A BassNblog oversight corrected.
Last July I got an email from the guys at BadBassBoys.com and their Bad Bass Boys Blog about doing a reciprocal link with our blogs. I don't think I was blogging much at the time and so I ignored the email and hadn't looked at it again until today. They did link to me even though I ignored them. I am sorry about the oversight. You have a great looking website and blog. Hopefully I will get in on some of the free stuff they give out. The blog appears to originate out of Minnesocold, the Bass Blogging Capitol of the World. Check em out!!!

Another Minnesocod BassNblog:
Nicks Bass Blog- Nick is Nick Madison of the Golden Hook Bassers. The blog is centered around his tournament fishing experiences in the club and with the BASS/ABA Weekend Series. It turns out Nick drew Rich "Hellabass Bassin' Blog" Lindgren's dad as a Co-Angler at Whitefish Chain last summer (Hellabass gets props in the story, click that link and read it); It's a small world after all!!!

Hellabass has a touching tribute to the retiring Brett Favre...

My thoughts on Farve: Apparently his record vs. the Vikes was 17-15. I would have thought it more lop sided than this, but then again Favre had a hard time winning in the dome for most of his career.

Being a Vikes fan I never was that fond of the guy, but I think I did root for him in the Superbowl he won. He is certainly among the Elite of NFL Quarterbacks and Players, but I don't know if he is the greatest quarterback ever despite the fact that he now owns most of the records. His records are due to productivity but they are also due to longevity and the good forturne of never suffering any major injuries. One record for quarterbacks that he does not own is Super Bowl rings and another is career Quarterback rating due to all those interceptions he threw and Farve did entertain me with a great many of those in fact he is the NFL all time pick champion of the world.

One thing I don't like about the retirement is that the Pack Favre backup QB seems to have game. I think I would trade Tavaris Jackson for Aaron Rodgers any day of the week.

This just in... FLW Fantasy Results now in!!! Developing...

I am just floored by the scores people racked up. The $100,000 winner, Martin Toring from MN, had 5212 which is about 1000 points more than I anticipated. This person must have hit the 2,000 Brett Hite exacta and then had 3 more in the Top 10 or 2 in the Top 10 with 1 exacta.

585th Place (Last Prize) had 3113points which beats my score by 782 points. In other words I needed 2 more Top 10 anglers or another exacta just to make the prizes. I ranked at 17% which tells me nothing about how many players there actually are.

I figured I would be either first or second in all of my leagues.
I am 1st in the FishingMN.com league (13 teams)
I should be 2nd in the Fishwrench.com league but my team doesn't show up in the standings.
I am 4th in the RichLindgren.com league (24 teams)
I am 9th in the Futurebass.com league (29 teams)

My guess on why I was so off on the scores: I think Exacta's were probably far more common than I guessed. I figured the Exacta bonus would be few and far between, 8 of the 29 people in the Futurebass.com league hit an Exacta. In the RichLindgren.com league 3 of the 24 hit an Exacta. If my math is correct the odds of hitting an Exacta are 1 in 200 overall and 1 in 10 if you do get an angler in the Top 10. How can it be that so many people hit them?

FLW FBF regret: My one regret is that I was blind to Ron Shuffield. He was never on my radar screen yet has a solid career history on Toho. I don't know how he slipped past me but he did. Shame on all of the FLW Player's Advantage pundits for not picking him and pointing him out to me. Of coarse they didn't pick David Walker either who has a strong track record at Toho, yet bombed badly this year sticking both mine and my dad's team with a pathetic 28 point angler.

This just in... FLW Fantasy Fishing results not in.

It says the results will be in "soon." How long does that mean? Yesterday at the weigh in they said the $100,000 winner and presumably all of the results were going to be announced today. It is now 5PM central time, so I doubt that "soon" means anytime today. I know the game is free and all, but should it really take more than 24 hours for them to at least get some unofficial results out there?

Slop Bass at Futurebass.com emailed FLW and they told him that "soon" is sometime later this week. I guess I'll just have to wait some more. BOOOOOOO!

This lack of promptness tells me that FLW didn't and doesn't have all their ducks in a row.

Cyberfish is getting his blog on. He learned how to do a blogroll... Now he just needs to start putting in some "target="_blank" code to open the links in a new window.

