Major League Fishing Episode #3 Liveblogged

Here is my recap of Episode #3

Today's Anglers
Skeet
Kelly Jordon
Jeff Kriet
Mike McClelland
Boyd Duckett
Ish
Rojas
Byron V.

Starts with McClelland telling us they are loading up and switching Zone due the the win.  They will be going into it blind not having that the previous evening to study a map.

Shelli Sanders is looking especially nice today.
Stone calls it the "high maintenance group"
They can start fishing immediately no 15 minute scout time.
Find out about Rojas' injured thumb.
Kriet tells us he's a nervous guy and will have to bring it down a notch

Sasquatch farting it's time for Period #1
McClelland gets first fish 2.5lbs on a spinnerbait. on 5th cast of the day
Kriet says he don't want to know what other guys have
They are on the far East end of the lake
Byron finding out the KJ went to the same spot.  It's bridge pillings
Byron makes a big deal of not casting when KJ goes
Rojas gets a fish 2.75lbs and into the lead
I notice Dean's Ref handles the fish to be weighed presumably because of his injured hand
Byron talks about how he got his hotel.   "I never thought I'd be a Texan"
Duckett gets a 1.25lber on a jerkbait,   thinks he should be catching more than he has
Kriet gets a fish 45 minutes in 2.25lber
Skeet gets a keeper 2lbs
McCelland takes the lead on a spinnerbait, he contests the weight but then realizes he read it wrong.
Dean Rojas takes the lead 5.75lbs
Byron takes out the Alabama rig for his 1st time ever.
Skeet ends up missing a couple
Ish gets a 2.5lbs punching the grass.
Kriet says he hasn't fished anything I like
Edwin Evers talking about the boats being 18' with a 150hp
Kriet moves into 2nd
Byron gets a 1.5lber on a plastic
McClennand fishing the bridge piers and gets a little one on the McStick into 2nd
Kriet catches one and into the lead- he says it main lake points
Skeet gets a fish and moves to 3rd
Mike misses to on the McStick then catches one and takes the lead
McCelland thinks he found something fishing in the wind as the period ends
Jordan caught one just as time ran out, so he's on the board

Period 2:
Dean talking about his injured wrist
KJ misses a fish in a buzzbait says he's 1 for 4 on bites
McClellad pulls a school and you can kind of see as a 2nd fish hooks itself, McClelland is excited got in on the McStick it's a 2.75 and 2.75
He says there were 20 fish in the wolf pack
Hooks up on next cast on 4.25
Kriet misses a good fish says it was 5lbs
McCellend says Kriet is a "Spin out Case" "He can spin out with the best of them"
McCellnand hooks a striper "we do not need you, dadgummit I thought was another largemouth"
Skeet moves into 2nd
Kriet moves into 2nd
1 minute later Skeet hooks up "My blood is pumping now, boys!"
McCelland brings in 3.25lbs talks about how they wanted a hesitation in the retrieve
Dean catches one moves into 3rd
McCelland  hooks a fish while being interviewed by Stone says to tell em "I'm gonna put a McStick on and lay a smackdown on 'em"
The go to Kriet talking about how Mike is probably out throwing a jerkbait in the windy points
Show McCellend talking about rooming with Kriet and wants to see him make the cut. "I want to go to the final round with Jeff Kriet."
Marty Stone talking with Kriet asks if he can connect the dots and Kriet talks about Mike and a jerkbait
Duckett caught one and said he thought it was a "walleye" Huh!
Dean catches one and they confirm the Ref is handling fish because of the injury puts him into 2nd on the Fighten Frog. says he's gonna fish that place the rest of the day.
Kriet is out in the wind on a point and gets one immediately
KJ says "look at this dumb looking thing" as he goes to the A-Rig gets hammered on the 4th cast., it's 3.5lbs "I heard they hit it hard, that sucker crushed it"
Interview with Denny Brauer talks about catching fish on a shallow crank "that lead him down a path I wish it hadn't"
KJ gets another A-rig fish 4.5  moves him up to 2nd
1st time he's ever thrown it
Kriet gets one on a worm out of the wind moves him into 3rd
KJ gets another as does Rojas who moves into 3rd
"I boogered up 5 or 6 fish and it bothers me, bad"
"I'm getting my butt whipped I don't wanna hear who's catching them" Kriet

3rd Period:
Kriet starts jerking on points and gets one taking into 3rd
KJ gets a 1.25 on the A-rig
Skeet fishing Byron who's catching fish says "I'm letting Byron kick my ass, you kidding me"
Kriet hooks up on a 3.25 and gets into 2nd, Kriet's talking and quickly gets another on the jerkbait
Kriet gets another and then he pitches a jig and gets a toad 6.5lbs "When I pitched in to that clump and he hit it, I almost had an accident in my britches"
Ish has moved into 4th
Kriet gets one and moves into 1st
McClelland thinking about what Kriet is doing
Skeet lands a 3.75 and he goes into 3rd
Kriet catches a couple and increases his lead on the jerkbait'
"I know I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but if Mclelland is catching them he's jerking it" Kriet
McClelland talks about maybe going to see Kriet to see what he's doing
McClelland gets a 2.75" then another and another but Kriet gets one and stays ahead
"McClelland thinking he wants to win, he's greedy" Kriet
Boyd moved into 4th
Kriet gets another
Boyd misses one and cuts his finger
KJ gets a little bump on the A-rig
Skeet gets one that barely makes  it with 1.25lber into 4th and then he gets another on a worm
Ish gets a 4lber that puts him a half pound down on Skeet
Skeet gets another on the drop shot and then another and he moves into 3rd
Kriet's says he needs to get another cause he's 3.25lb up
McClennand gets one that's 2lbs
"I'm gonna be pissed if I get beat" Kriet with 2 minutes left
McClelland gets "the wrong kind, Kriet you are so lucky right now"
He hooks up again and it's a largie "take that Kriet!"
And time ends
"1st period was the game changer"

1st McClelland 38.5lbs
2nd Kriet 37.5lbs
3rd Skeet 23.25lbs
4th KJ  21lbs
5th Ish 19lbs
6th Boyd 16.75lbs
7th Rojas 12.75lbs
8th Byron 11.25lbs

"This group learned to play the game" Stone

The End

They let us know next round is 1st one to 40lbs

Bassmaster Classic TV Schedule for this Weekend

The War Room- Ask For It!

