September 2001
U.S. Open
Mike Folkestad of Yorba Linda, CA, returned to his glory days as he topped a field of 312 anglers at the WON BASS Miller High Life U.S. Open Bass Tournament on Wednesday.
The 60-year-old pro angler recorded limits of bass all three days on Lake Mead with his 15 fish weighing 29.81 pounds. His win gives him two U.S. Open victories, winning the 1985 edition 16 years ago!
In the AAA Division, the winner was a lady angler from Japan, Megumi Takagi, who compiled 28.37 pounds with three different pros. She won $10,000. On opening day, Monday, she fished with Don Hunt of Reno, NV, and they weighed in 10.22 pounds. On Tuesday, she was paired with Ishama Monroe of Phoenix, AZ, and they posted 8.18 pounds. On the final round, Ms. Takagi scored 9.97 pounds with Scott Nielsen of Salt Lake City, UT.
Japan was well represented in the AAA standings with six anglers in the top 24 spots.
| Event Details | Results |
|---|---|
| Circuit | Won Bass |
| Location | Lake Mead |
| Event Date | 2001-09-06 |
| Entries: | 156 |
| Total Paid Out: | $58,850.00 |
| Place | Pro Angler | Fish | Weight | Winnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Megumi Takagi | 15 | 28.37 | $10,000.00 |
| 2 | Dwayne Steel | 15 | 27.10 | $5,000.00 |
| 3 | Hiroshi Ejima | 15 | 26.95 | $4,000.00 |
| 4 | Shunsuke Nomura | 15 | 26.84 | $8,000.00 |
| 5 | Shawn Pauly | 15 | 26.81 | $2,500.00 |
| 6 | Frank Polak | 14 | 26.67 | $7,000.00 |
| 7 | Dave Turner | 15 | 26.58 | $6,500.00 |
| 8 | Greg Cyphers | 14 | 25.97 | $1,250.00 |
| 8 | Louis Marietta | 15 | 25.97 | $1,250.00 |
| 10 | Jacob Crawford | 15 | 25.77 | $1,000.00 |
| 11 | Bill Lankford | 15 | 25.52 | $750.00 |
| 12 | Kouichi Yano | 14 | 25.38 | $750.00 |
| 13 | George Thiel | 15 | 25.15 | $750.00 |
| 14 | Pat Reddy | 15 | 25.14 | $750.00 |
| 15 | Steve Watson | 15 | 25.12 | $750.00 |
| 16 | Tony Markarian | 15 | 25.09 | $2,600.00 |
| 17 | Jason Fox | 13 | 25.05 | $600.00 |
| 18 | Debbie Croci | 15 | 24.90 | $600.00 |
| 19 | Grady Garrison | 15 | 24.80 | $600.00 |
| 20 | Yutaka Tabuchi | 15 | 24.40 | $600.00 |
| 21 | David Albrecht | 15 | 24.34 | $600.00 |
| 22 | Steve Carter | 14 | 24.31 | $600.00 |
| 23 | Clifford Pirch | 15 | 24.15 | $600.00 |
| 24 | Hideki Maeda | 15 | 23.86 | $600.00 |
| 25 | Ricci Strange | 15 | 23.84 | $600.00 |
| 26 | Jeff Larson | 15 | 23.78 | $600.00 |
| 27 | Michael Berry | 15 | 23.76 | $0.00 |
| 28 | Lewis Southard | 15 | 23.73 | $0.00 |
| 29 | Chris Crawford | 15 | 23.66 | $0.00 |
| 30 | Joe Crawford | 15 | 23.53 | $0.00 |
| 30 | Chuck Brinkley | 13 | 23.53 | $0.00 |
| 32 | Daniel Lutz | 15 | 23.48 | $0.00 |
| 33 | Billy Nelson | 15 | 23.41 | $0.00 |
