In the wake of Ott DeFoe's victory at the Bassmaster Classic, Joe Balog went back and reviewed the notes he'd compiled while serving as a press observer in DeFoe's boat at the 2017 Classic. He saw some things that day, such as DeFoe's apology to a crappie fisherman for waking his boat, that suggested the Tennessee angler possessed an extremely high level of maturity and was primed to take down a major title.
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