
The Fish That Changed America
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Bass fishing changed from pastime to business in part because of competitive tournaments and the publicity they generated. That publicity, in turn, sparked a demand for more and more information from the tournament fishermen themselves-how they caught bass-so in essence, the sport fed upon itself. Author Steve Price has interviewed dozens of anglers over the past few years, and he fits each of their stories into a complicated puzzle that forms a comprehensive tale of competitive record holders and fishing industry insiders alike.
The Fish That Changed America is not simply about tournament bass fishing, although some of the stories included here do involve competitive anglers. Rather, Price has tried to embrace a wider view of the entire sport and to show how different facets of bass fishing meshed so perfectly at the same time, leading to the state of the industry today. The participants-those who laid the foundation for what all bass anglers today enjoy-tell their own stories of what happened during those not-so-long-ago years. Many of the stories, such as the standing room-only funeral for a famous largemouth bass, touch on far-ranging topics that all anglers will enjoy.
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword by Slaton L. White
- Preface by Kevin VanDam
- Introduction
- Part One: The Fish
- Chapter 1 The Gamest Fish That Swims
- Chapter 2 Ray Scott: "The One Thing I Am Most Proud Of"
- Chapter 3 Virgil Ward: "The Fishing Trip That Started My Lure Company"
- Chapter 4 Tom Mann: "Leroy Brown Was Something Special"
- Chapter 5 Glen Lau: "I Had No Idea a Bass Could Do That"
- Chapter 6 Stan Fagerstrom: "Giving Casting Lessons to a Princess"
- Part Two: The Tackle
- Chapter 7 How One Fish Changed the Tackle Industry
- Chapter 8 Trig Lund: "We Wanted Anything New or Good We Didn't Have"
- Chapter 9 Cotton Cordell: "I Never Had a Pocket without a Lure in It"
- Chapter 10 Bill Lewis: "It Was Just a Plain Accident"
- Chapter 11 Glynn Carver: "How the Plastic Worm Grew a New Tail"
- Chapter 12 Lee Sisson: "I Made a Lot More Lures That Didn't Work Than Did"
- Part Three: The Lakes
- Chapter 13 The Largemouth's New Home
- Chapter 14 Jack Wingate: "The Fishing Stories Were True"
- Chapter 15 Tommy Martin: "We Caught 'Em and Caught 'Em and Caught 'Em"
- Chapter 16 Jackie Thompson: "This Place Is a Fish Factory"
- Chapter 17 David Wharton: "One Year I Caught 1,700 Bass from the Same Spot"
- Chapter 18 Guy Eaker: "We'll Never See Fishing Like That Again"
- Part Four: The Boats
- Chapter 19 Boats Built for Bass
- Chapter 20 Dale Calhoun: "Shipping Stump-Jumpers Was Harder Than Building Them"
- Chapter 21 Paul Allison: "Cupping the First Prop"
- Chapter 22 Forrest L. Wood: "Back in Business in 40 Days"
- Chapter 23 Earl Bentz: "The Accident That Changed an Industry"
- Chapter 24 Bill Huntley: "I Told Ray His Program Would Never Sell"
- Part Five: The Pros
- Chapter 25 Casting for Green Gold
- Chapter 26 Scott Suggs: "I Dreamed I'd Hold Up Two Big Bass"
- Chapter 27 Bill Dance: "We Gotta Move That Log"
- Chapter 28 Dee Thomas: "That's How Flipping Started"
- Chapter 29 Rick Clunn: "A Special Lure for a Special Tournament"
- Chapter 30 Takahiro Omori: "I Slept in My Truck for Three Years"
- Part Six: The Business
- Chapter 31 The Business of Bass
- Chapter 32 Bob Cobb: "It All Started in a Pickle Box"
- Chapter 33 J. L. "Mac" McBride: "Catching Bass and Talking about Them"
- Chapter 34 Charlie Brewer: "Doing Nothing to Catch Bass"
- Chapter 35 Jimmy Houston: "I Just Wanted to Build a Golf Driving Range"
- Chapter 36 Alex Langer: "The Infomercial That Changed Marketing"
- Part Seven: The Trophies
- Chapter 37 The Search for Giants
- Chapter 38 Bill Baab: "Searching for George Perry"
- Chapter 39 Jed Dickerson: "I Didn't Realize How Large She Was"
- Chapter 40 Dean Rojas: "I Was So Excited I Could Hardly Breathe"
- Chapter 41 Billy Westmorland: "The Christmas Present I Lost"
- Chapter 42 Manabu Kurita: "I Tried Not to Get Too Excited"
- Index
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