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bowlboyMon Feb-09-09 11:38 AM
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#14648, "Team redrum at Newport Bay"
Mon Feb-09-09 11:39 AM by bowlboy

  

          

Both Pete and I were excited about fishing this one. Although Pete wasn’t able to prefish, I had been able to get out 4 days and had caught fish all 4 days. I hadn’t had huge bags but they had been solid bags and I counted on being able to do it again come tourney day. I wasn’t sure how the funky weather would affect our bite but at least it would be the same for everyone.

I had found 4 spots of fish in my prefishing and our plan was to bounce around to those spots and get our fish. Come tourney day, none of those 4 spots put out a single fish for us. Instead we found 2 spots of fish in our old spots from 2 years ago. We fortunately went first to one of our old reliable spots just to see if anyone was home. They were. I banged a 15 incher right away (a tagged fish to) and followed it up about 2 cats later with another 15.5 incher. The second fish was coming to boat so nice that I really didn’t have time to call for the net and just figured I would bounce it. Well it came out of the water fine but as it did I realized that it was only barely hooked and as it came over the rail, it was already off the hook, fortunately it landed in the boat. That ended up being our big fish (at a whopping 1.92 Lbs.). I had a minor heart attack on that one. I got one more short before moving on, figuring we would let that spot recharge a bit and we would be back to it. Hit one of my new spots for nada and headed back to our first spot for another 15 incher and another short. We were stoked to have 3 solid fish in the tank in the first hour. All of those fish came on the Revenge spinner bait on 15 lb. P-Line.

For the next 3 or 4 hours I think we went without a bite, even when we went back to our first spot a third time. Bounced to all of my new spots and threw everything we had at them. Cold wind came up, it started to rain and looked like it was gonna get real nasty for a while there, I even put on rain pants (for those that know me, you know I thought it was gonna get bad if I put on pants). All of a sudden our solid start wasn’t looking so solid. We needed to get on another bite in a bad way.

Then the rain stopped and the wind died. I told Pete that I felt a swimbait bite coming on. He suggested that we go check out another one of our old spots up Lido way. That ended up being a good call. We pulled up on the spot and both got short bit. So we slowed down and started working that spot. Over the next hour or so we put 2 more fish in the tank to make our five and then caught about 3 more legals that didn’t cull and about 4 or 5 shorts. Almost all of those fish came on the 4 inch Big Hammers in Silver Phantom and a couple on the Sexy Smelt. That was my first time fishing the Silver Phantom and I was very happy with it. I can’t wait to fish it in the surf for Halibut and perch.

We ended up with about 15 fish with about 8 legal fish, but we never culled. That was good enough for 8.55 lbs. and 8th place overall. Our best finish ever in a series event. Funny, this is the start of our third year fishing SWBA. The first year we just kept our heads down and tried to make it through each event with some fish, (skunked in Long Beach doh!), last year we had shook off the first year jitters and started to figure things out. Our goal last year was to make the finale and coming in 15th overall we just squeaked in. This year our goal was to get into the money. We did it in the first event. Now I guess the only thing left is to win one!

See ya in Dana.

Bryan

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magmasterWed Feb-11-09 03:18 PM
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#14649, "RE: Team redrum at Newport Bay"
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What did it take to win this time? I'm pissed I had to work in Portland. I really wanted to fish this tournament :(

  

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Amish EdWed Feb-11-09 10:20 PM
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#14650, "RE: Team redrum at Newport Bay"
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Good job. I take it it's not a 6# line only event anymore.

Amish Ed
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It's hard to catch again of you kill it!

  

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bowlboyFri Feb-13-09 08:49 AM
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#14651, "RE: Team redrum at Newport Bay"
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Line restrictions have been removed. Here are the final results:

