Fishing Tournament. Fifty kayak anglers entered the tournament, including entries from Los
Angeles and Ventura County and one from Idaho. Weintraub's top five fish totalled 8 pounds
even to win the first place prize of a $1000 Cobra Navigator kayak. Peter caught a tournament best also of 14 weighable fish. Ritchie Takatsuka, with only 5 weighable fish finished in second place with a total weight of 7 pounds 12 oz. winning a new Humminbird VHS hand held radio, and Bill Hokstad, the winner of our Feb. tournament took third with seven pounds even and 11 weighables and won a Sevylor Float Tube. Rounding out the top five places were Andy Allen with six pounds 14 oz. from 5 weighable, good for fourth place and a new Shimano reel, and Eric McCully's Five pounds 11 oz total took the fifth place prize of a Tite Lok rod holder. Eric, who caught 6 weighable fish had finished in a tie for fifth with Jim Henley. Eric won the tie breaker with the largest fish. The largest Bass caught in the tournament was a two pound 12 oz Spotted Bay Bass caught by Ritchie Takatsuka.
Thanks to our main sponsor, Cobra Kayaks for their continued support. Also thank you to Ballast Point Brewery for their generosity, Point Sails for the flag display, M2O Marine for place award and raffle prizes, Mission Bay Sport Center for use of their Scout Bow Rider weigh in boat, Bill Hokstad and Adam Kimmerly for donating the use of their personal fishing boats for additional
weigh in boats. Having three weigh in / chase boats really makes a difference! Thanks to our own Bryan Palle for doing such a great job running the tournament and finally thanks to Beth Mattison, Elliot Fisher, Adam Kimmerly and anyone I may have missed for spending their entire day weighing in fish. Also to the many competitors like Ed Whited and Brian Lloyd who take time to help out in many ways at just about every tournament.
shown below. (Eric McCully
won the tie breaker for 5th
place over Jim Henley.)
2nd Ritchie Takatsuka 7lbs 12oz
3rd Bill Hokstad 7lbs 11oz
4th Andy Allen 6lbs 14oz
5th Eric McCully 5lbs 11oz
6th Jim Henley 5lbs 11oz
Eric McCulley, and of course a lot of Spotted Bay Bass. The conditions were excellent, with very
little wind in the morning hours and just a light westerly breeze in the afternoon.
For the rest of the results and more photos see below.....
8 Marion Ragat 5lbs 10oz
9 Cynthia Weintraub 5lbs 6oz
10 Ed Whited 5lbs 3oz
11 Neil Hoglen 5lbs 2oz
12 Brent Doud 5lbs 2oz
13 Paul Weintraub 5lbs 1oz
14 Eric Kinoshita 4lbs 15oz
15 Larry Copobianco 4lbs 7oz
16 Steve Buckley 4lbs 2oz
17 Tim Torcha 3lbs 12oz
18 Sterling Endsley 3lbs 8oz
19 Marty Timko 3lbs 8oz
21 Todd Grossel 3lbs 6oz
22 Vincent Marci 3lbs 5oz
23 Greg Kimmel 3lbs 1oz
24 Mark Rowell 3lbs 0oz
25 Doug Yesenkey 3lbs 0oz
26 Brian Lloyd 2lbs 14oz
27 Dominic Carlos 2lbs 12oz
28 Chris Ogle 2lbs 11oz
29 Paul Fisher 2lbs 2oz
30 Jim Moore 2lbs 2oz
31 Pablo Deligencia 1 lb 15oz
32 Brian Hancock 1 lb 15oz
34 Matt Labonte 1lb 9oz
35 John Lee 1lb 7oz
36 Ron Turner 1lb ooz
37 Kevin Moore 15oz
45 started the event
37 weighed in at least one
legal size fish
149 fish weighed in and released