Scott Burns and Jay MacDonald Win 2014 Top Bass Balsam Lake

By Luigi De Rose


Balsam lake can be a mystery for many but not Scott Burns and Jay MacDonald. They put together a tournament winning creel of 19.78 pounds. This is Scott and Jay's second tournament victory this season. Big bass of 4.9lb was caught by the team of Caleb Culbert and Jeff Jacobs.

Jay and Scott are all smiles! With their second
cheque of the Top Bass season, who can blame them.
Photo: Jeff English

POS	Weight	Captain, Surname	Captain, Given	Partner Surname	Partner, Given
1	19.78	BURNS	SCOTT	MACDONALD	JAY
2	17.5	TOTOSKO	KRIS	GALLANT	COPPER
3	17.39	JENKINS	STEVEN	WESTERINK	JOSH
4	16.47	PILKEY	RON	MARTIN	JAY
5	16.18	TODD	BILL	VARDY	COLE
6	16.11	BALIAN	BERNARD	O'CONNOR	PAT
7	15.77	CULBERT	CALEB	JACOBS	JEFF
8	15.77	WATKINS	RUSS	CHONG	DAVE
9	15.67	TAKEDA	ROB	JOJOS	STEVE
10	15.6	BARTON	JEFF	SCOTT	GREG

Full standings

Scott Burns and Jay Macdonald Win 2014 Top Bass Rice Lake #2 tournament with 19.70 lbs!.

By Luigi De Rose
Photo: Jeff English

Top Bass Series held Rice Lake #2 on the Sunday, July 20, 2014 and the fishing continued to be great.  The team of Scott Burns and Jay Macdonald proved they know Rice Lake and won with a strong 5 bass limit of 19.70lbs. Forest Weiler and Tim Forler just missed the winners circle with a second place finish of 19.55 lbs. Weights were a tad lower than on Saturday with no team surpassing twenty pounds. Overall, a great weekend for Top Bass and all the anglers.

POS	Weight	Captain, Surname	Captain, Given	Partner Surname	Partner, Given
1	19.7	BURNS	SCOTT	MACDONALD	JAY
2	19.55	WEILER	FOREST	FORLER	TIM
3	19.17	MASON	DON	MASON	AL
4	18.86	KELLY	MARC	PATRICIO	ROB
5	17.96	GRAY	MIKE	HUNTER	MARK
6	17.05	ZIMMER	GARTH	ZIMMER	TYLER
7	17.05	TESTA	FABIO	AMARUSO	GUY
8	16.63	MORRISON	BILL	VIVIAN	AL
9	16.22	HUBBLE	ROGER	NICOLL	PAUL
10	15.94	KLATT	GREG	KLATT	MITCH

Full Standings below

2013 Top Bass Tri-lakes Saturday August 17. (Full Standings)

By Luigi De Rose

Full Standings

POS	Weight	Team	Fish	Big	Captain Last	Captain First	Partner Last	Partner First
1	19.58	29	5	4.41	BURNS	SCOTT	MACDONALD	JAY
2	19.13	60	5	4.71	BOYAK	EJ	DEAKIN	BRAD
3	17.13	17	5	0	PILKEY	RON	MARTIN	JAY
4	16.81	106	5	0	MURRAY	GARY	CARTER	DEB
5	16.7	1	5	5.465	DEAN	JARROD	COCKS	GERRARD
6	16.53	61	5	0	FIGUEIRA	JOE	GONSALVES	DUANE
7	16.24	48	5	0	DODD	JIM	GILES	CHRIS
8	16.2	119	5	0	GARNIER	PETER	LAFLEUR	ROB
9	16.18	120	5	0	EVANS	STEWART	EVANS	JESSE
10	16.14	33	5	0	BAKER	ED	BAKER	BRANDON
11	15.85	92	5	0	DANG	TAI	CURRY	BRIAN
12	15.51	54	5	0	CHARTERS	JOHN	CHARTERS	DALLAS
13	15.3	78	5	0	BROWN	MIKE	BROWN	KENNY
14	15.18	28	5	0	CHAPMAN	GLENN	HUGHES	JERRY
15	15.07	74	5	0	TOMASIN	MIKE	TOMASIN	MARK

2013 TOP BASS Tournament Rice Lake (Sunday): Scott Burns & Jay Macdonald Win with 19.38lbs!

TOP BASS Tournament 

Rice Lake

Sunday, July 21, 2013 

Text43	Weight	BigBass	Entrants.Last	Entrants.First	Entrants_1.Last	Entrants_1.First
1	19.38	4.945	BURNS	SCOTT	MACDONALD	JAY
2	18.86	0	KWAN	KIM	CORREA	MIKE
3	18.61	0	KELLY	MARC	PATRICIO	ROB
4	18.56	6.36	FIGUEIRA	JOE	GONSALVES	DUANE
5	18.53	4.775	BARNARD	CHRIS	BARNARD	IAN
6	18.06	3.825	EARL	MATT	CLARKE	DARCY
7	17.62	4.105	BIRD	HARRY	BIRD	LINDA
8	17.4	4.65	BOYAK	EJ	DEAKIN	BRAD
9	16.55	0	FERNANDES	TIM	BONELLO	ANDREW
10	16.16	0	GALATI	DOMENIC	CHIASSON	PAUL

Scott Burns and Jay MacDonald Win the 2012 TOP BASS CLASSIC

Jay McDonald and Scott Burns have a lot to smile about!
(Photo: Lures and Tours.com)

The Top Ten

Place	Anglers	Total (LBS)
1	Scott Burns and Jay MacDonald	32.79
2	Mike Williams and Duane Jacobs	30.98
3	Ron Pilkey and Jay Martin	29.94
4	Jarrod Dean and Gerard Cocks	28.30
5	Russ Watkins and Steve Hashimoto	28.22
6	John Hawley and Mike Slocki	28.02
7	Ron Colucci and Mike Maglio	27.82
8	Stuart Ellis and Eugene Ghounaride	27.50
9	Caleb Culbert and Jeff Jacobs	26.88
10	Jamie Kennedy and Jason Kennedy	26.55

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