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Welcome to BassFan's Dock Talk section, where you will see brief, newsworthy items that for one reason or another can't be made into full-blown news articles. Despite the name, and in keeping with BassFan's editorial policy, every effort will be made to avoid publishing outright rumors.
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Poster auction on eBay
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Patterns Game reminder
Tuesday, October 31, 2006This is a reminder that you can still sign up for the BassFan Patterns Game presented by Evan Williams, right here on the BassFan.com homepage. What else ...
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Kumar opinion fix
Monday, October 30, 2006If you read Jay Kumar's opinion on soccer, TV and bass fishing yesterday, ...
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Orlando youth wins benefit
Monday, October 30, 2006The Angling Against Cancer (AAC) benefit tournament is always one of the most talked-about benefits of the year. Pro Terry Segraves created the event ...
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Three Classic qualifiers
Monday, October 30, 2006
The conclusion of the recent Smith Mountain Bassmaster Northern Tour delivered three new qualifiers for the 2007 Bassmaster Classic. Derek Remitz of Hemphill, ...
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Spro pros speak
Monday, October 30, 2006This week on BassFan is officially Spro week, so keep an eye out for some extra features and stories with Spro pros like Dean Rojas, Gary Klein, John ...
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Rojas the motorhead
Monday, October 30, 2006BassFans know that Spro pro Dean Rojas is the consummate bait geek – constantly tweaking and adjusting his lures to achieve peak performance. But did ...
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Kumar on NASL, fishing
Monday, October 30, 2006BassFan founder and CEO Jay Kumar played a lot of soccer when he was young, and followed the NASL closely. It recently struck him how the NASL was so ...
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What they want, they got
Friday, October 27, 2006
Next week, in a special addition to regular coverage, BassFan will be highlighting those pros who are members of the Spro pro staff. For BassFans who ...
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Black's BFL Regional pattern
Friday, October 27, 2006Jamey Black of Sheridan, Ark. dominated the recent BFL Regional at Wright Patman. He led wire-to-wire, and threw a different bait each day. For the full ...
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Wolak in crank-land
Friday, October 27, 2006
Ask Dave Wolak what his biggest weakness is, and he'll tell you it's the crankbait. But that might change soon. He's packing his house in Warrior Run, ...
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Fuji history, part 4
Friday, October 27, 2006
Fuji's most recent milestone innovation was the development of Concept Guides, which hit the market in 2000. They were designed to complement the company's ...
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Pole Position
Friday, October 27, 2006BassFans who remember Shaw Grigsby's gear notes from this season's Bassmaster Legends Major will recall how he talked about the Power-Pole. In the latest ...
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Braid-busters
Thursday, October 26, 2006Braided line has found its niche in bass fishing over the past few years, but it can be ultra-tough on rod components. Fuji makes two types of guides ...
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Texas Lunkers turns 21
Thursday, October 26, 2006
The 21st season of Texas' ShareLunker program officially began Oct. 1. Last season, 32 fish were entered into the program, and two fish from the season ...
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Comeback Carl?
Wednesday, October 25, 2006Carl Svebek III will get a chance to prove that he can bounce back from a tough tournament next month when the FLW Series wraps up its season at Alabama's ...
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Z-Wave sale!
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
This week the BassFan Store has a sale on the Z-Baits Z-Wave Medium Diver – and if you're going to buy one, you need to buy it on sale because it's pricey! ...
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Fuji history, part 3
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Here's a timeline of how events in Fuji's history unfolded and some of the company's awards and milestones:
> 1938 – Rintaro Ohmura establishes a company ...
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Dion and dad
Wednesday, October 25, 2006Today on BassFan Radio with Terry Brown, Dion Hibdon talks about the recent change in his fall-fishing mentality, along with the importance of having ...
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Ranger's little-big boat
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Ranger recently unveiled its new 17-foot 170VS. Rated for up to 115 hp, the shorter boat is said to fish big – a great compromise for those who want to ...
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TBF Championship set
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
The Bass Federation (TBF) and FLW Outdoors announced that Lake Wylie in Charlotte, N.C., will host the 2007 TBF National Championship. The tournament ...
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Kumar on mag sales
Tuesday, October 24, 2006BassFan founder and CEO Jay Kumar today looks at the outdoor-magazine landscape – specifically, titles like Outdoor Life and Field & Stream that recently ...
