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Ways & Means

By Michael Jones
BASS Times, Aug. 2002

Friday, August 30, 2002

Despite advertising to the contrary, modern bass fishing is sometimes not all that modern. Granted, the boats look like gelcoated rocket ships. Our rods and reels are made from the most technologically advanced composite materials. And now we've got revolutionary soft plastics that can stretch from here to next week. Yet, amidst all this so-called "high tech," the science of hooking, fighting and landing bass has not changed substantially since Dr. James Henshall wrote his seminal work The Book ...

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