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Dock Talk - Winter 2007-2008
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Joe Thrun and Jim Moynagh Threepeat
By Doug Cain
 Joe Thrun and Jim Moynagh weighed 58.36 pounds of bass over three days to win the 2007 Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship. Jim and Joe set a tournament record as the first place team in three different years. They claimed back-to-back championships in 1998 and 1999. The team finished in second place in both 1997 and 2000. In 2001 they placed in 56th spot. In 2002, the last year they competed together, they had a third place finish.
In 2007 they got off to a great start with a field-leading Day One weight of 20.92 pounds. Jim says “That day was probably the best day we have ever had on Rainy. We caught lots of big fish. Our top five weighed almost 21 pounds, but our second best fi ve would have been over 19 and our third best fi ve would have been well over 18. We had great results on a Salmo Pop”. They started Day Two with a slim .39 pound lead.
On Day Two they weighed 18.85 pounds, the fi fth highest weight of the day. Their combined two-day weight of 39.77 pounds kept them in first place. Jim says, “We had to change tactics. Be versatile. What produced on the fi rst day wasn’t working on the second and what worked on the first two days didn’t on the last day.” They started Day Three with a 1.97 pound lead.
On Day Three Jim and Joe were the last team to weigh. They needed 16.67 pounds to take the lead from Ted Olson and Bob Hell, who were sitting in the hot seat. Thrun and Moynagh’s five Day Three fish weighed 18.59 pounds, more than enough to claim their third championship. Joe said, “2007 was a real example of everything just going right. We got the breaks, we got the bites and we got ‘em in the boat. It’s great when that happens.” Jim has confi rmed that his FLW series schedule will allow him to compete with Joe in Fort Frances in 2008. They are “on the hunt for a quadrapeat”.
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