Accurate 14-Day American Angler Trip (Jan 8-22, 2015)
As in all the past American Anger Accurate trips, we had a great time fishing with all of our friends, learn some new stuff, made some new friends and got to know our old friends even better. The 31 card game sure made the travel days go by fast.
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Jackpot Winners
(Tom Mato 222#, Dom Reale 203#, Ed Flocken 202#) |
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| Tom Mato receiving the Accurate Trip Trophy |
Thank you to Brian Kiyohara and his great American Angler crew for making us successful at catching big tuna and wahoo. The wahoo fishing at the Rocks was phenomenal (30-40# wahoo, in January). Thank you to the sponsors that support of fishing trip (Accurate for the reels, Calstar for great rail rods, Izorline for the worlds strongest mono, fluoro and spectra, Swifty Mfg for spectra washing system, Baja Fish Gear for a large gift card, hats, t-shirts and reel cover, Salas Lures for the many wahoo jigs that worked real well until the wahoo bit it off. I hope you enjoy the photos of the prize winners and all the passengers having a great time making memories.
Gary Teraoka
Calstar Day on the Accurate Trip
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John Yarbrough won a Calstar 770XXH rod
for the biggest fish on the Calstar Day |
Izorline Day on the Accurate Trip
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| Izorline Spectra, Fluoro and Mono is Today's Prize |
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Tom Mato won Izorline Fluoro, Spectra and XXX mono
for the biggest fish on Calstar day |
Accurate Day on the Accurate Trip
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| Must be a reel given away today |
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Jay Love won a Accurate Boss Reel
for the biggest fish on Accurate day |
Swifty Day on the Accurate Trip
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| Swifty plates and inserts today |
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Ed Flocken won a complete set of Swifty spectra washing spools
for the biggest fish on Swifty day |
Baja Fish Gear Day on the Accurate Trip
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Dom Reale won a BFG gift card, t-shirt, reel covers
for the biggest fish on BFG day |
Accurate Demo Reel and Photo Raffle
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| A second photo, must be another reel today |
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Mark Johnson won a Accurate Boss Reel
from the Reel Demo and Photo Raffle |
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Pat Patrykus Sr. and John Yarbrough won sweatshirts
as runner ups to the Boss Reel Raffle |
31 Card Game Tournament
We had the 3rd annual 31 FB tournament on the ride home. Pat Sr., Pat Jr., Darrell, John, Matt and Drew made it to the final 6 table for the championship. Accurate provided a plier/sheath/lanyard for first place, along with the highly coveted custom t-shirt trophy. Accurate sweatshirt for 2nd place and Accurate T-shirt for 3rd place.
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| 31 Tournament Final 6 |
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The Winners
(1st John Yarbrough, 2nd Matt Bruce, 3rd Andrew Viola) |
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| The coveted 31 champions t-shirt trophy |
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| Thank you to Tom Mato, 31 Tournament Director |
Photos of Everyone Making Friends and Memories
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Seth Taylor
wahoo on the demo, he was always bit |
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| Old fishing friends for many years now |
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| Now that is a motley crew |
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Old Friends, Kohei finally got Russ to come on a long trip,
He liked it. |
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| Matt Salas is on again, must be the jig |
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| Felix with a nice one |
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| Mato with a real-deal tuna |
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| Kohei getting down to business |
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| Nice form, Jr. |
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Chris on a big one that turned into a shark,
he had fun winding back on all that spect |
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| We had a outdoor head and Kohei is using it |
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| Dom and Ed with their morning Cows |
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| The Flocken brothers and Ed's Cow |
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| Nice wahoo Jr., with a demo Dauntless |
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| Nice form John, must be the test reel |
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| Sr. and I with twin wahoos |
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| Chris with a test reel wahoo |
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| Kohei, where your mountain bike? |
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| Sr with his agent Matt, Yarbrough won all the prizes |
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| Felix, Kohei and John |
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| Wahoo ready |
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| Jr and Ed, waiting |
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| Glad to have your aboard Jay Love, next time bring LeeAnn |
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| Fishing Buddies |
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| Dom and John, why are you smiling? |
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| Darrell with a red/black 400 Boss |
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| John wearing the pliers he won in the 31 tournament |
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| John with a test reel wahoo |
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| The Bishop CA connection |
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| Ed with a yellowtail on a coffee grinder |
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| Yarbrough with a wahoo demo reel |
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| Nice bend Drew |
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| Russ, is this fun? |
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Me with Wicked Tuna rod and the "blue" 80,
See the rod not bend with 50# of drag, fun |
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| John with the Calstar rod winning Cow |
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| Jason with wahoo |
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| Jason with a Accurate SR-30 |
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| Chris with a demo dauntless |
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| Nice crew shirt, Drew |
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| Nice to have you back on the trip Mark |
