Finally a 5er for BP

This is the first 5lber for me in Derby competition. Got it shallow with a Zoom Horny Toad. Full Story Here.

5.05lbs Platte Lake pumpkin Zoom Horny Toad.
19.25"=4.40lbs Platte Lake yellow/green Herb's Dilly Buzzbait
4.80lbs Platte Lake yellow/green Herb's Dilly Buzzbait
19.25"=4.40lbs Rabbit Berkley Frenzy Popper
19.25"=4.40lbs Smallie Mille Lacs char/white spinnerbait.

Total= 23.05lbs

Micropterus with a Cull

4.90lbs
5.50lbs
4.85lbs
4.50lbs
4.50lbs

Total- 24.25lbs

Bob of B3 with a Cull

5.50lbs Crystal Lake
4.31lbs - Coon Lake
4.31lbs- Lake Minnetonka
4.62lbs- Lake Jefferson
5.50lbs- Lake Marion

Total= 24.24lbs

Another 4+

19.25"=4.40lbs Platte yellow/green Herb's Dilly Buzzbait
4.80lbs Platte Lake yellow/green Herb's Dilly Buzzbait
19.25"=4.40lbs Platte Lake watermelon red Zoom Horny Toad
19.25"=4.40lbs Rabbit Berkley Frenzy Popper
19.25"=4.40lbs Smallie Mille Lacs char/white spinnerbait.

Total= 22.40lbs

BP Can't Quite Hit 5

4.80lbs Platte Lake yellow/green Herb's Dilly Buzzbait
19.25"=4.40lbs Platte Lake watermelon red Zoom Horny Toad
4.00lbs Washburn blue/black Crawtube
19.25"=4.40lbs Rabbit Berkley Frenzy Popper
19.25"=4.40lbs Smallie Mille Lacs char/white spinnerbait.

Total= 22.00lbs

The Lodge Is Up to 4

18.50"=3.90lbs
18.25"=3.75lbs
17.50"=3.30lbs
4.06lbs

Total= 15.01

Another New Blogger In the Derby

Glenn Walker who is slowly making a name for himself in the fishing industry is a blogger for the Minneapolis Star and Tribune newspaper.

5.00lbs
4.00lbs
3.81lbs
3.56lbs
3.50lbs

Total= 19.87lbs

No DQ's for the Derby

In case you don't know MN Bassin Blogger Rich Lindgren was DQed at the MN Federation Nation Tournament of Champions for tweeting during the tournament. Rich got a 5.84lb beauty in the tournament and a 19.25" in pre-fish.

5.84lbs Minnetonka
19.25"=4.40lbs Minnetonka
4.66lbs
19.00"=4.20lbs
20.50"=5.30lbs

Total= 24.40lbs

Long But Kind of Skinny for BP

Got this fish today on a Zoom Horny Toad. It wasn't the thickest fish in the world but it wasn't super skinny either. It was definitely over 4lbs.

19.25"=4.40lbs Platte Lake watermelon red Zoom Horny Toad
4.00lbs Washburn blue/black Crawtube
19.25"=4.40lbs Rabbit Berkley Frenzy Popper
4.00lbs Platte
19.25"=4.40lbs Smallie Mille Lacs char/white spinnerbait.

Total= 21.20lbs

Win on the Shoe for Art Simms

Art's Tournament Report...

4.49lbs Horseshoe Chain
17.00"=3.00lbs Horseshoe Chain
17.00"=3.00lbs Rush Lake
3.11lbs

Total= 13.60lbs

Cyberfish is Heard From

MT has informed me he got a limits worth of Derby fish at the last GEM camp he worked. The only fish he could remember was the 19", which was his big bass for the week. I'll give him credit for 4x17"

19.00"=4.20lbs
17.00"=3.00lbs
17.00"=3.00lbs
17.00"=3.00lbs
17.00"=3.00lbs

Total= 16.20lbs

BP with a slight Cull

I got this 4lber at my Baxter Bass Snatchers Club tournament on Washburn Lake in SE Cass County. The fish was in a fallen tree and was caught on a texas rigged junebug crawtube.

