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Shares the stories of competitive fishermen and their efforts to break a seventy-two-year-old largemouth bass record, from George Washington Perry's famous 1932 catch, to a Texas biologist's endeavor to break the record through scientific research, to an Alabama fisherman's obsessive pursuit that cost him his marriage. Reprint.
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In 1932, a farmer named George Washington Perry decided it was too rainy to plow and went fishing. That day, George landed the largest largemouth ever recorded—twenty-two pounds four ounces. The fish has inspired and frustrated hundreds of anglers for decades. They’ve dedicated their lives to the pursuit of “Sowbelly”—a nearly mythical fish, whose swinelike girth holds the key to their dreams.From an L.A. cop who came within ounces of besting the record to an Alabaman who has lost his marriage and his daughter to this pursuit, Burke takes readers along for the ride in this legendary race.
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