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A Magic Tree

By Steve Wright
ESPNOutdoors.com

Sunday, April 13, 2008

DEL RIO, Texas — In placing fourth last year at Lake Amistad, Todd Faircloth found what he calls "a magic tree." It did him one better Sunday in the Bassmaster Elite Series Battle on the Border presented by Mahindra Tractors. The 32-year-old Jasper, Texas, pro landed a five-bass limit weighing 29 pounds, 14 ounces, jumping all the way from eighth place to the $100,000 first-place check at Lake Amistad. In the three-day event, shortened by one day due to a high wind forecast, Faircloth tota ...

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