Former KBI champs win again

Tim Davidson August 8, 2026 7:36 pm Last Updated on August 8, 2026 7:40 pm

Jamie Bruce and Bryan Gustafson are this year’s winners of the Kenora Bass International.

They pulled in 16.87 pounds of bass on Day 3, for a three-day total of 54.20 pounds.

That was just 0.22 pounds ahead of former champs, Ian Waterer and Motei Demers.

Bruce and Gustafson had the lead after Day 1 but fell to third overall after Day 2.

This is their second time on top of the leaderboard, winning in 2024.

Third place belonged to Ryan and Dawson Lentz with a three-day haul of 53.39 pounds.

They were in second place after Day 2 with a KBI record catch of 22.86 pounds.

Here are the top 20 finishers. For complete results you can check out this link

1	121	Jamie Bruce / Bryan Gustafson	54.20	0.00	19.84	17.49	16.87
2	63	Ian Waterer / Motei Demeres	53.98	0.22	17.15	18.36	18.47
3	30	Ryan Lentz / Dawson Lentz	53.39	0.81	14.74	22.86	15.79
4	116	Greg Janzen / Shirley Janzen	52.00	2.20	16.01	17.85	18.14
5	43	Tony Shirley / Paul Janzen	51.87	2.33	17.80	16.71	17.36
6	68	Dave Bennett / Mark Libitka	51.74	2.46	17.18	17.33	17.23
7	22	Scott Dingwall / Jay Samsal	51.61	2.59	18.77	18.32	14.52
8	13	Jeff Engstrom / Jon Pearson	51.45	2.75	17.07	16.72	17.66
9	92	Jp Kennedy / David Koss	51.42	2.78	16.17	18.35	16.90
10	40	Adam Bachynski / Andrew Beernaert	51.30	2.90	18.01	20.62	12.67
11	49	Mitch Petrik / Jeff Rooney	50.92	3.28	17.05	17.00	16.87
12	128	Andrew Freitag / Mitch Moncrief	50.81	3.39	15.80	18.37	16.64
13	33	Hiram Archibald / Dennis Kehler	50.76	3.44	17.05	16.96	16.75
14	32	Jaret Horbatiuk / Easton Horbatiuk	50.75	3.45	18.36	16.79	15.60
15	53	Josh Peacock / John Frost	50.52	3.68	16.08	17.41	17.03
16	69	Hayden Martin / Logan Zimmerman	49.94	4.26	16.28	16.47	17.19
17	27	Oliver Gibbins / Jason Gibbins	49.86	4.34	19.29	16.55	14.02
18	39	Jim Gustafson / Michael Cosentino	49.73	4.47	14.19	19.64	15.90
19	74	Dylan Normandeau / Elliott Panciera	49.68	4.52	15.93	17.21	16.54
20	59	Lyndon Dewson / Assunta Dewson	49.54	4.66	15.06	16.65	17.83

Tim Davidson

Tim Davidson has more than 30 years of experience in radio news. He is based in Kenora and covers stories in northwestern Ontario. Contact Tim at davidson.tim@radioabl.ca.

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