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11.03.22 HOW Battle on the Bay 11/12

The Mad Anglers and the Heroes on the Water Oceanside California Chapter presents the 1st Annual Veterans weekend Battle on the Bay coming to Shelter Island next weekend.

Spend the day with the Mad Angler crew, us and our friends down at Shelter Island. This is a great opportunity for us to get together and heal through aquatic therapy, fishing and food. The Oceanside chapter will also have food and a bunch of booths and raffle gifts to give away. So, bring your family and friends and beach stuff and let\’s go and have some fun.

For those new to kayak fishing or simply just don\’t have the gear… the Heroes on the Water Oceanside chapter provides all the gear required to kayak fish in the event that day. If you do not have any gear don\’t worry about it. Just show up with your family and get ready to have a good time.

To register, head to their Facebook event page (click here). Registration is free.

Event Details

  • $10 is the entry fee that will be collected at the table when you arrive.
  • Shotgun start at 7 AM PST
  • Biggest bass and weirdest fish are the categories.
  • Fishing will end at 2pm winner will be announced at 3pm
  • Raffle tickets will be $1 each (no limit) with raffle prizes from West Marine, Pure Watersports, Fish Village
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Let\’s show this incredible organization some support by participating in this event or donating prizes to their raffle. We want to see more events from them supporting their military and first responder brothers and sisters. We look forward to seeing you there. We will be the ones with the cameras. Say hello.

08.02.22 How Is It August Already?

July marked the end of our 2022 kayak mothership season here in California. I could have sworn that was yesterday when in reality that was a few weeks ago. I feel old… all I heard as a kid was how the time flies… the months go by faster and faster… blah blah blah. Well shit… say it ain\’t so.

We have some fun plans for the month of August…

  • Marty Gittens of BerleyPro and Tasline will be in town visiting us before he heads back to Australia
  • News about the 2023 New Zealand season
  • Our first 4 podcasts will be recorded
  • News about the 2023 SCI Kayak Mothership season
  • A custom built Crafted Fishing Rods tuna rod reveal (it is a thing of beauty)

This past weekend we visited with our friends from Heroes on the Water and Mad Anglers down in San Diego. It was the first event for the group under the new chapter leadership. We showed up to support our vets and to support our friends that make this great organization possible. It was well organized, a lot of community support. tons of kayaks with great people talking about healing. We learned so much. We\’ll share more about this event in an upcoming blog later this week.