It was a beautiful flat calm morning with a cool air temp and twenty four cool anglers ready to do battle below the grapevine at Castaic Lake. With recent water levels rising fast the rising anticipation of finding five fish alive at fifteen inches for each of the twenty four Basscontender anglers would prove to be a difficult Grind for the masses. On this day the morning launch was the best part of the day for many of the anglers who did not lack for effort.
Big shout out to Basscontender longtime friend Julian Ruiz who fished as a guest of Conrad Jr and first time guest Mark Chadik who fished with Gil Bowman. Much to nobody’s chagrin the top angler who put together the pieces on this day is the usual suspect and AOY points leader Paul Herber who was able to tame a five fish limit weighing a total of 9.52lbs. Rounding out the top three in second place and with Big Fish honors Ron Janke who brought in a black bass weighing 4.19lbs to go with his 6.00lb sack and Derek Yoshinaga a cool third place with 5.20lbs of pescados. Big Boat awarded to the team of Paul Herber and Andrew Serar for their combined weight of 11.24lbs.
The tale of the tape… Read ’em a wheep boys!
Air temp: 58-95 degrees
Water temp: 76-77 degrees
Water clarity: 3-6′ stained
Wind mph: flat calm at launch/hotter than hell at weighin
Place / Name / Fish / Total weight
1 Paul Herber 5 / 9.52
2 Ron Janke 2 / 6.00
3 Derek Yoshinaga 2 / 5.20
4 Randy Estrada MD 3 / 4.90
5 Joe Nava 1 / 3.35
6 Alfred Vasquez 1 / 2.95
7 Kenny Isago 1 / 2.49
8 Danny Caldwell 1 / 2.39
G Terry Snyder 1 / 2.42
9 Mark Bowman 1 / 2.11 (Dead Fish)
10 Conrad Apodaca Jr 1 / 2.04
11 Julian Ruiz 1 / 1.88 (Guest)
12 Andrew Serar 1 / 1.72
13 Gabby Hayes 1 / 1.52
14 Mike Rupp 1 / 1.52 (Dead Fish)
15 Adam Day 0.00
15 Dave Pisarski 0.00
15 Conrad Apodaca 0.00
15 Richard Hoffman 0.00
15 Gil Bowman 0.00
15 Mark Pavlinac 0.00
15 Brian Reaves 0.00
15 Pops Colgan 0.00
15 Mark Chadik 0.00 (Guest)
Big Boat Paul Herber/Andrew Serar 11.24lbs
Big Fish Ron Janke 4.19lbs
Twenty one (21) fish weighed alive.
Two (2) fish weighed dead as door nail.
Combined total weight of 50.51lbs with a 2.19 average per fish.
See you on the water: Big Ed!