Conrad Apodaca Jr wins it again for second time in a row bringing home the victory, big fish and big boat. It was a beautiful day at the Jewell with what seemed like perfect conditions but only three lucky anglers out of the entire field could bring legal sized fish to the scales. Here is how it went down.

Clear skies light breeze 90 degrees at weigh-in
64-67 degree clear water with a hint of algea

Place/Name/Fish/Total
1) Conrad Apodaca Jr 4/12.83 BF 4.08lbs
2) Kevin Duncan 2/5.73
3) Robert Terrazas 2/4.51
18) Mark Pavlinac 0/0.00
18) Richard Hoffman 0/0.00
18) Big Ed Cazares 0/0.00
18) Steve Meza 0/0.00
18) Johnny Abyad 0/0.00
18) Gil Bowman 0/0.00
18) David Mendez 0/0.00
18) Mark Chadeayne 0/0.00
18) Sergio Sanchez 0/0.00
18) Conrad Apodaca Sr 0/0.00
18) Kenny Isago 0/0.00
18) Tom Creasey 0/0.00
18) Chris Graciano 0/0.00

Big Fish: Conrad Apodaca Jr 4.08lbs
Big Boat: Conrad Apoca Jr/Chris Graciano 12.83lbs

See you on the water: Big Ed!

place/name/fish/total

1) Conrad Apodaca Jr 2/2/3.57/5.75

2) Richard Hoffman 1/1/4.12/2.23

3) Johnny Abyad 0/1/0.00/3.00

4) David Mendez 1/0/1.29/0.00

Conrad Apodaca Sr 0/0/0.00

Gary Crouse 0/0/0.00

Steve Meza 0/0/0.00

Dave Pisarski 0/0/0.00

Alex Pisarski 0/0/0.00

Kenny Isago 0/0/0.00

Big Fish Day One Richard Hoffman 4.12lbs

Big Fish Day Two Conrad Apodaca Jr 3.01lbs

Big Boat Conrad Jr/Conrad Sr 9.33lbs

Next up DVL Nov 16, 2019

 

See you on the water: Big Ed!

Johnny Abyad is absolutely on fire can not be stopped as he does it again at Casatic!

Place/Name/Fish/Total

1) Johnny Abyad 1/6.28 BF/BB
2) Gill Bowman 2/3.95
3) Mark Chadeayne 2/3.74
4) David Mendez 1/2.02
15) Mark Pavlinac 0/0.00
15) Alfred Vasquez 0/0.00
15) Richard Hoffman 0/0.00
15) Kevin Duncan 0/0.00
15) Conrad Apodaca Sr 0/0.00
15) Robert Terrasaz 0/0.00
15) Kenny Isago 0/0.00
15) Rod Stig 0/0.00
15) Conrad Apodaca Jr 0/0.00
15) Steve Meza 0/0.00
15) Chris Graciano 0/0.00 G

Big Fish: Johnny Abyad 6.28lbs
Big Boat: Johnny Abyad/Chris Graciano 6.28lbs

Next up: Lake Isabella October 19&20, 2019 2 day

See you on the water: Big Ed!

 

 

 

Place/Name/Fish/Weight

1) Kenny Isgao 2/6.92
2) Johnny Abyad 2/6.64
3) Steve Meza 1/6.51 BF
4) David Mendez 2/6.04
G) Angel Sanchez 2/5.01
5) Sergio Sanchez 2/4.99
6) Mark Bowman 1/3.37
7) Gil Bowman 1/3.34
8) Mark Chadaeyne 1/2.63
9) Randy Estrada MD 2/2.54
10) Gary Crouse 1/1.93
24) Raul Valderraine 0/0.00
24) Conrad Apodaca Sr 0/0.00
24) Brian Reaves 0/0.00
24) Brian Trusso 0/0.00
24) Conrad Apodaca Jr 0/0.00
24) Robert Terrasaz 0/0.00
24) Ted Romero 0/0.00
24 Joe Nava 0/0.00
24) Alex Arias 0/0.00
24) Dave Pisarski 0/0.00
24) Tom Creasey 0/0.00
24) Kevin Duncan 0/0.00
24) Rod Stig 0/0.00

Big Fish: Steve Meza 6.51lbs
Big Boat: Kenny Isago/Steve Meza 13.43lbs

Next up Castaic September 14, 2019

See you on the water: Big Ed!

Place/Name/FishDay1/FishDay2(Total)

1) Paul Herber 5/14.55 5/17.41  (31.96)
2) Adam Day 5/15.05 5/16.15  (31.20)
3) Tony Guest 5/14.56 5/14.33 (28.79) Guest
3) Steve Meza 5/14.39 5/14.02  (28.41)
4) Derrick Yoshinaga 5/14.06 5/12.68  (26.74)
5) Johnny Abyad 5/11.61 5/12.36  (23.97)
6) Conrad Apodaca Jr 5/10.30 5/13.27  (23.57)
7) Alfred Vasquez 5/12.6/ 5/10.84 (23.51)
8) Ron Janke 4/10.09 5/11.50 (21.59)
9) David Mendez 5/15.45 3/6.06 (21.51)
10) Gary Crouse 5/11.46 4/9.59 (21.05)
11) Sergio Sanchez 4/8.0 5/12.98 (20.98)
12) Kenny Isago 5/12.89 4/7.36 (20.25)
13) Mark Pavlinac 5/9.30 4/7.98 (17.27)
14) Richard Hoffman 5/10.22 2/5.02 (15.22)
15) Kevin Duncan 2/3.08 4/9.94 (13.02)
16) Robert Terrasaz 4/9.65 1/2.97 (12.62)
17) Gary Boyd 5/11.92 0/0.00 (11.92)
18) Conrad Apodaca Sr 1/4.91 3/6.64 (11.55)
18) David King 3/7.84 3/5.82 (11.36) Guest
19) Raul Valderraine 3/5.82 1/4.76 (10.61)
19) Sampson Guest 3/6.6/ 3/3.32 (9.99) Guest
19) Richard Yanez 2/4.40 0/0.00 (4.40) Guest
20) Andrew Garcia 1/1.45 0/0.00 (1.45)
21) Mark Chadaeyne 0/0.00 0/0.00 (0.00)

Big Fish Day One: Steve Meza (4.96)
Big Fish Day Two: Paul Herber (4.91)
Big Boat: Paul Herber/Adam Day (63.16)

Congratulations 2018-2019 Angler Of the Year Conrad Apodaca Jr

Next up April 13, 2019 Top Ten Tournament and New season Opener San Vicente

1) Conrad Apodaca Jr
2) Alfred Vasquez
3) Johnny Abyad
4) Conrad Apodaca Sr
5) Steve Meza
6) David Mendez
7) Derrick Yoshinaga
8) Mark Pavlinac
9) Robert Terrasaz
10) Big Ed Cazares

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

Next tournament Saturday February 23rd Lower Otay.

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See you on the water: Big Ed!