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Well it kind of looks like a no go for this year.

The Lane Family Tradition

Congratulations Chris Lane Classic Champion!!!

It was great to see Chris Lane bring home the trophy

Bassmaster Classic Day Final: Liveblogging

Well I think Walker is a longshot at this point.  I am predicting that the Rooster Greg Vinson is gonna take it.  I guess we will see.

It's 2 O'clock and it looks like Vinson and Lane are about tied with Lane having the edge on Basstrakk.  The thing is Vinson is locking and Lane is fishing because he went back to Pool 5 early.  Timmy Horton has a good bag but needs a super kicker or two.

Well it looks like Chris Lane and Vinson left the door open, but it doesn't seem like anybody stepped up to walk through it.  It looks like nobody busted a huge bag, but then you never know.

Arkansas won the College Classic.

Once again they fail to show video clips and keep the camera on Zona and Sanders.

Must of just did the National Anthem, I was taking the dog out.

Intro: Awesome A-Mart getting whacked by a fish.

Weigh In Time:
Going to be interesting to see if Jamie Horton gets booed.  I think he deserves it for insulting the crowd yesterday.

Well he didn't get booed but he didn't get much cheering.  He kind of made amends by talking about how great the crowd and Louisiana is.

Kevin Wirth didn't get teary and he stuck up for his Merc.

Looks like Poche may in the Super 6

Dave Walker may be Super 6
Nope Walker just came out.
Nope Poche just came out.
Poche moves into 1st, maybe he should have been.

Doing Berkley Havoc cast for $100,000
He missed it, he chose to pitch it and it was a bit to far away I think

oh great Zona Sanders and Byron
interesting video of guys running into the backwaters

Go to commericials, switch looking at arena to on screen.  Once again after not doing it to show the fish catches, least they didn't have the camera's totally on Zona & Sanders

Dustin Wilks first intro'ed he hop's in his boat and they call Evers and he gets in his boat same for B.Lane then Alton, then Vinson, Then C Lane

Bring on Poche for the hot seat.

Wilks into 4th with 44-12
Evers  43-8 into 5th
B Lane 5-14 takes him down to 17th, OUCH!
Alton 14-3 and he takes 2nd place and the crowed roars for Poche
"I can see it in his eyes, he's gott'em" about Vinson
The Rooster 13-7 into 1st with 47-15
Points out his wife and new kid
I think Chris has got him

Chris Lane takes it with 51-6

Chris Lane Bassmaster Classic Champion!!!

He kneels down for raising the trophy, not quite a Tebow

And the Victory Lap.

Odd people on the Internet complaining there is no coverage.  Maybe they have dial up?

Classic Day 2: LIveblog

It sounds to me after reading the recaps that Bobby Lane, The  Rooster, and Poche are in a pretty solid position.  I think Ott, Wilks, anc Chris Lane are in a precarious position as that their areas seam to be crowded.  Chris Lane isn't even going to fish the same place today.  I am unsure about Evers and Walker.  But honestly I think it's entirely possible the winner will not even come from Day 1's top 8.  There are just to many good sticks down to about  27th Place with Van Dam that could conceivably put a couple of 20lb bags up.  This thing is still wide open

OK I'm up at 10AM trying to get caught up.

I must say I enjoyed the War Room stuff on Bassmasters.  I didn't catch much of Bass Zone Wide Open because of it.  It sucks that Bass Zone doesn't have their evening show.

Man, I hope Walker has more than 2 fish.

It looks like they are once again going to show Zona and Sanders instead of the action on the screen.  Oh my they went to the screens for once.  How hard is that producers?

Hmmm Havoc is Skeets Top Sponsor

Come on producers go to the SCREENS!!! Morons!!!

Finally the national anthem

The Weigh In Bits and Pieces:
Edwin is 1st up. Has a pig 14-4 with a 6-4 puts him up 2lbs on Basstrakk

Keith Combs pulls a toad, gets 15-1 which is a pound up on Basstrakk.  Has a couple guys in his area.

Swindle pulls out a slob 4 fish for 13-6.  He's hilarious as usual when he doesn't catch'em. Probably makes the cut.

Faircloth pulls a slug and he weighs 18-12, biggest bags so far.

Funny Brent Chapman didn't pull his big fish, guess it wasn't as big as they said.  He got 15-10

Fletcher Shyrock might not make the cut with just under 20lbs

Bobby Lane gets 14-8 takes the lead that is a pound above his Basstrakk

Denny disappoints with just 1 fish.

Tim Horton wears the jumpsuit and pulls two pigs out.  He's got a Hula Popper patch.  Does a tribute to the old Pro's.  "NFL's got the throw backs now we do too" He weighed 17-4 out of nowhere as he didn't have anything on Basstrakk.

Poche drops down the to 3rd and falling

Steve Kennedy "I suck"

Ott Defoe falls to 8th and falling

Matt McCoy brings in 17lbs.  "I got em in the boat" as to what he did different.

They aren't updating the Live Leaderboard as crisply as yesterday.

Ish took a late penalty due to I think what were KevinWirth's boat problems.  He was not happy about it and throws him under the bus because it is costing him the cut. It was because they held up the lock for him.
Nope it wasn't Wirth,
Update-Turns out is was Wirth

Randy Howell "I thank the Lord most for my smoking hot wife"

Rojas pulls out a tank, wow it only went 4-14 thought that was a 6

Walker does have a limit for 12-4 puts him into 3rd for now.  "The rumor's of my demise were greatly exaggerated"

Dustin Wilks put 2 pounds on his Basstrakk weight and moves into 3rd

The Rooster gets into first with  34-8 almost 4lbs on Bobby Lane

Alton has 17-14 for 31-11 and into 2nd just as Basstrakk said.

