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In search of 'The Five Pound Bass'

By Trey Reid
Special to ESPNOutdoors.com

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — I'd been bass fishing for most of my life, but in the fall of 2004 it was taking me places I'd never dreamed of. I'd just signed on to do a bass fishing show for ESPN. I'd be traveling the country, following pro tournaments and spending more time fishing than a rational adult should expect to spend fishing without also expecting unemployment. It was in this personal and professional context that a friend introduced me to Robert Earl Keen, by way of the Texas music man ...

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