Jan
30
Dates are confirmed for Lake St. Clair; October 13 & 14, 2012.
These are two-1 day events for the newly formed Bassmania Southwestern Tour.
As the events take place after the Bassmania Classic XVI any points amassed will count toward the 2013 season. Also in 2013, Upper Niagara will be moved into the Southwestern Tour.
Tournament location for the St. Clair events is still to be determined.
If you wish to register or have any questions please contact the CSFL at 905-640-2277.
Dec
20
Win back your purchase and become eligible to win $1,200.00 in Tournament Entry Fees and a $500.00 Gas Card for 2013!
Click Here to Download the Shimano Platinum Angler Registration Form!
Nov
29
REMINDER: Kingston Canadian Open Of Fishing Registration Opens
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2011 at 8:00 am
Click Here to Download the 2012 Kingston Canadian Open of Fishing Registration Form!
Nov
29
KINGSTON CANADIAN OPEN OF FISHING
July 19, 20 and 21, 2012
For Immediate Release
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Kingston, Ontario will once again host the 2012 KINGSTON CANADIAN OPEN OF FISHING where 80 of Canada’s top celebrity and professional anglers will participate in Canada’s most anticipated event of the year on Thursday, July 19, 2012 through to Saturday, July 21, 2012 as registration for the event will commence on December 1, 2011 at 8:00 am.
Toronto, Ontario – Tuesday, November 29, 2011 the Competitive Sport Fishing League announced today that the KINGSTON CANADIAN OPEN OF FISHING will take place on July 19, 2012 through July 21, 2012 on Lake Ontario out of Kingston, Ontario. The CSFL will host a three-day, no elimination Pro/Am combined team weight event as this year the event will be in support of The Kingston Military Family Resource Centre (KMFRC). KMFRC is a registered non-profit, charitable organization that supports and enhances the health and well-being of the military community. an organization that assists injured or ill Canadian Forces personnel.
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KINGSTON CANADIAN OPEN OF FISHING Thursday, July 19, 2012 to Saturday, July 21, 2012 First Capital Place, Confederation Park, Kingston, Ontario Pro/Am combined team weight event $1,000.00 Entry for the Pro’s & $750.00 Entry for the Am’s |
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PRO’s Cash Payback |
AM’s Prize Value Payback Up to 85% Prize Values based on MSRP |
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1st $40,000.00 |
2nd $15,000.00 |
1st $15,000.00 |
2nd $7,500.00 |
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3rd $7,500.00 |
4th $5,000.00 |
3rd $3,250.00 |
4th $2,500.00 |
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5th $4,000.00 |
6th $3,000.00 |
5th $2,000.00 |
6th $1,800.00 |
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7th $2,500.00 |
8th $2,250.00 |
7th $1,600.00 |
8th $1,400.00 |
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9th $2,000.00 |
10th $1,750.00 |
9th $1,200.00 |
10th $1,000.00 |
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11th – 15th $1,500.00 |
11th – 15th $900.00 |
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16th – 20th $1,250.00 |
16th – 20th $800.00 |
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21st – 25th $1,000.00 |
21st – 25th $750.00 |
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Contingencies will be announced throughout future press releases. |
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Payouts are based on 80 Pro’s & 80 Am’s Prizes will be paid out accordingly. Should an Am’s prize not be sponsored, the CSFL will payback 50% of prize value in cash. |
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The inaugural event of 2010 set an all time Canadian record, as the event filled within 3 days of the opening registration and raised over $22,000 for Soldiers On, the 2011 event also held its own as it periled the inaugural event as Cory Johnston took home $40,000 in cash and Darren Izumi took home the 2011 Lund Boat package valued over $15,000.
The Canadian Open of Fishing will once again team up Pro anglers with co-anglers for a three-day bass tournament on Lake Ontario. The Pros will be competing for cash prizes exceeding $100,000 with this year’s winning Pro angler will walk away with $40,000 in cash, as the top co-angler will receive a $15,000 Lund/Mercury Boat package. This year, Ams will have a chance at an impressive list of prizes valued at well over $50,000. As the 2011 Kingston Canadian Open set a new precedent extending the pay structure to the 25th position, this year’s event will also maintain similar payouts based on a full field of 80 boats.
We are proud to announce Shimano Canada will again partner with the Kingston Canadian Open of Fishing. Bob Mahoney of Shimano Canada states “Shimano is proud to once again be a sponsor of the Kingston Canadian Open of Fishing. Shimano shares an interest in this great sport and will continue to play a role in an exciting and well received competitive angling event such as the KINGSTON CANADIAN OPEN OF FISHING and the charity it supports. Through this event, we are able to bring awareness and support to the Kingston Military Family Resource Centre.”