FLW Toho-ho Day Final

FLW Live- So I'm watching the pre-weigh in festivities and the live feed completely cuts off. I've tried several times to get it back, but nothing. This sucks!!!

I restarted it completely and it came back.

I can't believe it!!!
Everyone has weighed in but Morehead and Hite. Fukae sits in 5th with 15-06 so all Morehead needs is 2-1 and Fukae goes to 6th. I have Fukae in the #5 spot in Fantasy Fishing and it's figure it's pretty much a certainty that I am off by 1 place. Then Morehead only weighs 1 fish for 1-13. EXACTA bonus 750Points. Shin Fukae scores me 1446 points, far more than my other 9 anglers combined. I now think it a possibility that I will make my way into the lower echelon of prizes. My guess is that it will be close.

I should also mention that Brett Hite won Toho by a 20-04 margin which is an FLW Tour record. Hite didn't even need to fish today to win. He did have the days biggest bag anyway 13-07. Bassfan projected Hite in their Top 10 to watch because of his skills worming, but it turns out he used a Chatterbait type lure to catch his fish.

Josh Douglas is "Stocking up for 08"...

FLW Toho-ho Day 3

Looks like Brett Hite blew the doors off at Toho with a 25-02 sack building himself a 12lb lead.

Day 3 Highlights at FLW and Bassfan

Boyd Duckett blogs more Classic regrets...

Cyberfish blogs Minnetonka ice fishing at the MT Bucket...

BassNblogs Found:I just happened to stumble across a Bass Fishing blog called BassBlogging.com The subtitle is "The Only Bass Fishing Blog." Not sure what that is supposed to mean because there obviously are other blogs about bass fishing besides this one. The archives show 12 blog posts going back to August 28, 2007. I have no clue if the blog goes farther back than that. The most recent post is from Nov. 13, 2007.

I am trying to Google up a list of previous BASS Anglers of the Year and now I have stumbled onto a 2nd blog with at least one bass fishing entry. This one is a blog called Lighthouse Patriot Journal: Searching for truth in a sea of misinformation. It looks like the LPJ is out of Wisconsin and is mainly based around conservative politics so it's not a blog for Bassfishingdem at I am a bass fisherman. I have now looked over the blog some and I think it qualifies as a BassNblog.

So then I went looking for BassNblogs:

KeelShield News: "Find out what's new with our product line, Pro Staff and public events we will be participating in. Look for the Gator for the best in protection for your boat."

Bass Fishing and Bass Fishing Toys: Unfortunately it looks like this promising was a short lived experiment.

The Angler Report: This blog is active and very well written. I highly recommend checking it out. "The Angler Report is here to provide angler insight about happenings in the bass fishing industry. Much like our new sister site The Angling Center, my goal is to provide the competitive bass angler good usable information and positive interaction. Some of the content found here may include HOT New Tackle available to anglers or some information about trends or techniques winning tournaments these days."

FLW Lake Toho-ho Day 2

How to video's from FLW...

FLW Live today- It seemed to work a little better today than yesterday in terms of the audio interruptions. I got to hear the touching story of Ron Shuffield and his son who got shot last year. Both Ron and son are fishing Toho, son as a Co, and they both made the Top 10 cut.

The live streaming video didn't really stream at all today, not that it streamed much yesterday. This lack of fluidity may have been due to the fact that FLW Live was free to anyone who wanted to get it today.

The leaderboard actually did update on it's own today. However at the end of the day things locked up and so I don't know the final standings. I've tried to get back in and see if the standings are available, but I can't log into Fantasy Fishing. I think the website might have crashed. I WANT THOSE STANDINGS NOW!!!

I got back into the Fantasy Fishing website but I can't get into FLW Live Players Advantage version, so I'll have to wait for the final standings along with everybody else. I do know that both my Dad and I have someone in the Top 10 where all the fantasy points are. Dad had Moorehead sqeak in at the 10 spot with 23-04. I think that guy Sherry who had 20lbs yesterday blanked. Obviously with 23-04 being the cut spot the weights were down drastically today. Some no name guy who caught almost nothing yesterday bagged today's biggest bag of 19lbs and change; It wasn't enough for him to make the cut.

Ah Day 2 results are up at FLWoutdoors.com...

