fun but that’s just a small part of the bass club experience to me. Its spending time with friends, getting to know different anglers and enjoying the amazing sunrises, and in this case the amazing sun sets in Southern California. The CBC would like to shout out to first time guest Carlos who fished in his very first bass tournament with Alfred Vasquez. Carlos did pretty darn well at the weigh-in with three fish weighing 3.45lbs. After it was all said and done the top spot for the day went to Big Ed Cazares with a total bag weight of 10.47lbs which included the Big Fish of the derby 2.95lbs. Rounding out second place was the Reverend Sergio Sanchez who tamed five Lobina’s weighing in at 7.31lbs. Close behind with a five fish limit Kevin Duncan took the third spot with a bag weight of 7.22lbs. The Big Boat award separated by only ounces went to the team of Big Ed Cazares and ‘The Goose’ Chris VanGeest just beating out Sergio Sanchez and Conrad Apodaca Sr in a close match.

TACKLE BOX
1st place: senko shallow flipping, ds grn pmkn purple
2nd place: ds mm3 shallow and deep
3rd place: missile bait, ds blue crawler and mm3

Air temp: 37 launch/70 weigh-in clear skies
Water temp: 56 morning/61 end day
Water: Coves drk brown/Main lake 3-4′ visibility

Place/Name/Fish/Total

1) Big Ed Cazares  5/10.47  BF:2.95
2) Sergio Sanchez  5/7.31
3) Kevin Duncan  5/7.22
4) Johnny Abyad  5/6.69
5) Alex Arias  5/6.25
6) Robert Terrasaz  5/6.19
7) David Mendez  5/5.93
8) Conrad Apodaca Jr  5/5.90
9) Raul Valderraine  4/5.00
10) Conrad Apodaca Sr  4/4.78
11) Gil Bowman  3/4.23
12) Kenny Isago  3/3.54
13) Chris VanGeest  2/3.48 (guest)
14) Carlos Meza  3/3.45 (guest)
15) Derrick Yoshinaga  2/2.63
16) Mark Pavlinac  2/2.28
17) Alfred Vasquez  2/2.25
18) Andrew Garcia  1/1.92
19) Mark Chadaeyne  1/1.13
20) David King  1/0.87 (guest)
22) Gary Crouse  0/0.00
22) Steve Meza  0/0.00

Big Fish: Big Ed Cazares 2.96lbs
Big Boat: Big Ed Cazares/Chris VanGeest 13.96lbs

See you on the water: Big Ed!

Congratulations to Conrad Apodaca Jr on another win bringing his total to three wins, two second places and several other top ten finishes in the current CBC season that ends in March at Lake Havasu. Alfred Vasquez and Johnny Abyad are on his radar as they go in to the home stretch for CBC Angler Of the Year for 2018-2019. We are members of a bass club because fishing is for fun. We compete as friends and we make great memories and long lasting friendships which is what its all about. But when one or more of our brothers hurt, we all feel the pain.

Twenty four Bass Contenders led by Mark Chadeayne stopped to pay their respects as we all gathered in one group at the Moreno Beach entrance to say a special prayer and have a moment of silence for our CBC brother Kevin Duncan for the recent loss of his beautiful daughter Kristina. California Bass Contenders please keep Kevin and his family in your continued thoughts and prayers. Another quick CBC shoutout to Brian Reaves who joined the CBC Perris tournament after battling his recent illness that had him sidelined for months. You looking great Brian, now lets go catch some fish brother!

Water temp: 54-56
Water: Clear 8-10 visibility
Flat calm morning, wind 10-15MPH afternoon

THE TACKLE BOX:

1st place: Cranking Dam & Spybaits deep water
2nd place: Secret baits wont tell
3rd place: Alabama rig
4th place: DD22 red craw on dam dark
5th place: DD22 shad pattern on dam dark
NOTE: 4th & 5th place dbl hookup both fish in same net
6th place: Grub small shad pattern
7th place: Whopper plopper on dam in dark

