Carolina Surf Casters Association

I am looking forward to another great year of casting and friendship.  Let's endeavor to bring some youngsters into the fishing and casting world.  I hope to see everyone of you from last year and bring someone new, even if they just spectate, they may join in later.  Here is the schedule as of now. As always, times may vary according to conditions. Practice day on Friday, tournament on Saturday & Sunday.

March 17-18 Shallotte, NC

April 14-15 Shallotte, NC

Sept 22-23 Shallotte, NC

October 20-21 Shallotte, NC

Primo event moves to Texas this year October 27-28

Practice, practice correctly, and practice often.  May the wind be at your back, and your leads find new PB's this year!!

Stay tuned for more information on this years FOM.

Carlos Osuna

Here are the dates for the tournaments scheduled in 2012. If we need to discuss dates further please let me know by email, phone or on here. Thanks

SFCCI 2012 Tournament Schedule

1. March 24th & 25th in Kingsville, Tx. - Spring Fling Tourney

... 2. April 21st & 22nd in Kingsville/Corpus Christi - casting/fishing tourney

3. June 23rd in Kingsville, Tx - Habanero Tourney

4. August 25th & 26th in Kingsville/Corpus Christi - casting/fishing tourney

5. October 27th & 28th in Kingsville, TX - Primo Tourney

The November tournament is canceled.  Some work is being done at the sod farm. 

We have had another great year of casting and friendship,thank all of you for your interest and participation.  Lets get a CSCA team together to go to Texas for the Primo event next year.  I am working on the schedule for next year and hope to have it out shortly. 

Results from the Primo tournament have been posted in the Tournament Casting Results forum since the night of the event.  You have two options: 

1. From the above menu, click forums.  Scroll down to Tournament Casting/ Results.  From there you will see the page with the Primo results.

2.  From the above menu, click forums.  View recent topics and scoll until you see Primo Results.

Brittany

Due to some feedback at a very late date this year i am refining the rules a bit, but mostly as an explanation rather than changes.

The fish of the month may be a doomed catagory for CSCA. It started with a sponsor that just plain lied and did not produce the goods. The resulting mayhem left disgruntled participants and the association to clean up the mess. I decided to post the rules in such a manner that would make it clear where the buck stopped and that place is with me. I think I was successful in getting my point across, but believe I alienated the participants as much or more than the unscroupolus sponsor, protagonist of the initial damage. I have softened the rules so they don't appear to to intimidate or worse, imply you will be in a lawsuit, if you enter. I think of myself as a fair person and I wanted this to be fun. It can still work, let's be fair and support or generous sponsors. Thank you..........

The changes are made in the FOM post below.

Please note, I mistakenly put the Primo tourney dates as Saturday through Monday.  It is in fact Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, Oct 21-23.

U S PRIMO CASTING CHAMPIONSHIP

presented by the SFCCI and CSCA casting organizations

where:      Shallotte sod farm, Shallotte NC.

when:     October 21-23, 2011

open event, all comers

stay tuned for details

Rules

You have to be a CSCA member to participate, joining the website does not make you a participating member.  However if you are a member of the website, you can pay annual dues of $20 and participate in distance casting events, FOM, and other happenings.  Likewise, you do not have to participate on the web. Just see me or Britt to pay dues; take part in the fishing or casting prizes; and more importantly, the camraderie and shared learning experiences.

Hatteras Jacks is the sponsor for this event, please visit and spend your money there.  Dance with the one that brung ya!!

1.     All fish entered in FOM must be caught will surf fishing. Surf fishing is defined as where the waves break on the shore. 

2.     Take a photo of your fish and post it on the board.

3.     It will be easier to more accurately determine the winning fish with a scale in the photo, even a soda can will help.

4.     I will pick the winner from the photos, so there is going to be a subjective element,  please try to understand the difficulty. 

5.     I will pick the winner by fifth day of the next month for the previous month.  Please be available for questions if I have any.

6.     All decisions once posted are final.

Due to some feedback at a very late date this year i am refining the rules a bit, but mostly as an explanation rather than changes.

The fish of the month may be a doomed catagory for CSCA.  It started with a sponsor that just plain lied and did not produce the goods.  The resulting mayhem left disgruntled participants and the association to clean up the mess.  I decided to post the rules in such a manner that would make it clear where the buck stopped and that place is with me.  I think I was successful in getting my point across, but believe I alienated the participants as much or more than the unscroupolus sponsor, protagonist of the initial damage.  I have softened the rules so they don't appear to to intimidate or worse, imply you will be in a lawsuit, if you enter.  I think of myself as a fair person and I wanted this to be fun.  It can still work, let's be fair and support or generous sponsors.  Thank you..........

Tournament is in Shallotte.  casting 9 to 5 Sat and 9 to 3 sun,  Friday will have some casters around for practice starting around 10 am.

The tournament prize will be the Century rod donated by Ryan White of Hatteras Jacks.  Robert Hudak has agreed to wrap the rod to the winners specs, he has spinning guides but i believe a conventional set up can be wrangled into the deal.  We have no cookout plans for this event so prepare accordingly. 

A couple of Texas casters may be here and i would like to see some of the casters that missed the last event.  Lets have a good turn out..............Thanks...........Wayne

CSCA March 2011 ground casting

Is this the year? Uh-Huh!

We started the weekend off Friday with the typical casting practice and the Farmer clan arrived at the Shallotte sod farm in force. I stopped by for a few minutes as I was on another mission, but was there long enough to be informed by the old gooomers, my status as honorary member was not to be entertained, lacking in some moral fiber and way too young or some such crap. However I did kick their ole butts (lol) today. That, however is not the tale of the day. It belonged to a hard fought casting match on the field between Robert and Tommy, about a yard between them, Is this the year? I guess that is to be fought to conclusion tomorrow, and from what I saw, regularly.

The story of the day is more about personal bests and is how we will refer to this casting event: The Carolina ground-casting event of 2011. Epitomized by the efforts of Darvin Greer, who admitted to having practiced everyday since meeting at the airport in Wilmington a couple months ago, with Tommy, Tony and a few others. Darvin's form was on today. I was near him but behind him moving my flag toward the mid six hundreds when I saw him cross the 700 line and move another 10 paces or so. Now, having experienced that, I knew what he was feeling. Lots of hard work and effort, equal results. It isn’t bad to have the Carolina Surfcasting Association members help either. So Darvin congrats to you.

As far as the conditions go, it really was a baffling day. Sometimes you can’t get the field set up just right and even when the field was downwind with good gusts the lead didn’t fly. It just didn’t. Early on really promising conditions were there, but the weights would not fly. So not much to do about that. Then it went in our face and we broke to cook and eat with a few more casts of the day in to a bad cross wind. Tough conditions!

Some accolades have to be handed out to Brittany for running a smooth show, to Robert, Angel, Brian and Mark for pitching in with the foodstuffs. It was good seeing old faces and getting in the field for some competition and camaraderie. We also gave away a new Daiwa Mag T reel that I would have loved to be the owner of, not to be. I think Tommy has some video of that and hopefully Britt will add a picture of the leader board for the day shortly.

We had a good day and I want to recognize a cast made by Charlie Farmer of over 600 feet, a PB as well.

More tomorrow