When it comes to rankings, we all have opinions. Now, the opinions on who are the best anglers are now in one place.
The Bass Rankings Media Poll is an industry opinion poll contributed by industry experts. This ranking will deal with Major-level anglers, though the opinions themselves can be based on all levels of tournament bass fishing. In other words, if an expert wants to take into account Minor-level events or he doesn’t, that’s his opinion. We simply combined all their opinions in one place to reflect popular opinion at a given time.
The experts were asked to rank the top 20 anglers on all three Major tours, with the lone exceptions being Ken Duke and Chad Gay, who will just rank BASS and FLW anglers, respectively, as these are the organizations they work for and they will serve to offset each other. If you want to see their rankings, or any of the experts’ individual rankings, feel free to click on their names.
| Rank | Angler | Total Points |
Average placement of MP contributors |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chris Lane | 75 | 2.8 |
| 2 | Skeet Reese | 70 | 3.5 |
| 3 | Kevin VanDam | 69 | 3.8 |
| 4 | Brent Ehrler | 56 | 7.0 |
| 5 | Edwin Evers | 55 | 7.3 |
| 6 | Brent Chapman | 53 | 7.8 |
| 7 | Anthony Gagliardi | 48 | 9.0 |
| 7 | Todd Faircloth | 48 | 9.0 |
| 9 | Dan Morehead | 40 | 11.0 |
| 10 | Ott Defoe | 36 | 12.0 |
| 11 | Alton Jones | 32 | 13.0 |
| 12 | Bryan Thrift | 31 | 13.3 |
| 12 | Randall Tharp | 31 | 13.3 |
| 14 | Keith Combs | 30 | 13.5 |
| 15 | Jason Christie | 29 | 13.8 |
| 16 | Terry Scroggins | 27 | 14.3 |
| 17 | Tom Monsoor | 24 | 15.0 |
| 17 | Gerald Swindle | 24 | 15.0 |
| 19 | David Walker | 23 | 15.3 |
| 20 | Travis Fox | 22 | 15.5 |
| 21 | David Dudley | 19 | 16.3 |
| 21 | Randy Howell | 19 | 16.3 |
| 23 | Jay Yelas | 18 | 16.5 |
| 24 | Steve Kennedy | 17 | 16.8 |
| 24 | Bobby Lane | 17 | 16.8 |
| 26 | Scott Martin | 16 | 17.0 |
| 27 | Michael Iaconelli | 14 | 17.5 |
| 28 | Dave Lefebre | 13 | 17.8 |
| 28 | Luke Clausen | 13 | 17.8 |
| 30 | Ish Monroe | 11 | 18.3 |
| 31 | Cliff Crochet | 10 | 18.5 |
| 32 | Aaron Martens | 9 | 18.8 |
| 33 | Jacob Powroznik | 7 | 19.3 |
| 34 | Andy Morgan | 6 | 19.5 |
| 35 | Black Nick | 5 | 19.8 |
| 35 | Stetson Blaylock | 5 | 19.8 |
| 37 | Greg Vinson | 4 | 20.0 |
| 37 | Shaw Grigsby | 4 | 20.0 |
| 37 | Wesley Stader | 4 | 20.0 |
| 40 | Dean Rojas | 3 | 20.3 |
| 40 | Scott Canterbury | 3 | 20.3 |
| 42 | Brett Hite | 2 | 20.5 |
| 42 | Ron Shuffield | 2 | 20.5 |
| 42 | Todd Auten | 2 | 20.5 |
| 42 | Jeff Kriet | 2 | 20.5 |
| 46 | Shinichi Fukae | 1 | 20.8 |
| 46 | Tommy Biffle | 1 | 20.8 |
| 46 | Brandon Card | 1 | 20.8 |
| 46 | Davy Hite | 1 | 20.8 |
Our Panelists
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Terry Brown Terry is the President of Wired2Fish.com. Terry has spent the last 25 years in the fishing industry first writing for Bass Times, Heartland Outdoors, and numerous magazines and websites and prior to that was the Chief Sales and Marketing Officer of BassFan.com. |
Ken Duke Ken Duke is the Senior Editor of B.A.S.S. Publications and the author of two books on bass fishing, Bass Forever with Glen Lau and The Bass Fishing Vault. |
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Chad Gay Chad Gay is the Director of Public Relations for FLW and has 15 years of industry experience. Chad is currently in his sixth season with FLW and has conducted countless interviews with some of the world’s top professional fishermen. |
Mark Jeffreys Seventeen years after the creation of THE BASS ZONE, Mark and his team comprise a one-two punch of delivering daily, live, on-location interviews with the nation’s top pro anglers. |
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Jesse Schultz Jesse is the Social Marketing Coordinator at Bass Rankings and currently competes in the BASS Opens. |
2 Comments
WHAT?????
No Cody Meyer on the list at all?
What’s a guy have to do to get some respect from the “Media” – three consecutive top 7’s (including a 2nd and 3rd at the FLW Cup). FInished last year ranked 15th on the FLW Tour and is currently ranked 4th on the FLW Tour. Don’t get me wrong, he probabably isn’t #1 – but he should be on this list higher than many names I see on it.
Maybe the “Media” will change their mind when he gets another top 10 on Lake Lanier this year, that is if he doesn’t win it.
Tom
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