2007 Southern Open #3: Ippoliti

The father of a 7-month-old son and owner of a car dealership — two factors that keep him too busy to compete as much as he'd like to — Ippoliti, 44, posted close to 15 pounds each day, a consistency he credited to a technique which he preferred not to discuss.

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2007 College Bass National Championship:Fab Five

All five of those teams caught limits on Day Two, and all were in the top five after Day One, just in a slightly different arrangement.

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2007 College Bass National Championship: Alone

Working in a hospital over the course of his four years back in his hometown of Spartanburg, the USC Upstate Senior had many life experiences helping the elderly and the infirmed.

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2007 College Bass National Championship: Still alive

"It's going to be tougher today," he said. "We need to get on them early. Early and quick and big … We need to try again to see if yesterday was a fluke."

2007 Southern Open #3: Day One

Bobby Lane of Lakeland, Fla., took the lead Thursday at the season finale of the 2007 Bassmaster Southern Open out of Decatur, Ala.

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The Finesse Way, Part 3 of 4

In this article, you can read about Elite Series pro Aaron Martens technique for finesse split shot rigging in clear water.

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Piloting Rough Waters

Learn how to handle yourself and your boat when encountering high winds and big waves.

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Tickle Their Taste Buds

Read how Zell Rowland dresses up the rear trebles on his topwater baits to improve his chances of an explosive topwater strike.

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