Wirth gets emotional about having one more day to fish.

Marty the Party does his dance. Thanks trip for helping him with his dancing at the end.

Chris pulls a toad out and he has 19-4 and he takes 1st, beat Basstrakk by 6lbs. Has a pound on The Rooster

Wow Mr. Horton rubs it in on the LSU fans.

Bill Lowen comes in 2lbs under Basstrakk

Hackney water fell out on him might not make the cut.

AMarts 15-10 is a lb up on Basstrakk. He is in 8th one ahead of Walker.

Ike gets 13 and makes the cut for now in 25th, but KVD is left

And KVD kicks out Ike.  Tak is last in and Hackney makes it as well.

Weigh In Over

Doing Hook'd Up with Chris Lane
and the feed cuts in mid interview.

So it's C. Lane, Vinson, Alton, B.. Lane, Evers, and Wilks in the Super 6

Press Conference to start soon:
Bobby we don't see each other

"Bobby it's a dream come true"

Chris Lane was helped by seeing Matt Reed catch fish, apparently Reed and Lowen are in the same area.

Classic Day 1: Liveblogging

It's now 11AM and I am up,  First thing was to check the live blog.  Unfortunately for some reason only the first page is showing up so I can't read up on what happened from the start. (they got that fixed)

Alright my boy Dave Walker is in the lead with 16lbs+

Got to take the dog out.

Now we find out Walkers marshal screwed up.  He has about 13lbs. Looks like he got himself up to 15lbs.

It's now 2:26PM and there is no sign of Mark Tucker on Basstrakk.  Hopefully his tracker is broken or his marshal didn't know how to use it.  Brandon Palanuik is also not on the the Basstrakk. No Denny Brauer either.

Hmmm they are giving different results on Hook'd Up than on Basstrakk.

Crap Liveblog on Tucker:

Mark Tucker, on a good day, would have five bass in his livewell with enough weight to keep him in contention after Day One of the Classic. But it has not been a good day so far.

Part of his problem was self-inflicted. Tucker has spent all day in Shaw Lake. He picked up a rod with a spinnerbait that he wasn't planning  to use today. It enticed a bite from a four-pounder that came unhooked right at the boat. That's when Tucker realized he'd left a hook cover on the spinnerbait from Wednesday's practice, when he wasn't trying to land a fish.

"Then I lost a three-pounder as I was lifting it in the boat," Tucker said. "It hasn't been a good day. I've got two fish and I should have five."

I see Denny is now on with 2 fish for 6lbs.  A good average size if he can get a limit.

HMMM Mercer is up on the Classic stage doing stuff and Hook'd Up is on with Skeet.

Huh, they have KJ with Zona and Sanders doing a Hook'd Up on the weigh in stage.

Singing National Anthem

The Weigh In Bits and Pieces:

Hack is u[ 1st.  13-15 Says he'll make his long run all week.

Mark Tucker Fantasy Bass Fail

Browning couldn't find any quality fish.

Jamie Horton gets 14-15 he is going to fish the Elites this year as Federation Champ

Martens thanks the soldiers 13lbs which is way past the 4lb he supposedly had.


Chris Lane had 16lbs will run all new water tomorrow


Wow it' John Crews 6th Classic 11-15 Crews will stay in the same spot he shared with Lane today


Marty Robinson does a dance


Scroggins comes in 2lbs heavier than Basstrakk, says he lost a couple of good fish.


Brandon Palanuik skunks


Kriet and Van Dam were fishing next to each other and KVD had a swirl right in front of Kriet.  Kriet did throw back.  Van Dam didn't catch it.


Matt Reed caught a big dogfish first thing


Fed angler Tom Jessop came in 5lbs below Basstrakk


The Rooster Greg Vinson catches 17lbs and takes the lead has area all to himself


Walker has 16-8lbs so he's a pound heavier than Basstrakk.  He's in 3rd.


Ike has 10-7 that's 2lb more than Basstrakk.  He hocks his new sport drink Ike'd Up


KVD caught 11 even but feels good about it


Hey camera man if your gonna show highlights, show them we don't wanna look at Zona and Sanders.  It was ridiculous!


Hite came in about 1/2 lb light but he's in the hunt with


Ish is making a run to Pool 3 tomorrow.   Not what Hack wants to hear.


Tak comes up with a pound plus over his Basstrakk


Ott with 16-6 and into 4th.  That's 2lbs plus above Basstrakk


Kennedy gets 3lbs up on his Basstrakk number


Grigsby ran all the way to Pool 3, just ran out of time


Keith Poche pulls out a tank 17-13 so he's in the lead big fish is 6-13


Bobby Lane 16-4 ties him up with Chris, throws in Havoc plug


Andy Upshaw comes in two pounds above Basstrakk with 12-8


Josh Polfer 4lbs less than Basstrak, ouch


Brent Chapman thinks he's got a shot in his area


Faircloth is in the area with Poche but got less than 10lbs


Swindle layers it on pretty good about how he's gonna get them tomorrow.


Sounds like Keith Combs ran down to Pool 3 as well.


Evers comes in with 16-3 out of nowhere, almost 10lbs above his Basstrakk


And Weigh In is over interviewing Poche


Has a bait no one else is throwing, has the area to himself other than Faircloth


Apparently they are not doing the post press conference with the Top 5 or 6


BassEast.com has some pretty good post weigh in interviews

Big Indiana Bass  has the rundown on Basstrakk accuracy 

Bassmaster Classic Fantasy Roster

This is my final roster for the Classic.  Went with KVD for obvious reasons.  I hoping Walker will be able to flip'em up.  I switched out Brandon Palanuik at the last moment.  I'm going with Tucker on a hunch.  Keith Combs hopefully will be solid.  And I'm hoping the college lad will be able to use his local knowledge and find his way into a top 15 finish.

