Success Bass Club

Reeling in the Big One

2008-04-17T23:13:00.001-07:00

Reeling in the Big One, originally uploaded by ajdury.

Pictures will be availabe soon. I'm uploading them to flickr and will link the photo album.

This little guy had his rod firmly planted in the dirt and was earnestly reeling in his catch. The bobbin was going crazy so he knew he had something.

Mark Your Calendars:

2008-03-31T23:34:00.001-07:00

The next club meeting is

April 2nd

at El Nuevo on Prospect.

See you there!

38+ Lbs!

2008-03-24T09:46:00.001-07:00

100_0610, originally uploaded by ajdury.

Limit of 5 bass, caught on 03/22/08, with a combined weight of just over 38 pounds!

1st Place winners of the W.O.N. Bass (Golden Valley Region) Tournament held at Lake Success this past Saturday.

(click on picture to see it full-sized)

2nd Place "Big Fish"

caught by Roger Haas (spelling?)

10+ pounds

Those fish are in Lake Success!

Kids Fishing Derby:

2008-03-20T16:52:00.000-07:00

Please mark your calendars for

April 12, 2008

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We will be co-hosting the

Annual Kids Spring Fishing Derby

at Murry Park Pond.

We need you to be there no later than 9am to help out.

There are fliers and donation solicitation letters available,

if you think you can possibly get some money

to help us buy the raffle prizes again this year.

Please contact Bishop Hilliard or April McLaughlin

to obtain them.

**A special Thank You to Sylvia from the Army Corp of Engineers

for her 'behind-the-scenes' hard work**

March 16, 2008 Tournament Results:

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1st Place Winner

Dave Davis

12.55 lbs

Sluggo Miller

2nd Place

4.21 lbs

Eric Arbello
3rd Place
3.72 lbs

Danny Moreno
4th Place
3.60 lbs

Jason Gill
(as held by Bob Purdin)
5th Place
2.75 lbs

Mark Abler
6th Place
2.59 lbs

Leo Abler
7th Place
2.57 lbs

Ray Lubbin
8th Place
2.45 lbs

Willy Tompkins
9th Place
2.22 lbs

(If I have your name misspelled, or something is incorrect,

please contact me at ajdury (at) yahoo (dot) com)

click here to see all the pictures

P.S. I have received pictures from some other people that I will get up on flickr in the next day or so.

March 2008 Tournament:

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Sunday, March 16, 2008 is the next club tournament.

See you at Lake Success on Sunday!

February Tournament Tomorrow:

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Good luck everyone,

and see you on the lake

tomorrow!

Team Tournament Schedule:

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2008 Team Tourney Schedule

April 27, 2008 - Kaweah

June 1, 2008 - Success

July 13, 2008 - Kaweah

August 17, 2008 - Success

TWO DAY FISH OFF

September 27, 2008 - Kaweah
September 28, 2008 - Success

Please see Greg Elam and/or Jason Gill for additional information

February 06, 2008 - Club Meeting:

2008-02-11T18:49:00.000-08:00

Club news of note:

Votes were taken, and the following actions go into effect immediately for future tournaments -

1 fish caught during a tournament - Winner takes all
2 fish caught during a tournament - Money split 60/40

0 fish caught during a tournament - everyone's names go in a hat and three names are randomly picked as 1st, 2nd and 3rd place.

Jackets with the club logo are available but orders must be a minimum of 6 at a time. Please let Sherry Miller or Jolene Tompkins know if you want one.

Ryan Clower and Robyn Skiles are starting up an t-shirt/trophy business and will be at the March meeting to pitch their products and prices.

It was decided that tournament winning dollar figures will not be posted on the blog. If you want to know who won how much, you'll have to ask someone or be at the tournament itself.

Trophies were presented to Randy Weldon for 1st Place and Big Fish from January's tournament.

Next tournament is February 17, 2008

Next meeting is March 05, 2008

January 20, 2008 Tournament Results:

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Congratulations Randy Weldon!

1st Place: Randy Weldon

1.90 lb Bass

(and 2nd place and 3rd place and 4th place and . . . )

One fish is all it takes to win a tournament.

Today, it was that fish.

Congratulations to Randy Weldon!!

Eric Arbelo won the "Wildcard" option

with a 3.26 lb Carp

(not a bass!)

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Also, congratulations

- Randy Weldon & James Pettis -

the winning Dream Team

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Honorable Mentions:

Bob Purdin: 2.98 lb Carp

Nathan Daniels: unweighed Carp

Click here to see all the pictures from today's tournament

Professional Angler's Websites and Blogs:

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In the hope that this blog becomes a useful tool for club members, I will periodically be putting up news articles, web site links, and other hints and tips from the World Wide Web. If there is anything you'd like to see here, please let me know!

This is a site that lists various Professional Bass Fishermen's websites and/or blogs: *Bass Angler websites*

You'll find such people as Mike Iaconelli, Roland Martin and Rich Lundgren, among many others.

Happy fishing and don't forget next Sunday is the first tournament of the year!

Cabela's coming to Visalia?:

2008-01-12T18:00:00.000-08:00

In case you missed it, the Valley Voice newspaper recently reported the following story:

Developer Has Former Costco in Escrow
Big Hunting and Fishing Store Coming to Visalia?

Visalia - A Carlsbad California-based developer, Foursquare Properties, has the former Costco building on Mooney Blvd. in Visalia in escrow to purchase. “They are going through their due diligence phase,” says a city official who visited in Visalia with the representative of the company – Jonathan Hay whose office is in West Jordan, Utah.

Mr. Hay told the Voice he “could not disclose any information at this time” but suggested in a couple of weeks he might be able to say something.

