2011 TOP BASS Classic pay outs

[Jeff English]

Allot of people have been asking to see what the 2011 Top Bass Classic payouts were. So here they are.

This information was made available to all competitors prior to the classic.
Please keep in mind that a percentage of all the qualifying events goes towards the classic payout. The 2011 payout was the same as the 2010 payout even though there were 11 less teams entered in the 2011 qualifying events.

PAY BACK FOR 2011 CLASSIC

1ST $10,000.00 Jarrod Dean & Gerard Cocks

2ND $4,000.00 Steven Jenkins & Josh Westerink

3RD $3,000.00 Leo Stekos & Grant Mills

4TH $2,000.00 Ron Lanzinger & Andrew Day

5TH $1,500.00 Rob Takeda & Steve Jojos

6TH $1,000.00 Scott Primo & Sean Palmer

7TH $900.00 Nelson Jacobs & Russ Jacobs

8TH $800.00 Peter Cuciurean & Debbie Cuciurean

9TH $700.00 Ed Baker & Brandon Baker

10TH $700.00 Brian Curry & Tai Dang

Big Fish Day 1 $720.00 Leo Stekos & Grant Mills
Big Fish Day 2 $720.00 Jarrod Dean & Gerard Cocks

Qualifying events participant numbers for 2011.

LAKES # of Teams entered / -No show / Total

LAKESCUGOG 91 / -2 / 89

TRI-LAKES #1 84 / -0 / 84

TRI-LAKES #2 76 / - 1 / 75

RICELAKE #1 83 / - 0 / 83

RICELAKE #2 70 / -5 / 65

BALSAMLAKE 85 / - 4 / 81

SEYMOUR 80 / -1 / 79


TOTAL TEAMS ENTERED for 2011 = 556

[craigsevink]

Hey Jeff, were all the payouts cash?

[Jeff English]

Craig, Ted gave out cheques that were cashable that moment.
All prizes at all events are paid by cheque or cash.
Also at each event this year they gave away Simax Rods, Rodgloves and Berkley product.

[craigsevink]

Nice, i like that.

[marvingosse]

Awesome payout for such a low entry fee. Always a very relaxed no nonsense atmosphere as well. No wonder he is gaining a bigger field.

[Kevin Wren]

What is the entry fee for this series as i amvery interested for next year?

[Scott Carlyle]

Hey Kevin, the entry to each of the qualifiers is 200 per team. For the classic,it is 130 per team. Teds contact is on his website at Top-bass.ca.He can give you all the breakdowns.Hope to see you in 2012.

[Jeff English]

Marvin, unfortunatly, as I stated in the first post, there were 11 less teams that competed over all in the 2011 series as compaired to the 2010 series.
And he still made sure the paybacks didn't change from 2010.

[DerekBrzezicki]

2012 dates?

[Jeff English]

Ted is working on the dates.
He won't publish a schedule until he has confirmation from the townships that operate the parks that the events are held at.
That can be a bit of a process at times.

[brantonmatthew]

when did he give out the simax rods?

[Jeff English]

If I remember correctly, the Simax rods were given to the 2nd big fish of the day winners at each event.
Big fish of the day got cash and the next biggest fish won 2 Simax rods.

[Kevin Wren]

Very interesting. may have to look at this versus the Bassmania i did this year. Only problem, i am a BM100 boat, not a bass boat with big power. I have a 17' alluminum with 60HP. With that in mind I did make the classic though.

I do like the smaller entry fee but would need to find a partner if i do enter any series this year.

[Jeff English]

Kevin, I have been doing the Top Bass series out of my 1990 Princecraft Pro-170 (17') with a 1990 Merc 75hp since 1998.
I do wish I had a faster boat but I can't afford one.
I can go into areas that the bigger boats wouldn't dare (gotta love aluminum).
My boat is one of the slowest (34mph) in the feild and it has never been a issue.

I have a buddy that compets every now & then in his 14' with a 25hp on it.
In fact, this year there was a couple of Tracker boats out there at most events with 60's on them (they were faster then me...LOL)

Hope to see you out there in 2012.

[Kevin Wren]

Thanks Jeff. was wondering if any smaller boats were competing with TopBass. Very good chance that is where i will be.