Hello Summer!

Hey Y'all!

How's everyone doing? How's the fishing been going? It seems like it's been awhile, again. The Wren family has recently been even busier than we've ever been. All is just wonderful though. Let's get you caught up, now- since you last heard from us a lot was changing in nothing but amazing ways. First, Justin and I recently officially tied the knot in April- what a dream that was. As if that wasn't enough excitement, we are super proud to announce that we will be having our 1st baby boy in October.  Nothing can ever go as planned, but you know what they say. "God laughs at your plans, for he has his own plan." 

It seems everything is falling right into place for us at Cactus Wren, the business is picking up and we are gaining more Wren Anglers than ever. We will never been able to fully express how much that alone means to us, we love fishing and bringing you quality handmade fishing products that will always guarantee " The reaction you've been waiting for!" We are very determined to bring this to be one of the very best family owned businesses. Now you know about our personal excitement lately, lets jump into the rest. :)

Since we last spoke- we were announcing our partnership with Johnny Johnson, that's been truly amazing. He's put out quite a few awesome episodes of just ripping lips at Lake Havasui and Roosevelt on Cactus Wren Quail Tails, Tullie Shakers, Canyon Craws and our Chowa Barbs. Yet, this is only the beginning my friends. We have super exciting things planned in store and are gearing up for a new special summer release, with him and some other local pros that you just might be thrilled about. So stay tuned with us about all details to be announced here real shortly...

You saw that we are headed into Shoppers Supply-, which is so awesome; we have had some unfortunate hold up. In the business world you need something called UPC Codes to be able to receive and comply with some big box stores, they were kind enough to wait for our process to go through and then gladly take us in. That's such a blessing to us. So while we patiently await those codes, we are eager to get another store stocked for customers to quickly get their hands on the "New Hot Bait" of the summer. :)

Next exciting note is, have you seen? Cactus Wren was featured in Mystery Tackle Box for the 2nd time- SURPRISE!!! Wow, did everybody really enjoy that. We featured our 4 in. Talking Sticks in that campaign, and boy do customers love em. Remember Wren baits are so versatile, while drop shot finesse fishing is the best results at times. You can find yourself loving to use Talking sticks as a jig trailer, wacky rig, Carolina rig, Texas rig, even weightless jerking those baits like a fluke will bring you lots and lots of wren fish.

We want to take a minute to appreciate our amazing Pro-Staff Team! Not only do they support and love the baits- they put them to good use always. We couldn't be more thankful for you guys! Congratulations to a wonderful tournament season guys! We are so proud of everyone! :) Here's our guys amazing results:

*Josh Taggart taking home 2nd place with a CW Quail Tails and Chowa Barbs at his MBC Championship this past weekend. 

* Tom Karavites taking home 1st place with CW in Let's talk fishin'  Pro Teams this past weekend.

* George Sisemore and Chuck taking home 2nd place with CW in Pro Teams and winning Angler of the year for a second year in a row!

*David Jacques traveling to New Mexico to fish another Kayak event- as well as fishing this weekend at a kickin bass event. 

Seriously, way to go guys! We can't wait to see what the future holds. Check out these local fishing circuits- it's a great time with good people who just love fishing. 

www.letstalkfishin.com

So, now we will be working to further products to be sold locally around Arizona. As well as continuing to bring you some new exciting baits and tackle to use here soon. So stay tuned with us, as our journey has only begun. You can find us following some local tournaments meeting new fishing buddies, and passing around samples to use. If you ever see us out and about at the lake- don't hesitate to say hello! Also- be on the lookout, we are planning our motor-less events to be started in the new year of 2016. Sure to be a great time! :) Thank your for reading along, and most importantly fishing with Cactus Wren Outdoors. Without our Wren Anglers, we wouldn't be here. :) Until next time... fish on friends!

P.S. Check out some neat photos below from the Wren Family, and Wren Anglers. :)

Tight Lines, 

Alex Butel

www.cactuswrenoutdoors.com

So it's been a while, Happy Spring 2015!