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Wolf Pack howls
Tuesday, October 24, 2006North Carolina State's Chad Craven and Alex Freeman adjusted to everything Mother Nature threw at them en route to winning the BoatU.S. National Collegiate ...
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Fuji history, part 2
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
There isn't much documentation regarding Fuji's history between the end of World War II, after which the company was forced to switch its focus from military ...
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Position and reposition
Tuesday, October 24, 2006Today, Big Bass Zone columnists Michael Jones and Bill Siemantel tackle a little-known topic: repositioning the fish you just repositioned. The theory ...
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Open schedules announced
Monday, October 23, 2006BASS today released dates and locations for its 2007 Southern and Central Opens, which will qualify anglers for the 2008 Bassmaster Classic and Elite ...
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Merc motor offer
Monday, October 23, 2006
A number of early sales promotions have kicked off the boat-buying season, and Mercury today announced its latest offering. Mercury's "Get the Best" ...
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Bowman: bass training
Monday, October 23, 2006BassFan Charles Bowman is back with another opinion column. This time, he takes up the subject of bass training. Specifically, what appears to be a growing ...
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Fuji Week begins
Monday, October 23, 2006
Fuji Week on BassFan gets under way today. It will feature stories, radio shows and a product review over the next 5 days.
> Today's Top Story covers ...
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Fuji's history, part 1
Monday, October 23, 2006Fuji has been in business since 1938, but its work in the early days had nothing to do with fishing. It was a different time, and a very different Japan.
Prior ...
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Chad changes direction
Friday, October 20, 2006Chad Brauer discusses his decision to forego the 2007 Bassmaster Elite Series in favor of spending more time with his family and expanding his role as ...
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Look at those legs!
Friday, October 20, 2006Today on BassFan TV, Zipper Worms introduces its new LumpNLegs Frog. Its unmatched leg action and a no-roll design makes it a must for your tackle box. ...
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Fuji Week set
Friday, October 20, 2006
BassFan will launch its Fuji theme week on Monday.
Fuji has been the leader in rod-component innovation for more than 4 decades. BassFan's coverage ...
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Racing to retail
Friday, October 20, 2006
BassFans have likely seen the Mercury OptiMax 250 Pro XS on the back of a few rigs. The engine was built by Merc's racing division, so it housed all the ...
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Bassmaster goes newsstand
Friday, October 20, 2006
Bassmaster magazine, since its birth, has been available primarily to BASS members only. That changes when the new issue goes on sale Oct. 24 on newsstands ...
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Allen wins Skeeter OT
Thursday, October 19, 2006
Travis Allen of Four Oaks, N.C. – fishing with his brother – won the 2-day Skeeter Southeast Owner's Tournament at Clarks Hill, Ga. His 5.74-pound bass ...
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'07 TTT details in
Thursday, October 19, 2006FLW Outdoors this morning released details of its 2007 Texas Tournament Trail series. The most notable change is that anglers must now own a year-2000 ...
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Tosh's move to the rear
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Tucker talks
Thursday, October 19, 2006Today on BassFan Radio with Terry Brown, Bass Cat and Mercury pro Mark Tucker talks about the Elite Series, making the Classic again, and the progression ...
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Kennedy declares: Classic
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
As anglers shuffle and slide to one league or another, a lot of BassFans have kept their eye on Steve Kennedy. He literally tore it up this year when ...
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Nixon's Ozarks pattern
Wednesday, October 18, 2006Don't let Dion Hibdon's light overshadow Larry Nixon, who finished a strong 2nd at the recent Lake of the Ozarks FLW Series. To find out how Nixon caught ...
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Tyler's big move
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Mark Tyler turned in a clutch performance in mid-July, finishing 4th at the Champlain Bassmaster Elite Series to get back into Bassmaster Classic contention. ...
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BASS college cash
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Like to fish? Thinking about studying fish in college? Then BASS has news for you. The BASS Conservation Scholarship program, supported by Costa Del Mar ...
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Carolinians clean up
Tuesday, October 17, 2006Jimmy Leshock and Errol Duckett of North Carolina won the Fishers of Men East Regional Championship at Lake Erie by more than 17 pounds. They'd have won ...
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Newman's new world
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PII 'Cat is back
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
To help celebrate 35 years of doing business as a major, independent boat manufacturer, Bass Cat this year re-released the Pantera II – its best-selling ...
