Serving up swimbaits
The news, when it happens, is nearly always the same: a 15- to 20-pound bass, caught in California, on a swimbait.
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The news, when it happens, is nearly always the same: a 15- to 20-pound bass, caught in California, on a swimbait.
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Randall Tharp triumphs at bassmaster southern open on Santee Cooper.
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Second day of Southern open canceled due to weather.
Southern open #2 on the Santee Cooper with Matt Herren
Southern Open day one results
Bill Dance was professional bass fishing's first superstar. After a second-place finish in the first modern bass tournament the 1967 All-American on Beaver Lake in Arkansas the former furniture and hardware salesman from Memphis, Tenn., never looked back. He parlayed his tournament success into Bill Dance Outdoors, an immensely popular television fishing show that is still in production and still one of the most popular in the world.
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