Hi Everyone! :)

So, it's been too long since we've bogged. Our deepest apologies, things have been so busy for us- in nothing but a good way! However, we have lots of exciting things to update ya'll on. For one, how's everyone fishing lately? Drop shot any CW Talking Sticks or Quail Tails? TOTALLY RECOMMEND it, they are sure to deliver "The reaction you've been waiting for!" But you know this by now, check out our soft plastics NOW! Get ready for that amazing Arizona Spring Fishing...
Check it out here: http://cactuswrenoutdoors.com/products

Let's jump right into it, so some big exciting news 1st- Cactus Wren Outdoors has partnered with Johnny Johnson! What a dream that is, we are incredibly excited and blessed for this opportunity. What a great guy Johnny is, he's so excited and JUST LOVES Fishing Cactus Wren Lure's! Right now, we are hard at work designing a Series of Johnny Johnson baits with CW. So Stay tuned for that, and meanwhile- watch some great episodes of Fishing with Johnny Johnson on Fox Sports every Wednesday at 12:00 pm and Sunday at 9:00 am... If you don't have cable you have tune in online, at:
www.fishingwithjohnnyjohnson.com 

Next, is we are hard at work with joining some new stores around town. One of them being Shoppers Supply in Chandler, AZ. how neat right? They are great supply store, from gear to ranch supplies and to outdoor sporting goods. Go check it out now- stay tuned to see the full line of Cactus Wren Outdoors there! :) Visit www.shopperssupplyaz.com for more information!

Lastly, as most of you know CW follows as many boat tournaments as possible to get free CW goods to all Arizona anglers that would like to try it for themselves. Lately, we've done some fishing derbies of ourselves for the motor-less community. What a blast those are- the group of anglers we bring together are such great people and loads of fun. We had one event in January at Apache Lake, and one event in February at the Salt River. Read the following results here:

January:
1st Place: David Jacques 28 inches.
2nd Place: Kyle Kwaad 22 inches.BIG FISH: Kyle Kwaad 22 inches. 

No Third Place winner! Better luck next time!

February:
NO FISH CAUGHT! :( What a tough day that was! Luckily everyone was a great sport.

However, Cactus Wren was real excited to implement some new events and point ranking systems to compete with the big boat circuit and start to legitimate things. Unfortunately, we had to reschedule all of our events until further notice. As a bummer as that may sound- it only means positive things are in the works for CW. We are devoting all of our energy to building a legitimate 2016 Motor-less Tournament Season. Stay tuned for more details, as we are VERY excited for this process. In the mist of all of this chaos- CW is trying to turn our 2015 Motor-less derbies into a FREE fishing club. Creating a decent size group of individuals gearing up for the legit 2016-tournament circuit with CW. Any thoughts? We would just meet at designated lakes and all fish together for fun practice. :) Hoping to keep our group of anglers together while still spreading the word about the derbies. Any help and all feedback is much appreciated, and as always we can't thank ya'll enough for your wonderful understanding. :)

Lastly, We want to welcome our NEW Pro-Staff members we've added- Tom Karavites and David Jacques. What great anglers and gentlemen these fellows are! We couldn't be more proud and excited for our futures together. CW is opening up a bracket on our Pro-Staff for motor-less anglers, ever interested? Submit your application to gethooked@cactuswrenoutdoors.com It's simple and a fun process- no matter what you may hear, CW Pro-Members are more like a family to us, we appreciate our anglers more than they'll ever know. After all we are chasing the same dream to be fishing for a living! In our circumstance, getting others fishing with CW for a living! ;) Check out our guys bio here: http://cactuswrenoutdoors.com/p/meet-cw-anglers *Toms to be added this week! :)

All in all, we are very excited to what these last few months have brought to us! We are super pumped for the future as well. We cannot thank all of you CW Anglers and customers enough for what you’re doing for all of us. Believing and supporting us means the world to Justin and I, after all your bringing our dream to life. Our commitment to you, is to never stop innovating and pushing forward to create and produce the best tackle in Arizona, and the United States overall. :) Please tell us your favorite fishing story with CW lures- we love hearing from anglers and customers all around. Thank you for taking the time to read this and stay updated with us, we look forward to talking to ya'll again soon. Our You-tube channel should be updated here shortly this month- so bare with us and stay tuned for some killer videos. Enjoy spawn and the beautiful spring weather everyone! Until next time....

