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Thumping way to lead

By Lynn Burkhead
ESPNOutdoors.com

Thursday, June 12, 2008

GILBERTSVILLE, Ky. — As the hot sun shown down on the state's most famous bass water, BASS tournament director Trip Weldon opened the Day One weigh-in ceremony at Kentucky Lake with a prediction. "It's going to be as good as Wheeler Lake was," Weldon prognosticated. As it turns out, Weldon's opening bell prediction for this week's Bluegrass Brawl presented by DieHard Platinum Marine Batteries was a bit off — as good as the 'Bama event was last week, Kentucky Lake was that much bette ...

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