Fantasy Recap: I managed to improve only 21 places with 1 in the Top 10. My Dad's team improved 121 spots with all but 2 of his anglers showing improvement.

BPboys:
Nixon 98th +43
Browne 30th +60
Walker 173rd -31 This one hurts
Harrison 95th - 36 This one hurts worse, picked in Kenney's(52nd) Place.
Fukae 8th +4
Yelas 53rd +7
Lefebre 167th +2 Improved from royally sucked to totally sucked.
S. Martin 179th -15 What happened to him? This pick killed me. Mckinnie(42)or Seagraves(75)
Clausen 27th -15 CHOKE!!! I had such high hopes for 2 Top 10's.
Tracygier 102nd +2 Another pick that really bit me. Grigsby(29)

That's right, moving on Kenney and Grigsby cost me 116 points.

While there is Fukae, there is hope. Need him to finish 5th, got the 1 in 10 chance of it.

I really figured Scott Martin would know what to do when the conditions got tough, boy was I wrong on that one.

How the FLW Player's Advantage Pundits Did: As I have said before my main motivation for getting Player's Advantage was to get a look at the "Pundits Picks." For the Toho tournament there were only 5 Pundits who selected a total of 28 different anglers for their 10 team rosters. Of these 28 Pundit Picks only 2 made the Top 10. Two pundits chose Fukae and 1 Pundit chose Thrift. 9 Picks were in the Top 50, 9 Picks were 51-100, 7 Pics were 101-150, 3 picks were below 150. So basically the Pundits were a mixed bag, unfortunatly I went with 2 of the Pundit Picks in the bottom 150.

BassFan 10 to watch: BassFan esentially picks a fantasy roster with their 10 to watch article. Bassfan only had 1 angler make the Top 10 but their picks overall were mostly solid: Nixon (98), Kenney (52), Grigsby (29), Yelas (53), Dudley (67), Clausen (27) Lefebre (167) Fritts (156) Browne (30) Hite (5). Better than my line up anyways.

FLW Toho-ho Day 1 (Don't mean Jack Squat!!!)

FLW Live- This is the name for the FLW live streaming and live leaderboard. FLW Live used to be free to anyone, but is now limited to those of us who have the Fantasy Fishing Player's Advantage service. The day 1 weigh in is over and I am underwhelmed with FLW Live. The video feed is extremely choppy for me and the audio is choppy enough to be quite annoying. At least at the Bassmasters Classic I could hear the weigh in well for the most part.

Also, there is a glitch in the live leaderboard, at least on my computer, where the only way I can get the leaderboard to update is to close FLW live and re-open it again which takes a minute or two. Also there is apparently a "script" in the FLW Live that makes my computer speed bog way down so I have trouble navigating around on the computer while FLW Live is running. I have no clue how much of this is due to the fact that my computer is several years old and not nearly as powerful as a new computer would be. Maybe the Flash Player needs to be upgraded.

Toho Day 1 Recap: I think things went down pretty much as expected with most of the field struggling. Only the Top 35 broke 10lbs and there were 65 limits. Cut weight right now is 14-14, which will probably put the Top 10 cut at 26-28lbs which is a bit higher than expected. There were 3 bags over 20 with Brett Hite's 22-06 being the biggest and 6 bags between 18-04 and 15-09. There are 3 names in the top 10 I do not recognize: Monte Knight 7th with only 3 fish, Randy Hadden 9th with 4 fish, and Robert Pearson 10th. The big names in the Top 10 are Andy Morgan 4th, Ron Shuffield 6th, and Shin Fukae 8th. Big Bass was a monster: 11-9 by Randy Hadden.

BP Day 1 Fantasy Recap:
Why even bother? Day 1 doesn't mean JACK SQUAT!!! Especially in this tournament where 1 or 2 big bites can make a zero a hero in no time flat. My last minute switch out of Kenney for Harrison and Grigsby for Tracygier looks to be a mixed bag at this point. Harrison has a half pound on Grigsby (12 places) and Kenney has a 1-9 on Tracygier (25 places).

