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Okay all you sports memorabilia collectors out there, here’s the ultimate addition to your collection!! Big Fred Contaoi’s Orange County Choppers Ranger bass boat…the very boat he used in his Rookie Season on the FLW Tour…is up for sale!
This bass-seeking missile will do over 70 mph on the water and comes equipped with a treasure chest of top-of-the-line extras. But let’s let Big Fred tell you all about it….
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The 2008 FLW Professional Bass Tour is set to kick off in February and our man, Big Fred Contaoi of Orange County Choppers, will be there rearing to go.
Big Boy learned a lot during his rookie campaign and heads into his sophomore season with a lot of confidence.
He ended the 2007 season on a high note, with a strong finish at Clear Lake in October, where he landed the biggest fish of the tournament and placed 15th.
His “off-season” has been spent honing his skills and working with sponsors. He also just took part in NASCAR driver Ryan Newman’s Charity Bass Tournament in North Carolina last weekend.
Fred’s new webpage, BigFredFishing will be up soon and will feature all kinds of cool tips, tactics and maybe even a tour journal.
This season, Fred will participate in select FLW Series events across the country in addition to his Tour events.
Be sure to check back here for Big Fred updates throughout the year. I’ll also keep you abreast of his TV schedule for American Chopper and whatever else he finds himself on!
The 2008 FLW Tour schedule:
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Big Fred Contaoi of Orange County Choppers put together quite a day on Clear Lake last Friday at the FLW National Guard Western and finished 15th for the tourney. He also took top honors for big fish with 11-pound, 1 ouncer. (Photo by Brett Carlson)
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After putting up 14 pounds and change on Day 1 of the FLW National Guard Western at Clear Lake, Big Fred Contaoi bagged over 15 pounds of largemouth on Thursday, the second day of the 4-day event. Today’s going to be huge — another good sack of fish and he should stand to earn some Benjamins.
Weigh-in is late in the afternoon…you can watch it live at flwoutdoors.com. I’ll also keep ya posted!
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For the first time in 11 months, FLW touring pro, Big Fred Contaoi, has returned to California to fish the FLW Western Series’ National Guard Western tourney at Clear Lake. Fred was excited to get back to his home lake but found that it was like fishing a totally new body of water due to the fact that the lake level is down 6 feet from when he last fished here.
In practice, he scrambled to put a game plan together and then on Wednesday, the tournament’s opening round, he turned it on and got on a good area of fish and landed over 30 bass. His best 5 checked in at 14 pounds, 2 ounces. A good start to the event, considering most anglers figured that 13 pounds a day would be enough to get a check.
Stay tuned for more updates from the tournament…
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I just found this pic, buried in the vast catacombs of my computer…it’s a shot of a set of Russian River rapids I named “Pile Driver” after Big Fred tried to kill us there a few years back in a two-man pontoon boat. Somehow, I managed grab the camera — and avoid soiling my waders (sans wading belt) — at the same time. Of course, nobody aboard was wearing a lifejacket…
Speaking of Big Fred Contaoi, he’ll participating in a little more sane of a venture next week when he fishes in his final FLW bass tourney of the season, the National Guard Western, on Clear Lake. Stay tuned for more on that…
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For the first time since December 2006, professional bass angler and all-around Road Warrior, Big Fred Contaoi of Orange County Choppers is headed to his home in Lakeport, CA.
“This is definitely the longest I’ve been away from California,” says the touring pro, who’s been on the road for almost a year straight. “I’m looking forward to getting home and seeing everybody.”
Big Fred’s return home isn’t just about visiting with friends and family — he’s got a mission. He’ll be fishing the final tournament of his rookie campaign, FLW’s National Guard Western at Clear Lake, Oct. 24-27.
It will be an exciting event with a $125,000 purse for first place…but more than that, the tournament marks the first time as a pro that Big Fred will get to fish water that he’s familiar with. This season, he had to be a quick study and learn new lakes all across the southeast. At Clear Lake, however, he’s got some time on the water — though not since last year.
Come on down to Konocti Harbor on Clear Lake next week and root our favorite pro on!
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I didn’t get a chance to talk with Big Fred today after his second day at the FLW Series event at Pickwick Lake in Alabama, but I checked the results and it looks like he found some rough sledding and blanked. I don’t have any more details than that…tomorrow is a new day.
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