Gerrard Cocks and Jarrod Dean Win 2015 Top Bass Tri-Lakes #1 Event with 20 pounds!

Big bass abound as weather stables.
By Luigi De Rose
Rocked by a windy, cool and cloudy week of practice, 120 Top Bass teams were greeted to a pleasant Saturday. The team of Cocks and Dean once again proved why they are tops in Ontario by edging out the competition with 20.65lbs bag of bass. Scores of five pounders came across the weigh-in stage but  none were larger than the second place team of Vince Jacobs and Troy Jacobs.

POS	Weight	Big Bass	Captain, Surname	Captain, Given	Partner Surname	Partner, Given
1	20.65	5.54	Cocks	Gerrard	Dean	Jarrod
2	20.38	5.67 BF	Jacobs	Troy	Jacobs	Vince
3	19.83	5.03	Pilkey	Ron	Martin	Jay
4	19.16	5.21	Gaspar	John	Restivo	David
5	17.39		West	Ian	Hornyak	Marley
6	17.2	4.91	Homes	Scott	Kazimierczu	Richard
7	17.06	5.26	Richardson	Curtis	Timleck	Todd
8	16.57	5.37	Williams	Mike	Jacobs	Duane
9	16.34		Earl	Matt	Clarke	Darcy
10	16.15	5.6	Monahan	Doug	Culp	Matt

Jackall's Gantarel Slow-Sinking Swimbaits

      With a 6-inch double-jointed body mimicking a nice size lunch for big bass, Jackall Lures brings the Gantarel slow-floating hard swimbait to North American anglers. The Gantarel’s jointed body creates an ‘S’ swimming pattern while being retrieved, and makes 180-degree turns when twitched which further entices big bass when they are following the bait. To add even more realism to the Gantarel swimbaits, they are equipped with feathered treble hooks. 

     

Offered in eight extremely life-like colors, the Gantarel is designed with pectoral fin part that allows it to dive down to 3-feet. “When you can bring a bluegill color pattern – or a golden shiner or gizzard shad color bait down into the water column, a hungry bass just can’t resist. With these new Gantarel swimbaits, we’ll just warn you to hold on,” said Dan Thorburn, product manager for Shimano’s Jackall efforts in the U.S. and Canada. “The bait has already proven itself – oh yes, it works – with bass anglers in Japan, and now we can see it hooking into big kicker bass at lakes like Guntersville, Falcon and Kentucky.”

2012 CSFL Classic Full Standings

Full Classic Standing

	Angler	Co-Angler	Day 1	Day 2	Day 3
1	ROB LAFLEUR	PETE GARNIER	17.65	20.55	15.15	53.35
2	BLAKE RANKIE	SEAN MCLAUGHLIN	17.95	16.6	17.45	52
3	WAYNE MISSELBROOK	DAVE KENNEDY	18.05	15.45	18.2	51.7
4	BARRY GRAVES	JASON GOUGH	16.3	18	16.6	50.9
5	MATT HUBBLE	DAVE BAIRSTOW	17.2	14.15	18.45	49.8
6	STEVE STINSON	GREG SIBLOCK	15.05	17.75	15.6	48.4
7	DON THOMPSON	JAY THOMPSON	12.25	19.65	15.25	47.15
8	JASON CHRISTIE	JOHN RYCHEL	14.05	14.2	16.15	44.4
9	DAN DUNN	DAVE CHONG	17.45	14.15	12.2	43.8
10	GARRY MANSHOLT		11.6	16.2	15.4	43.2
11	ART BERGHOUT	JOHN BOOTH	16.85	13.6	12.1	42.55
12	CHRIS VANDERMEER	JEFF SLUTE	16.4	16.35	9.55	42.3
13	ANDREW SHUFELT	DOUG STRONG	15.7	12.25	13.35	41.3
14	CHRIS JOHNSTON	LYNN JOHNSTON	12.6	15.85	12.7	41.15
15	JOHN CHARTERS	DALLAS CHARTERS	12.2	15.75	10	37.95
16	JAY SHORT	CHRIS WALTER	14.2	12.7	10.4	37.3
17	BOB IZUMI	DARREN IZUMI	14.65	12.9	9.35	36.9
18	ANDREJ CHOWANIEC	ALEX FERNANDES	12.65	13.75	9.95	36.35
19	RYAN CROWLEY		16.45	9.85	9.65	35.95
20	FRANK ADAMO	JOHN DELICATA	18.45	11.45	0	29.9

Rest of the field only fished two days. Top 20 advanced to Day 3

Rob Lafleur and Pete Garnier Win the 2012 CSFL CLASSIC

Details to come.

2012 TOP BASS CLASSIC Day 1 Top Ten

Under high winds and relentless rain, the top 75 teams battled it out on Balsam lake. Here is the unofficial Top Ten. Full results will be available early Sunday. 

1) 18.82 Williams & Jacobs (BF 5.19 LBS)
2) 17.59 Culbert & Jacobs
3) 16.68 Pilkey & Martin
4) 15.64 Bullock & Carlyle
5) 15.50 Barton & Scott
6) 15.26 Colucci & Maglio
7) 14.43 Jojos & Tekada
8) 14.42 Dean. & Cocks
9) 14.18 Burns & MacDonald
10) 14.10 Figueira & Gonzales

In the Angler of the year race Mike Williams has leap frogged past Spiro Agouras by less than half a pound.