8.45 big bass for day 1. What a beast!!!

 

 

That is a fish dreams are made for.   He is barely smiling.  Think it is the strain from lifting that girl?

 

 

Jeff

Crazy ~ !

 

I hope there is / will be a few more photos of that Trophy Bass somewhere.

 

A-Jay

Give it a couple days AJ. Day 2 is happening as we type. The SBOT website is experiencing technical difficulties. I heard Day 1 leader is 36lbs (6 fish) Not too shabby.

 Cool - Thanks.

 

A-Jay

Looks like a short fish maybe 21" Beauty for sure.

They have been pounding the smallies over in Sturgeon bay the last week or so.  Last Sunday a buddy of mine had 31 lbs with his biggest 5.  But that one in the picture sure is a toad...whaa!

The girth on that thing is ridiculous!

Minus the smallie pattern it looks like a sunfish on steroids!!!!

I've tried coming up with a clever response to that picture, but all I've done for the past 5 minutes is stare at it and shake my head.

He needs the water bottle to balance himself

wow, what a smallmouth

Their site is kind of working. That's the only pic I see right now. What's equally impressive is 1600 bass weighing 6600lbs were weighed in over 2 days If my math is correct that's over a 4lb average.

http://www.sbobt.org/page/live-leaderboard/

I've tried coming up with a clever response to that picture, but all I've done for the past 5 minutes is stare at it and shake my head.

 

 

Yeah, I agree. That is a pig. Just......well......yeah.....

8.45 big bass for day 1. What a beast!!!

 

 

TODAY in THE NEWS: At a local Bass fishing tournament, a babys head and 3 license plates were found inside the body of a giant Smallmouth Bass. Apparently, the angler who caught the fish got a hernia on the hook-set.......(LOL)

Man, if that was on a ML drop shot rod I can only imagine the fight. Anyone know how it was caught? That fish is incredible, I saw it on Facebook the day of. That thing is 2 times the size of my PB smallie which is just unreal to me. 

Those weights are disgusting. Friday leader averaged over 6 lbs per smallmouth.

took 66lb. to win. That's 12 fish over 2 days. 5.5 avg. no culling allowed.

They should nickname that fish "Kim Karbassian". What a fatty!

No culling allowed? That makes this whole thing even more amazing.

 

EDIT: I just check the rules for the Sturgeon Bay Open on their website and I see nothing that says you cannot cull. You cannot cull dead fish just like any other tournament, but I see nothing else about culling. Where did you hear that from?

unless they applied for and received an  "exception" from the Wis. DNR, there is a no culling rule in Wis. BASS was given an "exception" for the 2 Tourneys they held last year. However, most tourneys do not get that.   

unless they applied for and received an  "exception" from the Wis. DNR, there is a no culling rule in Wis. BASS was given an "exception" for the 2 Tourneys they held last year. However, most tourneys do not get that.   

 

Man, the WI DNR seems to be a pain in the ass.

 

Wouldn't that rule lead to people just purposely not landing the fish if it wasn't big enough? Or cutting lines if it was too small (which is probably worse for the fish than culling)?

Man, the WI DNR seems to be a pain in the ass.

 

Wouldn't that rule lead to people just purposely not landing the fish if it wasn't big enough? Or cutting lines if it was too small (which is probably worse for the fish than culling)?

Pain that they are and what they charge for a out of state license is robbery, the state of Wisconsin has an incredible fishery which they take care of. Their tourist industry depends on it for billions of dollars annually. I wish IL would do the same.

Pain that they are and what they charge for a out of state license is robbery, the state of Wisconsin has an incredible fishery which they take care of. Their tourist industry depends on it for billions of dollars annually. I wish IL would do the same.

FIB's fund probably 2/3 of that annual income. I can't say that I agree with all the DNR decisions in Wisconsin, as I have my gripes about certain things. IL management is a joke though.

Pain that they are and what they charge for a out of state license is robbery, the state of Wisconsin has an incredible fishery which they take care of. Their tourist industry depends on it for billions of dollars annually. I wish IL would do the same.

 

I don't know how IL is, but I'm not really comparing the two either. There are reasonable measures you can take based on actual science, and then there are assinine and unnecessary measures, that are not based on any sense, and I feel like the WI DNR is in that range some of the time.