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California turns out more monsters

By Michael Jones
BASSMASTER — May 2002

Friday, March 25, 2005

In any state other than California, an 18-pounder would send shock waves through the bass fishing community. But here the bar has been raised so high that anything under 20 pounds only gets a passing notice. What has raised a few eyebrows in the Golden State is not so much the 18.62-pound bass Galen Jensen caught Feb. 3, 2002, but where it was caught. It wasn't a trout-stocked water to the south, but northern California's noted bass powerhouse — the California Delta. Although the Delta pr ...

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