Battle of the Bays is coming.....

[DESTROYER]

Jim-

Just a heads up...There is an SWBA tournament that same day in Mission Bay. Not sure if you know that or not. Probably about 40 boats or so.

[Saba Slayer]

Originally Posted by DESTROYER

Jim-

Just a heads up...There is an SWBA tournament that same day in Mission Bay. Not sure if you know that or not. Probably about 40 boats or so.

Thanks Matt
Eric Bent and I have had a few conversations about coordinating the two events.
The SWBA boats are launching at safe light and the kayaks will have a shotgun start at 7am so there shouldn't be a conflict there.
The SWBA event is a Spotty only event and the CCA kayak tourney has all three bass included as well as a big fish side pot.
Eric seems to think the SWBA weigh-in will be at about 2pm and the CCA kayak cut off for photos and weigh-in is 1pm.
Both Eric and myself are encouraging our sponsors that support both events to have a tent or booth on the site and and we're trying to make this a bigger and more fun couple of tourneys and take advantage of all the participants at the two events.

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Here is a preview of the prizes that have arrived so far...and the Del Mar show will produce some more sponsors and prizes...I'll update after the Del Mar show.

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This is a list of the current sponsors for the Battle of the Bays Tournaments....

Brent and Andy at OEX are providing the free advertising space on this site for the CCA CAL tournaments...Thanks Guys...

Dana Landing is hosting the Mission Bay event and the King Harbor Yacht Club is hosting the King Harbor event.

CCA CAL S.D. volunteers are handling all the logistics and food service in Mission Bay and the KHYC will provide the meal in Santa Monica Bay with the L.A. Chapter providing the volunteers for logistics

Jeff Mariani from Cedros Kayak Fishing – 4 days at Cedros Island with Cedros Kayak Fishing on a guided trip. This is a drawing for all participants.

Steve Pinard from Dana Landing is providing two $500 1st Place Dana Landing gift cards for the bass CPR.

Ed from Baja Fish Gear in Lomita is providing two $250 2nd place Baja Fish Gear gift cards .

Rick Jensen from Sportfishing Financial is donating two $125 3rd place Turners gift cards .

Ben Hong at Promar is providing two $75 4th place Promar/AHI gift cards and lots of Live Deception Jigs and Assault Jigs as well as some Sabikis and Rockfish Squish rigs and some Landing Nets.

Hobie and two dealers will provide the top raffle prize…Yet to be determined for each event.

Dave Brown from Okuma and Savage Gear has donated a Komodo reel for a
crowd-funding prize that Craig Rapaport from the SD chapter is putting together.
And two $100 gift cards for the biggest Halibut caught.

Jeff from One Cool Tuna has donated a couple of packs of his CNC jigs and some line weight stickers for the biggest bass at each event.

Bill Boyce 6 has donated 6 of his cool looking prints.

Pete at Big Hammer Lures has donated some lures through our friend Benny Florentino.

Bill Shedd at AFTCO has provided 6 quality AFTCO fishing shirts.

Todd Burton the Palm Frond Fish Guy has donated a beautiful hand made and painted sand bass.

Nuuana at Dannua Paddle Gear has donated two kayak seat back packs.

John at Get Some lubricants has given us some sample bottles of his lubricant for salt water.

Roby Gant and Dave Pfeiffer at Shimano have donated two Citica Reels and two Terramar rods.

Chad and JoJo at Hook-Up Baits have donated some HookUp lures and apparel packages.

Jeff Ingram from Pure Fishing/Berkley/Penn has donated some Berkley swim baits and two Penn reels

Paul Hanson from Blue Wave Jewelry has donated some jewelry.

Scotty Plastics has donated some drink, camera, and pole holders and a few pieces of their new track system.

Daryl Morrita is making two custom Calcutta gaffs.

Jorge Villegas from Coke is donating ten cases of soft drinks.

Yanni Hassir from Fisherman’s Belly will be our chef at both events.

Kayak Angler will be one of our media sponsors with a free on-line subscription to each entrant.

Charles Belnavis has done our logo and design along with Louis Almeda's work on the flyer and t-shirts.

Ali Hussany and Cory from BD Outdoors designed the webpage and links

Pacific Coast Sportfishing, WON, Fish Taco Chronicals, Let's Talk Hook-Up and Bart and Mike Lum from the Fred Hall Shows thanks for all the free advertising for these CCA fundraising tourneys.

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Del Mar was very good to the Battle of the Bays Raffle Prizes...

Berkley/Penn Fishing has donated a Fathom Reel FTH 15 LDZ and 9-25yd. spools of ProSpec Fluorocarbon and one spool of 500yds of 50lbs. ProSpec Braid.

CalStar rods has donated 2 rods...a 196-7C and a WC-9700

Phenix Rods has donated 2 rods…an ABYSX PSX-809 and a M1 Inshore Carbon
SMX-77-MH

Diawa has donated a Sealine SLN 66 MHF.

Hook-Up Baits has donated 2 gift packs each with an assortment of their killer lures.

Todd Burton dropped off his beautiful Sandbass art work at Del Mar.

We also picked up 108 packs of Big Hammer 4” Red Calico swim baits.

CDFW gave us some more Fish ID books.

Some Hats and t-shirts were donated by Rapalla and some of their lures are being shipped.



I set up this inflatable i11s for the display and it's a pretty cool little boat...I think it will be my next Team Hobie boat.
REMEMBER this kayak is a raffle prize at each event...



And just for a recap I included this photo of the rest of the loot...!

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The Fourth Place winner of the Battle the Bays Mission Bay Tournament will bring home this beautiful wooden plaque and a $75 Gift Certificate from Promar/AHI...



For our raffle, Promar and AHI have also donated a few of their hook resistant landing nets...



and lots of the new Live Deception Jigs with the life-like laser print of a sardine, Mack, and anchovy on the bendable jigs




as well as some Assault rockfish jigs and some of the Rock Cod Squirts.

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