OC Classic 2018 Tournament Wrap-Up

2018 OC Classic Tournament Results

Date: Saturday, August 25th 2018

Time: From First Light to 5:00 pm.  All fish entries must be presented for judging by the 5:00 pm deadline. All late entries will be disqualified.

Weigh in Location: Spear America Parking Lot.  Spear America, 17801 Main Street Suite E Irvine, CA 92614

 

Tournament Winners

(includes jackpot winnings if applicable)

CATEGORY

        NAME

   WINNINGS

1ST PLACE IVAN STRUTHERS $1,018.00
2ND PLACE RICHARD BALTA $509.00
3RD PLACE KAPONO NIHIPALI $254.50
4TH PLACE ERICK RIOS
5TH PLACE JACK ARMSTRONG $144

 

Jackpot Winners

CATEGORY

JACKPOT WINNER

PURSE

SPONSOR BONUS

OPALEYE CHESTER LAPICTO (2.86#) $81.00
SHEEPHEAD IVAN STRUTHERS (26.56#) $117.00 $250 SALTY CREW
CALICO/SAND BASS MATT MARTINDALE (5.4#) $135.00 $250 DIVE OC
HALIBUT INACTIVE (MONEY TO MAIN POT) $27.00
YELLOWTAIL RICHARD BALTA (22.16#) $180.00 $250 SALTY CREW
DORADO JACK ARMOSTRONG (10.8#) $144.00 $250 SALTY CREW

 

The 2018 OC Classic was a huge success.  On behalf of the OC Spearos I would like to congratulate all the winners of this years tournament.  Many divers had a tough time out there with more than a few stories of lost fish or missed opportunities.  For those who were able to capitalize on the conditions and those who were in the right place at the right time it was a good and profitable day.

We would like to thank Spear America for hosting once again and a big thanks to all the sponsors of this years tournament.  We can’t put on an event like this with out the local support of the businesses that constantly feed this sport.

Thank you to all clubs who sent divers to support us.  It was great to see familiar faces at the weigh-in.

With 91 divers the competition was tight.  OC Spearos, other clubs, and non club affiliated divers competed for the $3,438.50 that was paid out to the winners of the tournament along with the jackpot victors.

Thank you to all who supported the tournament in 2017 from which allowed us to put up the prize money for this years tournament.

 Thank you all so much for helping make this years tournament such a success.

 

Please follow these links to the sponsors of the 2018 OC Classic and show them your support!!

Spear America

Dana Point Sportfishing

Spearfishing Baja

Four Sons Brewery

Dive OC

Princton Tec

Riffe

Nigel Wright

Cor Surf

Kap Spearguns

Yeti

Jerry Flamming

Salty Crew

EpicFlame.com

Sharkbanz

 Mario Saldago

Pelagic

Omer

Smith Optics

Kimera Spearfishing

Palapas Vintanas

SportTube

OC Octopush

Watches.com

Guardian Charters

IceMule

Rising Tide Sea Vegetables

Spearing Magazine

Brink Expeditions

MastaBlasta Flashers

NHT Bags

 Stronghold Spearguns

A shout out to Salty Crew who had their tent at the event serving up free Salty Dogs to the crowd and who also sponsored three Jackpot Categories. Great support!  Thank you for being there!

A special thanks to DiveOC’s Jeremy Caulkins for not only having classes on the raffle table but also sponsoring one of the Jackpots. Take a class with Jeremy ASAP!

Finally we would like to give a big high five to Petros at Spear America for his continued support of the OC Spearos with generous donation items and use of his parking lot for the event headquarters.  Get to Spear America today or online and buy everything!

Event Pics

 

See you all next year at the 2019 OC Classic!!