Classic

[BassNut33]

As a fan of sports in general, personally I like seeing new teams/athletes win championships. I feel that it keeps things interesting and unpredictable, but being a bass fisherman who dabbles a little in tournament fishing. I truly admire and am in awe of what KVD is doing in the sport of bass fishing, this guy is amazing! Sure I would like to see Martens, Rook, or Remitz win their first classic, but I love watching the mastery that is KVD.

[Timmy D]

Nice to see Remitz putting together a big last day! The blog says he might have a fish close to 10 lbs and two 5's!!

[BassNut33]

I heard Remitz has family in Minnesota?

[KickNBass]

Yeah, he's from Minnesota even though he's listed as being from Alabama. I think he used to fish in the Sunrise bassmasters federation club...fishing Rush Lake and other North Metro areas.

[grab the net]

It has been said before, and He just keeps proving it, "KVD is in a whole different league" It is just amazing how he just continues to get it done. Same area, same bait, he catches 3-5 lbers and the others get 1-3's. I just read about his mastery of fishing the crankbait today.

[OLY]

If the estimates are correct KVD will take his fourth title once again beeting poor Aaron Martens by less than a pound. The weigh in is going to be awesome

[basssmasher*]

weigh in at 530 pm ET !!!

[KickNBass]

Does BP deserve any credit for the results in this classic? I mean, it was their fault, the oil spill, but everybody makes mistakes, and this was no Exxon Valdez. I say good job on the clean up...

[SpitnArgueDuckClub*]

KVD by 10 plus pounds!!!! #4 is in the books for him, congrats!!!

[OLY]

Well basstrakk was way off, KVD smokes everyone by 10+ the guy is incredible, and undoubtedly the greatest bass fisherman to ever live.

[Dourque]

so is this the equivalent to winning a hockey game in running time, or a NASCAR event by lapping the field twice or what! 10lbs on a 15 fish limit is just sick and that is just over 2nd place. KVD was over 20 lbs better than the 7 place man. the man is unreal!

[TonkaBass]

He just fishes baits way better than everybody else.

[Timmy D]

He just adapts to changes faster than others

[BassNut33]

Yeah he does everyhing better than anyone else. It is comparable to when Tiger was in his prime and you either picked Tiger, or the field.

[bassfshin24]

Unbelievable...this guy is just incredible. The Greatest of All Time!

[ikeslayer]

I heard Remitz has family in Minnesota?

I believe Remitz is from Northbranch - I met Derek when the elites came to ft. Madison a couple years back and i shook his hand and said i wanted to meet a fellow minnesota man - the story goes something like Derek met Bradley hallman at one of the opens and bradley and derek hit it off and bradley seeing how good Derek was convinced him and helped him move down to alabama (guntersiville area of all places)

And to this day Derek and Bradley still travel together and network on the tour.

And yes he did fish sunrise bassmasters and infact still holds the record for 5th larges bass caught by the club. gotta like him!!!!

[BassNut33]

That’s awesome, it is always nice to see a Northern guy doing well and even more so when he is Minnesotan! We have so many awesome bass fisheries up here it would be nice to see interest in B.A.S.S. Elite Series gain more popularity in Minnesota. I think an Elite series event on the Mississippi would be awesome. If we could get the DNR to make an exception of the no cull rule.

[Cecil]

There is a bill out there right now to have the no-cull in Wisconsin lifted. Don't see why it wouldn't pass

[BassNut33]

Let's hope it does, maybe they could lure an elite series event plus it would help out local tournaments as well.

[RK]

Hiya -

VanDam has a combination of consistency and ability to dominate that's pretty remarkable. What stands out to me this event was his ability to recognize when it was time to switch from what he'd been doing, and the confidence to drop what he had been catching them on to that point and do something completely different. Rick Clunn, whom I respect a great deal (and have learned a lot from) once described that exact scenario - instantly recognizing that you need to make a change in a high pressure situation - as the mark of an angler completely in the zone... I think a few of the other Elite series anglers are capable of getting in that zone from time to time. KVD apparently gets his mail there.

Stores couldn't keep the Strike King 1.5s in stock *before* the classic. Going to be impossible now

Cheers,

Rob Kimm

[Wayne Ek]

Your right RK. The 1.5 & 2.5 Square Bill cranks are going to be a hot item this spring. They will go out the door as-soon-as they get stocked.

I'm so happy that for once I did not procrastinate and sent in a pro-staff order early. There were some interesting comments on the blog about how KVD fishes a crank, with wrist movement and twitches. The guy is a fishing machine.

[TR21HP]

If you watched Bass pros this weekend KVD was doing the same thing with a new Strike King worm that's out. He had a weightless setup with a high speed reel and burned that thing across the top with eratic twitches and pauses and everytime he stopped he got slammed. The man has taken the art of speed fishing to an extreme.

[KickNBass]

I saw that, basically Strike King's version of a fluke.

Occasionally I work in Alabama and where we work, the building is on the Warrior river and we have a barge slip. In the summer, it full of bass. Well, a lot of guys there fish during lunch and the fish are pretty wary after a while. At first, they'll take a fluke worked slow like a dying shad but after a while they ignore that and about the only way I can get them to hit is to fish it just like KVD did in Bass Pros or evn faster, basically like a top water, it really triggers a strike.

[Central Bassman]

There were some interesting comments on the blog about how KVD fishes a crank, with wrist movement and twitches. The guy is a fishing machine.

Which blog?? The KVD Bassmaster blog??

[Wayne Ek]

CB, it was the blog Steve Bowman was doing BASS.