Adamsbuilt Joins Riptide Rendezvous 2023 Sponsors

Adamsbuilt has joined Snowbee USA, Fishermen's Spot, and Tenkara USA as sponsors of Riptide Rendezvous.

As pureyors of fly fishing equipment that enhances your time on the water, Adamsbuilt sells a wide range of high-quality waders and boots, outerwear, tools and accessories. This includes, pliers, rod cases, nets, bags, and fly boxes.

For Riptide Rendezvous, Adamsbuilt has donated 3 sets of their 7.5" machined aluminum pliers, which feature a blue anodixed finish, stainless steel cutters, black rubberized grips, and a holster with attached lanyard. These have an MSRP of $69.95

Check out all of the Adambuilt products at: https://adamsbuiltfishing.com

Bring Your (Other) Buddy to Riptide Rendezvous!

How about this: after you sign up for Riptide Rendezvous, get one of your buddies to register in the other Division. That earns you another free raffle ticket!

Here's how it works:

• Register for Riptide Rendezvous. You must select either the Fly Tackle Division or the Regular Tackle Division
• Get one of your buddies to register in the opposite Division. That is a Fly Tackle Division entrant will get a Regular Tackle Entrant to sign up., or vice versa
• Have your buddy email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., identifying you as their "Other Buddy" sponsor. Emails must be received no later than June 23, 2023.
• Pick up your extra ticket at the awards ceremony!

Current Standings - As of 06/14/2023, 23:42 PDT

Note: Current Standings will NOT be updated until after June 23. 

Come to the Awards Ceremony on June 23, 10:00a to find out who really won what!

There's still time to sign up! Click HERE to go to the registration page

Do You Measure Up?

Here are the results for Riptide Rendezvous 2023!

Photo by Kevin Green

SUMMARY OVERVIEW:

2023 marked a major departure from our previous events. In the interests of getting more participation, we used technology to expand the timeframe and geographical area of the contest.

"Anytime, anywhere from Santa Barbara to the Mexican border" was our mantra. This forced us to eliminate the "One Surf Fly" concept from prior years, but gave contestants more freedom to choose the best and/or most convenient times and places to fish.

It also made administration of the regular tackle side of things much easier, since we found in 2019 that the "One Surf Fly" style of lure exchange did not work well for regular tackle fishermen.

In the end, we attracted 29 participants, which is 3 more than in 2019. While we were hoping for a larger crowd this year, we're confident that 2024 will be an even larger event. The 3-year, pandemic-induced hiatus between 2019 and 2023 was a major disruption, and actually having two Riptide Rendezvous' in two consecutive years can only help!

From the fishing perspective, we could not have asked for anything more. Surf perch fishing was spectacular for contestants in the northern areas (Oxnard, Ventura, northern Los Angeles), but still decent for people all the way down to San Diego. In the end, 500 Surf Perch were logged, almost all Barred Surf Perch. Sizes ranged upward to 14" on fly, and 15" on regular tackle.

Some very nice fly-caught Corbina, Croaker and Halibut were also caught, and even 2 Striped Bass made it to the measuring tapes (see results table below).

John Hansen's 24" Corbina

Derek Smith's 17" Yellowfin Croaker

Lino Jubilado's 14" Perch

Riptide Rendezvous is Back for 2023!

Photo by Glenn Ueda

After three years of waiting for COVID-related issues to die down, we are happy to announce that Riptide Rendezvous will be back in 2023!

We're adopting an "all virtual" format this time around, which allows us to greatly expand both the time window and the geographic area covered by the event. You can fish any time from May 27, 2023 thru June 23, 2023, and anywhere from the northern border of Santa Barbara County to the Mexican border (as long as it's legal!)

One of the things that makes this possible is our continued use of the iAngler tournament app. All entries will be submitted by the contestants themselves when they catch a fish. That means you (or one of your fishing buddies) will need to have a smart phone to compete.

RR is still a Catch-and-Release only event, and as before, conventional tackle (spin, bait-casting) fishermen can compete in a separate division. Artificial lures or flies only. 

In order to make this work, we are dropping the "one fly" feature in favor of a "use your own fly" format. See the complete rules HERE.

Have for questions or need more info? Visit our "Contact RR" page for phone number and email address

Ready to register? Click HERE to go to the registration page.

FINAL RESULTS - 06/24/2023

 This is a quick summary...Photos, event recap, and more stats to follow shortly!

SHAMELESS SHIRT PROMOTION!

Now that our on-line store is open, we're offering a free raffle ticket to anyone attending the Awards Ceremeny on June 24 wearing a Riptide Rendezvous T-shirt, from any year (2017, 2019 or this year).

The Riptide Rendezvous Store is Open for Business!

The Riptide Rendezvous on-line store is open for business! We have our awesome loged T-Shirt in black or navy, blue; RR 2023 coffee mugs; and RR 2023 water bottles!

Delivery times vary, but have been running about a week for the T-shirt, less for the mugs and water bottle.

Click on the button below to go to the Southwest Council's store on CafePress.com!

What the Winners Used - 2023

photo by Lino Jubilado

FLY TACKLE DIVISION

Lino Jubilado

Lino Jubilado's Largest Perch

John Parmenter

A perch from John Parmenter's 2nd Place HDS catch

Scott Yamamoto

Scott Yamamoto's Sand Crab fly

John Hansen

John Hansen's Fly Tackle Largest Corbina

Derek Smith

Derek Smith's Fly Tackle Largest Halibut

Regular Tackle Division

This a compilation of the contestants, more details will be forthcoming: 

Sheldon Belhumeur's 21" Halibut