Here is where the BP boys stand:
Nixon 141st
Browne 90th
Walker 142nd
Harrison 59th
Fukae 8th
Yelas 60th
Lefebre 169th
S. Martin 164th
Clausen 12th
Tracygier 104th

So basically I have 5 bombs, 3 mediocre, and 2 contenders. I am thinking that 2 in the cut is probably not good enough to vault into the prizes. However if the no names continue to make a good showing you never know. I just wish the Player's Advantage "Fantasy Trend" was still available for Toho. The "Trend" tells by percent how many teams selected a given angler and there were a fair number of anglers who were not chosen at all. Unselected anglers is something you never see in the BASS game do to the point restrictions.

Wow!!! No sooner did the FLW Toho registration close and all the Players Advantage information on Toho was replaced by Lewis-Smith Lake info.

"It's a dissappointing story but here's what happened" by Boyd Duckett

Sounds like if the weather would have been stable Boyd would have been a contender. He might have been a contender anyway had he landed his bites on Day 1.

Michael "Cyberfish" Thompson has decided to start a new blog called MT Bucket. He did start a blog once before but I don't think he posted there more than once. His second blog post at the MT Bucket is about his trip to the Mississippi fishing Smallies this past Sunday with pics. In his first blog post there is a pic of a young Cyberfish with a dead muskie he "caught".

Blogger Billy Harris had his 1st tourny of the year. It didn't go so well...

My words of consolation would be at least he is fishing open water. We are still a month plus away before Dogfish season begins.

FishwiththePro's.com... When I win a million in fantasy fishing I'll consider it.

FLW Toho: Word is that Toho is going to be tough with as little as 22-24lbs making the cut. Bassfan puts the cut weight at 23. One big bite should make a big difference which means anyone in the field could get lucky. I have been vacillating on my fantasy picks but I think I've got a line up I'll stick with. I don't know how much past performance on Toho is going to play into things because almost all the tournaments held here are either earlier or much later in the year. This year the fish are supposed to be farther along spawning wise than in a normal year. As it stands I have 5 picks in common with the BassFan "Top 10 to watch". My dad has also has 5 in common with BassFan, 4 of the picks we all have in common. I would consider all my Dad's picks favorites and mine are with the exception of one no name guy.

For FLW Fantasy Fishing I decided to spend the $25 to get this thing called Player's Advantage which gives you a number of special features that are supposed to help pick a roster. One of the special features is video and audio podcasts from the tournament during practice. I like the audio podcast best. The video is not exactly fast loading on my DSL. At first I was getting 6 seconds of video for 26 seconds of loading time so watching the video was taking forever and those long pauses are annoying. I have figured out that I can pause the video and it still loads up, so I can watch longer segments of uninterrupted video.

From the podcasts I have learned that two of my anglers claim to be struggling. What to do? What to do? A big cold front is going to hit the area on Wed. then the temps rebound a bit for Thur and it gets warm Fri-Sun. I think I will drop these two, both of who were Toho favorites according to the Pundits.

The dumbest part of Player's Advantage has to be the "Quick Pics" feature. This is a deal where you set certain parameters and then the computer picks a team for you. I can't imagine buying Player's Advantage and then using this feature.

My Dad decided he wanted a shot at the prizes in FLW Fantasy so he has put together Team Camiuhfish. He gets the benefit of my Players Advantage knowledge. For Toho we have 5 picks in common.

Wow!!! I was just checking out the Leaderboard for BASS FBF after the Classic and there was a 7 team tie with 1491 points for 1st place. I don't recall ever seeing a tie for 1st in BASS FBF before. They all had the exact same line up: Jones, Pace, KVD, Lane, Ashley.

2nd place was 26pts lower and 3rd place is 3 pts lower than 2nd. There was at least a 17 team tie in 34th place.

You can now make your line ups for the "Sunshine Showdown" at Harris Chain Locktime: March 6, 2008 8:59:59 AM PST. The point value of Mark Davis' is 4.0.

I already went to make a switch on my roster and so the tie breaker screen comes up. For the season I want to put in 14,640 which would be an average of 1220 per tournament but when I go to put it in you can only enter 4 numbers not 5. Almost no one that plays a full season will have under 10,000 pts. How stupid! I wonder if they will get it fixed.

Holy COW!!! I just for the 1st time took a look at the prizes available in the FLW Fantasy Fishing Game. YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!!