# Team Name Anglers' Name # Fish Big Fish Penalty Weight Pl. Pts.

60 Walls Out Eric Johnson Pat Sullivan 5 2.97 9.86 1 120
66 Reel Dangerous Tom Baker Joey Dinoso 5 2.76 9.47 2 119
2 Hammer Ben Florentino Keith Michaels 5 2.33 9.21 3 118
37 Basstards Rex McConnell Al Miqueliz 5 2.22 9.14 4 117
10 Perros Viejo John Beerling Doug Crawford 5 2.56 8.86 5 116
4 Disco Punk Jim Decker Tracy Viloria 5 3.01 8.81 6 115
20 Face Down Bass Up Randy Spizer Matt Florentino 5 2.33 8.68 7 114
23 RedRum Brian Davis Pete Wolf 5 1.98 8.55 8 113
5 Explorers Craig Bark Don Castro 5 2.12 8.50 9 112
9 Bass Busters Jim Kiech David Shill 5 2.08 8.18 10 111
39 Fear No Fish Michael Kuehn Aaron Jeffrey 5 2.21 8.06 11 110
35 Farmer's Daughter Steve Greanias Avo Oughourlian 5 2.02 7.82 12 109
12 Reef Runner Tom Handzus Valerie Handzus 5 2.24 7.81 13 108
1 Kill Switch Matt Kobzeff Scott Pethtel 5 1.93 7.64 14 107
22 PU Fishing John Uriarte Jarred Prindle 5 1.67 7.64 15 106
6 Tourney Kit Cory Sanden Eric Bent 5 1.85 7.61 16 105
25 Yellow Tail Tom Nitahara Pete Gardner 4 2.01 7.34 17 104
53 Plastic Hooker Brant McGlothlin Jason Weinstein 5 1.78 7.27 18 103
54 Bama Wama Chuck Chandler Jayson Quimby 5 1.65 7.22 19 102
8 Reason to Bern One Scott Reason John Berner 5 1.61 7.16 20 101
14 Dirty Gerry Mahieu Bob Lingren 5 1.64 7.01 21 100
52 Radio Silence Justin Reynolds Todd Peterson 5 2.05 -0.50 6.89 22 99
43 Frank Jawn Frank Nikac David Abeelen 5 1.52 6.81 23 98
19 Salty Balls Karl Erbacher Josh Dunlap 5 1.64 6.60 24 97
49 Rizo Eugene Roberts Doug Bury 5 1.50 6.60 25 96
16 Bass 2 Mouth Jerry Chang Jesse Nevarez 5 1.54 6.59 26 95
61 Snook Hunter Eric Landesfeind Matt Kotch 5 1.79 6.32 27 94
47 Spotted Fever Steven Johnson Edward Hesbol 5 1.29 5.92 28 93
58 Bass N Treble Chris Aparri Mike Hamada 5 1.16 5.68 29 92
48 Get 'Em Gabe Magana Steven Hage 4 1.56 5.37 30 91
15 Pearl Bill Stembridge Mike Stembridge 4 1.94 5.30 31 90
34 Rock Hopper Jack Sowell Roger Eckhardt 4 1.89 5.17 32 89
3 Kelp Kritter David Belden Bill Boersma 4 1.48 5.13 33 88
56 Wood Brett Woodward Ryan Woodward 4 1.28 5.12 34 87
68 Performance Tackle Curtis Owens Rich Siosin 4 1.44 5.11 35 86
57 Adrenaline Chris Hurley Norm Dubois 4 1.56 4.84 36 85
62 Kwagmyre Skylar Crane Jeff Peck 3 1.53 4.79 37 84
24 Seafari Tom Buckalew Brett Delong 3 2.24 4.63 38 83
17 No Hands Mike Gardner Cacer Chang 3 1.83 4.50 39 82
33 Hall Pass Jon Kuch David Fong 4 1.25 4.50 40 81
65 Fish Trax Brandon Cotton Scott Pohle 3 1.89 4.28 41 80
42 Low Budget Brian Marshall Chris Lilis 3 1.48 3.88 42 79
30 SoCal Trash Manuel Frias Marc Mellor 3 1.52 3.84 43 78
59 Killer B's Phil Brown Robyn Brown 3 1.09 3.79 44 77
71 Forget About It Ed Zamora Martin Deza 4/5 1.24 -1.00 3.67 45 76
45 Cool Bass Jon Wilber Lawrence Johnson 2 1.79 3.17 46 75
51 Skull Fracture Mike Moffitt Alice Zabala 2 1.46 3.01 47 74
46 Phil Deez Bass Jimmy Sahagun Philip Sahagun 2 1.77 2.87 48 73
26 BearNAss David Bruce Keith Larson 2 1.65 2.80 49 72
41 Oh Son Mike Nguyen Mike Dumalski 2 1.40 2.61 50 71
70 Mana Andrew Swerissen Lawrence Posod 2 1.47 2.55 51 70
36 La Otra Julian Pineda Khammy Wong 2 1.43 2.54 52 69
38 Swamp Donkeys Eric Abrahamson Ben Secrest 2 1.27 2.48 53 68
69 Aroo Roo Matthew Kim Andrew Wright 2 1.27 2.40 54 67
67 Falcon Brian Sanner Robert Yakemonis 2 1.24 2.36 55 66
44 Shaka Francis Wong Roy Fukushima 2 1.18 2.14 56 65
21 WOBD Jesse Freeman Garrett Lamb 1 1.66 1.66 57 64
7 WOW Mike Lane Mark Virgo 1 1.58 1.58 58 63
32 Belly Up Quivian Wilkins Gary Gillingham 1 1.46 1.46 59 62
31 Jeronimo Jerry Bent John Fearnley 1 1.34 1.34 60 61
64 Cranky Wendy Tochihara 1 1.23 1.23 61 60
27 The Fish Icon Robert Schneider James Nelson 1 1.11 1.11 62 59
13 Nalga Knights Ed Smith Lee Nichols DNW 20
18 Reef Eye Steve Bruce Elliot Bruce DNW 20
29 Calico Hunter Larry Heron Matt Russell DNW 20
50 Jokers Archie Kaaua DNW 20
55 Outsiders Bill Hokstad Doug Hokstad DNW 20
63 Bass Hulls Evan Spotswood Scott Pierce DNW 20

  

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