HOW 2014 Rumble Fish Results

[WCW Moderator]

We had 52 sign ups and raised $1340 for the SD chapter of Heroes on the Water yesterday. We had quite a few sign up knowing they would not be able to attend and some signed up multiple times to donate more. Thank you all! Anglers entered could launch as early as 12:01am, the first person on the water was 1am. We started setting up at Standley Park and had the first fish to weigh before 11am Eric Noonan weighed in a 18.2 yellowtail that stood up to the next few weighed. Steve Orr had a 17.2 YT and Christopher Cary had a 16.2 YT. Robert Huynh brought a 21.8 pound yellowtail to the scale in the final hour and won the yellowtail division. Roby received a Tybee Hooked Paddle donated by OEX Sunset Beach and a custom gaff made by Skrilla, donated by OEX Mission Bay.

Only one halibut made it to the scale and it was a real good one Jim Kelley brought in a 36.4 pounder and won an Ultimate Tank donated by OEX Mission Bay.

The other category was set up for sheephead, lingcod, rockfish and white fish. We neglected to include some "others" such as barracuda and bonito that will be included next year. Jorge Villegas won this division with a 1.8 pound baccacio. Jorge won a palm sculpted fish.

Adi was manning a support boat and had photog Paul Lebowitz along. They handed out donuts and offered to hold on to fish. I got an early text photo from Adi of a monster and even a rumor of another. The monster ended up being the only white seabass weighed, it was caught by Greg Barnicoat. Greg won that division and received a Stohlquist Pisces PFD and a battery box. He also won the over all biggest fish and received the custom wrapped rod donated by Skrilla, Len's Custom Rods.

Mike and Matt, with the help of Matt's wife warmed up beans, cilantro lime rice, tortillas and halibut fillets donated by Tony Park. Tacos were the bomb! Jorge got Coca Cola to donate waters and sodas. Tony and Jorge contributed to more money ending up in HOW's possession. The fundrasing effort was considered a great success capped off with Eric Noonan pledging an additional $3000 from GEO Group.

This will be an annual event falling on the Saturday after Labor Day, so plan for next year! We also will be figuring out the date for the April Mission Bay tournament. Look for the sign up details very soon.

Thank you BWE members for you awesome display of support of our local chapter of Heroes on the Water! Great community vibe!

[Zed]

Congrats on the event. Good mix of fish.

[FISH11]

It was an awesome event and I had a lot of fun. The only thing that could have made it better was to land one of my 3 hook ups, lost during the fight. Got to sharpen those hooks on the Tady 45. Had no luck with the flylined macs. The Hali tacos where super. Thanks to all involved.

[Cbad Mike]

It was a great event for a great cause!
Swinging for the fence, I was otw at 2:30 with the dream of a big WSB on my deck. Looking back I should have lowered my hopes a few notches to just being able to find bait.
I have a few good memories... Fishing with some cool guys and lots of laughs are only a couple.
My favorite memory was at first light. I was out in front of the condo looking towards the launch and could see about 30 kayaks all heading out through the preserve..... Cool sight.
Anyway.........
HOW is a great cause that I plan to become more involved in and I hope that some day soon it will grow so big that we will be able to look back on yesterday and say, wow... remember when we only had 50 anglers in this tournament.
Lets shoot for a hundred next year!!!
Thanks everyone for a great time!

[kayakfisherman]

Can't begin to tell you guys what a great feeling it
is to contribute for such a great cause!! Thanks
to all who put on this super event. Looking forward
to next year.

Fishing wise, it seems there where 3 hot spots thru out
the day. And, acitivity seemed to die off after the top
of the tide. One spot produced lots of yellows, one spot
produced lots of bonito, and the last spot, although plagued
with sewage problems produced halibut and wsb.

I came home with a smile on my face because I reconneded
with old friends, connected with new friends, watched George
sweating blood during the 1' surf landing, and came home
with fresh bonito.

See you next year.

[kaya_one]

Yep, great fishing for a good cause! Thanks to the organizers for putting on the event and wow...raising a lot of money.
Next year will be bigger I'm sure.
The fish sure did turn up with some big fish in all divisions.
Best part is listening to the sewer chatter .

Good to meet everyone. Thanks for having me.
-Jamie

[Deamon]

Andy-man,

Tony probably convinced you to not post a pic of my fish...not going to happen brotha.

Here are a few of Tony's on the water quotes directed at me yesterday:

"Look at how you've strapped that fish down so tight. It's obvious you haven't caught a good fish in a long time..."
"Let me get my camera ready because a seal is going to steal that fish the way you have it strapped up"
"There goes Jim again, poaching on our spot..." Ummm, Tony, I live in San Diego, where are you from?

It's not just you Mr. Patrick that he tries to nail when he can. Have some thick skin or go home around the Sewer boys. Dudes can fish though.

Jim

[Team Sewer]

Originally Posted by Deamon

Have some thick skin or go home around the Sewer boys. Dudes can fish though.

Jim

Yep

[Iceman]

Andy-man,

Tony probably convinced you to not post a pic of my fish...not going to happen brotha.

Ha! I threw up a few pix this morning hoping others would keep it going, great halibut!