In the FLW Tour events and FLW Opens they are "paying down" 585 places each tournament. The Forest L. Wood Cup pays down 639 Places and the end of the year cumulative points race goes down 52 places. Total guaranteed prizes value $2,395,030. Go to FLW Fantasy Fishing for the Prizes

I figure if I can't win prizes in 3 out of the 7 tournaments than I suck. (Actually hold the "than I suck" part. This year the FLW scoring system is whacko, dumb luck could play a significant role. Here is the complicated scoring methodology:

Points will be assigned according to the points awarded in the 2008 FLW Wal-Mart FLW Tour Angler of the Year program. To access the rules for this program, visit www.flwoutdoors.com, click on "Bass Tours", then "FLW Tour" and then "Rules".

For each angler a Player selects for a Pro Team, the Player will earn the same number of points the angler earns in the 2008 Wal-Mart FLW Tour Angler of the Year program for each particular Tournament. Please note, if an angler is disqualified, or, if an angler fails to catch any fish within the first two days of a particular tournament, no points will be awarded to that angler.

For the Lake Toho, Lewis Smith, and Ft. Loudoun - Tellico Lakes Tournaments:
In addition, for each angler a Player selects for a Pro Team that finishes in the Top 10 of that particular Tournament, the Player will earn 500 points.

In addition, each angler a Player selects for a Pro Team that is ranked in the exact position they finish in the Top 10 of that particular Tournament, the Player will earn the following points:
1st place ranking angler correct: 2,000 points
2nd place through 10th place ranking angler correct: 750 points

For the Lake Norman, Beaver Lake, and Detroit River Tournaments:
In addition, for each angler a Player selects for a Pro Team that finishes in the Top 10 of that particular Tournament, the Player will earn 1,000 points.

In addition, each angler a Player selects for a Pro Team that is ranked in the exact position they finish in the Top 10 of that particular Tournament, the Player will earn the following points:
1st place ranking angler correct: 4,000 points
2nd place through 10th place ranking angler correct: 1,500 points

For the FLW Tour Championship Tournament:
For each angler a Player selects for a Pro Team that finishes in the Top 10 of this Tournament, the Player will earn 1,500 points.
In addition, for each angler a Player selects for a Pro Team that is ranked in the exact position in the Top 10 of this Tournament, the Player will earn the following points:
1st place ranking angler correct: 6,000 points
2nd place through 10th place ranking angler correct: 2,250 points

So basically it is the old scoring system, which was straightforward and the fairest in fantasy fishing with a couple of new wrinkles that could make a huge difference. I think I am fine with the extra rewards for anglers in the top 10 cut, but I don't care for the bonus points for selecting an angler in the exact place of finish; these points are total dumb luck. I would like it a lot better if you only got a bonus for picking the winner as the winner. Yes I do not care much for the BASS Super 6 Pick'em game either.

Under this new scoring you could have a line up that is all in the top 25, but if you do not have a bunch of them in the top 10 than you are out of luck. In the regular tour events two anglers in the top 10 totally wipes out a line-up with 5 anglers in the 11-15 positions. In the Opens 1 angler in the top 10 is better than 5 anglers placed 11-15. Don't forget FLW line ups this year are 10 anglers deep.

Bassmaster Classic Fantasy Round Up:

BPboys: The last day saw a slight improvement with Ashley and KVD moving up a combined 4 places, still we sucked.
Score: 1128 Pts which was good for 11456 Place and the 26.9%.
Futurebass.com League: 38th of 51.

I don't know what the "average" score was but I know it isn't the 1057 they have it listed as. 1150 might be the 50% mark.

BP 1: I think the last day saw a slight reduction in points as IKE slipped 4 while Martens gained 1 place and Ashley 3.
Score: 1207 Pts for 5536 place (Ugh!)and the 64.7%
Futurebass.com League: 18th

Bassmaster Classic 2008 Day Final Blogged...

Alton weighed the days 3rd best bag and wins with 49-7, so it was a bit of a run away. Way to go Alton!!! He is an outstanding guy.

This is his website . The website is already updated about the Classic win just minutes after it happened. He has a new website design and it is in a blog format where you can leave comments. So go and give him your congratulations (You have to register)

The site is a Bigfishtools.com product.

He is an SMG pro so he blogs here....

He blogs here for ESPN.

