Our general meeting for September was held on Saturday the 22nd instead of our regular 3rd Thursday, due to the fact we had been invited by the staff at Seeker Rods USA to take a tour of their manufacturing facility in Long Beach, CA. We were warmly welcomed with fresh coffee and donuts by general manager Darin Dohi, and the man behind the production of these state-of-art rods, Jim Upton. After a brief but informative product demo by sales rep Ed Sureck, we began our tour of the step by step process it requires to complete a quality product. The facility was in full production mode on this Saturday to keep up with the demand for these hand made in the USA rods and blanks. I had never before seen the rod production process, and was amazed at how labor intensive the process is. As we talked with the workers at each station, I was impressed at the dedication to quality and years of experience each one had. It makes you appreciate and confident that your money for this product is well spent. I would highly recommend taking the time to visit this facility before making your next rod purchase. You won’t be disappointed! The FIBers want to thank Darin, Jim, Ed and all the good people at Seeker Rods USA for having us!
Report submitted by: Dave Shill

Steve Bermudes graciously contributed the following pictures and video. Thanks Steve

June’s monthly meeting was well attended, and we even had 7 first-time visitors!
Before our guest speaker we presented team “BASSTACHE” with their novelty check for winning the Mission Bay, Spotted Baybass tournament. Congrats guys!

Zack Merideth, a product rep for Okuma was our guest speaker. He gave us a great rundown of Okuma’s product line. Thanks Zack!

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Join us next month for our annual cooking seminar with Chef Daniel Matos!

Thursday night, April 19 was a great night for the FIB’ers. We had an above average amount of members present as Fred Madsen led us in “Amazing Grace” on his harmonica and Rick Chalmers gave a heart-felt devotional. Dorian Quimby received his Big Fish Awards:
Calico Bass

Spotted Bay Bass

Ben Florentino gave a very informative seminar which Steve Bermudes captured for us – Thanks Steve!!

At the end of the meeting, Ben Florentino generously raffled off two Plano boxes stuffed with Big Hammer swimbaits and War leadheads, and a 1/2 day fishing charter for two with him on his 22 foot Skeeter. WOW! Thank you Benny! Please think of Ben Florentino the next time you are considering hiring saltwater fishing guide. You will not regret it! He can be contacted here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Coastal-Charters/123408861113539
and by phone 310.779.0397

On Thursday night, March 15th we held our annual awards meeting to present awards for the outstanding catches made in 2011. These went to adult men and women, as well as our juniors. In addition, we presented our FIBerette “angler of the year” award to Paula Kunkel,
and our FIBer “angler of the year” to Mike Kaneen.

Our junior “angler of the year” award went to Ken and Paula Kunkel’s grandson Luke.

Every year we also like to acknowledge the contributions of various members of our club who gave of their time, talents and resources to continue the FIBers’ mission of being a Christ centered fishing fellowship, open to any and all who would like to fellowship and fish with us. Three of our members were recognized this year. They were:



Thank you and congratulations to all of you!
We’re looking forward to our 29th year together, and again welcome anyone interested to check us out!

-Dave Shill

We had a great Christmas party filled with excellent fellowship, food, music and the proclamation of God’s Word!

Brandon Hayward was our guest speaker for the last general meeting of 2011. Brandon shared from his vast knowledge of saltwater fishing techniques focusing primarily on fishing spectra and a short top shot of either fluorcarbon or monofilament.
If you missed it, you can catch this talk as well as many others in his new book Getting Bit!

We are looking forward to a great Christmas Party on December 15th.

See you then!

Our September monthly meeting began with a great gospel message delivered by Phil Diment.
Thanks Phil!
Team Anchored-Stache (Jayson & Dorian Quimby w/Andrew Gomez) was awarded their first place prizes for winning all three categories at the Calico Coastal event in August.

Our guest speaker was Marlon Meade. He gave an excellent presentation on fishing for Trout with various types of Berkley baits.

Everyone walked away with excellent reading materials for upcoming Trout fishing outings, and some nice Berkley hats were given away to some lucky winners of the raffle.

Our last monthly meeting of the year will be October 20th. Brandon Hayward of Western Outdoor News and the author of several books on Saltwater Fishing will be our guest speaker.
We hope to see all of you there!

Our special guest speaker tonight was Duane Broadway of:

At Cedros Adventures, they pride themselves on 1 thing!
Providing you with the Greatest Sportfishing Adventure on Cedros Island.This starts with round trip transportation. From your Home to Cedros and back. Experience phenomenal YellowTail fishing. World class Calico fishing that is second to none. As well as many other exotic species. Duane gave a great presentation and overview of how trips to Cedros Island can be booked through his agency. If you would like more information on how you can book a trip with them, please go to their site:Cedros Adventures.com

Dave Shill gave a great devotion.

Jayson Quimby awarded EB and Tom Handzus their first and second place cash prizes for the Newport Harbor Bay Bass Tournament.

Rock Cod Rick Maxa gave a great seminar! Excellent information was shared on rod and reel selection and tackle choices for local and island fishing, especially when targeting White Seabass! If you missed his tip on fishing the 8″ MC Slug, you missed a GOOD ONE!

We had a great turnout with over 40 FIB’ers in attendance!

See you next Month!