Place/Name/Fish/Total

1) Conrad Apodaca Jr 2/7.16
2) Adam Day 2/7.0/4.51 (Big Fish)
3) Mark Chadaeyne 1/4.40
4) Conrad Apodaca Sr 1/3.25
5) Raul Valderraine 1/3.55
6) Joe Nava 1/3.10
7) Brian Trusso 1/2.90
8) David Mendez 1/2.33
24) Kevin Duncan 0/0.00
24) Gil Bowman 0/0.00
24) David Pisarski 0/0.00
24) Steve Meza 0/0.00
24) Alfred Vasquez 0/0.00
24) Robert Terrasaz 0/0.00
24) Big Ed Cazares 0/0.00
24) Little Ed Cazares (guest) 0/0.00
24) Brian Reaves 0/0.00
24) Alex Arias 0/0.00
24) Richard Hoffman 0/0.00
24) Gabby Hayes (slept most of day) 0/0.00
24) John Savko (member but sorta like a guest) 0/0.00
24) Ron Janke (same as Savko but better looking) 0/0.00
24) Gary Crouse 0/0.00
24) David King (guest) 0/0.00

Big Fish: Adam Day 4.51lbs
Big Boat: Raul Valderraine/Conrad Apodaca Sr 6.80lbs

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See you on the water: Big Ed!

Saturday November 17, 2018 DVL

1) Johnny Abyad 3/12.28

2) Alfred Vasquez 2/7.50

3) Ron Janke 1/5.26

4) Derrick Yoshinaga 1/4.58

5) Gil Bowman 2/4.22

6) Robert Terrazas 1/4.21

7) Mark Pavlinac 1/4.07

G) Ricchard Yoshinaga 1/3.62

8) Raul Valderraine 1/3.09

9) David Mendez 1/2.93

10) Conrad Alodaca Jr 1/2.39

29) Bill Layne 0/0.00

29) Paul Herber 0/0.00

29) Adam Day 0/0.00

29) Sergio Sanchez 0/0.00

29) Joe Nava 0/0.00

29) Brian Reaves 0/0.00

29) Mark Chadeayne 0/0.00

29) Gary Crouse 0/0.00

29) Andrew Garcia 0/0.00

29) Conrad Apodaca Sr 0/0.00

29) Kevin Duncan 0/0.00

29) Jorge DeLaCruz 0/0.00

29) Steve Meza 0/0.00

29) Dave Pisarski 0/0.00

29) Tom Creasey 0/0.00

29) Kenny Isago 0/0.00

29) Ted Romero 0/0.00

29)  Mark Bowman 0/0.00

Big Boat: Johnny Abyad/Mark Chadeayne 12.28lbs

Big Fish: Ron Janke 5.26lbs

RESULTS: Piru October 13th and 14th, 2018:

1) Mark Bowman 5/5/24.42
2) Conrad Apodaca Jr 3/5/23.02
3) Sergio Sanchez 5/5/22.88
4) Conrad Apodaca Sr 3/5/15.10
5) Johnny Abyad 0/4/14.80
6) Alfred Vasquez 4/1/14.41
7) Steve Meza 3/3/13.44
8) Rich Hoffman 2/2/8.94
9) Derrick Yoshinaga 2/1/8.50
10) Raul Valderraine 1/2/7.49

Big Boat Saturday: Alfred Vasquez/Johnny Abyad 26.50lbs
Big Boat Sunday: Conrad Apodaca Jr/Conrad Apodaca Sr 27.66lbs
Big Fish: Conrad Apodaca Jr: 5.18lbs

Castaic Bass Club Challenge internal results:

Congratulations to Alfred Vasquez and Tom Creasey. Great job representing the best Bass Club in Southern California.

Place/Name/Fish/Total

1) Alfred Vasquez/Tom Creasey 2/4.34
2) Derrick Yoshinaga/Joe Nava 1/2.74
3) Randy Estrada/Conrad Apodaca Sr 1/1.96
9) Kenny Isago/Robert Terrazas 0/0.00
9) Conrad Apodaca Jr/Brian Reaves 0/0.00
9) David Mendez/Johnny Abyad 0/0.00
9) Gary Crouse/Steve Meza 0/0.00
9) Nelson Barrios/Gil Bowman 0.00
9) Raul Valderraine/Jorge DeLacruz 0/0.00

Big Fish: Alfred Vasquez 2.77lbs
Big Boat: Alfred Vasquez/Tom Creasey 4.34lbs

Silverwood Night Saturday August 25, 2018

Air temp: 92 degrees 12-25mph winds at launch
Night temp: 78-82 degrees 10-20mph winds
Water temp: 78-80 degrees 78 degrees at 11:00pm
Water: Clear 8’-12’ thick grass weeds out 10’ deep

