3 hours ago, HaydenS said:

John Cox is DQ right?  He is showing up on basstrack.

John Cox has pretty much wrote off ever fishing BASS again...

After day 1

5

30

17

82

66

 

Mueller and DeMarion better pick up their game if they want to fish on Saturday.

9 hours ago, fishballer06 said:

It's going to be interesting to see if Seth fishes to win this tournament, or if he just fishes good enough to win AOY. 

 

He's already lost 3 good fish this morning already, but he's already over 15 pounds. 

He needs a haircut, badly.  His hair is literally slowing him down when he punches the throttle.  Just imagine how much more of a lead he would have if he got a haircut.

20 minutes ago, gimruis said:

He needs a haircut, badly.  His hair is literally slowing him down when he punches the throttle.  Just imagine how much more of a lead he would have if he got a haircut.

Nothing wrong with long hair

 

(Checks that his ponytail is tied back correctly)

Pretty good day 1, need Hartman to step it up.

 

Bernie Shultz is on fire . I hope he can keep this up for four days .

14 hours ago, gimruis said:

He needs a haircut, badly.  His hair is literally slowing him down when he punches the throttle.  Just imagine how much more of a lead he would have if he got a haircut.

Seth's hair helps his boat get up on plane quicker. It's purely science. 

 

Shultz is literally fishing to not get booted from the Elites. I hope he can sustain. 

22 minutes ago, fishballer06 said:

Shultz is literally fishing to not get booted from the Elites. I hope he can sustain. 

How are they making the selections , on who gets cut next year ? I cant find it anywhere . I even started a post asking . Nobody seems to know .

46 minutes ago, scaleface said:

How are they making the selections , on who gets cut next year ? I cant find it anywhere . I even started a post asking . Nobody seems to know .

I assume it’ll be the bottom 15 or 12 or 10 (I don’t know either) in the points standings who get booted out. 
 

What’s interesting about this SLR tournament is that the winner will automatically qualify for the classic, even if they are not in the projected cut for it. So if Schultz wins, he qualifies for the classic and I assume that would save his career on the elites? 

3 hours ago, scaleface said:

How are they making the selections , on who gets cut next year ? I cant find it anywhere . I even started a post asking . Nobody seems to know .

 

This was posted by someone else on another message board:

 

From all I've read and heard on BTL and other sources, my understanding is this:
* The Elites started 2021 with 100 and will be at 100 for 2022.
* 95 Anglers will fish the final event this week.
* This season 2 have dropped out and given up their eligibility for next year: Tyler Carriere and Brett Pruett
* This season 3 have been granted medical exemptions and can return when healthy: Rick Morris, Clent Davis, and Gary Clouse
* 2021 rookies and 3 legends are exempt (legends are Clunn, Fritts, & Yelas)
* For 2022, 12 open anglers will offered Elite qualification.
* So it all 95 current elect to return, and the 3 medical exemptions return, and all 12 open anglers accept, that puts the total at 110. So 10 have to go.
* Based on the 2 year rolling average in AOY points, these are the 10 cuts: Kyle Monti, Kelly Jaye, Dale Hightower, Robbie Latusco, Harvey Horne, Shane Lineberger, Rob Digh, Quentin Cappo, Cody Hollen, Garrett Paquette
* Some may save their careers with a good finish this week. Others in jeopardy are: Bill Weidler and Chris Groh

*Morris has also stated that he's out next season. He's having hip surgery and is turning 60. He will likely hang it up. 

Anybody know what happened to Mueller today? Did he not fish ?

Well, three of my guys made it to tomorrow - with Seth still in the top-10.

 

Llama rules!

Just now, scaleface said:

Anybody know what happened to Mueller today? Did he not fish ?

No idea - didn't watch, so don't know. Nothing at the tanks apparently, so maybe had problems...

1 hour ago, MN Fisher said:

No idea - didn't watch, so don't know. Nothing at the tanks apparently, so maybe had problems.

Hard telling . He didnt check in on Basstrack all day then had zero fish . I dont think he fished today .

Well, this is in the can - let's see if he can win the last tournament of the year.

Mueller had motor problems .

Whelp - the Llama stumbled. Seth missed the cut-off for tomorrow...I don't think I have anyone in the final.

Another close one going into Day 4 - Championship Sunday! Should be a fun one to watch!

I finished third in the group . The best I have done by far . Was leading until the last tournament . Nebass78 and I was battling it out for the top spot then from out of nowhere rgbtr196le sprinted past us finishing the season with successive 1200 point finishes . The season went  fast . Its going to be a long wait until next year .

4 minutes ago, scaleface said:

I finished third in the group . The best I have done by far .

17th for my first outing - I'm pretty impressed.

 

5 minutes ago, scaleface said:

Its going to be a long wait until next year .

Go that right...

1 hour ago, scaleface said:

I finished third in the group . The best I have done by far . Was leading until the last tournament . Nebass78 and I was battling it out for the top spot then from out of nowhere rgbtr196le sprinted past us finishing the season with successive 1200 point finishes . The season went  fast . Its going to be a long wait until next year .

 

Unfortunately, longer than usual with no AOY Championship.

 

I landed at 16th in the group this year, 90.6% overall. This is always more fun than it seems like it has any right to be.

 

With the "Drain the Lake" game I finished at 98.2%, 260th overall...not too shabby! I like the format, but it's going to be much harder next year with a whole season's worth of events to distribute anglers amongst.

 

 

After 3 good tournaments in a row, I tanked the last one. Par for the course I guess since not only did I finish in 666th overall place in the Drain the Lake league, but my paycheck this week was also 666....

2 minutes ago, Rpratt said:

not only did I finish in 666th overall place in the Drain the Lake league, but my paycheck this week was also 666....

So...stay away from SW Illinois for a while until that fire-pit calms down?

Well, another year of Fantasy Fishing has come and gone. I can't tell you guys how much I always look forward to talking with you guys leading up to events, during the events, and then recapping them afterward. This game really is a ton of fun I think for all members no matter how good or bad you may think your picks may be. 

 

For 2021, we had 71 members play along, 48 of whom played in every single event. I love that we have this many people playing along. For me personally, I think this was the worst season I have every had in fantasy but I still had a blast regardless. 

 

Now for our 2021 Top 5 players: 

 

1st - rgbtr196le - 10,478

2nd - nebass78 - 10,379

3rd - scaleface - 10,365

4th - Fish forrest fish - 10,363

5th - sschrad - 10,295

 

Congrats to rgbtr196le for his season win! I believe he was in 4th or 5th place going into the final event and he killed it in the final event to take home with season championship. 

 

Waiting until January for the 2022 season is going to be a long wait. Hopefully all of you return and we gain even more new players. 

On 7/15/2021 at 10:49 AM, MN Fisher said:

Ya - but it's a system thing...they'd have to delete his record entirely, wiping out his other tournaments this year, to get him off BassTrack. You'll see nothing but 'zeros' for him this round.

Won't this tourney be wiped away with the covid exemption thingy?  

3 minutes ago, HaydenS said:

Won't this tourney be wiped away with the covid exemption thingy?  

I think Ito-san might take objection to that.