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Basham & Cunningham Win Top Stick Castaic

Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 6:45 am
by John Barron
The biggest concern Saturday for the Top Stick crew was the high winds at Castaic. With the field of 25 boats a little nervous about being able to launch because of the weather Lifeguard Supervisor Ralph and John Barron checked the NOAH weather report and it gave every indication the winds were going to die down. Preparation to launch moved forward and for once the weather reports were right. The wind laid down and the launch began. The day turned out to be beautiful with little to no winds which made the sight anglers very happy.

22 out of 25 boats caught limits with the team of Demonet and Lakes weighing in big fish of 5.88 but it just wasn't enough to catch Basham and Cunningham. Basham and Cunningham had second big fish weighing in at 4.56 which gave them enough of a kicker to beat out the rest of the field.

Congratulations Jim Basham and Dave Cunningham for edging out the 25 boat field Saturday at Castaic.

1 Jim Basham/Dave Cunningham 13.84
2 Jon Demonet/Krystal Lakes 13.32
3 Donnie Peterson/Woo Kim 12.88
4 Rodney Sams/Scott Atkinson 12.86
5 Vic Allen/Phil Hains 12.83
6 John Dall/Doug Ecklund 11.71
7 Paul Smith/Levi Slocum 11.70
8 Mike Robinett/Tom Fruh 11.38
9 Lendon Riley/Kevin Minor 11.22
10 Joe Payne Keith Cummings 11.15
11 Tom Lee/Terry Conklin 11.05
12 Jesse Austin/Mike Austin 10.80
13 John Younce/ErickPrado 10.68
14 Mario Ringo/Neil Hefferman 10.56
15 Daren Lacher/JohnLacher 10.43
16 Jeff Jue/David Sanchez 10.32
17 Larry Tinita/Steve Bothwell 10.00
18 Dan Thompson/Marcia Thompson 9.72
19 David Handy 9.61
20 Jesse Gonzales/Edward Sanfilippo 8.51
21 Trey Campbell/Richard Thomas 7.96
22 Steve Iwashita/Brandon Iswashita 7.30
23 Shawn Dugan/Stanley Green 6.91
24 Wyatt Zollinger/Ryan Amers 5.37
25 JC Fox/Norm Forshee 3.29

Re: Basham & Cunningham Win Top Stick Castaic

Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 5:29 am
by DL
Great event, and Mother Nature cooperated this time. It would be nice if the state would leave the laket at this level through he summer, our newest fish need somewhere to hide so they can make it til next year. Congrats to Jim and David and the rest of the top 5.

Looking ahead to Piru already...

Re: Basham & Cunningham Win Top Stick Castaic

Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 5:51 am
by Yoz
Congrats to Jim and Dave, you guys earned it. Congrats to Vic and Phil for increasing their AOY standings. John and Ray put on another outstanding tournament. Nice turn out, great weather (after the little scare) really good time. Thanks to all who came out.

John

Re: Basham & Cunningham Win Top Stick Castaic

Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 9:37 am
by Ray L.
What a great crowd of anglers. They were a lot of fun once we were told we could launch. That early wind did make me go a little nuts to be sure. Eric was great on the mic. as well. That may be his new job I think.
I will have the A.O.Y. results up today. Just doing a final check on them and they will be updated.

Re: Basham & Cunningham Win Top Stick Castaic

Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 12:20 pm
by DAKINE198
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Re: Basham & Cunningham Win Top Stick Castaic

Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 1:12 pm
by Ray L.
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