Saturday July 24, 2021 in the desolate city of Alpine, CA twenty Basscontenders went mano-a-mano in the battle down by the border. With an overcast sky and mild temperatures 75-85 degrees we launched in flat calm conditions. When it was all over and the dust settled it was Conrad Apodaca Sr who again took the top honor for the win at El Capitan. Conrad’s five fish limit of 18.17lbs weighed in almost five pounds more than the next competitor Derrick Yoshinaga who tamed five southern lobina’s for 13.46lbs and second place. Rounding out the money board in third place was HVAC Steve Meza bringing in a cool 11.84lbs in his five fish limit. The El Capitan Big Fish Award in the derby went to the hog snatcher Gary Crouse who’s southern greenback went 5.08lbs. Earning the double bag Big Boat Award was the ‘AYE’ team Derrick Yoshinaga and Joe Nava… I asked Joe how they did it? Joe appropriately said in his best Arthur Fonzerelli voice… “AYE”!
California Basscontenders shout out were greeted by three guests today at the El Cap derby. Landing in 5th place fishing out of the brown corner Miguel Lizzaraga scared four fish with his Bin-Ladin facial hair to a respectable bag of 11.39lbs. The Sparky Will Wilcox also greeted the leaderboard with four nice bass weighing 6.85lbs… and the “Net Man” Ron Ruiz best netter ever brought in a cool 5.39lbs to the scales. It was a good time had by all… chucking and jiving alot of laughs at the weigh-in everybody having fun. Thanks out to Johnny Abyad and his ugly assistants for running another fun Basscontender derby.
Air temp: 74-85 degrees overcast
Water temp: 77-80 degrees
Clarity: 2′ green/brown
Flat calm morning, 9:30 10-14 mph
1st place: Chartreuse deep crank/ jerkbait
2nd place: Crankbait / ds 2-15′ boils rocks
3rd place: Fluke morn/ds afternoon
4th place: Cranking/split shot
5th place: Buzzbait fluke Ika
Big Fish: D/S purple shaking
Place / Name / Fish / Total
1) Conrad Apodaca Jr 5/18.17
2) Derrick Yoshinaga 5/13.46 (DF)
3) Steve Meza 5/11.84
4) Kenny Isago 5/11.80
G) Miguel Lizzaraga 4/11.39 (guest)
5) Joe Nava 5/11.23
6) Gary Crouse 5/11.18 (BF5.08)
7) Dave Mendez 5/10.75 (DF)
8) Mark Chadaeyne 5/10.24
9) Frank Schwamborn 4/8.13
10) Johnny Abyad 3/7.56 (DF)
11) Robert Terrazas 4/7.01
12) Will Wilcox 4/6.85 (guest)
13) Ron Ruiz 4/4/5.39 (guest)
14) Alfred Vasquez 4/5.10
15) Big Ed Cazares 3/4.77
16) Chris Graciano 3/4.10
17) Mark Whitney 3/3.73 (DF)
18) Conrad Apodaca Sr 2/3.66
19) Raul Valderraine 1/0.93
Big Fish: Gary Crouse 5.08lbs
Big Boat: Derrick Yoshinaga/Joe Nava 24.69lbs
Next meeting: Wednesday August 4, 2021 Michaelangello’s
Next tournament: Saturday August 28, 2021 Diamond Valley Lake
See you on the water: Big Ed!