2015 Mission Bay Classic Results

[octico]

Sorry I missed the event. I had a family emergency. Looks like you all had a great time!

[Cbad]

Originally Posted by Iceman

This was a fund raising kayak tournament for Heroes on the Water- SoCal Chapter there was much more than fishing going on yesterday, but here are the results in that aspect. Thanks to everyone who entered and supported this. There will be lots more thank you's added for everyone who made this what it was. It was a huge success! Add your photos here, I will keep adding em here too. Plan on this being back next year in April!



2015 Mission Bay Classic
120 paid entries total

Bass Division
74 entries signed in

1st Jeff Bias 5# 9oz
2nd Richard Dame 4# 6oz
3rd Ed Keil 3# 15oz
4th Joe Tuipala 3# 2oz
5th Will Bowen 2# 15oz
6th Travis Lightfoot 2# 14oz
7th Ben Tweedt 2# 13 oz kicker fish 1#8oz
8th Justin Arakaki 2# 13 oz kicker fish 1# 7oz
9th Kerry Peeler 2# 9oz
10th TIE Armondo Castaneda 1# 11oz
10th TIE Rick Seward 1# 11oz
11th Shane Yellin 1# 10 oz
12th TIE Noah Bixler 1# 9 oz
12th TIE Michael Graham 1# 9oz
13th Gabriel Anuet 1# 8oz
14th Al Figueras 1# 7oz
15th TIE Christine Goeyaerts 1# 6 oz
15th TIE James Zimmerman 1# 6 oz
15th TIE Joe Guterez 1# 6 oz
16th Charlie? 1#5oz
17th TIE Kyle Chang 1# 4 oz
17th TIE Lucian Smoot 1# 4 oz
17th TIE Mark Beringer 1# 4 oz
17th TIE Michael Mikitka 1# 4 oz
18th Nguyen Ho 1# 3 oz

biggest bass weighed in Jeff Bias 1# 14 oz

Halibut Division
24 entries signed in

1st Charles Whittenburg 16# 3 oz
2nd Charles Whittenburg 14# 8 oz
3rd Jorge Villegas 14# 3 oz
4th Fransisco Gonzalaz 14#
5th Tony Park 9#

CONGRATULATIONS to everyone who placed and THANK YOU to everyone who participated.

I hope you all had a great time while supporting such a great cause!

[tacmik]

[steveooo]

Fun Event for an awesome cause!

Here are some pics in no particular order. PM me your email if you want the full rez version.

I dragged the family down to Campland On the Bay for the weekend. Would be fun to get a big group together there next year for some pre & post tourney festivities...

[ful-rac]

Thank you! HOW, Matt, Mike, Mike, OEX, Andy, Brent, Makobob and all the wonderful sponsors, for helping put these events together. Our vets are very lucky that there are people and organizations, businesses, individuals, that step up big time to help our veterans, HEAL and have some fun. I'm glad that this event was such a success, and it's fitting for you guys that spent so much time and effort organizing this event.

Thank you guys for setting me up with that new gaff. I don't know who's idea it was...but I have a good feeling I know who it is... it's awesome and I will definitely put it to good use, getting more fish for the HOW events. Oh and the busy bee gift certificates....Oh boy!!!

[Iceman]

Steveooo, Campland will have to be on next year's agenda fo sho!

[jorluivil]

Originally Posted by ful-rac

Thank you! HOW, Matt, Mike, Mike, OEX, Andy, Brent, Makobob and all the wonderful sponsors, for helping put these events together. Our vets are very lucky that there are people and organizations, businesses, individuals, that step up big time to help our veterans, HEAL and have some fun. I'm glad that this event was such a success, and it's fitting for you guys that spent so much time and effort organizing this event.

Thank you guys for setting me up with that new gaff. I don't know who's idea it was...but I have a good feeling I know who it is... it's awesome and I will definitely put it to good use, getting more fish for the HOW events. Oh and the busy bee gift certificates....Oh boy!!!

