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.
| Current Rank as of 6/10/12 |
Prior Rank as of 4/29/12 |
Angler | Total Points |
Average placement of MP contributors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | Skeet Reese | 69 | 3.8 |
| 1 | 3 | Kevin VanDam | 69 | 3.8 |
| 3 | 1 | Chris Lane | 69 | 5.3 |
| 4 | 5 | Edwin Evers | 58 | 6.5 |
| 5 | 6 | Brent Chapman | 55 | 7.3 |
| 6 | 4 | Brent Ehrler | 53 | 7.8 |
| 7 | 15 | Jason Christie | 46 | 9.5 |
| 8 | 7 | Todd Faircloth | 38 | 11.5 |
| 9 | 21 | David Dudley | 33 | 12.8 |
| 10 | 7 | Anthony Gagliardi | 32 | 13.0 |
| 11 | 10 | Ott Defoe | 31 | 13.3 |
| 11 | 12 | Bryan Thrift | 31 | 13.3 |
| 11 | 12 | Randall Tharp | 31 | 13.3 |
| 11 | 14 | Keith Combs | 31 | 13.3 |
| 15 | 19 | David Walker | 30 | 13.5 |
| 15 | 21 | Randy Howell | 30 | 13.5 |
| 17 | 9 | Dan Morehead | 28 | 14.0 |
| 18 | 11 | Alton Jones | 26 | 14.5 |
| 19 | 17 | Tom Monsoor | 24 | 15.0 |
| 20 | 20 | Travis Fox | 22 | 15.5 |
| 21 | 17 | Gerald Swindle | 20 | 16.0 |
| 22 | 23 | Jay Yelas | 19 | 16.3 |
| 22 | 24 | Bobby Lane | 19 | 16.3 |
| 24 | 24 | Steve Kennedy | 17 | 16.8 |
| 25 | 26 | Scott Martin | 16 | 17.0 |
| 26 | 33 | Jacob Powroznik | 15 | 17.3 |
| 27 | 16 | Terry Scroggins | 14 | 17.5 |
| 27 | 27 | Michael Iaconelli | 14 | 17.5 |
| 29 | 28 | Dave Lefebre | 13 | 17.8 |
| 29 | 28 | Luke Clausen | 13 | 17.8 |
| 31 | 30 | Ish Monroe | 11 | 18.3 |
| 32 | 32 | Aaron Martens | 9 | 18.8 |
| 32 | 46 | Tommy Biffle | 9 | 18.8 |
| 34 | 31 | Cliff Crochet | 7 | 19.3 |
| 35 | 34 | Andy Morgan | 6 | 19.5 |
| 35 | — | Matt Herren | 6 | 19.5 |
| 35 | 46 | Brandon Card | 6 | 19.5 |
| 38 | 35 | Black Nick | 5 | 19.8 |
| 38 | 35 | Stetson Blaylock | 5 | 19.8 |
| 40 | 37 | Greg Vinson | 4 | 20.0 |
| 40 | 37 | Wesley Stader | 4 | 20.0 |
| 40 | — | Troy Morrow | 4 | 20.0 |
| 43 | 40 | Dean Rojas | 3 | 20.3 |
| 43 | 40 | Scott Canterbury | 3 | 20.3 |
| 45 | 42 | Brett Hite | 2 | 20.5 |
| 45 | 42 | Todd Auten | 2 | 20.5 |
| 45 | 42 | Jeff Kriet | 2 | 20.5 |
| 48 | 46 | Shinichi Fukae | 1 | 20.8 |
| 48 | 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. |
