Neil Deleeuw & Brent Cescon Win 2018 1000 Island Open with 75.40lbs!

1000 Island Region true winner of this smallmouth fest.

By Luigi De Rose

True champs of the smallmouth.
(Photo: Renegade Bass)

Place - Team	Weight	BF	Weight	BF	Weight	BF	Total	From First
1-Neil Deleeuw / Brent Cescon	24.91	5.56	26.74	6.19	23.75	0	75.4	0
2-Paul Shibata / Curtis Richardson	27.08	6.04	23.61	0	23.59	0	74.28	1.12
3-Mike Desforges / Derek Strub	24.42	0	25.65	0	24.41	5.74	73.98	1.42
4-Neil Farlow / Tom Streek	22.38	0	25.37	5.67	25.01	0	72.26	3.14
5-Erny Janzen / Franklin Janzen	24.91	5.65	22.72	0	24.58	0	71.71	3.69
6-Bob Izumi / Darren Izumi	24.23	0	23.73	6.36	22.76	0	70.72	4.68
7-Wayne Cooper / Steven OReilly	20.1	0	24.34	5.52	26.4	6.02	70.34	5.06
8-Andy Kinstler / Dave Roy	26.48	5.68	22.29	0	21.51	0	70.28	5.12
9-Mitch Griffiths / Ron Griffiths	23.43	5.82	20.63	5.58	25.32	6.66	69.38	6.02
10-Jeff Kerr / John Yancoulis	23.24	0	25.19	5.97	20.33	0	68.76	6.64

Interview with winners

https://www.facebook.com/renegadebass/videos/10157070032541874/UzpfSTg2NjE2NTE5MDoxMDE2MDc3Mjk2OTg4NTE5MQ/?id=866165190

2018 Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Eastern Open No. 3 on Lake Champlain Day 2: Labelle Lands Leads!

Molix Pro Carl Jocumsen nets big bass 6-5lbs!
By Jon Storm
BASS PRESS RELEASE

Mix bag for Bryan Labelle.
(Photo: BASS)

Round 2 of the Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Eastern Open No. 3 on Lake Champlain was all about the 20-pound mark, and only two anglers in the massive 194-boat field caught limits of bass weighing 20 pounds or more both days. One was the new tournament leader Bryan Labelle of Hinesburg, Vt., who backed up his Day 1 catch with five bass weighing 21 pounds, 10 ounces today. The other was Thursday’s leader Bobby Lane, who brought in 20-4 today.
 
The two are separated by a little more than a pound with one day left to fish, but they’re separated by more than weight. Labelle is a local angler and Champlain expert. Lane, on the other hand, is an Elite Series pro from Lakeland, Fla., who’s never cashed a check at Champlain despite a half-dozen previous attempts.
 
Third place currently belongs to another Floridian, Rich Howes, who weighed back-to-back sacks of about 19 1/2 pounds (19-9 today). Howes trails leader Labelle by a little more than 4 pounds.
 
Of the 15 bass weighed by the Top 3, only two were smallmouth – one for Labelle, one for Lane —but for most of the field, the largemouth bite started to fade today. The popular spots down south in Ticonderoga burned out, and the Top 3 caught their fish well north of the Plattsburgh weigh-in. The lack of sun today harmed the largemouth bite, as well as the smallmouth bite, because the largemouth weren’t positioned to shade, and the deeper smallmouth weren’t firing like they do under clear skies.
 
Labelle said he’s fishing north, in Missisquoi Bay, where he’s targeting largemouth in grass.
 
“I didn’t have a game plan today — I was just fishing around — and I ‘burned’ all my fish,” Labelle said. “I was around some boats, but they weren’t very close. Tomorrow, I will need more of a game plan, but I’m going to stay in the same part of the lake —I’ll just fish a different area around there.
 

2018 1000 Island Open Day 2: Neil Deleeuw & Brent Cescon Lead with 51.65lbs!

13 limits over 25lbs!
By Luigi De Rose

Place - Team	Weight	BF	Weight	BF	Weight	BF	Total	From First
1-Neil Deleeuw / Brent Cescon	24.91	5.56	26.74	6.19	0	0	51.65	0
2-Paul Shibata / Curtis Richardson	27.08	6.04	23.61	0	0	0	50.69	0.96
3-Mike Desforges / Derek Strub	24.42	0	25.65	0	0	0	49.57	2.08
4-William Clute / Garry Woodruff	23.35	5.01	26.22	5.7	0	0	49.07	2.58
5-Andy Kinstler / Dave Roy	26.48	5.68	22.29	0	0	0	48.77	2.88
6-Jeff Kerr / John Yancoulis	23.24	0	25.19	5.97	0	0	48.43	3.22
7-Bob Izumi / Darren Izumi	24.23	0	23.73	6.36	0	0	47.96	3.69
8-Robert Hyatt / Ray Willick	22.1	0	26.08	6.8	0	0	47.68	3.97
9-Neil Farlow / Tom Streek	22.38	0	25.37	5.67	0	0	47.25	4.4
10-Erny Janzen / Franklin Janzen	24.91	5.65	22.72	0	0	0	47.13	4.52

Interview with leaders and full resultsFull results: http://www.renegadebass.com/media-live-upda…/live-streaming/

ICAST 2018: Duo Realis Crank G87 with Aaron Martens

Aaron Martens is one of the most influential anglers on the BASS Elite Tournament trail. He always is looking for an edge. If Aaron said a bait is amazing then you should listen. Check out this video as Aaron explains why the Duo Realis Crank G87 is a great one.