[Caden]

Originally Posted by Deamon

Andy-man,

Tony probably convinced you to not post a pic of my fish...not going to happen brotha.

Here are a few of Tony's on the water quotes directed at me yesterday:

"Look at how you've strapped that fish down so tight. It's obvious you haven't caught a good fish in a long time..."
"Let me get my camera ready because a seal is going to steal that fish the way you have it strapped up"
"There goes Jim again, poaching on our spot..." Ummm, Tony, I live in San Diego, where are you from?

It's not just you Mr. Patrick that he tries to nail when he can. Have some thick skin or go home around the Sewer boys. Dudes can fish though.

Jim

Good chit Jim and mr Andrew and Roby

[FlyFishinYakr]

Darn it, I knew there would be some pigs out there (but the ?!) Didn't see that one coming!
With all the recent reports, I thought the winning fish would be a and would be at least 25#, but all the were no slouches!
I really wanted to attend, I went to bed early 10p, got up @ 4:30 feeling worse than when I went to sleep! Figured my sleep Apthnea must have kicked in. Decided probably not wise to be on the road in that condition.
Wish I would have been there to at least volunteer and watch the weight in.
Well...there's always next year. It'll give me time to fine tune my Kayak skills.
Congrats to all the participants and winners and volunteers! All for a good cause.
I'm proud/honored to be associated with such an exceptional group of people!
FFY.

I forgot to ask and nobody said anything yet, did Jorge flip his landing? I remember someone mentioning that would be worth the price of admission!

[jorluivil]

Originally Posted by kayakfisherman

I came home with a smile on my face because I reconneded
with old friends, connected with new friends, watched George
sweating blood during the 1' surf landing

Yeah, I'll admit it, I was a little cautious about the entry. After all, my day started with a launch in the dark, a busted rudder cable just past the MLPA, on the water rudder work in the dark but ended the day with this............................









I had a blast and was glad that I could help HOW in some way shape or form.

The boys from the North headed south and took 3 of the 4 categories

[jorluivil]

Originally Posted by kayakfisherman

I came home with a smile on my face because I reconneded with old friends, connected with new friends, watched George sweating blood during the 1' surf landing

Its a shame you didn't see today's wet landing. I won't say who it was, you'll have to wait until the video is uploaded but if it helps any his name rhymes with Lonely Mark

[roby]

Awesome cause and great people!

There was a lot of fish caught and a lot of fish tacos eaten. Thanks for all the hard work that was put in to this event and for everyone that contributed.

I lost three yellowtail to the kelp earlier this summer and was able to go 3 for 3 on the yellowtail this day. What a great day to be on the water!!

[skrilla]

Congrats to the winners. Props to those who supported even if you couldn't make it. And a huge round of applause for the ones who helped put this thing together you know who you are. I'm glad to have been a part of it and look forward to future events.

[Rambo]

Great Event, and awesome experience. I launch and landed the PA without any problems that day. But no luck for me on any game fish besides bait. I finally tested my wheels and those flat free tires are not meant for soft sands. Chris help me push my kayak onto the launch area (Thanks man). I was too tired to stay for the tacos and the ending ceramony, but met some new faces. Here's the picture of the 6AM launch party.

[alanhighhand]

nice sushi thanks for sharing and good picture.

[FISH11]

Great looking Sushi roll. Nice meeting you Steve OTW. Mark

[PAL]

You guys all know how it ended, but here's the story from Kayak Fish anyway. Click it for new photos of Greg's WSB (the man was so low key and matter of fact) and SteveO's YT:

http://www.kayakfishmag.com/news/la-...ng-tournament/

[steveooo]

Fun tournament with a great cause. Its always good when the fish decide to show up on tournament day. Pretty awesome that the inshore slam made it to the weigh in. Tanker WSB in 73 degree water.. in September! Whoda thunk?!?

I had no real plan for the day. Went out deep to try for a ling. About 10 minutes into that the YT pop up in 170 ft of water about 15 feet from me. Toss a mac into the fray and get one on board. Nice head and length, but a little too anorexic for tournament day.



Stayed deep for a while and picked up a decent vermillion on the iron, which I forgot about at the weigh in. A little later a hammerhead must have smelled my YT on board and became a bit too curious in my yak for my liking, so i started back toward the crowd. Picked up a nice size bonie on the way. On the way back in I see Adi and Paul on the boat. Paul made the comment that La Jolla seemed a lot smaller in the big boat. Funny, because I was just thinking the exact opposite just a few minutes earlier when I was a mile from anyone else with a curious shark checking out my kayak

Paul snapped a pic of my YT (which I stole from the Kayak Fish FB page) and I headed back.



Was short on time so headed to the weigh in. 17.2 lbs wasn't enough for any spot, as Eric already had weighed an 18 lber, with the top spot eventually going to Roby. Wish I could have stuck around, but had other obligations.

It would have been nice to have a YT to place in the tourney, but its also a good day on the water when you get to bring back a fish for the Hook 'em and Don't Cook 'em. The 3 F's Fishing, Fresh sushi and Football made for a pretty good weekend.



Fun day, great organization to support, and good to see some old friends at the launch and on the water.

Thanks to al that helped and supported