Tight Lines,

Alex Butel

www.cactuswrenoutdoors.com

Holiday Tournament/Party & 2014 CW Recap!

Hello Anglers!

How's winter fishing? Who's spooning and jigging? Has anyone tried the NEW CW Terminal Tackle and Jigs yet? Sure to deliver "The Reaction you've been waiting for!" check it out here: http://cactuswrenoutdoors.com/t/cw-jigs

So as you all know, CW had a Holiday Tournament and Christmas Party- the day was very cold and full of fun and well you guessed it...FISHING! We had 8 Anglers participate and boy were they champs! Such good sports, I really had thought it would be great start the tournament bright and early at 6am, yet I didn't think hard about the fact that it's winter and super dark- so thankfully everyone patiently sat around the fire and altered the event time to 7am start without a fuss! Thanks guys! Not only was there that big mistake, we also had lots of confusion from the scoring system...due to me again, yep- this holiday season obviously has made me lose my mind.  Seriously shame on me, anyhow we worked through it- had we done our usual point ranking...David Jacques would have taken it for the win. However Jason Bisdorf  took it with 17' Bass- we did longest measured bass took the win! :) Either way everyone had a wonderful time and enjoy lots of good food, and a fun white elephant gift exchange, all in all the day was very successful- we can't thank Ya'll enough for coming out and supporting Cactus Wren Outdoors!!

So lets see here, as you know CW is new to the tournament community- and it's our goal to bring a legitimate kayak tournament circuit going in Arizona- within 2015 and 2016 we want to get everything going and legit to everyone's standards. ALL FEEDBACK is very appreciated!! We are thinking about doing a tournament every months for the whole year, and it different locations each month? Thoughts? Also- we were going to raise the buy in prices and pay out more as well as do a point ranking system for the end of the year awards..? What's your input? We look forward to putting these events on, we meet a lot of great anglers who turn into great friends! :) Thank you for giving us the opportunity to do so. Lastly, Thank you for being patient with our first year of hosting tournaments, we may have had some hiccups but we are proud of how far we have come.! We look forward to a brand new year with more great events and products to share with the Arizona fishing community.

Well its that time of year again, things coming to an end as we prepare for the new year with excitement! How does time go by so quick!? Ya know- when your in the present it can easily seem as nothing has changed. Yet, when you look back on the year, everything has changed! We have many things to be forever grateful and thankful for this year. Mostly, all of our amazing Wren Anglers we've met throughout the year- Thank you all SO much for fishing with Cactus Wren Outdoors! It means the world to us, we are living a dream creating lures and fishing gear that brings joy to all and many fish to the boat or kayak. We go into 2015 with so much potential, we have a lot of new and extremely exciting things coming this year! :) Let's check out our CW Year Recap quick-

Established in 2013:
Started with Talking Stick Baits in 2 sizes and 6 colors.
1 Pro-Staff Fisherman Cole Garratt
*Small Cliental through Ebay and Online Store

Now Ending 2014:
CW has 21 color options in 5 different Soft Plastic Baits and in 4 sizes
 (with continued bait development)
-CW Roadrunners
-CW Talking Sticks
-CW Quail Tails
-CW Canyon Craw
-CW Ridgewalkers

CW has flawless terminal tackle and jigs in 3 different colors, and 13 different skirt patterns.
-CW Football Head jig
-CW Swim Jig
-CW Shaky Head
-CW Chowa Barb
-CW Drop Shot weights

***All Products are handmade by Justin and Alex Butel locally.

4 Pro-Staff Fisherman:
1. Derrick Franks "The Striper Snatcher" www.stripersnatcher.com
2. Cole Garratt
3. Joshua Taggart
4. George Sisemore

*What a great Pro-Staff we are blessed with!