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New BRP VP
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Bomabardier Recreational Products (BRP) – manufacturer of Evinrude and Johnson outboards – recently appointed Richard Palmersheim to the newly created ...
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Bass Cat/Mercury begins
Monday, October 16, 2006
As promised, today marks the beginning of Bass Cat/Mercury Week here on BassFan. Watch for stories, radio shows, fishing tips and more over the next 5 ...
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Look back: 750-boat winner
Monday, October 16, 2006
BassFans know Bill Siemantel as co-author of the Big Bass Zone. But did you know he runs a Bass Cat? And did you know that he originally got hooked up ...
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Monroe: two in Texas
Saturday, October 14, 2006
Put another mark, and another $100,000, in the win column for Ish Monroe. He won today's Busch Shootout over final challenger Fred Roumbanis. Monroe faced ...
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Brauer leads Shootout
Saturday, October 14, 2006
Denny Brauer was the best in the 13-angler field after day 1 of the Busch Shootout at Grapevine Lake, Texas. He and the other Top 4 anglers (Ish Monroe, ...
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LaPoint's spoon setup
Friday, October 13, 2006Want to know more about how Table Rock ace Rick LaPoint won the recent Central Pro-Am Championship? His winning pattern is now up on BassFanArmy.com. ...
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Horton okay
Friday, October 13, 2006We managed to catch up with Tim Horton after he got home late last night from Springfield, Mo., and asked how he's doing after the accident on Lake of ...
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Grapevine the 'mystery lake'
Thursday, October 12, 2006BASS today announced that Grapevine Lake, Texas will be the site of its Busch Shootout. Most of the anglers fishing the specialty event arrived at airports ...
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Bass Cat/Merc Week
Thursday, October 12, 2006
This year Bass Cat, the industry's last major independent boat manufacturer, turned 35 years old. That's right, the company founded by Ron Pierce and ...
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FLW clarifies accident
Thursday, October 12, 2006FLW Outdoors officials have not returned BassFan's calls for more information about the crash yesterday at the Lake of the Ozarks FLW Series that involved ...
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Horton/Williams details
Thursday, October 12, 2006
A news release on the Missouri State Water Patrol website confirms some details about an accident yesterday at the Lake of the Ozarks FLW Series. According ...
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Clark, military, bass
Thursday, October 12, 2006Now playing on BassFan Radio with Terry Brown, Women's Bassmaster Tour Angler of the Year Dianna Clark talks about how she parlayed military experience ...
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Gags, Nixon, Svebek
Wednesday, October 11, 2006Team Evinrude pro Dion Hibdon is currently 2nd after day 1 at the Lake of the Ozarks FLW Series, but how's the rest of the team doing? For the scoop on ...
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Williams airlifted
Wednesday, October 11, 2006(Updated at 9:41 EST Wed., Oct. 12: It was erroneously reported that Gary Haraguchi was Horton's day 1 co-angler. The co-angler is ...
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More details: BASS Opens
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Bass recently released the payout structure and registration dates for its newly announced 2007 Bassmaster Open Series. Here's a summary. (Note that ...
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E-Tec: ultra-clean
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
You thought California was tough? Europe's got it by a longshot. Pristine Lake Constance on the Germany-Switzerland-Austria border hasn't allowed two-stroke ...
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Balog on Erie win
Monday, October 9, 2006Lake Erie veteran Joe Balog won last week's Erie Bassmaster Northern Tour. His winning pattern story will be posted soon, but right now, BassFans can ...
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Rick & Bubba & Clay
Monday, October 9, 2006
BassFan-sponsored angler Clay Dyer will be a guest tomorrow on the nationally syndicated Rick & Bubba radio show. Dyer's expected to be on from approximately ...
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Kumar, Laney opinions
Monday, October 9, 2006It's an opinionated Monday, so pick your poison. Jay Kumar's newest opinion is like an open letter to BASS – what he thinks it should do with the Elite ...
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More on Yamaha position
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No-cull Canada
Friday, October 6, 2006Anglers fishing this week's Erie Bassmaster Northern Tour were served up a dose of shock at the tournament meeting when BASS tournament manager Chris ...
