With only one tournament to go, Jim Rice has pretty much wrapped up the Angler of the Year trophy but the berths to the clubs classic will still have a lot of drama. First of all, due to a new rule change this year, the classic berths are based on the average number of competitors for all eight events. 50% of the average club tournament entries will determine the number of classic competitors. To make it simple, we need to have 21 anglers at Michigan Center to give out ten classic invites and any less than 21 will mean only nine get invited.
What does all this mean? Plenty to the six club members who hold spots #8 through #12 seeing only six pounds seperates them. And Jim VanAken is in 13th place but he is very good on Center and is only six pounds from 10th. Of these six mentioned, only two have fished in a classic before adding extra incentive to make it.
So not only will these fishermen (myself included) who are on the bubble be fishing for three classic spots, but it may be shrunk to only two invitations pending the participation. Lots of drama on the last day of the tourney season but I wouldn't want it any other way. Good luck to everyone involved and from the reports I've been hearing, the big fish should show up at the weigh-in making it that much more interesting.
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