Alton has to be the King of Bass Pro bloggers his main website, which is set up as a blog in style has another official Alton blog within.

Note on the Livestreaming: This morning at the blast off it was a true live stream just like TV with audio and video. However for the Weigh in the audio was live streaming with a few snags here and there, but the video was more like looking at snap shots than TV. My guess, all the internet viewers were slowing down the feeds or maybe it was combo of that and my relatively slow DSL connection (but it worked so good this morning). Anyway I hope FLW Live streams better.

Liveblogging the Bassmaster Classic Final Day weigh in:
The Bass Blog with BassTrakk has Alton Jones "at the top of the food chain". Will it be?

They started the weigh in on time so I am already behind the eight ball. So far 5 guys have weighed in.

Dave Wolack is in the lead with 38-6, that won't hold.

Casey Ashley sacks 11-6 for 35-12. Not much of a fantasy gain if any.

Open angler Clark Reehm knocks out the days big bag so far today with 15-00, breaking the 40lb mark (40-8) Won't hold up.

Koto Kiriyama moves into the lead with 40-9. Won't hold up.

So far with 17 anglers weighed, it seems that the weights are down again today.

Bobby Lane takes the lead with 42-7. This was expected as Basstrakk projected him 2nd.

Are they gonna hype the Super 6? Yes they are!

They picked someone random out of the crowd to "Cast for Cash" $50,000, just make a medium sized cast into a fairly small cylinder in a mock up fishes mouth. Naturally they ended up selecting a non-angler (buzz kill) It was not exactly an easy cast, so naturally she missed it. He consolation prize: A bunch of Berkley tackle perfect for the non-fisherwomen.

Super 6
Alton Jones
Charlie Hartley
Ciff Pace
KVD
Jeff Kriet
Ike

Ike gets only 4 and Lane stays on top.
IKE has kids???? I guess he is married to. I didn't even know that.

Kriet doesn't have it, Lane stays

KVD 11-7 and he takes the lead with 43-8.

Cliff Pace knocks off Van Dam with 44-5.

Charlie Hartley had a brutal last day 2 for 3-5.

Alton is up.

ALTON JONES WINS!!! You heard it hear first! (they haven't yet weighed his fish)

BASS blog with BasstraKK...

WOW! Fantasy Bass Fishing News: So they finally got the FBF scores up and I thought I was looking at a misprint. Scores of over 1000+. That can't be right, right?

It is right!!! They changed the scoring system this year. Instead of the winner getting 200 points they get 300, 2nd gets 295, 3rd gets 290 and so on down by 5's then 4's then 3's then 2's. Meanwhile the bonus points are the same, so they don't count for as much in the grand scheme of things. This scoring change makes it play much more like the FLW game where it isn't so top loaded. The scoring is much more geared to rewarding or penalizing a whole team instead of needing just a couple of good picks. I don't think I like the change because I liked the game as it was.

So that's how it works! I got the bright idea to upgrade my Windows Media Player if I could. Maybe this was the reason I wasn't getting the live streaming from the Classic. I have no idea what version my Windows Media Player was but apparently #9 is the best you can do on my OS (they have up to #11). So I downloaded and installed it and what do you know, I am getting the live feed. Hooray!!!

Alton Jones Blog...

Charlie Hartley has blogged day 2...

Bassfan Bigstick John Murray blogs his 27th place finish...

Will we see anything like this today?

Ike does have a shot.

Almost Smallmouth plus...

I was asked by Cyberfish if I wanted to do some open water Smallie fishin today at the Mississippi river. It is the last day of open season and the weather is supposed to be nice. I guess our friend Jim has been whacken em good. I told Cyb no thinking that I didn't want to drive that far (90 miles) and I don't exactly have my tackle all ready to go. I am kind of wishing now that I had said yes. I'd like to know where to get in on this winter smallmouth action. I wonder if it's the same area Hellabass and Josh Douglas fish.

I saw two big ole wild turkey's in the yard today. That was a first. My Dad has seen a bunch of them in the open pasture to the north of us. Maybe I should take up turkey hunting (NOT).

Bassmaster Classic Day 2

Breaking News: MinnesocoldBpboys leads the Futurebass.com League (46 Teams) after Day 2 of the Bassmasters Classic.

