Did You Win Barrie Fall Fishing Festival Registration?

Who won Barrie Fall Fishing Festival FREE Registrations?

Barrie Fall Fishing Festival brings excitement for anglers and non-anglers alike.Whether you live in Ontario,and will be visiting Barrie to fish in Barrie Fall Fishing Festival ,or  you live on the 'other side of the pond' in Europe, After Barrie Fall Fishing Festival your registration could bring you a tonne of cash !

Families are flocking to Barrie this morning for the start of the Barrie Fall Fishing Festival at 7am whether they fish or not. Shirley Arthur, shares in her blog why she is taking part in the Barrie Fall Fishing Festival.

Shirley writes:

I am going to enter the 2^nd Annual Barrie Fall Fishing Festival because it sounds like fun! I just hope it doesn’t turn out like my experience with golf!
I understand that you don’t even have to fish to win!!! Even better!
The lady who won the big prize last year never got near a fishing pole, she just bought her ticket and entered the contest.
The Rotary Club of Barrie Huronia is sponsoring this event and some of the money raised is going to help benefit environmental projects relating to the health of Lake Simcoe. Since the lake is the essence of Barrie I figure it is definitely in our interest to help out.
I am not a fisherman and I don’t seem to be able to find anyone willing to sit with me and put minnows on my hook, so I am off to a store to get myself a sparkly lure.  I’m sure the sparkles will help to attract at least female fish. I will let you know.

Shirley shares some great inside information about the Barrie Fall Fishing Festival in her blog. Check out Shirley's Blog

There are usually  line ups at registration. Barrie Fall Fishing Festival organizers are reminding  people they can save time by signing up online. See the Barrie Fall Fishing Festival page on Lures&Tours for more great information to help put you in  the winner's seat!

So who won the FREE BARRIE FALL FISHING FESTIVAL REGISTRATIONS?  We are waiting to receive the confirmation emails from the winners.If there is no reply within 12 hours, we will reopen the Giveaway at 1pm,for chances at extra entries, so stay tuned, you may be a winner yet!   UPDATE : BARRIE FALL FISHING FESTIVAL REGISTRATION GIVEAWAY HAS ONE CONFIRMED WINNER! GIVEAWAY MAY REOPEN AT 12:02 AM SUNDAY!

Kawartha Lakes – Coboconk :Top-Bass 2012 Classic Top 10 Scores!

Lures and Tours Shoots Top-Bass Winners and Participants !

Coboconk-Canadian Fresh Water Summit saw plenty of excitement Sunday,September 9,as Top – Bass Top teams were awarded thousands in cash and prizes. Rosa Sharpe.Lures and Tours captured contenders and winners on film at this exciting year end tournament organized by Ted Gallone.

Going into the 2012 Top-Bass Classic, much speculation centred around the leading contenders: Dean and Cocks who won the 2011 Top-Bass Classic. Would they win Top-Bass 2012?  All teams who participated in this weekend event are to be commended for their tenacity,and true sportsman attitude as they dealt with the challenging ,and changing weather –smiling through the wind and rain.Weather conditions over the two-day event,offered anglers a real challenge,especially on the first day with a very dark rainy cold start. Then,Sunday the sun shone for periods,but did little to remove the chill from the air.

So who won?

Here are the Top 10 Top Bass 2012 Classic Winners

	Wt	#	Fish	Bass	Captain Last Name	Team Mate Last Name
1	32.79	18	10	491	SCOTT BURNS	JAY MACDONALD
2	30.98	4	10	5.19	MIKE WILLIAMS	DUANE JACOBS
3	29.94	67	10	409	RON PILKEY	JAY       MARTIN
4	28.30	1	10	0	JERROD DEAN	GERRARD COCKS
5	28.22	25	10	0	WATKINS	HASHIMOTO
6	28.02	22	9	403	HAWLEY	SLOCKI
7	27.82	33	10	0	COLUCCI	MAGLIO
8	27.50	24	10	0	ELLIS	GHOUNARIDE
9	26.88	10	8	0	CULBERT	JACOBS
10	26.55	47	10	4 .21	KENNEDY	KENNEDY

See full names and all standings on the Top-Bass Website.

First Place Winners Scott Burns and Jay MacDonald 

Runner Up Team Duane Jacobs and Captain Mike Williams

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Kawartha Lakes Tension Mounts Awaiting $12,000 Winner!

Top Anglers Vie For Top Awards in Coboconk Kawartha Lakes!

Kawartha Lakes -Coboconk Top-Bass Tournament organizer Ted Gallone will announce 2012 Top-Bass Classic Winners in just a few hours following the final weigh in at 3 pm. Tension is mounting after yesterday's live release weigh in,which saw Mike Williams edge out Spiro Agouras for this year's Big Fish award, a catch which could put Mike and his teammate Duane Jacobs in first place for the grand prize of $12,000. Check out this footage from yesterday's Top-Bass 2012 Classic Weigh In:

With very different conditions today, than yesterday, that Top-Bass top prize could go to any of the 75 teams competing in this season's final event in Coboconk-Home of Canada's Fresh Water Summit.
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Coboconk Ontario Canada - Fresh Water Summit Festival!

Coboconk Ontario Unique Port : Natural Singularity – Highest Canadian Navigable Water !

Coboconk – All Downstream From Here!

Coboconk, Ontario celebrates its natural singularity each year. In the serene waters of Balsam Lake, in the heart of the Trent-Severn Waterway, by seaworthy vessel. Whether you travel west toward Lake Simcoe or east into Cameron Lake, both ways are downstream from Balsam Lake.
Coboconk,City of Kawartha Lakes offers skippers four opportunities:

1. Go east to the Atlantic Ocean,
2. Go west to the Pacific Ocean,
3. Go south to the Caribbean Sea or
4. Go north to the Arctic Ocean.