| 34 | James Gross | 15 | 23.37 | $0.00 |
| 35 | Danny Peluso | 14 | 23.25 | $0.00 |
| 36 | Thomas Dwyer | 15 | 23.00 | $0.00 |
| 37 | Kirk Beardsley | 15 | 22.95 | $0.00 |
| 38 | Jesse V Hernandez | 15 | 22.85 | $0.00 |
| 39 | Mark J White | 15 | 22.65 | $0.00 |
| 40 | Hide Ekawa | 14 | 22.62 | $0.00 |
| 41 | Matthew Pesin | 13 | 22.57 | $0.00 |
| 42 | Toru Matsumoto | 15 | 22.15 | $0.00 |
| 43 | Brian Brewer | 15 | 21.84 | $0.00 |
| 44 | Leonard Thorpe | 15 | 21.62 | $0.00 |
| 45 | Harold Adams | 14 | 21.35 | $0.00 |
| 46 | Joe Smith | 13 | 21.32 | $0.00 |
| 47 | Bob Ingersoll | 13 | 21.24 | $0.00 |
| 48 | Robert Mansor | 15 | 21.09 | $0.00 |
| 49 | Shigero Otsuka | 14 | 20.96 | $0.00 |
| 50 | Paul Reutlinger | 15 | 20.95 | $0.00 |
| 51 | Harvey Naslund | 15 | 20.91 | $0.00 |
| 52 | Alan Clowers | 13 | 20.85 | $0.00 |
| 53 | Jeff Grant | 13 | 20.75 | $0.00 |
| 54 | Hiro Yonezawa | 14 | 20.74 | $0.00 |
| 55 | Bryan O Lutz | 11 | 20.73 | $0.00 |
| 56 | Liz Jones | 13 | 20.55 | $0.00 |
| 57 | Mamoru Okita | 13 | 20.49 | $0.00 |
| 58 | Bill McGuigan | 12 | 20.40 | $0.00 |
| 58 | Vinnie Macchirella | 12 | 20.40 | $0.00 |
| 60 | Keith Ferlanie | 15 | 20.36 | $0.00 |
| 61 | Robert Urchike | 12 | 20.29 | $0.00 |
| 62 | Joseph Palamara | 13 | 20.20 | $0.00 |
| 63 | Russell Dean | 13 | 20.17 | $0.00 |
| 64 | John Hutchins | 15 | 20.16 | $0.00 |
| 65 | Brian Burt | 14 | 20.10 | $0.00 |
| 66 | Tom Cilluffo | 14 | 19.96 | $0.00 |
| 67 | Takao Suzuki | 15 | 19.90 | $0.00 |
| 68 | Louis Fernandes | 14 | 19.35 | $0.00 |
| 69 | Larry Gerdes | 14 | 19.30 | $0.00 |
| 70 | Dale Merry | 12 | 19.23 | $0.00 |
| 71 | Jack Snyder | 12 | 19.05 | $0.00 |
| 72 | Chris Payne | 12 | 19.01 | $0.00 |
| 73 | Bob Dickman | 11 | 18.86 | $0.00 |
| 73 | Earl Chin | 13 | 18.86 | $0.00 |
| 75 | Ryusuke Nishio | 12 | 18.77 | $0.00 |
| 76 | Randy Hatridge | 12 | 18.63 | $0.00 |
| 77 | Lonnie Hix | 13 | 18.44 | $0.00 |
| 78 | Terry Stark | 13 | 18.36 | $0.00 |
| 79 | Ryuji Sakurai | 11 | 18.32 | $0.00 |
| 80 | David Zrebiec | 13 | 18.09 | $0.00 |
| 81 | Steve Plimley | 10 | 18.05 | $0.00 |
| 82 | Richard Carpenter | 11 | 18.01 | $0.00 |
| 83 | Kurt Howard | 12 | 17.98 | $0.00 |
| 84 | Kenneth Schroeder | 12 | 17.93 | $0.00 |
| 85 | Arnold Avalos | 12 | 17.83 | $0.00 |
| 86 | Murphy Mcbride | 14 | 17.81 | $0.00 |
| 87 | Randy Bruno | 11 | 17.77 | $0.00 |
| 88 | Jason Hackerd | 12 | 17.69 | $0.00 |
| 89 | Yumiko Ishikawa | 10 | 17.59 | $0.00 |
| 90 | Mike Gomez | 13 | 17.58 | $0.00 |
| 91 | Tom Phegley | 12 | 17.54 | $0.00 |
| 92 | Ben Gross | 12 | 17.49 | $0.00 |
| 92 | Geoffrey Mao | 11 | 17.49 | $0.00 |
| 94 | Jay Moreau | 10 | 17.01 | $0.00 |
| 95 | Bill Gurner | 14 | 16.85 | $0.00 |