Update:
Walker is 4th Very Good
Upshaw is 19th which is OK
Combs is 17th also OK
Van Dam is 27th but it sounds like he's confident
Tucker would be Fail except Palaniuk and Ashley did even worse and those were the others I considered in that bucket.

Update Day 2:
Walker fell to 9th
Combs moved up to 11th
KVD moved up to 18th
Upshaw dropped to 31st
Tucker 41st

Hopefully all three can move up tomorrow.

The Grim Heaper (from Heap Hunters)

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FLW Says: "Ten Bucks, Buddy"!!!

(And it Sucks, Buddy!!!!!)

That is right, it's going to cost you $10 to play FLW Fantasy Fishing this year.  I thought not such a big deal and signed up, but then I learned they only have Prizes to 10 Places and that is ONLY FOR THE END OF THE YEAR!  WHAT THE HECK!  Seriously had I known they would not be giving prizes for every tournament I would not have paid.  Turns out the money is not refundable.  I wrote FLW and told them I thought this is bullshit.  I would much prefer they split the $100,000 top prize into smaller amounts and have nothing for the end of the year.  I just can't believe it, Seriously 10 winner for the whole year, it's just sad.  B.A.S.S. now totally kicks FLW's ass in Fantasy Fishing.

I advise you save your money and go by scratch off or Powerball lottery tickets instead.

One Rod, One Bait, and One Reel

A spoof of George Thorogood tune “One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer.”
Taken from Bass Parade

Major League Fishing Episode #2 Liveblogged

If you don't won't to be spoiled don't read.

The Anglers Today:
Biffle
Brauer
Evers
Faircloth
Grigsby
Ike
Jones
Omori

Period 1:
Start with Sasquatch farting.

Evers with first fish 2.25lber
Brauer 1.75lbs
Biffle 1.75lbs
Alton 3lber
Ike 1.75lbs
Ike swears trying to get back to fish.  He catches a short.
Omori catches a dink then gets a 1.5lbs
Biffles misses a couple on the frog
Grigsby gets a 2.5lbs can't see how big it is without his glasses
Ike fish spitting minnows.
Ike says conditions are perfect but the fish aren't going.
Evers is throwing blades up in the grass.
Ike lays an F Bomb on a little keeper
Biffle gets a good one on a frog 6lbs
Times up
Apparently Faircloth got 3 in the last 15 minutes he's in 4th place with 5.75lbs
Ike 8lbs 3rd
Evers 9.75 2nd
Biffle with 13lbs
Takahiro is in last with 2 for 2.75
Brauer says he's fishing some baits he'd never touch in a normal tourny

Period 2:
Starts showing Faircloth dropshotting
Biffle gets one on his Hard Head
Alton catches one that chokes it 3.75lbs into 2nd
catches a couple more real quick
Denny switched to a crank and gets a 3lber
Talking about how tough it's being today
Denny moves into 4th with 8.5lbs
Alton is up to his 7th of the period on a jerkbait, don't know what kind. He ties Biffle
Edwin gets one on a jerk.
Haven't heard from Ike at all.
Alton takes the lead
talking with Bobby Lane says he had good average of fish but he wasn't getting the numbers
says he got sick to his stomach being in last place
Faircloth gets one fish and goes from last to tie for 4th
End of period
Alton 14 for 21.50
Biffle 7 for 18lbs
Evers 8 for 13lbs
Takahiro 8 for 11.5lbs
Faircloth 4 for 10.25lbs
Ike 6 for 9.75lbs
Denny 5 for 8.5lbs
Grigsby 3 for 6.5lbs
Tak is junk fishing

If you don't want to be spoiled don't look.
Period 3:
Ike gets first fish, then another and he moves into 3rd
Briefly however as Tak gets one on the A-Rig and ties Ike
Evers gets a fish (not shown) and moves into 3rd
Ike moves into 3rd on a blade
Tak gets a 4.25 on the A-Rig moves him into 2nd
Ike catch's a good fish and proceeds to go Ike and dump two rods overboard, luckily they hung up on another rod. 4.25lb and he's into 2nd.  Ike also got lures caught on his wallet chain.and shirt.  His ref is trying  to free the lures up and Ike hooks a fish and goes into the lead.  Ike tells a story about getting a fish at the end of the period that didn't count because time ran out, but it clued him in the fish wind blown points with brush tops. Also they show a snippet from the last break wear Ike throws around a few expletives.
Biffle gets a 4.25lber to put him .25 behind Ike
Ike lands a 2lber
Biffle breaks off a big one gets the penalty
Ike is separating himself
Faircloth has been catching fish and gets a 3lber that puts him in 2nd
Ike goes over 20lbs for the period
Alton is catching shorts
Faircloth catches a 4.75lb out of a big mat of grass
Tak gets a 2.75 and passes Biffle for 4th
Faircloth pulls another 2.75 chunk from the hydrilla
Edwin is missing fish in the hydrilla
Ike with a "giant" flops over his official, He goes Ike "Game Over"
Biffle misses a bite in the last minute, so he's eliminated
Ike does a break dance.
Wow that Challenge Cup is a big ole ugly thing.

Ike with 17 for 34.5lbs
Faircloth 13 for 32lbs
Alton 15 for 23.25lbs
Tak  12 for 23lbs
Biffle 8 for 22.25lbs
Edwin  10 for 16.5lbs
Denny  8 for 15.25lbs
Shaw 5 for 12.25lbs

Well it wasn't near the weight we saw in the last one.  I thought for sure Tak was going to start whacking them on the A-Rig in the last period.

Bassmaster Classic Top 12 Contest at The Bassholes

2011 Prize

Prize the year I won.

It's once again time for The Bassholes Basmaster Classic Top 12 Contest.  (click for details)

Bass Snatcher Meeting Today

Today we will be finalizing the dates and lakes for this summer. Check in later to see where we'll be.

