Mike Ayers Wins the Brawl at Berreyssa!

37 of the worlds top pontoon bass slayers showed up to Lake Berryessa on Saturday with
one thing in mind, pig hunting! It was a smooth tournament, with this being our first pre
check in tournament and everyone working together to get in and out of the water. Coming
in first place was Mike Ayers our 2006 AOY. Mike caught one of the very few limits for
8.84 pounds. Coming in second place, just once's out of first place, was the always
consistent, Dan Chester with 5 for 8.21. Josh Peterson had a very impressive third
place showing with 6.86. Rounding our the last four money spots, was the 2009 AOY
Jon Bird in 4th with 6.60, Matt Nyiri the 2009 ROY in 5th with 5.92, Our 2005 AOY
Carson Riley in 6th and rounding out the top seven Chris Quinones. Chris LaPoint
showed again that he can catch the big fish taking home money again for tournament
Big Fish weighing 3.35. AC Crivelli again found his way into a payday with second big
fish at 2.95.

It was great to see the amazing turnout, we had 5 more members join us which takes us to
40 members already!!!! I really have to thank the officers of the club, they did a outstanding job making this tourney run smooth. I also can't thank everyone enough that helped with my truck while I was down at the weight in, this club in not only full of a bunch of great guys, but great friends! And of course a huge debt of gratitude to Rebecca Duffany for taking care of the weights. Thank you. Next up is our first team draw tournament of the year. The Tournament will be the Duel on the Delta and will be at Beacon Harbor April 18th. Full Results & Standings

Berryessa Brawl and Meeting Notes!
Wow, what a great meeting last night! We would like to thank everyone that came out and joined us. We started off the meeting with two great guest speakers, Matt Allen “the swim bait master” with over 40+ 10 pound bass to his name & Josh St. John the owner and maker of JSJ BAITS who’s swim baits are just sick! They gave a great seminar on fishing swim baits and took questions after. Josh was also kind enough to add one of his $80 dollar swim baits to our huge raffle which I believe Scott Beem won. Thank you Josh and Matt for coming out! Also joining us again was Eric Blandino from Fish Hunter Baits how also donated to the raffle, Thank you Eric! The new CatchemCaro by Rich Caro swim baits were also on hand and Rich was kind enough to also add a couple of his baits to the raffle, Thanks Rich! Please take the time to support all these guys by checking out there web sites!

It was nice to see some new faces interested in the club joining us like Brutus, James, and Sean who I imagine will be joining us on the water in no time. We had 35 people at our meeting last night which was very nice. We added two new members, bringing this year’s membership to 35 so far. Dave Sternitzke also talked about his winning technique at the last Clear Lake tournament.

We voted on Saturdays Berreyessa tournament check in times and weigh-in times which are as follows. Check in at Capel Cove at 5:30 to 6:00am blast off at 6:15am. Weigh-in is at 3:30. This is a 5 fish limit tournament, no running. For the first time we took early registration for the tournament at the meeting which went very well and will continue. This years club funds is up to $1800 + dollars and climbing! Looks like this year’s TOC is going to be huge!

We ended the night with a huge high dollar raffle which included the $80 swimbait from JSJ Baits and a new $235 dollar G.Loomis Rod which Jorden Brendal went home with! Also $30 dollar CatchemCaro swim baits, Lucky Craft Lures, Navtronics Software, and Worms and Lures!

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. Full Results and Photos