Andrew Pallotta of the CSFL states “With the pre-registration taking place immediately after the 2011 Kingston Canadian Open of Fishing event, the roster is already sitting in a very healthy state. With an 80 boat field size I am confident that this year’s registration will be another record breaking year.” Andrew then goes on to say, “I am especially excited for the co-anglers, as this year they will individually draw their own pros in the order in which they registered for the event. The Am’s will be required to attend a pre-orientation meeting at 3:00 pm to draw their Pro Anglers for the event.”
The official opening of registration for the 2012 KINGSTON CANADIAN OPEN OF FISHING will commence on Thursday, December 1, 2011 at 8:00 am. In keeping the event fair for all competitors, start positions for the Pros with the exception of last year’s champion will be drawn daily, at the end of each day, until the field is full.
The Kingston Canadian Open of Fishing tournament will be run by the Competitive Sport Fishing League (CSFL). Registration fees are $1,000 for Pro anglers and $750 for amateurs/non-boaters. To register, contact the CSFL at Phone: 905-640-2277; Fax: 905-640- 2278; e-mail: bassmania@on.aibn.com.
The CSFL is a recognized leader in the sport fishing industry with over 40 annual tournaments across Southern, Central and Eastern Ontario and have successfully run and operated well over 500 events to date. The CSFL utilizes the Shimano in water weigh in system developed through Queens University, a program funded by Shimano Canada. With the technology of properly regulated aerated tanks, water weigh-in scales and state of the art live release boats that ensures the safe return of the resource to ensure the future of the sport. The CSFL has a tournament category to meet your needs. With great companies like Lund Boats, Mercury Marine, Shimano, Rapala, Everstart Batteries and Ogilvy & Ogilvy behind it, the CSFL is able to provide its customers, spectators, and supporters direct delivery of product knowledge, fishing techniques, and an exciting weigh in show to feast the eyes. More reasons that keep the CSFL the first choice of tournaments. Don’t just watch us grow, come grow with us. Visit us at www.csfl.ca to learn more about the CSFL.
Nov
24
The Canadian Collegiate Bass Anglers was formed in 2009, and was an evolution of The Conestoga College Fishing Team. Matt Pezzetta, the founder of the Conestoga team, and current Canadian Collegiate Anglers president, started the federation after seeing a news report on the Alabama University fishing team and what large following college fishing had in the US. The Canadian Collegiate Bass Anglers are currently a federation of 14 anglers, representing 7 different schools ranging from Sudbury to London.
The Canadian Collegiate Bass Anglers concentrate on qualifying the best of the best collegiate anglers to represent Canada in the Boat US Collegiate Bass Championships, which annually take place every May in Texas, although changing venues to Pickwick Lake in Alabama for 2012. This past May, 3 of the Canadian Collegiate Bass Anglers drove to Dallas, Texas to compete in this prestigious tournament. Please visit the Canadian Collegiate Bass Angler website to get the full story of their experience, from the trip to the tournament.
As the federation grows, so does the responsibility to the sport. Every year, the members are encouraged to get involved in the community, whether it is speaking at meetings, volunteering with big brothers or just simply taking someone fish who has not been before. With this younger based age group getting involved, they are showing promise in our sport for tomorrow.
