Dave Sternitzke Dominates at Clear Lake!

What a great first tournament of the 2010 season. 39 Elite Pontoon Bass Professionals showed up to the 2010 opener at Clear Lake. We had 47 fish caught on the day. It was really great to see some new faces and also to see the excitement buzzing through the parking lot.

It was another dominating win for Dave Sternitzke and he is continuing to march up the list of the top 160 pontoon fisherman (Dave's report). In second place was one of the new faces, James Carte who pulled out second place and coming in 3rd place was the 2009 rookie of the year, Matt Nyiri. Mike Ayers, Randy Kidd, Bill Sackett and Daniel Kinn rounded out the spots in the money. A big congratulations goes to Aaron Walker for finishing in 11th place in his first tournament with our club.

I wanted to thank Sean Hrebich for jumping in and taking pictures and Rebecca Duffany for helping with the entry of weights. There were some kind word sent my way about the smoothness of this tournament, and to be honest it was the officers around me who made it that way. We had 4 more memberships paid which brings our club membership total to 29 members. Remember that if you fished this tourney and you have not paid your dues you need to do it before you fish you next touney to get your points. All I can say is the Berryessa tourney can not come soon enough. Look for word to seeing everyone at the March meeting. Full Results and Photos

End of Year Meeting and a New Year about to Start!
We had a good final meeting to end the 2009 season. Everyone who showed submitted there votes for next years lakes and we will look to have these schedule posted ASAP. We heard from our AOY Jon Bird on his victory at Blue Lakes and his march to taking the AOY title. Steve presented Jon with a killer AOY Trophy, we will have to see what we can come up to match it next year. Steve also presented Matt Nyiri with his sweet ROY trophy. We then heard the from our 1st and 2nd place winners at the TOC. Congratulations again to Dave the the Victory. Finale we voted on the officers who will take the club through the 2010 season. They are as follows: Noah Stevens President, Jon Bird VP, Mike Ayers Treasurer, DJ Von Bima TD, and rounding out the team Martin Carreon as the Asst TD.

Next year is a Charity year for the club, Marc Harrison came up with a great idea to send care packages to our troops over sea's. Deacon had an great idea to try to have guest speakers for some of our meetings next year. We are hopefully going to have a speaker talk about fishing swim baits at our February meeting.

Next year we will be changing the dead fish penalty to a half a pound. This is consistent with other tournament standards. One thing that was asked of the members, is to look over the rules and to PM Jon Bird if you have anything you feel needs to be looked at. I am attaching the membership form. You can send it to Noah Stevens, 2331 Donna Maria Way, Santa Rosa, Ca 95401. http://www.scbbbc.com/2010_SCBBBC_Membership_Application.pdf I again want to thank everyone for the support and am looking forward to having a lip ripping 2010 season.

Big Dave Sternitzke Wins the 2009 Tournament of Champions!
Another GREAT season is completed with the Sonoma County Belly Boat Bass Club.
There where some close weights after day #1 and when it was all over and done only
one could walk away with the 2009 SCBBBC TOC award. Dave Sternitzke was the
winner of the SCBBBC 2009 TOC. Congrats Big Dave on your first TOC win with the
club. And also congrats to all of you angler who qualified to fish Clear Lake for two
days and enjoy a weekend of SCBBBC tradition. None of this could happen with
out your 2009 President staying on the ball all year and keeping this big old float
tube club running smooth. Thanks Steve for all you have done throughout the 2009
season. You did a great job on your first year at keeping the club going forward into
the future. Read Dave's winning report here and see full results and pictures here.

Jon Bird Wins at Blue Lakes and Claims 2009 Angler of the Year! The end of
the 2009 Scbbbc season ended on Saturday in dramatic fashion. All eyes were on
Steve Wilson and Randy Kidd as they came into this last tournament tied for first
place and angler of the year. With rumors circling around the lake all day that
neither angler had caught a fish yet and time was running out things got interesting,
would we end up with a tie for AOY? The answer to that question became load and
clear around 12:30 from Jon Bird who landed a 5.58 lb’er. Now we had a whole
new scenario going on with 2 hours left to go. If Steve or Randy didn't’ catch a fish could John Bird end up AOY? The answer is Yes! On what was a very tuff day at blue lakes everything that needed to happen did happen and Congratulations to Jon Bird as your Scbbbc 2009 Angler of the Year! Full Results