News Archive For February 2009
Bassmaster Classic Sets Records
February 25, 2009 (bassmaster.com, February 25, 2009)
A record number of fans consumed exclusive 2009 Bassmaster Classic content featured across BASS and ESPN’s vast multimedia vehicles. The multimedia blitz was supplemented by a record on-site crowd of 137,700 fans at daily tournament weigh-ins and surrounding festivities, obliterating the previous record set in New Orleans by more than 55,000. “By all metrics, including the compelling content that was …Read more »Reese’s Hole Holds, edges Ike By Ounces
February 22, 2009 (bassfan.com, February 22, 2009)
The Bassmaster Classic at the Red River near Shreveport, La. could have gone any number of different ways today, but it went just one way – Skeet Reese’s way. The 40-year-old native Californian rode his outside hole in Bobo’s to a 16-12 limit. Day-2 leader Jami Fralick’s jig-swimming pattern faded, which opened the door for Reese. The only man who …Read more »How Skeet it is
February 22, 2009 (bassmaster.com, February 22, 2009)
BOSSIER CITY, La. — For Skeet, this one was sweet. Two years after losing the Bassmaster Classic by 6 ounces on a last-hour big fish, Skeet Reese outslugged 2003 Classic champion Mike Iaconelli by 11 ounces to fill the only glaring hole in his bass fishing resume. “To be able to do it — I didn’t know if it was …Read more »Fralick paces Classic
February 22, 2009 (bassmaster.com, February 22, 2009)
BOSSIER CITY, La. — As Jami Fralick was entertaining his umpteenth interview of the evening a pitfall, alas, of leading the Bassmaster Classic after Day Two he stood against a wall in CenturyTel Center with his back to Ray Scott, who fairly blindsided the angler. “All right, good luck to you, baby,” the founder of BASS told Fralick, …Read more »VanDam’s World 2.21.09
February 21, 2009 – by Kevin VanDam
I feel much better today. I fished where I should have fished yesterday and I caught them. I made a bad decision yesterday; that’s really clear to me now after the one I made today. It’s all about location. I chose the wrong one to start. It’s that simple. The area I fished today was a long ways away and …Read more »VanDam’s World 2.20.09
February 21, 2009
Today was a tough day. I found a spot in practice the other day and decided to take a chance on it. (I wish now I hadn’t found it.) They were really in there and really biting. I though I could find them today even with the cooling water temperatures. Unfortunately, in the morning I just couldn’t make them bite, …Read more »Duckett Leads Day 1, But Weights Tightly Packed
February 21, 2009 (bassfan.com, February 21, 2009)
There was plenty of shock and surprise on day 1 of the Bassmaster Classic at the Red River in Shreveport, La. The cold front that landed yesterday affected the fish much more than anticipated – it dropped the water temperature as much as 6 degrees, knocked the bedders way back and seemed to stun the staging females. Some patterns absolutely …Read more »Duckett still charmed
February 20, 2009 (bassmaster.com, February 20, 2009)
BOSSIER CITY, La. — Boyd, oh, Boyd. Again. Boyd Duckett, the Elite Series angler who won the Bassmaster Classic in his first appearance two years ago, weighed in the only 20-plus-pound stringer on Day One of this, the 39th Classic. Immediately behind him in the standings is the unlikely Jami Fralick, a fellow Elite Series pro who had to fish …Read more »Pros defuse Classic tension before launch
February 20, 2009 (bassmaster.com, February 20, 2009)
BOSSIER CITY, La. — Maybe you can tell the newbies from the vets in the boatyard before launch on Day One of the Bassmaster Classic, and maybe you can’t. But to see what a relaxed angler looks like on this 30-degree morning, glimpse returning champion Alton Jones on the deck of his boats, joking about the 12 pounds he gained …Read more »Hail to the king
February 19, 2009 (bassmaster.com, February 19, 2009)
SHREVEPORT, La. — In the old Municipal Auditorium, the venerable venue with the rocking Elvis Presley statue out front, bass fishing’s best came to honor the sport’s own king. That would be Kevin VanDam, the now four-time Toyota Tundra Bassmaster Angler of the Year. No one fishing the Elite Series has more, nor has any angler in the history of …Read more »