| 96 | Mike Meshkoff | 11 | 16.65 | $0.00 |
| 97 | Jeff M Dean | 11 | 16.36 | $0.00 |
| 98 | Jacques Fleischmann | 11 | 16.33 | $0.00 |
| 99 | Bob Elliott | 11 | 16.27 | $0.00 |
| 100 | Tom Fruh | 13 | 16.26 | $0.00 |
| 101 | Robert W Holder, Jr | 9 | 16.25 | $0.00 |
| 102 | Cliff Miller | 14 | 16.22 | $0.00 |
| 103 | Roger Diaz | 12 | 16.09 | $0.00 |
| 104 | Mike Hawkins | 10 | 16.07 | $0.00 |
| 105 | Allen Ruddick | 10 | 16.03 | $0.00 |
| 106 | Brad Davis | 11 | 15.90 | $0.00 |
| 107 | John (Joe) Leonard | 12 | 15.88 | $0.00 |
| 108 | David Sims | 8 | 15.83 | $0.00 |
| 109 | Mike Lovelle | 10 | 15.71 | $0.00 |
| 110 | Real Andrews | 11 | 15.64 | $0.00 |
| 111 | Terry Varden | 10 | 15.56 | $0.00 |
| 112 | Jerry DeWoody | 9 | 15.52 | $0.00 |
| 113 | Tom Varden | 9 | 15.43 | $0.00 |
| 114 | Takuji Naruo | 11 | 15.19 | $0.00 |
| 115 | Edgar Uyema | 10 | 15.16 | $0.00 |
| 116 | Ed Cummings | 10 | 15.14 | $0.00 |
| 117 | Ron Hammett | 9 | 14.92 | $0.00 |
| 118 | Patrick S Donoho Jr | 12 | 14.91 | $0.00 |
| 119 | Joey Chandler | 9 | 14.88 | $0.00 |
| 120 | Robert A Hardy | 9 | 14.81 | $0.00 |
| 121 | Daniel Bates | 9 | 14.73 | $0.00 |
| 122 | Tatsuo Goto | 11 | 14.69 | $0.00 |
| 123 | Rudy Linn | 11 | 14.47 | $0.00 |
| 124 | Doug Stewart | 12 | 14.43 | $0.00 |
| 125 | Bruce Graff | 9 | 14.36 | $0.00 |
| 126 | Robert Nicholson | 11 | 14.17 | $0.00 |
| 127 | George Malarsie | 9 | 14.05 | $0.00 |
| 128 | Mike McIntosh | 10 | 13.88 | $0.00 |
| 129 | Mika Suzuki | 8 | 13.83 | $0.00 |
| 130 | Yasuo Kawahara | 9 | 13.66 | $0.00 |
| 131 | Glenn Morey | 10 | 13.39 | $0.00 |
| 132 | Steve Marino | 8 | 13.32 | $0.00 |
| 133 | Thomas Elliott | 8 | 12.96 | $0.00 |
| 134 | John Riley | 9 | 12.89 | $0.00 |
| 135 | Mike Bird | 10 | 12.81 | $0.00 |
| 136 | Paul Siegel | 9 | 12.74 | $0.00 |
| 137 | Bill Bragg | 9 | 12.52 | $0.00 |
| 138 | Bob Kiser | 9 | 12.40 | $0.00 |
| 139 | Charlie Christy | 9 | 12.34 | $0.00 |
| 140 | Makoto Ohata | 9 | 12.14 | $0.00 |
| 141 | Lance Dudley | 8 | 12.06 | $0.00 |
| 142 | Dusty Sooter | 9 | 11.82 | $0.00 |
| 143 | Todd Holverson | 7 | 11.49 | $0.00 |
| 144 | Doug Engh | 8 | 11.28 | $0.00 |
| 145 | James Hundley | 9 | 11.20 | $0.00 |
| 146 | Yoshihiro Ejima | 8 | 10.80 | $0.00 |
| 147 | Wayne Dubois | 9 | 10.74 | $0.00 |
| 148 | Alex Griesdorf | 8 | 10.50 | $0.00 |
| 149 | Jimmy D Spooner | 8 | 10.09 | $0.00 |
| 150 | Chuck Turner | 8 | 9.96 | $0.00 |
| 151 | Don Hilton | 8 | 9.06 | $0.00 |
| 152 | Allen Maynard | 8 | 9.04 | $0.00 |
| 153 | Charles Huffman | 7 | 8.98 | $0.00 |
| 154 | Jake Adams | 6 | 7.29 | $0.00 |
| 155 | LJ Seitz | 4 | 4.62 | $0.00 |
| 156 | Robert Benigni | 0 | 0.00 | $0.00 |
