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Year 1 A.D. (after Dottie)

By Brett Mitnick
Special to ESPNOutdoors.com

Friday, May 8, 2009

Last spring marked the end of the chase for Dottie, the world-famous largemouth bass from Escondido, Calif. As one of the most-publicized bass in fishing history, Dottie put her home Dixon Lake and Escondido on the map. Before a local angler found her floating in the lake last May, Dottie twice made the list of the 20 largest bass. On her last live weigh-in — the result of a foul-hooking, and thus an unofficial catch — Dottie tipped the scales at 25 pounds, 1 ounce, well north of th ...

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