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VanDam Compares Classics Past and Present

By Louie Stout
Senior Writer, Bassmaster Magazine

Monday, February 16, 2009

Kevin VanDam says this week's Bassmaster Classic is markedly different from his first on the Chesapeake Bay in 1991. He remembers being in awe the moment he stepped off the airplane in Baltimore that muggy August day. He was an obscure, 23-year-old tenderfoot, tacklebox in hand, about to embark on one of the most amazing careers in bass fishing history. "Everyone told me there was no way I could prepare for that moment and that I wouldn't do well because of the whole spectacle," he says. "To s ...

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