Castaic Bass Club Blog

January Meeting

Let me start out by wishing everyone a Happy New Year!  May 2012 bring us all new hope and prosperity. Well with that being said the first thing to my mind is New FISHING LICENCES! There are several ways to purchase your license. You can go on line to DFG web site (www.ca.wildlifelicense.com/internetsales) or go to your local sporting goods store. Please I can’t stress enough how critical this is for our first tournament is only a couple of days away and Piru is very well known for DFG being out on this body of water checking for license. I would hate to have to tell any of you that you’re DQ’ed because you received a ticket for no License.

Ok so lets see what has been going on here in the ole bass club. Well we held our club banquet in December, big Congrats out to Jeff Jue for Angler of the Year. Congrats out to Jason Haustad for taking the Non Boater Angler of the Year title.  Also congrats to the rest of the top 10 finishers for the year. It was a close battle right up to the last couple of tournaments. So here are some little facts about our club from last year I found fascinating. In 2011 we fished 12 tournaments in those 12 we as a club managed to catch 495 fish for a whooping total of 918.10 pounds with a 12-boat average. Our worst weight for the year was in January with 22 fish for a total weight of 42.10 pounds. The clubs best came in at Junes tournament which we only had 12 boats that caught a total of 41 fish for a weight of 127.41 pounds. Which is the same weight that the club caught in April with 14 teams and 70 fish. May, which was a 2-day event at Cachuma with a total of 89 fish for a total weight of 136.77 pounds. Just some interesting facts I found while going over the 2011 tournaments.

Tournament Results

Well our December tournament was the clubs TOC. Which was held at lake Piru. We had our top 5 boater and non-boaters going at it. We had 11 teams come out for what was a good day on the water.

Taking top honors that day would be Kevin M. & Jason H. with a winning weight of 11.58 for 5 fish. Second place fell to Mike I. & Eddie C. with a weight of 11.20 for 5 fish. Third Wes C. & Justin C. with 10.03 for 5 fish.

In closing I would like to remind everyone to please visit our sponsors and let them know how much we really appreciate what they are doing for the club. Also check us out either on Facebook or the clubs web site.

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Thanks for a great 2011 and I’m looking forward to an outstanding 2012.

Your VP/ TD

Ron Licari

Mike’s Place

Happy New Year to Everyone!!!!!  This year marks Castaic Bass Club’s 20 year Anniversary and we are growing bigger and better with age. We will continue our trademark tradition of being one of California’s premiere bass clubs. We have another great schedule that is spread across a variety of lakes providing enjoyable days on the water for all.

Along with renewed fishing licenses we must also remember to have current boat registrations. Many expired 12/31/11 so be sure to check.

Boat inspections will now be a part of all the waters we fish. Piru, Castaic, Pyramid and Cachuma are all participating in these inspections. The good part is that each will honor each others cables. Once you are cabled, you’re good to go for the next time on the water as long as you do not remove the cable. Please help to remind each other on this procedure since the lake staff generally won’t ask if you want to be cabled on the way out. It’s up to each individual to pull into the designated area for a new tag or cable.

Since this Thursday is the first meeting of the year, all memberships will be due as well as the regular monthly dues and tournament fees. This boils down to $25 annual membership, $10 monthly dues and $15 if you’re fishing tournament. Grand total of $50 this month (does not include non-boater fee if applicable).

Get ready, here we go again!!!!!!

Take care,

Mike Iljin

President

February Meeting

Well the January tournament came and went. With one of our best turn outs in a while with 17 teams. The day started out as calm as I have ever seen Castaic Lake. How ever by weigh in time the winds were a blowing. At weigh in only 3limits weighed in with Kevin and his guest taking 1st place with 8.20 coming in 2nd with 7.67 pounds was the team of Jeff and Tony and rounding the top three was the team of Mark P. and Adam Boyd with 6.82 pounds. Big fish Honors of 4.59 go to Ralph Rosa fishing by himself due to a sick partner. Kevin and his partner reported going through a lot of fish through out the day. Most of the teams all agreed that it was a tough day all in all. Afterwards a small group showed up at Mc Donald for a quick lunch. February has the club returning to Castaic Lake. With the weather ideal for fishing we’ll see if the fish think so too. Hope to see you all at the Thursday meeting @ El Torito’s come out early and have some dinner before the meeting. Please remember if you can’t make the meeting please call a Board Member to let them know if you are fishing on Sunday so that we can make sure you get paired up.

Thanks,

Ron

Mike’s Place

First and formost is this report on Wes. This is a copy of what Mark Poulson sent me. This is dated 1-27. The second part is an update from my call with Wes on Superbowl Sunday.

Mike,

Wes just called me with an update, and asked me to pass it along to you to send out to the whole Club. Wes finally had the CT scan that had been postponed, and they found a total of three spots on his liver, and two on his left lung, the original and one small new one. They’re not sure if the three spots on his liver are really three, or just the result of the biopsy on the first one. The first tumor on his lung had “only grown from 2cm to 2.6cm” since it was first detected, and Wes said that was good. They also found several abdominal lymph nodes were infected, but the cancer hasn’t spread to his bones. His doctor and nurse practitioner both said he’s treatable. The doctor said there’s a pretty good survival rate with no bone involvement. He is waiting now to meet with the oncologist to develop a treatment plan, and he says they’ve fast tracked him, so he expects to meet with him early next week. He’ll know more once they’ve met, and mapped out a plan of attack. He was much more upbeat when we talked. Fingers crossed.

Sunday 2-6

I called Wes this morning to find out how he was feeling. He had his first Chemo treatment on Wednesday. Wes said he felt fine afterwards and went fishing on Friday. Well all was good until Saturday when the effects of the treatment finally kicked in. His joints hurt and he felt like cr@p. Today, Sunday, he feels a little better but not good. Seems like he is passed the worst part of his first treatment and he might be able to fish with us next weekend. Prayers and best wishes for a speedy recovery to Wes. We’ll see you all on Thursday.

Take care,

Mike