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Article: Tackling a different method.(SPORTS)(OUTDOORS)(Column)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- September 13, 2009
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Byline: Gene Mueller, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Some 40 years ago when Ray Scott innovated highly structured bass fishing tournaments, the P.T. Barnum-like Alabamian advised the followers of his newly founded Bass Anglers Sportsman Society that they should use strong line, stout rods, and, when a largemouth bass sampled a plastic worm, to set the hook hard enough to cross its eyes.
It became the mantra of Scott's earliest devotees, Southern bass fishermen.
Back then, dues-paying BASS members traveled the states to compete in well-advertised fishing contests, wearing jumpsuits that were covered with tackle company patches, and to Scott's everlasting ...