Ten Basscontender members and two new prospective members merged in San Diego and gave it everything they had traveling almost three hours south to El Capitan reservoir in Lakeside, Ca. The rain cleared overnight on the drive down and gave way to cold and cloudy conditions as the front moved through leaving unwilling fish who wanted nothing to do with the offerings from the boys up north.

All twelve anglers met at the bouey line as we blasted off at 6:00am in cloudy skies with smoke on the water. A special shout out and congratulations for a great finish to the new prospective members Adam Day and Eddie Obrien who would have claimed 1st place and 3rd place respectively. These guys are on fire in only their second tournament ever and both with with Basscontenders in consecutive events. Adam and Eddie will be a force to reckoned with as the Basscontender season continues towards the finish line at the March event.

I asked Adam how it felt to win his first ever bass tournament in only his second tournament fishing for bass, ” It felt incredible, it felt so good words cant’t describe. Even though I didnt win the money to see myself on top of the leader board and on the front page of the website is payment enough for me”! I am sure Adam wont have to wait long before he experiences the feeling once again.

 Congratulations to Mike Rupp for winning the days event and to Derrick for coming in 2nd place. Lets hear from the guys down below in the “Blog” are called “Speak your mind”. Just sign in and create a username and password and post a reply. Remember we can go back in months and years to read the “How did you do it” reports as long as we hear from you. If you have any questions on how to log in just give Big Ed a call he will walk you through it. There is also a link on the right side panel of the website that says “Members Log In Here”.

 

The tale of the tape:

	Water Temp	66º-67º
	Air Temp	45º-74º
	Water Clearity	2′-3′ stained green
	Conditions	Flat calm at launch until 11:00; wind 12-20mph from every direction white caps.
Place	Name	No Fish	Weight	Big Fish	Big Boat
Guest	Adam Day	3	7.89	3.25	11.15
Guest	Eddie Obrien	2	4.80	2.80
1	Mike Rupp	2	6.19	3.62
2	Derrick Yoshi	2	3.26		11.15
3	Paul Herber	1	3.01
4	Big Ed Cazares	1	2.74
5	Mark Bowman	1	2.64
6	Dan Pops Colgan	1	2.19
7	Alfred Vasquez	1	2.14
10	Bill Layne	0	0
10	Greg Springman	0	0
10	John Savko	0	0
10	Ron Jeremy	0	0

See you at the December meeting!

Pyramid early morning launch before the general public worked our great. We were all on the water by 6:00am and met at the bouey line in the dark just before safe light. Wind was blowing bigtime but the excitment kept all 20 anglers from noticing. It was a beautifull sunrise as all 20 anglers blasted off in different directions. This day brought two new anglers to their first tournament, prospective brothers Adam Day and Eddie Obrien as well as another appearence by John Hernandez and Little Big Ed Jr.

	Water Temp	71º-73º
	Air Temp	52º-85º
	Water Clearity	10′-15′ very clear
	Conditions	Heavy weed line out to 12′ deep
Place	Name	No Fish	Weight	Big Fish	Big Boat
1	Kenny Isago	2	8.71	7.19
2	Derrik Yoshinaga	4	7.68		16.39
3	Mark Bowman	4	6.34	2.62
4	Paul Huber	4	6.22
5	Bill Layne	4	6.04
6	Pops Colgan	1	5.46	5.46
7	Randy Estrada	3	5.21
8	Dave Pisarski	2	4.76	2.91
9	Frank castro	2	4.75	3.50
10	Greg Springman	3	4.49
11	Gabby hayes	2	3.80	2.35
12	Alfred Vasquez	1	3.47	3.47
13	Ron Janke	2	2.41
14	Little Ed Cazares	1	2.40
15	Mike Rupp	1	2.25
16	Big Ed Cazares	1	2.05
17	Joe Nava	1	1.61
18	Adam Day	0	0.00
18	Eddie Obrien	0	0.00
18	John Hernandez	0	0.0

Kenny Isago won 1st Place and Big Fish with his partner Derrik Yoshinaga bagging 2nd place.

 

 Kennys Big Fish weighed in at 7.19lbs

 Landed near the frewway cove boat dock on a MMIII drop shot

 His other fish came by way of texas rig black grape off the dam rip rap

 

Derrick fished frogs for one fish, cranks for two fish and worms to land his fourth fish giving him a bag of 7.68lbs. Kennys and Derriks combined weight of 16.39lbs was plenty enough to land the Big Boat honors for the “Pride at Pyramid”. These guys are good at what they do and they will tell no lies as long as you ask no questions. 

For everybody else fishin was tough for the most part, the camaraderie was excellent. No five fish limits made it to the scales. It was a dink fest of massive proportions for the blue Champion with some fiesty striper action in the first ten minutes. I would like to thank the Basscontenders club for allowing me to fish with my son Little Ed. I can’t tell you what a blast it is for us to fish a tournament together father  & son, laughing, arguing, losing tackle is all part of a fun day on the water. These are memories that will last a lifetime and once again I say thanks.

Very similar results for a club fishing Pyramid the day after we did: https://castaicbassclub.com/blog/?p=910

See you all at the meeting in November!

The Manny Nunez Memorial Bass Club Challenge Tournament in September went off with out a hitch. We had 9 different clubs and over 50 boats total from all over So Cal show up and fish at Castaic Lake. This event ended up being one of the biggest tournaments to be held in recent history at Castaic Lake. There hasn’t been a 50-boat field since the late 70’s early 80’s on any of the local lakes.  Top honors for the day went something like this in 4th place California Bass Contenders 26.33#’s, 3rd place Bass’n Buddies with 26.67#’s. 2nd place fell to Ventura County Bass club with 26.99#’s and 1st place with a total of 28.21#’s was the castaic Bass Club. 

The five competing teams met up early for sum grub and tactics at Lyons Parkway Denny’s. Big Ed and Joe Vermilyer, Ron Janke and Alfred Vasquez, Derek Yoshinaga and Frank Castro, Gabby Hayes and Kenny Isago, Randy Estrada and Alex Cox. It was a fun event that matched up nine local clubs as the California Bass Contenders sat only ounces out of the money. Congrats to Derrik Yoshinaga for catching the Big Fish of the tournament that cashed him a sweet $500.00 prize. Next year the Bass Contenders will be back for redemption.

Full results on the Bass Club Challenge click below:

https://castaicbassclub.com/results/2012/results0912.html

 

 

 

 

Old pic of Joe ‘V’ and a young Alex Pisarski circa 2005?

End of the day Goose VanGeest NOT telling where and how?

Waiting to Blast Off…..