Mahi wins CSBA

too cool

Mike / Mickfish - the "Grill Man" prepping some goooooood stuff  (as always) AND he also brought an inflatable pillow for Randall / Bigfoot  Randall - we missed you!!!

pic1: Frank Fishing on his way to a safari trip.......oops, I mean fishing trip

pic2: camping...NCKA style

Dan the Man! Way to represent the yakfishers.

Had a great time paddled a lot of miles the fishing was pretty good got a couple of stripers each day, I was looking for that big smallie got a few and the biggest flipped off when I was getting the camera ready . Nice meeting some of the newer members and a lotta laughs with the crew too fun. Did anybody see Sean? I saw a guy that looked a lot like him in a Trident wearing a cowboy hat Thanks Sean I had a great time as always missed seeing the family.

Thank you Sean for putting together another great event at Mendo!

The morning launch...


I caught 8 fish during the tournament, but never could seem to upgrade the size. My biggest during the tournament was this 7lb 10oz


Later in the day I paddled up the river to the bridge trying for smallies. I managed a few LMB's but no smallie love


Outside of the creek I managed another two striper hookups as the sun was going down. The one I landed went at least 9lbs according to my lip gripper scale. Too bad I couldn't find that fish during the tournament. Here are a few of us during the evening paddle back to camp.

Congrats, Dan, on your win! The pix of the lake and take have me counting the days till BAM IV.

Unfortunately, I couldn't attend because my girls, granddaughter, and I were sitting under the stars at the Duran II concert at the Concord Pavilion, a gift to my younger daughter for her birthday. The "boys" were still sounding good, especially their new songs.

Janice aka "Big J"

Did anybody see Sean? I saw a guy that looked a lot like him in a Trident wearing a cowboy hat cowboy_cool  Thanks Sean I had a great time as always missed seeing the family.

Yep..a cowboy hat.  Leah just had some serious skin cancer removed from her face and that was all the heads up I needed to get serious about reducing my UV...I am in the sun a LOT.

As to the Trident, I had it in the water for a few hours this weekend.  So far so good, but I was on an X-Factor for SOOOoooooo long it just doesn't feel like "home yet".  I spent some time on Friday getting it rigged and it was super EZ.  Looking forward to getting my electronics in the next few days.

Congrats to that Dude from Ukiah who fishes!, areal HomeTownHero!
IOU for givin up the spot after you were finshed with it!  we stayed and never left it till 12:30!  a few cherries were also lost there
 
Thanks to Sean, the CSBA Ukiah Chapter, TeamAllen&Pattrick and ALL the peeps that showed to support the cause!(relieve some built-up Madness).
I was hunting smallies for the better part and came up DRY!  I got there Friday morning, found Allens' camp, he had the mini-platoon brief'd&ready for battle!

I'll post more pics throughout the day.....
but here's the most "memorable"!

pic1~ Ryan's First StriperSleighRide...of 4! remember,just relax and enjoy the RIDE!

pic2~My nephew Chad's too! 

pic3~ Naoaki-Birdman of NCKA's CP&R'd another bird....this one had a few things to say as he swam away(you think it'd be greatful!)
 

Big ups to the CSBA and Sean for putting on a really nice tourney up there. I had fun paddling around looking for the big one but Dan caught it and didn't look back. Good going Dan... way to represent your home town. I need to print a correction on Melissa's fish that she caught on Sunday... it weighed 9lbs 14oz... not 9.14lbs. It was a really nice fish... her biggest striper so far. I'm kind of glad that she caught it on Sunday though. If she hooked it on Saturday... I'd never hear the end of it for a looooooooooooooooooong time. Looking forward to hitting that lake with her and the boys some time soon.

I really wanted to get her into some smallie action but, they eluded her. Maybe next time... We missed out on all the goofing around and social stuff mostly because we got off the water so late. After we cooked some dinner and stuff... we were pretty beat and hit the sack. It's all good though... Thanks Chucke for letting us borrow your lantern... I totally forgot mine at home. Also, thanks for the beer. It was fun fishing with some familiar faces and some not so familiar ones. I can't wait until the next bash.

Fish on...

Freddie

Congratulation Dan.....you're da Man.

Congrats Dan. It was only a matter of time before NCKA began winning open competitions. Lots of really skilled anglers in this group. Sorry I missed the fun, somehow the Spam Jam festival wasn't quite as fun as CSBA I suspect. 

Scott

somehow the Spam Jam festival wasn't quite as fun as CSBA I suspect. 
Scott

Thats hard to believe Scott! we missed you too!

.....was on a Smallie mission up the creek on friday, but could only muster four on a drop-shot'd roboworm(thanks mickfish!)

pic1~ Nate and Mike heading up it,with a paddle.
pic2~What lies beyond the 20 bridge.
pic3~ this guy coughed up a little baitfsh on me (my first time getting tossed on)
pic4~ so I threw it on the rig and it got ripped right off! but no hook-set!

...returned to set up camp, relax with the fellas and feast like KINGS!
pics1&2~ CampCoca and my rowdy neighbors to the right. 

Git-R-Done