Weather looking good...

Thanks to everyone who made it out to the kickoff party at Virginia’s, the turnout was a little low but membership is still strong and with the weather looking good for this weekend the memberships have been pouring in. I hope everyone likes the new T-Shirts this year. Anyone who needs this year’s rule booklet you can stop by Fox Yacht Sales and pick one up until 5pm Friday, after that you can call Chris Fox at 361-779-8025.

We have added an aggregate trophy for the meat fish divisions this year. Every meat fish that counts towards points in each tournament will also count towards an aggregate for that species for the year. There will still be trophies for the largest meat fish for the year.

A couple more changes for this year are that we are cancelling the phone line to let you know if the tournament is on or off and will just be posting online. Our online operation is in the process of moving to www.ccbgfc.com but the www.ccbgfc.org will stay current throughout this year. The new website will be better equipped to handle the scoring and updates, easier for layout changes, adding pictures, and easier to navigate.

With good weather all week and a good outlook for this weekend we are excited for what looks like will be the first tournament of the year. There have been good reports coming in all week of good fishing and good rips forming up so it looks like the weigh in will be pretty busy Saturday.

2013 Season is Fast Approaching

Do you have the fever yet?

It's almost that time of year again and the CCBGFC Board Members could not be more excited about the 2013 season! 

If you haven't already done so, please visit our website for the season's tournament and event dates. Our kickoff party will be May 18th at Virginia's Restaurant. Cocktails begin at 6pm and dinner will be served at 7pm. We hope to see everyone there! 

With such a great year last year, we plan to build on that success and continue into 2013 with the same energy. We have made a few changes to the 2013 season which will be posted here soon as well as on our website. 

We wish to see everyone on May 18th! It's going to be a great year so grab your friends and come out to the CCBGFC party! 

A Fox Yacht Sales Fish Fry...

This past Sunday Fox Yacht Sales hosted their annual fish fry, held at Robert's Point Park, for all the club members. The final tournament may have been cancelled but that didn't keep members from coming out to have a good time and grab some great food! 

The crew at FYS started cooking around 4:00 pm.... A Shrimp boil...

and fried fish (by Master Chef Chris Fox) 

then the hungry members started to show up... Vice President Todd Hester and his son Dylan

and then some more... 

and even more... 

Everyone left full and happy! 

See you at the awards banquet September 15th! Don't forget to RSVP by THIS Saturday! 

T#8 Father Daughter Day

David Triplett on the Reel Easy poses with his daughter Courtney at the weigh station during Tournament #8.

Grand Slam Weekend, Tournament #8

Congrats to the gang of Wildcatter for their grand slam last weekend in tournament #8.
Thanks for sending in photos!  

Tournament #6 & #7 Recap

After back to back weekends of fishing, tournament #6 and tournament #7 for the club are finally done and we have the results. We had seven boats turn in weigh sheets for the sixth tournament of the year and six boats turn in weigh sheets for this last weekends tournament which coincided with the Texas Legends Tournament. 

Tournament #6

Tournament #6 was a tournament of boated fish, many of the members weighed in wahoos, amberjacks, kings, and tunas.

AJ Hecker & Alexandra Smith aboard Wired Up weighed in the first Amberjack of the year to move into first and second place. AJ's fish weighed 56.60 lbs. while Alexandra's weighed 50.15 lbs.

Craig Reedy moved into first place in the wahoo division with a 18.10 lbs. fish brought in aboard the Miss Lainieous. Dylan Hester on Double Trouble and AJ also weighed in wahoo. Dylan's weighed in at 14.90 lbs. and AJ's fish weighed 11.95 lbs.

The Irish Jig weighed in four king mackerel. Karen O'Rear moved into second place with her fish weighing in at 17.55 lbs. She also is standing in third and fourth with a 15.85 lbs. fish and a 13.25 lbs. fish.

Craig & Randy Wiesehan moved into first and second place with their blackfin tuna weighed in tournament #6. Craig took first place with his fish at 19.25 lbs. and Randy's fish took second weighing 17.10 lbs.

Seven white marlin were caught this tournament. Marlin Johnson, the only junior to catch a fish this tournament, released a white marlin aboard the Aly Gator. Of the other six whites, three were caught on the Wired Up, one aboard Miss Lainieous, and two on the Double Trouble. 

Dylan moved into first place with the only swordfish released so far this year.

Tournament #7

The Double Trouble weighed in a boatload of fish this tournament. Their 16.5 lbs. wahoo caught by Dylan Hester moved them into second place on the leader board. Dylan also caught the second swordfish of the tournament.

Ashleigh Pundt on the Wired Up released her first blue marlin! Congratulations Ashleigh!

The Cuz We Can got into the sailfish this tournament, releasing four along with boating one yellowfin tuna. The sailfish were reeled in by Matt Reed, Kelly Owens, and Mac Owens. Justin Waight caught the tuna which weighed in at 13.5 lbs. putting him in second place in that division.

D.A. Hughes aboard the Wildcatter released two white marlin and one sailfish. He also weighed in a blackfin tuna at 14 lbs. putting him in fourth place in that category.

The crew on the Relax released two sailfish and one white marlin. Junior Nicole DeBerry released on of the whites.

The Miss Lainieous released one blue marlin reeled in by Craig Reedy. 

Thanks to all the boats participating in tournaments #6 & #7! We can't wait to see you for Tournament #8 on August 18th! 

Tournament #5 Recap

What a weekend it was for fishing! With serious doubt if the weather would cooperate or not, tournament #5 turned out to be beautiful weather. The anglers going out on Saturday were rewarded with multiple billfish per boat. 


Pulling in at 7:45 pm Saturday evening, the Aly Gator & Wired Up had a lot to celebrate. Wired Up released six sailfish and one white. Ashleigh Pundt reeled in three of those sails and the white, while anglers AJ Hecker and Lan Ingram reeled in the rest. Aboard the Aly Gator junior Marlin Johnson released two white, Aly Gerloff & Gary Edwards released one more white each, totaling four white marlin for the boat. 


The Fin Stalker released two sailfish (caught by Laurie Soechting & Claudette Jordan) and one white marlin. Laurie also weighed in a dolphin at 21.25 lbs. which put her in second place in that division. 


Todd Hester made a solo trip aboard the Double Trouble and it paid off! Todd released the only blue of this tournament. He also released two sailfish. 


The Wildcatter gang reeled in three sailfish with D.A. Hughes III & Matt Jones on the rods. D.A. also weighed in a wahoo at 13.6 lbs. which landed him at third place in that category. 


Fishin Impossible and Tico Time also released one sailfish each.