Place/Name/fish/Total

1) Conrad Apodaca Jr 2/7.43
2) Johnny Abyad 1/4.93 BF
3) David Mendez 2/4.63
4) Gil Bowman 1/3.18
5) Mark Bowman 1/1.74
6) Mark Pavlinac 1/1.57
7) Randy Estrada 1/1.48
8) Adam Day 1/1.25
9) Derrick Yoshinaga 1/1.03
14) Alfred Vasquez 0/0.00
14) Ted Romero 0/0.00
14) Sergio Sanchez 0/0.00
14) nelson Barrios 0/0.00
14) Gabby Hayes 0/0.00
14) Richard Hoffman 0/0.00
14) Big Ed Cazares 0/0.00
14) Mark Chadaeyne 0/0.00
14) Steve Meza 0/0.00
14) Pops Colgan 0/0.00
14 Conrad Apodaca Sr 0/0.00
14) Kevin Duncan 0/0.00
14) Raul Valderraine 0/0.00

Big Fish: Johnny Abyad 4.93lbs
Big Boat: Conrad Apodaca Jr/Steve Meza 7.43lbs

See you on the water: Big Ed!

Saturday July 21, 2018 Lake Perris SRA night tournament. After a very slow entrance to the park with lines as long as 60 vehicles in per lane thirteen Bass Contender teams made their way into the park. The launch ramp was packed with people getting on and off the water but somehow we managed to get twelve of thirteen boats launched in time for the blast off. One of our boaters were turned away because of water in his livewell… the problem was that the park staff did NOT seal and tag his boat properly when he pre-fished the weekend before. It was tragic that the angler did everything by the book but no fault of his own got denied because of the wet condition in his boat. From now on we highly recommend you check your boat seal for correct installation and also dry out your livewell. We had another CBC boat that was tagged incorrectly by the same lake staff and he just happened to be dry so they allowed him entrance regardless of the boat seal being improperly attached.

We drew names out of a hat to see who would take the third non boater left without a partner and Gil Bowman was picked at random. Thank you to longtime member Gil Bowman for being a gracious host to the non-boater who’s partner got turned away. After meeting up at the 5mph buoy line we launched in order of the draw with boats blasting off in every direction. When the dust settled in the beautiful night sky the winning sack went to the “salsa” king fishing in his first ever tournament as a full patch member Robert Terrasaz who weighed one fish that tipped the scale at 5.66lb earning himself the Big Fish award and first place. Rounding out second place was Big Ed Cazares who weighed a two fish limit of 5.38lbs. Third place honors went to Brian Reaves with his 2 fish bag of 5.33lbs. California Bass contenders wants to shout out to inactive member Danny Caldwell for his 6.16lb Perris Pig that anchored his two fish limit of 8.57lbs that earned the Big Boat award along with Johnny Abyad and their 10.70lb bag of bucketmouth.

THE TACKLE BOX:
1st place: DS Aaron’s morning dawn
2nd place: Neko rig/Chatter bait
3rd place: Texas rig fish

Air temp: 94 degrees 8-12mph winds
Night temp: 75 degrees 3-5mph breeze
Water temp: 82-83 degrees 78 degrees at 11:00PM
Water: Very clear 10-12’ visibility trees out to 30’ deep

Place/Name/Fish/Total

NA) Danny Caldwell 2/8.57
1) Robert Terrasaz 1/5.66 BF5.66
2) Big Ed Cazares 2/5.38
3) Brian Reaves 2/5.33
4) Gil Bowman 2/5.29
5) Conrad Apodaca Sr 2/5.20
6) Mark Bowman 1/3.92
7) Tom Creasey 1/2.75
8) David Mendez 1/2.73
9) Ted Romero 1/2.37
10) Steve Meza 1/2.23
11) Andrew Garcia 1/2.06
12) Johnny Abyad 1/2.13
13) Nelson Barrios 1/1.89
14) Jorge DeLaCruz 1/1.86
25) Mark Pavlinac 0/0.00
25) Alfred Vasquez 0/0.00
25) Gary Crouse 0/0.00
25) Mark Quaternik 0/0.00
25) Kenny Isago 0/0.00
25) Derrick Yoshinaga 0/0.00
25) Dave Pisarski 0.00
25) Raul Valderrain 0/0.00
25) Sergio Sanchez 0/0.00
25) Tony Luna 0/0.00

Big Fish: Robert Terrasaz 5.66lbs
Big Fish consolation: Danny Caldwell 6.16lbs
Big Boat: Danny Caldwell/Johnny Abyad 10.70lbs

Next up Saturday August 25th Silverwood Night Tournament don’t miss it!

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See you on the water: Big Ed!