Tournament results

The past month has been a busy one for me.  I have fished bass tournaments for the past four weekends in a row, with pretty good results.  See the top ten results from each tournament below.  

FORT FRANCES CANADIAN BASS CHAMPIONSHIP

1	3	Mark Raveling	Mike Luhman	19.73	17.49	17.84	55.06
2	20	Chad Johnson	John Janousek	16.71	16.24	18.88	51.83
3	5	Jeff Gustafson	John Peterson	16.63	18.23	15.69	50.55
4	91	Jim Sandelovich	Karl Howells	17.25	16.00	16.81	50.06
5	14	Ted Heyens	Leo Heyens	15.37	18.27	16.41	50.05
6	37	Scott Ourada	John Allen	15.00	18.33	16.69	50.02
7	31	Troy Norman	Jay Samsal	16.67	16.37	15.89	48.93
8	7	Darren Ward	Tony Holenko	15.24	18.00	15.65	48.89
9	42	Dennis Barnard	Scott Gobeil	15.40	17.07	15.86	48.33
10	100	Duane Peterson	Travis Peterson	12.87	20.58	14.72	48.17

www.canadianbass.com

BRONZEBACK CLASSIC

1	81	R	Scott Dingwall	Jeff Dingwall	15.48	3.56	16.08	3.77	31.56
2	62	R	Jeff Engstrom	Chris McDermid	15.92	3.54	13.70	3.47	29.62
3	95	R	Derek Wagenaar	Rob Klassen	15.99	0.00	13.61	0.00	29.60
4	92	MF	Darryl Galuska	Socorro Galuska	15.40	3.36	13.69	0.00	29.09
5	24	MF	Jeff Gustafson	August Collinson	15.35	3.59	13.61	0.00	28.96
6	71	R	Jay Samsal	Greg Samsal	13.94	0.00	14.32	0.00	28.26
7	28	MF	Jamie Bruce	Ashley Haines	12.98	0.00	15.05	0.00	28.03
8	17	AY	Ron Achilles	Cameron Belanger	13.93	3.45	13.94	0.00	27.87
9	70	R	Blair Dingwall	Jeremy Kennedy	13.98	0.00	13.86	0.00	27.84
10	5	R	Dave Bennett	Bruce Bennet	12.89	0.00	14.95	4.97	27.84

www.bronzebackclassic.ca

SHOAL LAKE BIG BASS CLASSIC

10	Jim Gustfason / Dean smith	16.60	4.70	18.00	34.60	1
13	Scott Dingwall / Jay sampsal	13.92	4.24	18.32	32.24	2
20	Kurt / Kody Dafcik	16.16		15.42	31.58	3
58	Matt Ryberg / Brian McNanny	16.34		15.12	31.46	4
12	Jeff Gustfason / Chris Savage	15.94	3.86	15.50	31.44	5
15b	Scott Cook / Pat James	16.62		14.60	31.22	6
7	Dave / Norm Lindsay	13.66	4.40	17.54	31.20	7
16	Dean McDonald / Gord Pyzer	15.10		15.92	31.02	8
50	John Guzej / Ron Olchowecki	14.60	3.74	16.22	30.82	9
11	Ted / Louise Stewner	15.84	3.68	14.62	30.46	10

LAKE DESPAIR CASTIN' FOR CASH

1	14	Wayne Howard	Pat Howard	13.92	14.89	28.81
2	44	Jeff Gustafson	Caleb Colwel	13.56	13.77	27.33
3	17	Larry Foss	Joel Pagnac	15.81	11.23	27.04
4	40	Bryan Gustafson	Brian White	13.71	12.50	26.21
5	25	Pat Cross	Dave Williams	11.39	11.59	22.98
6	31	Rod Woodgate	Dave Woodgate	14.11	8.65	22.76
7	39	John Evans	Gus McFaddin	11.21	11.44	22.65
8	12	Doug Mcbride	Solly Mcbride	13.44	9.07	22.51
9	11	Matt Goldamer	Zack Mcbride	10.46	11.69	22.15
10	8	Leroy Wilson	Mike Wilson	12.84	9.14	21.98

www.lakedespairlodge.com

Busy, busy, busy...

Fishing season is here!  I've been staying busy the past few weeks with a few guide trips and some bass tournaments on the weekends.  Last week my buddy Caleb Colwell and I took 2nd at the Lake Despair Castin' For Cash tournament.  We caught our smallmouths on a variety of baits, including a X-Rap jerkbaits and topwater poppers, and Northland Impulse soft baits.  

This past weekend, Chris Savage and I took 5th at the Shoal Lake Big Bass Classic, which wasn't to bad.  We made a few decisions that looking back we shouldn't have made and that's the way it goes.  The good news was that my Dad and his buddy Dean Smith won the tournament, so that was cool!  

Jim Gustafson and Dean Smith with their 18.00 pound catch on day two at Shoal Lake. 

Savy with one of our fish on day two - a nice smallmouth.  Caught on a 4" Northland Impulse Smelt Minnow

Savy with a baby musky we had to get a photo of...

Jay Samsal and Scott Dingwall with their big day-two limit - 18.32 pounds.  

Ryan Sharpe and his little guy Maverick with a walleye from Lake of the Woods in early July

Andrew Fortune with a big walleye he caught on Lake of the Woods in early July...his biggest ever at the time!

Tournament results from Lake Despair can be found at www.lakedespairlodge.com.  Shoal Lake doesn't have a website. 

This weekend we have a tournament in Kenora - the Bronzeback Classic (www.bronzebackclassic.ca), then the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship next week on Rainy Lake (www.canadianbass.com) 

The Klaassen's fishing trip on Lake of the Woods

I spent the past couple of days in the boat with Paul and Val Klaassen from Lloydminster, Alberta.  Despite some high winds for a couple of days, we caught a bunch of fish and had a good time!  

Paul's first nice pike of the trip.  Caught on a Rapala X-Rap.

Val, with one of her nice pike

Paul, with a big smallmouth

Paul caught more bass on the trip, Val caught more pike....

Fishing on Lake of the Woods

Last week I was able to spend a few days on the water with one of the owner's of B.A.S.S., Don Logan from Alabama and his friend Tom Curl from Wisonsin.  We spent three days fishing on Lake of the Woods and caught some nice bass, pike and walleyes, despite some tough weather.  Had a great time!  

Don Logan with a nice smallmouth on the first day of the trip

Tom Curl with a good smallmouth that ate an X-Rap Prop

A nice pike that Don caught

Don with a nice walleye

Big cats and more...

The past couple of weeks have kept me busy...doing some guiding, filming some TV segments for Fishing with Gussy and fishing some tournaments.  

My brother Ben and I took 2nd at the Manitoba Bass Anglers Westhawk tournament on June 9.  We also had big bass of the day at 3.10 pounds.  We had fun fishing together!  Caught fish on small suspending jerkbaits (#8 X-Raps) and drop-shotting small plastics (Impulse leeches).  

Also fished the Shaw Dryden Walleye Masters tournament this past weekend at Wabigoon Lake with my buddy Troy Norman.  We had a fun weekend but we failed to catch some big fish to be competitive in the tournament.  This is a well-run event at a great lake for a big tournament.  You can find full results at www.drydenwalleyemasters.ca

Here was one of the big catfish we caught filming the TV segment.  This was a big fish, over 20 pounds.  We were fishing the Red River in Manitoba.  

My pal Jason Gauthier, who I fished with on the Red with a large drum.  We caught several of these as well.  

Brock and Rachelle Sproule with a nice pike from Shoal Lake.  

Brock with his big bass of the day!