2018 1000 Island Open

35 teams produce 20lb plus bags!

By Luigi De Rose 

PLACE/ ANGLERS/                               WEIGHT Lbs. / BIG FISH Lbs.

1 Paul Shibata / Curtis Richardson         27.08                6.04

2 Andy Kinstler / Dave Roy                     26.48                5.68

3 Erny Janzen / Franklin Janzen             24.91                5.65

3 Neil Deleeuw / Brent Cescon               24.91                5.56

5 Brian Bylotas / Brian Bylotas Jr           24.52

6 Jason Putman / Jon Putman               25.23                 6.56

6 Bob Izumi / Darren Izumi                     24.23  

8 Mike Desforges / Derek Strub             24.42

9 Lenny Devos / Kevin VanAsseldonk   24.06                  5.41

10 Colin Hunter / David MacInis            23.45

Video with leaders!

https://www.facebook.com/renegadebass/videos/10157064553556874/

Full standing

2018 Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Eastern Open No. 3 on Lake Champlain Day 1: Bobby Lane Leads with 21-13lbs

Big largemouth steal Day 1 show
By Jon Storm
BASS PRESS RELEASE

Flippin and froggin get big bites.
(Photo: BASS)

The first day of the Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Eastern Open No. 3 on Lake Champlain delivered three bags of 21 pounds or better, and Bobby Lane’s 21-pound, 13-ounce sack was the stoutest of the three. 
 
Lane, a Bassmaster Elite Series pro from Lakeland, Fla., is dominating the Eastern Opens Series. He won stop No. 1 at the Kissimmee Chain of Lakes in Florida back in February and finished 16th at Lake Norman in North Carolina in May. His Day 1 lead here makes him the unofficial points leader in the four-event series.
 
Bryan Labelle of Hinesburg, Vt., weighed 21-8 for second place. Chris Molineaux of Hope Valley, R.I., is third with 21 pounds.
 
“My day started tough,” Lane said. “I was taking waves over the bow all morning. My smallmouth weren’t firing, and I caught one little fish early. I thought I’d be lucky to catch 16 or 17 pounds, but then I just started running and went to a bay without wind and started flipping and frogging.”
 
He caught his two biggest fish within five minutes of one another, and he said he didn't have a lot of bites throughout the day.
 

Bassmaster Will Not Reschedule Upper Chesapeake Bay

BASS PRESS RELEASE

For the second time in the 2018 Bassmaster Elite Series season, B.A.S.S. was forced to postpone an Elite event because of massive flooding and unsafe boating conditions. And for the first time in Elite Series history, one of those events has been canceled altogether, the organization announced today.

The Huk Bassmaster Elite at Upper Chesapeake Bay presented by Mossy Oak Fishing will not be rescheduled, said Bruce Akin, CEO.

“By the time conditions on the upper Chesapeake Bay improved enough for competition, our great hosts at Harford County, Md., were unable to accommodate our event,” he said. “We could have switched the event to another fishery, but in consideration of Elite anglers who had important obligations during the times we had available, we elected to end the season with eight qualifying events, instead of the nine we had planned.

ICAST 2018: New Humminbird® ICE HELIX® 7 G2N

New Humminbird® ICE HELIX® 7 G2N Gives Anglers an All-Season Fish Finder Option

Humminbird announces the new ICE HELIX^® 7 CHIRP GPS G2N – a complete, networkable fish finder pack equipped with an ice kit, along with a transom-mount transducer and gimbal mount for boat mounting and open water use.

The Humminbird ICE HELIX Series has been a go-to choice for anglers looking to have an all-in-one ice unit with built-in GPS capability. Now, with the new ICE HELIX 7 CHIRP GPS G2N, anglers have access to leading fish finding and mapping technology year-round in one unit. The new fish finder is networkable with other HELIX G2N models and features GPS, CHIRP Digital Sonar, Humminbird Basemap and AutoChart^® Live.

Unlike traditional sonar, which operates at a single, constant frequency, CHIRP optimizes pulsing sonar signals for greater target separation. CHIRP provides more detail and clarity – ice anglers can now confidently see the separation between bottom, bait and fish on the screen, instead of all three blending into one color on their locator or flasher. This is critical in ice fishing when most species of fish are hugging the bottom, and being able to discern your lure from the lake bottom can be the difference between going home empty-handed or with a limit.
 

ICAST 2018: Sunline XPlasma Asegai

Sunline XPlasma Asegai

Sunline has once again set the mark in the braided line market with its newest introduction of XPlasma Asegai. Xplasma Asegai is an 8 stranded braided line using Izanas braided line construction and is the first braided line to be made with Sunline's patented P-Ion process technology. This results in a braided line that has a slicker surface, creating less friction when passing through the rods line guides, increased casting distance, and cutting down on line noise. It is manufactured with strong water repelling characteristics and has improved abrasion resistance increasing the lines performance.

XPlasma Asegai will come in two spool sizes 165yd and 600yd, will be available in the following line sizes 8lb, 10lb, 12lb, 16lb, 18lb, 30lb, 50lb, 60lb and will be available in two colors light green, and dark green.