Coolest thing is that all three of us contributed a fish to the winning bag. Pete and I brought on Dave Abeelen from Team FrankJawn as our number 3 for the banger. I have probably fished the wall a half a dozen times in my life but it has been good to us lately. After winning the second leg of the SWBA Finale last year we finally had some confidence on the wall.

The shot gun start is just to cool, watching 40+ boats hammer the throttle and rip across the bay, is something you just have to experience. We got on fish pretty much right away with Pete putting a legal sandy and Dave putting a 2+ calico on board right off the bat. I was getting bit but I just couldn’t connect. Pete was throwing the Big Hammer 6.5 inch Silver Mackerel and I think Dave got his on a crank. Pete got us really excited with this SLUG 7 Lb. 12 Oz. Cabby. He gets ripped on the swimbait and was bent hard. To bad it wasn’t a bass.

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After that I got on the board with a decent calico for our number 3. Then we all just picked away at fish on the Big Hammers in redrum and prizm purple, with Pete putting a 3+ sandy in the tank. We were sitting on about 7 pounds at that point. I switched to the creature bait and was bouncing it along the bottom. I felt it bounce up and on to a rock. As it comes down the other side, I fell the lightest tick, it was really more like a fresh water bass bite. I wound down on it and it got nice and heavy. A 3.6 Calico, not huge but a solid fish and a great cull. Caught on a rod that Capt. Larry sold me to replace the one I lost at the CCOC. Shimano Calcutta XFA 810. Thanks Cappy.

That fish gave us like 9.1 pounds and the win. Congratulations to Capt. Steve Greanias and Avo Oughourlian from Team Farmers Daughter for getting second place and getting big fish for the night, a 4.25 Calico.

Thanks Bobby Peck and all of the folks on the committee boat for all the hard work in putting this together and keeping the Wall Banger tradition alive.

Bryan
Team redrum

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Here are the Final results:

1/Red Rum---- 9.6 ----BC----3.7
2/Farmer's Daughter---- 7.7 ----BC----4.1
3/Manna---- 7.6----BC----3.0
4/Team Trout---- 7.3 ----BC----TIE BREAKER----3.2
5/Hatchet Wound---- 7.3 ----BC----3.1
6/Grecko-Norm-N-1---- 7.2
6/Walls Out ---- 7.2
8/Baja Bad Man ---- 6.7
9/WOW ---- 6.5
10/Snook Hunter---- 6.3
11/Team Seeker ---- 5.9
12/Rizzo ---- 5.8
13/C-Biz ---- 5.7
14/Calico Hunter---- 5.2
15/Reef Runner---- 4.8----BC---- 2.6
16/Wall Strong---- 4.8
17/So-Cal Trash---- 4.7
17/O Son plus GOM---- 4.7
19/Yellowtail ---- 4.2
19/3 Men in a tub ---- 4.2
21/DesperateHusbands---- 3.9
22/Rock Hopper ---- 3.8
23/WoBD ---- 3.5
24/Salty Balls ---- 3.4
25/Shambles ---- 3.1
25/La Orta ---- 2.7
27/Wood & Nichols ---- 1.8
28/Bass-Holes ---- 1.5
29/Get um' ---- 1.2
30/Double D's & Ceez ---- DNW
30/Buba ExpresS ----DNW
30/Dirty Sanchez ---- DNW
30/Outlaw ---- DNW
30/Stink Bait ---- DNW
30/Reason 2 Burn 1 ---- DNW
30/Sea Senor ---- DNW
30/Bear & 2 asses ----DNW
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That is one rad looking cabezon Pete :)

Congrats to all of the team members for the W

I have never seen one those colors or that lit up! Nice fish Pete! Good job winning that tourney guys!

>That is one rad looking cabezon Pete :)
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>Congrats to all of the team members for the W

Rob said rad :7

Never seen a fish that color before, is that common?

Both ling cod and Cabezon can be very blue. Seems like they are bluer (is that a word) early in the year. I think the saying goes "Cabezon, the other blue meat"

Bryan

Congratulations Guys!!
Was so stoked when I heard both you guys & Steve's boat had good fish.
Keep it Rolling, your both off to a banner start this year.

We hadn't fished the wall but everything I heard was that it had been tough. I've been out on the shoe twice in the last week including fri. & would of had about 16-17 lbs. for my best 3 although obviously way out of bounds. Our plan was to hit the stones within the 1/4 mile limit of the wall, the tonnage of bait/working birds kept us picking away at tiny sand bass for way to long. We eventually moved to the wall & started catching SLIGHTLY larger fish but to little to late. Karl did lose one good fish - Cabezon? Mike got a good one but nothing like Pete's.
It was cool to get my brother back out, esp. inshore. I think it's been about 15 years since he's done any real calico fishing.

Congrats guys.

Amish Ed
Southwind Kayak Center

It's hard to catch again of you kill it!