4.00lbs Washington
19.25"=4.40lbs Rabbit
4.00lbs Platte
18.50"=3.90lbs Smallie Mille Lacs
19.25"=4.40lbs Smallie Mille Lacs

Total=20.70lbs

Josh Douglas Charges Up the Board.

I know Josh has been catching some real pigs this summer but he hasn't been reporting them, at least until now.

5.62lbs
5.44lbs
5.25lbs
4.81lbs
4.20lbs

Total= 25.32lbs

Art Simms with #2

Doesn't sound like Art has been doing much fishing this summer. He recently blogged that he got a 17" out of Rush Lake.

17.00"=3.00lbs Rush Lake
3.11lbs

Total= 6.11lbs

New Minnesocold Bass Blog Kicks Some Butt

Micropterus is the new blog from Blaine's Sam Anderson. Go to the blog and check the Hawgs.

5.50lbs
4.85lbs
4.50lbs
4.50lbs
4.25lbs

Total- 23.60lbs

Bob's True Bag

Bob Downey of Bob's Fishing Blog sent me an email giving me his true fish weights, which pushes him well past Rich into 2nd.

4.25lbs- Lake Minnetonka
4.31lbs - Coon Lake
4.31lbs- Lake Minnetonka
4.62lbs- Lake Jefferson
5.50lbs- Lake Marion

Total= 22.99lbs

New Derby Blogger: Bobby Bass of The Lodge Blog

This Dandy went 4lbs 1oz. Don't miss what is going down at The Lodge.

4.06lbs

Rich with a Minnetonka Momma caught on a Picasso Fantasy Football Jig.

18.25"=3.75lbs
4.66lbs
18.25"=3.75lbs
19.00"=4.20lbs
20.50"=5.30lbs

Total= 21.66lbs

Team Bassackwards On the Board

Apparently this is Carl's biggest bass ever. It was caught under a dock skipping a pumpkin 4 inch senko in about a foot of water.


4.75lbs

Bob with More Bass

Bob Dowling of Bob's Fishing Blog had a tournament on Waconia and stuck a couple of nice ones

4.25lbs
3.25lbs
4.25lbs
4.25lbs
3.25lbs

Total= 19.25lbs

A New Blog In the Derby

The blog is The Bass Chronicles formerly Team Patience blog.

Here's what I'm giving ya.

4.62lbs
3.73lbs
3.73lbs
3.73lbs
3.19lbs

Total= 19.00lbs

Rich Culls and Wins Tournament

This sack of fish won Rich and his partner the Celebration Church tournament on Lake Marion. The big bass which is in Rich's left hand went 4.66lbs which is a pretty good upgrade.

4.66lbs
18.25"=3.75lbs
19.00"=4.20lbs
20.50"=5.30lbs
3.25lbs

Total= 21.16lbs

Bass Fishing In The Midwest

From Rich Lindgren:
John Haynes of Bass Fishing in Midwest weighed a 4.12lb large & a 3lb fish in the Weekend Series out of Wabasha, don't think he blogged about it though.

Indeed he didn't blog about it, but they count

4.12
3.00

Total= 7.12lbs

Holmer with a small Cull

I believe it's the fish on the far left.

4.87lbs
5.25lbs
5.25lbs
4.87lbs
7.19lbs

Total= 5 for 27.43lbs

BP Breaks 20 with 19"+

I got this 19.25" during pre-fish on Rabbit Lake, which puts me over 20lbs and my Derby weight of 2009. No details on the catch until after Saturday's tournament.

19.25"=4.40lbs
4.00lbs
18.50"=3.90lbs Smallie
18.25"=3.75lbs Smallie
19.25"=4.40lbs Smallie

Total=20.45lbs