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Better bronze hookups
Friday, October 6, 2006In the newest BassFan Pro Fishing Tip, Setyr pro-staffer and smallmouth expert Dave Lefebre tells BassFans how to improve their hookup ratios with bronzebacks. ...
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All about Setyr
Friday, October 6, 2006
Today is Setyr Rods Day at BassFan. This Oregon-based rod company is only 2 years old, but the word is spreading. Setyr hand-builds high-end, professional ...
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Setyr's Eldred answers
Friday, October 6, 2006Jim Eldred knows sticks. He owns and operates Oregon-based Setyr rods, and is the man most responsible for Setyr's rod design. Sure, he gets input from ...
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Yamaha: now hiring
Thursday, October 5, 2006Are you Yamaha material? Yamaha wants to know. The company is currently searching for a new freshwater promotions coordinator. Like to travel? Want to ...
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'Setyr Day' tomorrow
Thursday, October 5, 2006
Tomorrow is "Setyr Rods Day" on BassFan. This is the first of several themed days and weeks planned for the coming months that will give BassFans ...
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FLW registration begins
Thursday, October 5, 2006Registration for the 2007 FLW Tour and Stren Series began today. FLW Series registration begins next month. As always, registration proceeds through several ...
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Bassmaster Open dates
Thursday, October 5, 2006
Earlier this week, BassFan reported that BASS would scrap its current Bassmaster Northern and Southern Tours next year, and reinstate the Central and ...
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Clausen's hunt for a home
Thursday, October 5, 2006Reigning Bassmaster Classic champion Luke Clausen still doesn't have a permanent residence, but he's looking real hard at homes in the Nashville, Tenn. ...
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Another shot at glory?
Thursday, October 5, 2006Gerry Jooste of Zimbabwe has qualified for the Bassmaster Classic out of the Federation Nation a record four times, and Washington's Jeff Boyer has accomplished ...
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WBT details for '07
Wednesday, October 4, 2006BASS has just released the details of its 2007 Bassmaster Women's Tour. Again, the Tour is composed of five events, with a fully rigged Triton boat powered ...
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Team Supreme: owner update
Wednesday, October 4, 2006
As reported previously by BassFan, Team Supreme owner Nevin Gillette is accused by the state of Illinois of running a Ponzi scheme and faces charges levied ...
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Another controversy
Wednesday, October 4, 2006Remember the hubbub that surrounded Mac Weakley's potential world-record largemouth catch earlier this year? It seems like nowadays that every potential ...
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Lintner lands Powell
Wednesday, October 4, 2006Jared Linter's success this year has turned more than a few heads. The California pro made the Bassmaster Classic as an Elite Series rookie, and currently ...
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Swimbait season
Wednesday, October 4, 2006Top western pro Gary Dobyns fishes swimbaits frequently throughout the fall, winter and spring, and he catches a lot of big bass. To find out which baits ...
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2007-08 Elite Series, 'Opens'
Tuesday, October 3, 2006BassFan recently obtained the informational booklet and entry form for the 2007 Bassmaster Elite Series. A lot's the same, but a lot's different – especially ...
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ShareLunker turns 21
Tuesday, October 3, 2006The Budweiser ShareLunker program is now accepting 13-pound-plus largemouth bass for its 21st season.
Last season's 32 entries included new water-body ...
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Studious Salewske
Tuesday, October 3, 2006California's Rusty Salewske has fished 2 full seasons on the FLW Tour, but has yet to crack the Top 48 in the year-end points and qualify for the FLW ...
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Trouble at Team Supreme?
Monday, October 2, 2006According to a story published on WQAD.com and credited to the Associated Press, Team Supreme owner Nevin Gillette of Sterling, Ill. stands accused of ...
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Bass on NPR
Monday, October 2, 2006National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" ran a piece last Friday on pro fishing. The radio spot featured Ike, Brent Chapman, Pete Ponds ...
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U.S. wins third Euro cup
Monday, October 2, 2006
The third Eurobass Cup was recently held at Spain's Ricobayo Reservoir. The U.S. team won 14–10 to remain undefeated in the tournament.
The Eurobass ...
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Ray a finalist
Monday, October 2, 2006
BASS founder Ray Scott is one of four finalists for the 2007 Budweiser Conservationist of the Year award. If he wins, he'll be awarded a $50,000 grant, ...
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Surman, 64, Making A Run At Elite Qualification
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