Cbad said that because I went allllll the way to San Pedro in LA rush hour traffic you have to buy me a sandwich with that gift certificate

[Iceman]

Here's Jeff B showing us what winning bass look like, photo courtesy Steve Green on the weigh boat.

[Jimmyz123]

Those pics are great man. Thanks for the job you guys did on the weigh boats.

[kauaiboy04]

Originally Posted by steveooo

Fun Event for an awesome cause!

Here are some pics in no particular order. PM me your email if you want the full rez version.

I dragged the family down to Campland On the Bay for the weekend. Would be fun to get a big group together there next year for some pre & post tourney festivities...

Awesome pics Steve!

[Iceman]

Just to clarify: Jeff B wrapped the rod that Chuck D won in the halibut division, then won the rod that Len wrapped for the bass division. Jeff also won the big bass award. That was a weekend rental of the OEX Sunset Beach PA 17 including trailer, fish finder and livewell. Ron and Ben Tweedt were fishing from this PA17.

[fishing md]

It was a blast !!!!thanks for all your hard work putting it together

BTW NEXT YEAR YOU SHOULD GET EXTRA POINTS FOR CATCHING YOUR LEGAL

BASS ON THE fly

[Kayak_Bernie]

Originally Posted by fishing md

It was a blast !!!!thanks for all your hard work putting it together

BTW NEXT YEAR YOU SHOULD GET EXTRA POINTS FOR CATCHING YOUR LEGAL

BASS ON THE fly

Or extra points for fishing from a SUP

[chris138]

Andy, what kind of drone are you using here?

Originally Posted by Iceman

one more shot from the sky.

[Iceman]

Chris, it is the Blade 350 QX2, bought it used from a Hobby shop on E Bay. Got it for $300 complete and the Hero 2 for $80 (thanks to Ashmoz bought 2 for $160)

I set it for taking stills every 5 sec. The Phantom is supposedly much steadier for filming video, but this is pretty cool for low buck aerial shots and pretty easy to fly.

[Iceman]

Last year we had over 100 entries and are adding a second halibut division this year. We are also adding a great bunch of raffle prizes. Our goal is to raise $5000 for the Southern California chapter of Heroes on the Water.
We anticipate this being the biggest kayak fishing tournament in southern California in 2015.

We aimed for the fences and knocked it into the parking lot

Final total after taking out costs and there were very little thanks to all the generosity, the fish from Catalina Offshore and Coca Cola from Jorge to all companies that donated prizes for the winners and the raffle. We raised $5431. Eric had told me that he would match this number and must have had great confidence in us as he brought the check from Geo Group with him and added it to our total for the day $10,431. This will be a hard number to beat next year Thank you one and all!

[roby]

Wow!! What a great turn-out. I wish I could have made it. There were some terrific people that donated and helped organized. I gotta make it to this event next year.

[h2ofishfo]

Wow !10g's !!!!! Great cause and awesome turnout I could care less about my 13th place turnout

[chris138]

Dang... a gopro capable drone for 300! Good deal I'm gonna check that out.

I have a Hubsan X4 that I practice with, but the camera is junk and its super shaky. It's good for stunts and terrorizing my neighbors though.

Have you seen the mariner quadcopter? Fully submersible... I want it so bad. Check out this video the guy straight flips it and makes it go fully submerged.

Originally Posted by Iceman

Chris, it is the Blade 350 QX2, bought it used from a Hobby shop on E Bay. Got it for $300 complete and the Hero 2 for $80 (thanks to Ashmoz bought 2 for $160)

I set it for taking stills every 5 sec. The Phantom is supposedly much steadier for filming video, but this is pretty cool for low buck aerial shots and pretty easy to fly.

[KirkG.]

Had a great time at this event Thanks to all for putting this on. Thanks to all the sponsors.

Kirk