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Foursome from Orinda is hooked on fishing |
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By Carl Steward - Oakland Tribune AS FISH stories go, the one about Zack Thompson, Fred Roumbanis, Jason Cordiale and Beau Joudrey hooks like a whopper.
They grew up in the same Orinda neighborhood along Rheem Boulevard in the late 1980s and early 1990s. They attended Miramonte High and played football and other varsity sports.
Mostly they could be found at nearby Lafayette Reservoir or some other East Bay fishing hideaway honing their angling skills.
Thompson, Roumbanis, Cordiale and Joudrey now are closer than ever even though they live farther apart. They have become successful professional bass fishermen, competing on national and regional circuits for cash, sponsorships and angling acclaim. |
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Fishin Mission Adventures |
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When the season ends and the tournaments are over, professional anglers head home and kick up their feet in front of the fireplace and relax right? Well, not exactly. Professional fishing is a year round sport now and it might surprise you to know what some of the pros do when they’re not on the circuit. I had an opportunity to talk with Elite Series pro Fred Roumbanis and found out he, like many other pros, has a full plate during the off-season. His responsibilities include sponsorship obligations, speaking engagements, seminars at boat shows, and teaching at The Bass University, just to mention a few. However, it also might surprise you to know that pros like Fred offer their time and talents to some really important charitable events that don’t earn them a penny. One such charity event Fred attended was during a recent trip to Mexico’s Lake Aqua Milpa and an extraordinary fishing camp called Fission Mission Adventures. Fishin Mission Adventures is a camp built by David Sanders who saw a need and acted on it after visiting an orphanage called Casa de Ninos in a neighboring area while on a mission trip as a volunteer. David was so moved by what he saw that he sold his home in Oregon and built this camp which is nestled high in the beautiful Sierra Madras mountains on Mexico’s 55,000 acre Lake Aqua Milpa. Read More |
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Fred wins the annual "Hawks Big League Bass Classic" charity tournament down at Amistad for Lifeline!
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 Everything is bigger in Texas and bass fishing is no exception. Big baits, big lakes and really big bass live in Texas. Texans love to bass fish and they have the luxury of trophy bass lakes like Lake Fork, Amistad and Falcon as well as some of the best know bass fishing lakes in the world like Sam Rayburn and Toledo Bend. Dates: February 6 and 7, 2010 Join Today |
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| Bass Communications / Seigo Saito |
Story by Don Barone
Dateline: 4:45 a.m. … somewhere. I forgot — wasn't quite awake.
The water matches the night.
Black of night, black of water, black of inside the hula girl minivan.
And I still have my Costa's on … it was that kind of night.
Before the children, before the IRS 1040 long forms, this was db time.
When I was a bartender in Buffalo, N.Y.,the bars wouldn't even close until 4 in the morning! By the time you cleaned up the sinks, the peanuts, the beer glasses and the bodies … it was darn near Bassmaster launch time.
Bartending nearly prepared me for the world of BASS. Complete Story
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Lots Of Techniques Can Be Honed From The Banks |
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A lot of what Fred Roumbanis knows about bass fishing, he learned before he ever set foot in a bass boat. He grew up in the Bay Area region of California with several golf course-type ponds and small reservoirs within bicycling distance and could usually be found at one or another on most afternoons, and all day on weekends, during breaks in his school schedule and throughout his summer vacations.
"I like to learn new techniques and I've always used small bodies of water to help me build confidence in them," said the Bassmaster Elite Series angler who now resides in Oklahoma. "People see us (on TV) fishing out of these fully rigged boats and they might be a little bit intimidated, but I never once fished out of a bass boat until I was 18.
"I fished from shore, and that's really where I learned how to fish." Complete Story |
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Fred Roumbanis started the day in 2nd place, but managed just four fish for 6-11.
"I had the bites I needed," he said. "I broke one off on the hookset that was 4-plus that bit a wacky-rigged Senko, then I found the biggest fish I've found since I been here and got it to eat a frog, but I missed it.
"I can't believe it ate that frog in open water. That was a last-ditch effort to get it to bite, and I reacted too soon and pulled it away."
He caught most of his fish this week on dropshots and wacky-rigs.
"I'm not too disappointed. All in all, it was a good tournament." Complete Story |
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2nd: Roumbanis Made Adjustment |
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Roumbanis ran through all of the bed-fish he'd found in practice on day 1, so today he fished blindly as he searched for more and was successful on both fronts.
"I caught all of them today just fishing while I was looking and I found a flat that's got a herd of fish," he said. "I'll start there with (an Ima Lures) Roumba in the morning – there's a good algae bloom going and that's when a wakebait like that really shines in these clear lakes. Complete Story |
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Another angler that had to scrap his sight-fishing pattern was Fred Roumbanis. He was targetting big bass on the main lake, but pollen and boat traffic messed up that bite. Roumbanis had a real shot at winning the tournament, but Day Three saw him weigh in one fish shy of his limit and only 6 pounds, 11 ounces and he fell to 20th. Complete Story |
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VanDam takes lead on Smith Mountain Lake |
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While he has established a slim lead — 14 ounces over Fred Roumbanis of Bixby, Okla., — VanDam said he would search for new water as he had tapped into many of the productive spots he located in practice.
He said he knew that the fish were relating to bottom but couldn't identify exactly what about the bottom the larger bass liked.
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Freddie bags 16 pounds Day one |
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On a day when the majority of the field failed to catch a limit of keepers, Roumbanis did it four times over.
"I had a limit so fast it was unbelievable," he said. "Boats were still coming off of pad.
"I probably caught 20 keepers, and I had one big bite, but I lost it. I had one 4-pounder and everything else was about the same size."
He's in a community area and said most of the anglers he's sharing water with fared better than average.
"There's quite a few boats working the area and that might be a problem, but it seems like there are fish everywhere. It's really hard to get over 16 pounds because there are so many 3-pounders.
"What it's going to come down to is one big bite, and I'm going to need to land that bite." Read More |
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