(OK the catch is that the BASS FBF is having some kind of technical difficulties at this point and all scores remain at zero. So while the BPboys are listed first, the team is actually tied with everyone else at zero until they get the game fixed. Once that happens I'll drop like a 5oz lead weight.)


Be sure to check out BassFan, Bass Zone, and Bassmaster.com for the days recaps.

Besides today being Day 2 of the Classic, it was the Championship Day for Minnesocold Girls State High School Hockey. I caught part of both Championship games.

Congratulations to Alexandria and Eden Praire the Champs for 2007!!!

The goalie for Alex, Senior Danielle Justice, kept her team in it making about twice the saves of the Breck goalie. In fact, Alex was outshot in all 3 State Championship Tournament games.

In 2A Eden Prairie Senior Andrea Green scored a hat trick including an empty netter to seal the game. Her 2nd Goal was unassisted on a beautiful run from Center Ice.

The Boys Tournament is in 2 weeks. That's right March Madness has started already.

Follow that Basstrakk blog...

Sort of a Classic blog by some writer named Barone (Not Michael)...

Rumor has it Boyd Duckett is moving on up today. Also the bags seem to be significantly below yesterday's weights.

Live Blogging the Leaderboard:

Steve Kennedy drops the fricken ball 2fish for 5-3.

A. Mart hangs in there with 15-14, so far the days best.

We are now at the half way point.
Charlie Hartley leads with a total of 34-13 (13-12 Day 2)
Cliff Pace is 2nd with 33-5
IKE is 3rd with 31-3
Hack is 4th with 30-11
Bobby Lane is 5th with 29-13
Matt Sphar is last with 7-14

At this point it looks like it is gonna be a close one going into day 3.

IKE drops down with 12-14, but that will be good enough to keep him in contention probably.

Frag!!! Again Jeff Coble fails to bag a limit again today. He has almost a carbon copy of yesterday 3 fish for 8-12 a whole 2oz improvement from yesterday. (That makes 2 fantasy anglers out of the cut)

There were 37 limits weighed on day 1 or 74% of the field.

Fred Roumbanis Bixby, CA weighs a 6- 7 hawg.

Ouch!!! Casey Ashley stumbles hard 2 fish for 5-12. He may not even make the fricken cut. NOT a good fantasy day at all so far.

So far 9 anglers have bettered their day 1 weight. 14 have dropped weight on Day 2.

A.Mart still with the big bag of the day with almost half weighed in. (Alton Jones is supposed to have the days biggest bag, we shall see)

Chris "Yes he is never going to be on a fantasy team of mine ever again" Lane catches 1 fish for 3-7. He now is the bottom of the barrel at 6-1.

Ish weighs in a single 2lber and takes the bottom spot from Lane. That makes two guys who were supposidly "on 'em" that finish with disasters.

MN boy Remitz the "Wolverene" finishes out a forgettable Classic with a total of 4 fish for 11-1.

KJ skunks or DQ's, not sure which.

Jeff Kriet scores the biggest bag so far today 18-12.

KVD is up next... 5fish for 11-14 total 32-1. He definitely has a good shot going into the final day.

Rook stumbles hard 5 fish for 7-12. So much for the sun helping him. He still will have a shot though with a big bag tommorrow.

MN Federation Angler Brent Haimes comes in with only 2 today for 3-3. Hey at least he beat some of the Elite Pro's. He will be the lowest placing Federation angler.

The Rumors were... TRUE Alton Jones comes in with 18-11 and takes the lead with 36 even. He by far has had the two strongest days with a 17 then 18lb limits.

Now I am just waiting out Boyd...
Boyd 5 fish for 15-2, unfortunatly that is not gonna be enough to put him in the cut.

Skeet weighs the days third biggest bag with 17-2 putting him at 28-7. Although it's a long shot he puts himself in contention.

Fantasy Review:
BP boys: Van Dam 4th, Ashley 20, Kennedy 39, Coble 41, C.Lane 49 Not so good. We need a KVD top 2 bad and there is always the possiblity Ashley could come up big on Day 3 with more places to move up than down.

BP1: Ike 6th, Martens 10, Ashley 20, Duckett 33, Coble 41 So basically mediocrity reins supreme in the first fantasy outing of the year.