Update: Hear are the lakes:
June 2nd Bay Lake
June 30th Leech Lake
July 15th Whitefish
July 28th Pokegama
August 26th North Long
September 22nd Alexander

I will comment on the lakes sometime later in the year.  The only lake I haven't fished is Bay

B.A.S.S. Fantasy Fishing Allowing 10 Groups

B.A.S.S. Fantasy Fishing just opened it up so you can join 10 Groups instead of 3.

So far I'm in:
Tackle Warehouse
Futurebass.com
Bass Utopia
The Bass Zone
Bassinusa.com
Gatortackle.com
Fishing Minnesota

New Minnesocold Bass Fishing Blog

Darin's Fishing Site- Enjoying Fishing In Minnesota is Bassin' Blog;  It started in August of last year and he has 10 Posts to date. Darin is a member of the Renegade Bassers all with Nick of Nick's Bassin Blog.  He reports on in his tournaments and other fishing he does.  Darin is fairly new to fishing tournaments; 2011 was his first season.  Check his blog out.  Hopefully he will participate in the Derby next year.

Randy Moss A-Rigging

B.A.S.S.

Story of Randy Moss fishing with Jeremy Starks on Kentucky Lake.

Love This...

Found this on The Activist Angler Journal

Major League Fishing Episode 1: Liveblogged

If you don't want to get spoiled stop reading:

Today we have
Mark Davis
Brent Ehrler
Hack
Klien
Bobby Lane
A Mart
Jason Quinn
KVD

What are penalties called for? They don't tell.

1st Period:
KVD first fish 3lber on 3rd Cast
2nd fish 2lber 15 minutes in.
A Mart gets 3rd fish of the day with 2lber
Davis got one.
Quinn got one
Bobby Lane has fish but isn't on camera.
Showing guys throwing A-Rigs: Quinn, Hack, Ehler with Quinn striking first.
Ehrler gets his 1st not on A-Rig
I'm kind of unhappy that aren't showing Lane as he said he would be throwing topwater.
They also are not showing  Klein, who has a fish.
No nets apparently as Ehrler gets a 5lber
KVD ends period with 11 fish for 23lbs
Ehrler unhappy about lost fish
So for it's KVD
Davis 7 fish for 15lbs
Quinn 5 for 12.25
Klein 4 for 9.75
Hack 5 for 9.25
A Mart 5 for 8.50
Ehler 3 for 8.25
Lane 3 for 6.50

2nd Period:
Mark catches 2 shorts at once.
Hack gets one on a frog and then another.
Klein starting to get fish
Still aren't covering Lane
Ohh Golly it's Grigsby. Lame.
Great more farting Sasquatch
guys are struggling this period, in calm bluebird sky's.
Quinn just had a school come up went to it and started catching them on the A-Rig.
Ehrler sounding frustrated.
KVD still catching them.
Ehrler breaks his line on 4lber gets a 1 minute penalty.

Period ends
KVD 19 fish for 36lbs
Quinn 12 for 30.75
Klein 16 for 25.75
Davis 9 for 18.25
A Mart 10 for 16.50
Hackney 8 for 15.75
Ehrler 7 for 15.75
Lane 5 for 11.50

Bagging on KVD for catching them
Finally they show Lane, and he talks about Jack's Links Beef Jerky.


If you don't want to be Spoiled stop reading:
3rd Period:
Hack gets 1st fish and into the 4th place cut spot.
Then Davis catches one and gets it back.
Quinn starts catching fish.
Quinn catches Van Dam and then goes up
A Mart takes 4th with 23
showing Lane catch a fish, and mentions Jack Links
Quinn gets a 5.75lber
A Mart missing fish, then gets one and goes up on Davis by 4lbs
A Mart gets another drop shotting
Davis gets a 4lber, Martens up by 4lbs
Klein is catching up to KVD on the drop shot.
Klein breaks is line and sits in the penalty box.
Davis gets a little on A Mart
Ehrler starting to scooch up
Ehrler catches a 5lber and jumps A Mart with 2 minutes left
Ehrler misses one and A-Mart lands  one 1/4 short as time runs out.
It's Quinn 58.25lbs
KVD 42lbs
Klein 41lbs
Ehrler 35.25lbs

That was really good, I recommend watching it.

Chapman IS Champion!

James Overstreet/B.A.S.S.

Today Brent Chapman caught a single 6-5  largemouth to win to the Central Open at Lake Lewisville.  Hopefully it will give him some momentum for the Classic.  We would love to see Brent win it all this year!

It's been 7 years since Brent won with B.A.S.S.

A Little Fantasy Fishing Info

I didn't realize there was a Triton Boat to the season winner.  Go and sign up today!

On Fishin' With Your Dog

Fishing Headquarters has an excellent ode to fishing with his dog.

Heap Hunters On Facebook

Go to the boys and give them some love.

The Ohio Rig

I think it's a joke.

Speeding Up Tomorrow

We are getting our upgrade to Fiber Optics tomorrow.  Should speed me up around 10 times!

HMMM- Bass Pundit still takes 25 seconds to load, it wasn't that much faster before.  Still video's are way quicker and I'm assuming Bass Talk Live will be an uninterrupted feed.

Update- Bass Talk Live was uninterrupted which is nice.  And it kind of looks like it's my computer that is holding back my page loading speed.  I can load Bass Pundit in under 7 seconds on my mom's computer.

Puppy Bowl VIII

Ah yes Puppy Bowl Day, unfortunately I wasn't able to blog about it previously. Looks like the kickoff is at 2PM Central Time.

Later I will be back with my MVP Pick.

Update: I agree with the consensus  pick , Fumble as MVP

More Fantasy Bass

Update: Some changes I didn't read about at first.

The smaller buckets will include the season’s superstars, while incorporating those with a home-field advantage. The rational is simple: In order to win, you will have to give some thought to each contest, making sure you’re keeping up with what’s taking place on the water and strategically looking at who has the hot hand.