For more information, please visit: www.canadiancollegiatebass.com and for information, please contact canadiancollegiatebass@live.ca
Oct
28
Mark and I were obviously excited in anticipation of the 2011 Bass Pro Shops Open, with being the defending champs we had lots of pressure on ourselves. Wins like we had in 2010 don’t come by very often so while we wanted to win again badly we also were focused on backing up our win with another solid performance. Our practice was less than spectacular and we fished eighty percent of our time focusing on new water and were coming up pretty well empty handed. The time we did spend on our tried and true water was resulting in sporadic action and definitely not the quality of fish that we were looking for. We went into the tourney optimistic but realistic and I would say our finish and weight reflect our practice. At the Friday meeting there was a lot of dock talk about how tough it was, but Mark and I don’t buy into it. Its Lake Simcoe in the fall, somebody is going to have biggies! A couple of top competitors admitted to being on some quality fish one team pulled me aside to tell me about an 8lber he had caught in practice. This was doing absolutely nothing to settle my nerves. We rigged up our rods after the meeting and we were ready to rock. I use all Shimano quality product because those Simcoe giants and conditions will put your gear to the test and they have never let me down. We bounced around between 3 different areas in the tournament and used traditional fall Simcoe techniques including pulling a Set the Hook KO nailer jr in a new custom Simcoe goby colour and a Megabass Spindle worm on a heavy Carolina rig to move quickly, cover water and find active feeding fish. When we would mark fish we were dropping down to the visible fish on the screen with Set the Hook crush worms and the new red hot JP Hammer Shad from Power Team Lures. JP Derose got some of these into our hands at the Friday meeting and they definitely played a role in our success in that we were able to show the fish a bait they had not yet seen. We only landed 6 fish all day, however we did drop two bites during the day and all winter I can wonder how they might have changed our day. But in the end everybody out there lost a couple so you don’t count those ones. We finished our day with 4 beasts in our creel and 1 little baby that might have been a 3.5 lber, all day that fished haunted us but he was bound and determined to make the show in Orillia …and he did. The weigh in this year was a little more anticlimactic for us because we knew that with a small one we weren’t defending our title. However my regular season partner and good friend Scott Murison had a really big bag of fish! So I spent the rest of the weigh in stressing cause I really wanted him to pull it off. Misslebrook’s had a big sack and I asked Wayne to see them and he said no problem so I looked in and it was gonna be way to close to tell. Scott had 5 clone big bookends but they weren’t really fat heavy fish and Wayne had four absolute slobs with one that was a little weak maybe around 4.5? It was shaping up to be a real exciting showdown! All said and done it was a bit of a heart breaker for Scotty as he ended up .30 out of first. But look out guys that will fuel his fire and drive him to work even harder at next years tourney, anybody that knows him can attest to that! Wayne and Gail had a giant sack the year before also, are hard workers out there and their consistency produced a well deserved victory. So another BPS Open is in the books and I’m off to start practice now for next years event!
Joey M (10/27/11)
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Oct
27
Chris Vandermeer & Jeff Slute 2011 BM Stats
| Lake Scugog | 1st place – 200 points |
| Sturgeon | 4th place – 197 points |
| Tri-Lakes | 6th place – 195 points |
| Rice Lake | 21st place – 180 points |
| Casey Cup | 3rd place – 198 points |
| BM Classis XV | 3rd place – 198 points |
The 2011 CSFL dream team, Chris Vandermeer and Jeff Slute proved this season that with hard work and dedication you can achieve it all. This team not only captured the impressive Team of the Year for the Central division with a total of 790 points, but went on to achieve the CSFL 2011 All Canadian Team of the Year title with an impressive amount of 988 points! The boys walked away with over $9,000.00 in cash and prizes for both titles, Congratulations!
CSFL All Canadian Team of the Year is achieved by your qualifying event points plus the Classic points. Points for the All Canadian will be determined by the field size of each qualifying event, (separate point system based on field sizes has been implemented for the All Canadian title only i.e. 80 boats/80 points.) The All Canadian Team of the Year will be awarded 1% of all qualifying events and can win up to $5,000.00 in cash and prizes.
Oct
25
Congratulations to the 2011 BM Classic XV Champions Lynn Johnston & Travis Vivian!
Special Thanks to Carey Miller for capturing the moment!
(to view the video visit the “Video” page located under BASS-MEDIA)
Oct
17
Congratulations to all the Teams and Anglers of the Year for each of the following Bassmania Tours:
Team of the Year for the Great Lakes Tour: BOB IZUMI, DARREN IZUMI
Angler of the Year for the Great Lakes Tour: PETE GARNIER
Team of the Year for the Eastern Tour: CORY JOHNSTON, CHRIS JOHNSTON
Angler of the Year for the Eastern Tour: GARY MANTIL
Team of the Year for the Western Tour: JOE MUSZYNSKI, SCOTT MURISON
Angler of the year for the Western Tour: PHIL CURTIS
Team of the Year for the Central Tour: CHRIS VANDERMEER, JEFF SLUTE
Angler of the Year for the Central Tour: SEAN PALMER
Team of the Year for the BM100 Tour: MARK CRESSMAN, SCOTT SPENCER
Angler of the Year for the BM100 Tour: TREVOR BARR
Team of the Year for the Northern Tour: HUW SPICER, LIAM SPICER
Angler of the Year for the Northern Tour: PHIL CURTIS
Team of the Year for the Wildcard Tour: PETE BARTONEK, CRAIG SEVINK
Angler of the Year for the Wildcard Tour: DAVE CHONG