&Looky HERE, CW is Featured with these wonderful companies!!:
1.Liars Korner Located in Mesa, Arizona.
2. Fishbone Outfitters www.fishboneoutfitters.com
3. The Striper Snatcher www.stripersnatcher.com
4. Mystery Tackle Box www.mysterytacklebox.com


As you can see! What a year it's been! WHOO! Thank you all again for following along and supporting Cactus Wren Outdoors! Continue to follow along, our journey has only begun!
See you soon anglers, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!


Tight Lines,

Alex Butel
www.cactuswrenoutdoors.com

Let's Play Catch up with The Wrens! :)

Hey Everyone!

So it's been a while, and it's time to catch you up. Things have gotten so crazy, and amazing all at the same time. Cactus Wren has had a few great fishing events, and the holidays are here filling all of us full of cheer! : ) Has anyone been fishing lately? Any stories to brag about? Winter has finally seemed to come out in a full bang- it's been so cold lately for Mesa Arizona. As we all are familiar the Bass are going real deep for winter. It seems it's been tough to get on a bite as these fish are moving slower and deep. What's everyone fishing? The Wren's winter go to are usually always... Drop shot, some gold or silver spoons, maybe event a Carolina rig with some CW Ridgwalkers or some CW Roadrunners; which are some of our newest baits.. The Wrens have had a lot of their sleeves.  Proud to announce we were featured in this months Mystery Tackle Box subscription- what a dream! I mean come on, who doesn't love their MTB every month! New to MTB? Check it out here: There really neat, special packages in the mail each month! www.mysterytacklebox.com

Cactus Wren has came out with some new great baits and all new terminal tackle, especially for winter and gearing up for the 2015 spawn! Also we haven made a great new buddy - Derrick Franks the Arizona Striper Snatcher! He's a great guide service that will deliver you a wonderful fishing trip you'll remember for the rest of your life! Go on out and see for yourself, we are proud to announce we've designed CW Striper Snatcher Roadrunners with Derrick Franks just to ensure you get on stripers like the pro! Go ON, schedule a trip with our buddy Striper Snatcher- check him out here: www.stripersnatcher.com :) We guarantee "The Reaction You've been Waiting For!" If you haven't yet- email us now to try a sample of our baits for FREE! Can't beat that- email at gethooked@cactuswrenoutdoors.com Be sure you check out the new website with all our new gear for sale. www.cactuswrenoutdoors.com

Anyways, let's focus on the subject here- let's catch you up. Since our last blog- we had put on our very 1st Cactus Wren Fishing Friendly Tournament at Canyon Lake in September, what a great turn out that was! After that, we hosted our next event at Saguaro Lake, Butcher Jones in October and again another great event, Thanks to everyone who came! Then we gotwww.heroesonthewater.com All in all we have had a blessed and busy last few months since we've talked to Ya'll! We are SO thankful for everyone who has came out or continues to support Cactus Wren Outdoors. :)

approached in the honor of being able to sponsor a wonderful organization. But it gets better it's for a charity we are most fascinated by. They are called Heroes on the Water, a nationwide organization providing a peaceful alternative therapy for wounded warriors by fishing at your favorite body of water. Sounds dreamy right? Well if you don't take our word for it- check them out here.

Check out the results from the last few events we've been apart of:

Saguaro Lake, Butcher Jones October 2014:
1st- Bryan Pilcher
2nd- David Jacques
3rd- Cody Anderson

*What a talented group of Anglers that day!

Bartlett Lake, November 2014
1st Place: David Jacques
2nd Place: Jason Bisdorf
3rd Place: Joe Madrigal

*Again, what a wonderful group of people to fish with and enjoy the fishing for such a great cause!


What a year 2014 has been, full of fun and fishing. Living the dream- it's important to never give up and always continue to chase those dreams. After all life is divine chaos and it's worth embracing. Stay tuned for a year recap full of photos and videos, We wish you all a HAPPY HOLIDAYS! From our families to yours! : ) Thank you for fishing with Cactus Wren Outdoors, and always remember to follow along our journey has just begun.

Tight Lines,

Alex Butel
Phone: (602) 361-5904
www.cactuswrenoutdoors.com

www.cactuswrenoutdoors.com