Each week of every event you will receive an email reminder to set your lineup. While you may think you already have the perfect team, there will be times when that won’t be the case.

After the Bassmaster Classic and following every other event on the Elite Series, the lineups will be wiped clean. The buckets will adjust, switching anglers around to account for home-field advantages and who has the hot hand at the moment.

That will require you to change almost every player, with new strategies instituted and a whole new set of hopes.

Other tweaks for 2012 are bonus points for the Carhartt Big Bass and for the heaviest stringer caught in each tournament.

On the Fantasy Bass Fishing Front

B.A.S.S. has rolled out there Fantasy Game for 2012 and as you can see it looks and plays the same as last year.  You pick one angler from each of the five different presorted groups of anglers and that's all their is to it. One thing that

is nice is they have decent prizes this year with $5000 plus an Anglers cap and jersey 1st Place.  2nd through 10th get $200 worth of Stuff and 11th through 25th get a shirt and hat.

Meanwhile FLW isn't going to have their game ready until the 2nd Tournament at Lake Hartwell.  So they are skipping the Big O tournament next week.

And as far as I can tell Advanced Angler isn't doing Fantasy again this year.

New to the Blog I've got Pages

If you look up you can see I've added an About me page and Classic Bass Pundit Page, which replaces that blogroll on the sidebar.  I'm thinking I'm gonna add Livewell Page for fish Pics.

2011 Derby Results

Yes I know this is way way late, but now I get it on the new Blogger interface.

Jason Holmer 2011 Champion!!!

6.62Lbs

Now of Bass Utopia Blog

Well it was another huge year for Jason Holmer bringing a massive 32.24Lbs. Shattering the 6lbs average barrier.  This is his 3rd Derby Championship in a row!

He also had Big Bass with a 6.87Lbs Fish, which is also his third in a row.

Congratulations Holmer!

2nd Place Josh Douglas

5.60lbs

Joshdouglasfishingcom

Josh had is best year yet with 27.30Lbs

Congratulations Josh!

3rd Place Andy Nitchals

5.13lbs

From: Andy's Bass Blog

This was Andy's first year in the Derby and he jumped out to a fast start with all his fish caught by June 7th.  He predicted he would have a rough time culling up from there and was right.

Congratulations Andy!

Personally it was my best Derby year so far with 23.90lbs, which put me over Cyberfish for the 2nd straight Year.  Overall it was a very good year with a record 4 bags topping 25lbs.

Great Job Everyone!!!

HMMM Can't Get Major League Fishing to Load

I want to do a screen capture but the page isn't loading on IE. Loads up fine on Google Chrome, problem is my Screem Capture is here on Explorer. I'd know understand it.

Oops Just Loaded UP

Advance Cast Pay Per View went on sale today

The ADVANCE CAST total-event BassPass, a package of seven broadcasts, will cost $17.94, with individual episodes available for $2.99 each. (The seven-event BassPass package features a “free” week.)

However:
The ADVANCE CAST that begins on February 13 will feature the first day of competition. Each subsequent week will offer the next consecutive day of competition. The seventh ADVANCE CAST broadcast will be a wrap-up show that features in-depth, on-the-water segment with the winners from each round and the Challenge Cup champion.

I assume they are going to run the first show on a loop and then switch to the second show the next week or maybe you will be able to watch it on demand.  It does say anything about how long the episode will be.

So who's in? I probably will be.

New Bass Blog: Bait My Line.com

Bait My Line.com is a new Bass Fishing blog out of Kansas.

Holes For Hero's Ice Fishing Tournament Medicine Lake

Next Saturday, February 4, 2012 from 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM (CT) is the Fishing For Life Holes For Hero' Ice Fishing Tournament out on Medicine Lake.

Registration
Advance registration is just $5 per person. Same-day registration (walk-up) is just $10. Your registration helps provide free fishing opportunities for men & women who have served our country.
Military personnel and their immediate families can register in advance or day-of at no charge.
Online registration & advanced ticket sales will end on Friday, Feb 3 at 6 pm.

Prizes
Over $2,000 in prizes includin Frabill StormSuit, Aqua-Vue, HT Auger Set, Dicks Sporting Goods cards, Ice Hunter combo. Category prizes plus random drawings throughout the day.

Official Rules are found Here (PDF)

NBC Cuts Out God in Lindner's Angling Edge Show

Yesterday we got this word from Lindner's:
We received notice from NBC Sports regarding the inspirational message Al presents at the close of each program. The following is a quote from NBC Sports (formerly Versus) “Moving forward, NBC Sports Network will no longer allow any non-sports related content, such as religious content in their programs. Any religious references need to be removed entirely. This includes, but not limited to, on show opens or logos, graphics, animations or any references by talent or guests. This change goes into effect immediately.” Therefore, we have no choice but to remove this segment from our Angling Edge series. We have made the required adjustments and Angling Edge will air as scheduled.

I'm a little bit dumbfounded by this decision on NBC's part. Do they expect that Lindner's audience for the show isn't gonna be just a bit unhappy about this? Up until now the LAE show has been what it has been and that apparently has been acceptable to NBC. Now NBC has dictated these changes and it seems that that the Lindner's were contractually obligated to cut out everything. It's a shame!

However, at the end they tell us; The inspirational message will remain part of Fishing Edge airing on numerous networks. Below is a link to the TV air schedule and then they link to the TV Schedule

I Could Use a Break!

Bass Parade Blog is giving out a Core Reel and sweet G. Loomis NRX853C Jig & Worm rod (7′ 1″, med-heavy, extra-fast tip).

Here is what they say:
Back to the question in the title. As much as I love the NRX and Core – and I do love them (*sniff*) – I’m giving them away, only slightly used. Why? I know life is tough for a bunch of folks out there right now, maybe this’ll make someone’s day, month, who knows. Plus I got plenty other rod/reel combos to catch the fishes.

