KVD Wins It Again

[rjn cajun]

This guy is the Michael Jordon of bass fishing. Three years in a row and a come from behind win. Never count out KVD. I love watching this guy fish. He has a true passion for the bass fishing sport. Only guy he has yet to pass is Roland Martin 2010 Final Standings
Field and Standings
No.: Angler: Points:
1. Kevin VanDam, Kalamazoo, Mich. 275
2. Edwin Evers, Talala, Okla. 265
3. Skeet Reese, Auburn, Calif. 260
4. Terry Butcher, Talala, Okla. 252
5. Aaron Martens, Leeds, Ala. 244 (Tiebreaker, Postseason weight: 51-12)
6. Cliff Pace, Petal, Miss 244 (42-7)
7. Russ Lane, Prattville, Ala. 243
8. Greg Hackney, Gonzales, La. 238
9. Tommy Biffle, Waggoner, Okla. 228
10. Gary Klein, Weatherford, Texas 219
11. Derek Remitz, Grant, Ala. 217
12. John Crews, Salem, Va. 216

[kzoo]

He's always been my favorite pro, he's actually from the same town that I'm from. Growing up in Kalamazoo, he was well known to us locals, but I never imagined he was going to be one of the greatest.

[skimpy]

And everyone thought skeet reese was going to take it... I knew KVD was going to place in the top 3, but I thought for sure Edwin Evers was going to take it....

[rjn cajun]

Skeet should have had it bagged last weekend. But he lost three or four good fish that would have sealed it last weekend.

[islandbass]

Wow. I had a gut feeling that Skeet, who I was for, was going to pull a "Mariner." You, know run out of steam at the end. Congrats to KVD

[rjn cajun]

KVD is my favorite on the tour but this points system in my opinon is for the birds. Just like the points system in nascar. Skeet smoked the feild in the regular season and had a record year. That`s my opinon. Here`s Rick Clunn`s. Four-time Bassmaster Classic winner Rick Clunn recently gave BassFans his take on the U.S. Open cheating incident, and today he called to offer his opinion on the Bassmaster Elite Series post-season. He wishes it'd never been dreamt up.

"Really the thing that's a very sad travesty is what's been done to Skeet Reese the last couple of years," he said of the Californian who led the Angler of the Year (AOY) points list after each of the last 2 regular seasons, but lost the title to Kevin VanDam in the post-season on each occasion. "I'm not trying to pick on Kevin – I'm one of his biggest fans and all he does is goes out and fishes as hard as he can, and he's really a victim in this too with some people claiming it's his fault. But I can't imagine how anybody thinks this is a fair system.

"Skeet had a lead of over a hundred points, and then through somebody's mathematical ignorance it gets reduced down to 15 points. Then (BASS) makes the (4 post-season days spread over two events) more important than the other 32 days the man has fished during the season.

"They want to make it more like NASCAR," he continued, "but NASCAR has never been a fair sport, anyway. People in that sport have always tried to pull shenanigans and I don't think it's something we should be trying to copy. The people who run these tournaments don't understand how important the format is to the integrity, and what they've done is taken away the credibility of the Angler of the Year."

Clunn called Reese's season – which included two wins, two runner-up finishes and two 5ths in eight outings – one of the best he can recall in his 37 years as a tour pro.

"I understand that they want (the AOY race) to be competitive going down to the end, but they've really erased a historical year – they've basically put a lid on it and artificially gutted it. This is a farce and it's embarrassing and it's not fair to anybody.

"Anytime you try to handicap or socialize a performance-based sport, the end result is that you end up diluting it. Maybe it didn't seem so bad last year when the points were closer going in, but this year it's really been exposed

[rjn cajun]

Sorry for the run in`s. I haven`t figured out how to copy and paste the right way.

[kevinb]

Just more proof that fishing is so much more than luck.