The California Bass Contenders 2017-2018 regular season ended in Lake Havasu on March 24 & 25, 2018. It was the final stop on the eleven tournament tour that would bring crusty old veteran club brothers and new club rookie club brothers together for a showdown at Lake Havasu and she did not disappoint. Most of […]

San Vicente Lake Saturday February 24, 2018 was a cold 34 degree winter morning with enough wind to make it feel like 24 degrees below zero bone chilling and freezing cold. Fourteen anglers from up north traveled down to San Diego to go mano a mano with the stingy green black bass of San Vicente. […]

Lake Perris Saturday January 27, 2018. It was a cold winter morning that felt just right for the catching as twenty four Bass Contenders convened in the pre-dawn hour at the Moreno Beach entrance at Lake Perris. The air was calm as everybody prepped their boats to launch in the dark. It was a gorgeous […]

Ted Romero dominated at the Diamond Saturday November 11th in the showdown at Domenigoni. It was the first week of Daylight Saving as the park opened early at 5:30 welcoming twenty one Bassconters who were all up for the challenge. The weather was absolutely beautiful with cloudy skies and mild temperatures. You could not have […]

Saturday October 21st perfect weather greeted the California Bass Contenders at the show down at San Vicente for the eighth stop on the season, as twenty four Basscontenders met up to go to battle. Also showing up to share the lake was over twenty boats for the SD City Team Series fishing their first of […]

GOODBYE DOG DAYS OF SUMMER As the dog days of summer slowly crept away thirteen California Bass Contender teams showed up on the first official day of Fall 2017 to say goodbye to the summer series and welcome in the new fall challenge. You could feel it in the cool air as we could not […]

Saturday August 19, 2017 Silverwood SRA was the location for the much anticipated summer night tournament at the Wood. What was not anticipated was the friken wind that greeted us as we all gathered up at the construction entrance one Basscontender at a time. When it was all said and done we had twenty five […]

  GOOD TIMES AND GOOD FISHING AT LAKE SKINNER! Winchester, CA was the location of the July 22nd Basscontender showdown at Lake Skinner. The hot weather and recent hot pre-fishing tempted twenty two Basscontenders into giving their best shot at taming the warm water Lobina’s into the livewell of eleven bass boats. On this day […]

 You couldn’t ask for any better weather than what we experienced at El Capitan reservoir for the California Bass Contender event on Saturday June 10th. The morning heavy cloud cover and flat calm conditions lasted well into the mid morning hours until it finally cleared up before noon. It wasn’t too long after a slight breeze picked up out […]

It was a pretty chilly morning as twenty four Bass Contenders made their way up the hill to compete in the CBC May Silverwood tournament. I noticed Gabby Hayes and Tom Creasy got off the freeway one exit early at the DOT weigh station.. not sure what they doing there? Every Big Dawg has his […]