Some of the folks out there who are hurtin’ are bassers, and no doubt they’d appreciate a job or some cash or a miracle more than an expensive rod/reel combo. But that’s all I got.

So: Anyone know someone who can really use a killer combo – and hopefully will really use it/fish with it?
Well in light of my Stroke at Christmas it is certainly something I could use and would use.

If anyone out their wants to send Jay at ( jay@bassparade.com ) a good word for me it would be much appreciated.

Thanks Bass Pundit

Missing My BPS Catalog

HMMM my 2012 Bass Pro Shops Master Catalog has gone missing.

Like It!

B.A.S.S. Bans Alabama

Well at least for the Elites and Classic. I guess this isn't that big deal, we'll soon see if FLW takes any action.

Grilled Cheese!!!

Well Rogers clearly sold out "the Belt" for the Discount Double Check. Looks like Rogers should of kept the money as his game winning mojo was gone. Didn't even make the NFC Championship.

Bye Bye Cheese!

Bass Snatchers Meeting Today

Unfortunately I will not be attending not so much do to the stroke, but because of my cold. Oh well!

Anyway the club is going to bring up lakes and I don't have any brilliant suggestions. I hear Bay lake is going up, but that's the only one I've heard of for sure. Should be interesting to hear what they come up with.

Update: Here are the tenative lakes
Bay Lake
Leech Lake
Whitefish
Pokegema
North Long
Alexander

I like the looks of the schedule and hope the lakes stay the same. We also are gonna have a tournament of Hubert. Not sure what that is all about.

Fall Outing Last Year!

Amazing this had not made it up here by now. This is video of me and Cyberfish catching some nice fish on the 2nd day of the Fall Outing. The biggest was 36" and more than enough to put me on top for FallEE WallEE.

Think Tank Lures Triggerfish

I won these three Triggerfish from The Bassholes in a contest.

More MLF

BP had a Stroke!

On Dec 23rd I had a stroke. I was in St. Cloud until Tues. and then was transfered to residential faculty in Pierz. Tomorrow I get to go home.

Thank You!

The MLF Promo

To be honest up until this point I had been kind of lukewarm about Major League Fishing. Maybe it's that I haven't fished in a while, but this promo got my juices flowing. I'm pretty sure I'll do the online Pay Per View, which is suppose to be available in January. I don't know what they were thinking matching Marty Stone up with that blonde babe Sheli Sanders. Who wants to look at the Stone Pony when you can look at her instead?

Mike Hart Convicted

From WONnews.com: Mike Hart Case Closed, Pleads Guilty To Misdemeanor

My Commentary: Actually it's impossible to know if justice was served in this instance. It is possible, but I think unlikely, that this was the first and only time he tried to cheat. In that case he probably got what he deserved. However if he cheated more than once and profited from it, which I think is more than likely, than justice would only be served if he got the full force hammer blow indicated in the article. I am pretty sure a $1000 bucks is pretty meaningless to this guy, really a paltry slap on the wrist. The only true punishment is the disgrace he brought upon himself and the fact that he will probably never be allowed to fish a bass tournament again. But there is one caveat to my thinking on that. Most bass tournament organizations are secular in nature and are under no obligation to be forgiving. However, I do not believe the same holds true for Christian faith based tournament organizations. With that type of tournament trail or club, if there is evidence of true repentance then I think those trails/clubs would be betraying their core principles if they did not offer forgiveness and a path to reconciliation. I think that fact puts the Christian trails in a very tough position. On the one hand I think it would be wonderful if Mike Hart could find some measure of redemption for himself, but on the other hand the guy should man up and reap what he sowed. He doesn't deserve the privilege of the pursuit of the passion because criminal fraud is just not acceptable; it should be one strike and your out. I really hope he doesn't seek out a Christian trail to fish, but I think seeking to fish in a small Christian fishing club along the lines of the Fishers of Men Fishing Club would be ok, in fact would be a good thing.

Jared Allen Is Justifiably Pissed

In the post game interviews Vikings Star Defensive End and one of the only good reasons to watch the team at this point was a unhappy camper in post game interviews. Apparently he was held out against his will towards the end of today's blow out loss. Jared is having a great season and is within reach of NFL and MN team sack records. YES stats and records matter or we wouldn't keep them. What in the heck was coach Frazier thinking?

Terrible! (Terrible for the player and Terrible for the franchise and fans)

I'm now starting to lean towards Frazier being fired. I'm going to have to give this some thought.

Liveblogging Vikings vs, Saints

I've got nothing better to do

End of 1st 7-3

Saints defense is looking pretty good, our offense not so much.

Fumble #2 Saints

and then a screen to Kliensauser that doesn't connect, what?

man does our offense look bad today, AP loses 6 then Ponder sacked
Offensive line playing terrible but at least Longwell hits 7-6 Saints

Note- We had yet another CB go down Asher Allen. Not good!

Wow crappy late hit call and then 2 penalty's for saints. Lots of penalties so far

rough pass int call gives Saints ball on 1 after 1st and 25

Saints 14-6

This sucks!

Saints onside kick, we are very lucky to recover. The way our O is performing can't say it was a dangerous call. Shows a total lack of respect for our team. Will our guys respond?

AP for 39. I don't think he is full speed or he would have been gone
2 crap plays with Webb, than Toby takes it for a TD 14-13
Credit to the Vikes for answering the insult

Just not getting pressure on Breeze

My prediction- we will be down 21-13 at half

Yep Saints get the TD, however there is enough time for the Vikes to get a score if we can complete a few passes. Right now Vikes are 3/8 passing for 18 yards and 10 of that was a shovel pass

1st down Ponder sacked
2nd down pass for no gain
man this is terrible
3rd 8 yard run
Saints will get ball back with under 30 left- Sheesh!
27 sec left
come on Jared level Brees

Halftime 21-13

Analysis- We are getting almost no pressure on Brees and our QB's are pressured on every play. 18 yards passing for us 247 for them.