The building – owned by Costco – is 115,000 square feet and sits adjacent the former Home Base building nearly the same size and also vacant. Costco left for its new location as of October 2007. Home Base closed its doors way back in 2001.

The vacancy has created a ghost town atmosphere in what was one of Visalia's busiest shopping centers in years past, anchored now only by Circuit City as a major draw for the rest of the mom and pop shops in the center.

Our source tells us the developer plans to “re-tenant” the big space with two or three retailers similar to what another developer did at the former Target building just to the north on Mooney. That former big box is now home to Jo-Ann's, DDs and Petco.

Outdoor Store Coming

An intriguing possibility is the close relationship between Foursquare and the big outdoor retailer Cabela, based in Nebraska.

Foursquare is the “preferred developer” for publicly traded Cabela and has worked on a handful of new stores for them including more than one former Costco building. In Yakima, Wash. they are building a 52,700-square-foot Cabela as one of the tenants in that town's former Costco building, according to press reports. That is much smaller than the typical Cabela superstore that are sometimes as large as 200,000 square feet, a massive hunting and fishing outlet along with all outdoor sports and one of the largest such chains in the U.S. Last summer the company indicated an interest in the same Visalia Costco property according to several accounts – one reported in the Voice. The company has recently opened a store in Reno and has been said to be interested in coming into California.

Sportsman's Warehouse Files Visalia Plan

In Visalia they would face competition from another Utah company – Sportsman's Warehouse – that has now filed building plans for a new 58,000-square-foot store at the new Target shopping center on the northside next to the sports park. That new Sportsman's store is expected to open next fall – the second location for the company in the state.

As for the development firm – Foursquare, the privately held company with office locations in California, Utah and Oregon, the firm was organized as a series of partnerships and controls over 4 million square feet of retail and office development in the U.S. – the largest of which is in Salt Lake City, a shopping center with 1.5 million square feet.

The Visalia city official told the Voice Mr. Hay was interested in what new retailers the town didn't have but wished they did that would help bring the mostly vacant shopping center back to life. Most of that center is owned by a California partnership that includes Save Mart owner Bob Picinini who owns the Home Base building and the rest of the center minus Costco. Real estate reps with that company say they would welcome another owner of the Costco building looking for tenants that could help the entire center.

In recent weeks the Voice reported that the former Broken Arrow pad in front of the center had been purchased by Caltrans.

Click here to visit Cabela's website.

Santa Visits the Bass Club, 2007:

2008-01-10T22:15:00.000-08:00

***Naughty***

***Nice***

Click here to see all the pictures from the Christmas party.

January 02, 2008 - Club Meeting:

2008-01-02T20:56:00.000-08:00

New President: Bob Purdin
New Vice-President: Bishop Hilliard

Outgoing President: Gary Scott
Outgoing Vice-President: Tray Williams

Meeting items included:

The Team Tournament dates will be announced and available at February's meeting.

2008's annual membership dues . . . are due! They must be paid no later than January 20th.

At the start of the meeting, the club had $163 in the bank account.

2008's regular Tournament schedule was passed out (and is listed on the sidebar). All tournaments will be held at Lake Success unless otherwise noted.

Discussion was held regarding making the Team Tournament generate funds for the club. The 2007 Team Tournament did not add to the club's funds, and Bob wants the club to discuss and decide action that will give money back to the club. This item will be addressed at future monthly meetings.

The club gave out approximately $30,000 in pay-outs during the 2007 season!

Club by-laws were passed out and are availabe for anyone that would like a copy.

Calvin Foster, Area Manager with the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, was in attendance and discussed current and future activity for the lake and the dam. About two months ago, the Rocky Hill ramp (west wall) was extended another 55 feet, and the last 25 feet of the ramp has a yellow line painted down the center to use as a marker for determining how much of the ramp is left under water as the lake lowers.

The raffle at the end of the meeting generating another $350+ and membership dues paid tonight garnered another $400+, giving a much-needed boost to the bank balance.

The first tournament of the year is January 20th, with sign-ups at Porterville Lanes Bowling Alley and at Lake Success.

The next club meeting is February 6, 2008. See you there!!

Team Tourney Fish-Off 2007 Pictures:

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Congratulations to Team Larry Kearns and Darl Head

I have finally gotten the pictures up on flickr.com

Click here to see the pictures from Day one, November 17, 2007

Click here to see the pictures from Day two, November 18, 2007

Click here to see the Awards Ceremony at Rack 'm Out

A recap of the Team Tournament Fish-Off results will be the next post, so stay tuned!

Pictures Updated:

2007-10-09T22:07:00.000-07:00

Hey all -

At the last meeting, club member Shannon Alto and Sylvia (the lady that works at the lake) gave me some pictures to share.

Shannon's Photos:

January 21, 2007

February 18, 2007

March & April, 2007

Kid's Day - April 14, 2007

June 3, 2007

Sylvia Guerro's pictures:

September 9th 2007

Thank you Shannon & Sylvia!

There will be an update of final stats and the latest meeting news as soon as I can get information.

October's monthly meeting has been changed:

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October's monthly meeting has been changed to the first Tuesday of the month - 10/02/2007. Location and time are still the same. See you there!

Until then, click here to enjoy the pictures from the September 9th club tourney.

Success Bass Club - Welcome:

2007-09-27T19:54:00.000-07:00

Welcome to the newest feature of the Success Bass Club!

A place to check up on the latest information and news, as well as pictures of the club’s various activities.

2007 Angler of the Year

Congratulations to Dave Davis for his great season!

The next post will be a recap of the season's winners by their ranking, as well as information on upcoming tournaments, so stay tuned . . .

For now, click here to check out all the pictures I took at the BBQ.