What makes this most unique is the fact that from this point, one can circumnavigate the world, by seaworthy vessel, without ever having to travel on land.

While there are two higher global navigable rivers, after the Coon Rapids Dam, Mississippi River, and the Danube River where it connects with the Rhine Main Danube Canal in Kelheim Bavaria, Germany, the next highest point of fresh water in the world is Balsam Lake  in Kawartha Lakes.

Each year in June, Coboconk invites you to help celebrate Canada’s Fresh Water Summit,with a full slate of fun family activities. Several businesses have generously sponsored a page in Lures & Tours Sport Fishing Recreational and Tourism Directory to help more people find out about this unique event. Be sure to thank the following businesses for their efforts in promoting this unique Canadian natural wonder of the world.

Festival Floating VIP Centre 

Luxury Houseboat Provided by Happy Days Houseboat Rentals

• Buck & Up, 
• Coffee Junction 
• Coby Fish & Chips, 
• Happy Days Houseboats
• Shield's Home Hardware
• Thompson's Marina

If you missed the Fresh Water Summit Festival this year,you can snap a picture at the interactive sign and photo opportunity erected on the Coboconk, Ontario Municipal Dock on Balsam Lake at coordinates N 44 39.476N -78 47.815W .

Top-Bass 2012 Classic Coboconk Top Ten Day 1!

Top Bass 2012 Classic Coboconk  Unofficial Top Ten Day 1 !

Despite rainy conditions,Top-Bass 2012 Classic anglers were in good spirits as they weighed in their fish.
Here are the unofficial top ten angler team results for Saturday September 8, 2012.

Mike Williams shows us a pair of the fish his boat brought in to hold the lead in Day One of the Top Bass Classic on Balsam Lake.

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 

Note: Mike Williams just took over the lead from Spiro Agouras by less than half a pound, in the Angler of the year race. Will he maintain his lead? Be sure to get in on the action at tomorrow's weigh in!
See more photos as they come online in the Lures and Tours Top Bass Classic 2012 photo album.

Seeking Top – Bass Classic 2012 Coboconk Photos? Posted!

Top-Bass Classic 2012 Coboconk Dawn Launch!

Coboconk launch was unavoidably soaking wet, and unusually dark for this time of year. However, Lures and Tours managed to squeeze off a few shots Top-Bass Classic shots, including one team member who seems really happy just to be out fishing.

Watch for more Top – Bass 2012 Classic photos and video clips through out the two days of the tournament this weekend –September 8th and 9th, 2012 in the Lures and Tours Top-Bass 2012 Classic Photo Album.

Top 10 Anglers Entering Top – Bass Classic : Fishing Freshwater Summit Waters!

September 8 and 9, 2012, long anticipated Top – Bass Classic will take place in Coboconk- Home of Canada’s Freshwater Summit . What could be more appropriate – Top Anglers at the highest navigable fresh water point in Canada.

Ted Gallone.organizes popular annual Top-Bass fishing tournament series; the Top-Bass Classic being the culminating event. The Top-Bass Classic 2012 is limited to the top 75 teams as determined by their scores in at least four qualifying events throughout the year. It is interesting to note ,that the top team going into the Top-Bass Classic are the winners of the Top-Bass Classic 2011. Will the 2011 Classic champion pair of: Jarrod Dean and Gerard Cocks remain undefeated,or will they be unseated this year?

Here are the Top Ten Unofficial Classic Qualifier Standings 2012 Classic Qualifier Standings (As of August 28, 2012) All teams listed have completed a 'minimum of 4 events' as of the August 28, 2012 and their weight is based on the 'Captain’s' best 6 of 8 events.

Top 10 Unofficial Top-Bass 2012 Classic Competitors

Position	Captain	Best 6 weights
1	DEAN, JARROD	98.65
2	MACNEIL, MICHAEL	98.27
3	AGOUROS, SPIRO	94.66
4	WILLIAMS, MIKE	86.75
5	CHAPMAN, GLENN	82.43
6	STOCKDALE, RICK	81.54
7	BARTON, JEFF	79.04
8	LANZINGER, RON	77.84
9	WESTALL, BARRY	76.41
10	CULBERT, CALEB	75

See the full list of competitors on the Top-Bass Website.

Shields Home Hardware Coboconk ‘Old Timer’ Clay Welcomes You!

Remember olde-fashioned customer service? Shield's Home Hardware, Coboconk offer old-fashioned customer service; kids of all ages enjoy this animatronic old angler,Clay, who shares bits of wit and wisdom about Coboconk with visitors to the store.

Shield's Home Hardware strongly supports Coboconk community events including the Coboconk-Canadian Fresh Water Summit Festival, and Clay their ‘talking man’ entertains visitors with tempting bits of advice about local sites, such as Canada’s smallest jail.Listen into a clip of advice Clay gave Rosa Sharpe CEO Lures & Tours,when Lures and Tours visited Shield’s Home Hardware, Coboconk.

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Shield's Home Hardware, located just steps north of the bridge in Coboconk,at  6663 Hwy 35, just north of the bridgehas what you need for all types of building and repair projects, as well as a unique gift selection.

Visiting anglers will want to pick up this ‘Coby’ Canadian Fish Finder T-shirt !

Get directions and GPS co-ordinates for Shield’s Home Hardware and more on the Lures and Tours Shield’s Home Hardware page, and be sure to check out the Lures and Tours Four Square tip!