Vikes 1st series
3 and out thanks to QB pressure and a dropped pass by Aoamashadou. Intentional grounding or he would have been sacked yet again.

Another Saints screen for big yards.
Man our pass D is bad, another Saints TD

my prediction. Vikes 1st upcoming play will be a pass
Nope I was wrong
Great Hutch is down

Have I said our O line is bad yet? This is just pathetic, Ponder just had to run for his life on a rollout pass and got creamed as he tried to throw.

And 3 plays for 53 yards and another Saints TD 35-13

Wow Ponder had time to throw the ball, but he missed on the pass. Down came the boo's. Vikes basically go 3 and out.

D Line isn't having a very good game, even with best pressure of the day can't get a sack.

3rd and 20 can vikes get stop?
Nope penalty (kind of a crap call IMO)

I don't think Sproles quite got in. Will be interesting to see what they do on replay
yep no TD
next play TD 41-13

Seriously, why does this announcer sound like he wants Ponder benched. It isn't Ponders fault he's getting no time to throw it.

why isn't the crowd booing the D fense. They Suck!
and then the D finally stops them (back up qb) and missed 50 yard fieldgoal. If your the Saints coach you can't feel good about that

Breaking news Packers down 19-7 with 5min to play

And Ponder gets a TD pass- good for him. Amazing what can happen when he gets a little bit of time and a good play call.

Yes the Vikes are getting killed by the Saints, but Da Bears are getting killed by the Seahawks in Chicago

Pack lose Pack Lose!
Ha Vikes crowd gives quite a cheer.

Ponder gets picked on last play. Pathetic effort by Aromashadou to make sure that doesn't happen.

Analysis: What can you say, the Vikes got their ass kicked. I didn't realize the Saints D was that good. They are gonna be dangerous in the Playoffs.

Another Frog, Booyah! (And Another)

I see that a new hollow body frog has hit the market that I wasn't aware was coming. It's the Booyah Pad Crasher and it sells for a very reasonable $5.79 a frog at Tackle Warehouse. It only comes in a 1/2oz size and is suppose to have really soft plastic body. The frog has a drain hole so it's not very likely to sink. Not sure what kind of hooks. I think they kind of look like the Knoppers frog only not as detailed. The 3 reviews at TW were all positive, but I can't find anything at Tackle Tour or Bass Pro for reviews.

And under the frogs that I will not be trying:
This is the new Jackall Lobee Frog which goes for $12.99 at Tackle Warehouse. At that price I can't believe they are gonna sell very many

In more frog news I have been racking up the deals on Ebay with Spro's, Snag Proofs, and Zoom Horny Toads. I don't think I will every need to buy a Horny Toad again and probably am set for life on hollow bodies at this point, but at $3-$4 a frog I'll pick up as many hollow bodies as I can. Next Spring I am going to need to buy a box for Spro's and a box for Snagproofs. I'm probably going to try to sell off a bunch of the Horny Toads for $2.25 a pack (retail on Horny Toads is $3.50 a pack).

Ha!

One of my Japanese Facebook Friends doesn't quite get it right.

Worst Vikings Team Ever?

Possible, but I don't think so.

The worst team in Minnesota Vikings history was the infamous Les Steckel team of 1984 that went 3-13. Currently the purple have only 2 wins with 3 games to play. I would say chances are better than not that the Vikes win at least 1 more game this season. I even think there is a chance this years club could upset the Saints in the next game and then run the table. I suppose a lot depends on what happens with AP and Ponder. Ponder clearly wasn't ready to play vs. the Lions and in my opinion should have been benched after he threw the pick 6. However, I don't blame Ponder for the 1st play fumble touchdown which was on Loadholt. I am guessing that AP will be back in the lineup vs. the Saints and barring re-injury will play the rest of the season.

This Viking squad has only been embarrassed twice this season, at Green Bay 45-7 and at Chicago 39-10 vs. a healthy Bears offense. The Vikings have pretty much been within a touchdown in the rest of the games (yes they lost by 10 in Atlanta, but the Vikes would have had another touchdown had Frazier challenged). The 1984 Vikings were blown out 6 times by at least 3 touchdowns, including a 44 point loss to the 49ers. In 1984 the NFC North wasn't one of the best divisions in the League. Clearly this team isn't 1984 bad even if they only finish with 2 wins.

Some people are calling for Leslie Frazier's head, but I am not among them. I do understand the sentiment as the level of coaching play seems to have been pretty poor this year in many aspects and respects. Still I think Frazier deserves a true full year of coaching, which he did not have this year due to the lock out.

KVD Cookie Auction

Have you ever wanted one of KVD's "magic cookies", well now is your chance to get one for a good cause. Tackle the Storm Foundation is auctioning off one on Ebay.

Ponder vs. Tebow (I'll take the Christian)

I will probably start bass blogging again sometime soon, but today it's about the purple.

In today's Vikings game our rookie QB Christian Ponder faced off against Broncos 2nd Year player and first year starter Tim Tebow. If you didn't know, the Broncos won the game 35-32 on a last second field-goal that was set up when Ponder made a bad throw while in Vikings territory with over a minute to go. Ponder also threw a "Pick 6" and lost a fumble in the red zone. Still I would not even think about trading Ponder for the 6-1 miracle man Tebow.

The Broncos have a pretty good Defence while the Vikings beat up secondary is probably the worst secondary in the NFL, maybe the worst in team history. The second half performance of the Vikings Defence today was an epic embarrassment with blown coverages and missed tackles. No doubt Tebow had the easier match up today in terms of Defence faced. Consider that previous to this game Tebow had not had a game with a completion percentage over 50%, but vs. the purple it was 66.7%. Ponder had a completion percentage of 61.7% with 3 times the number of throws.

Today's game not withstanding I think Ponder has a bigger upside than Tebow; Ponder is getting better and I think has the potential to develop into an above average QB, which is something I don't know is possible with Tebow. I don't know if Ponder can become an elite Quarterback, but he is already fun to watch, which is desperately needed in this lost season.