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More than a fish

By Ken Duke
BASS member since 1976

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Do you know the story of Leroy Brown? No, not the Leroy Brown in the Jim Croce song from the early 1970s. I'm talking about Tom Mann's Leroy Brown — the fish. Well, if you don't know the story, I'm about to tell you. And if you do know it, bear with me while I tell you some stuff you almost certainly didn't know. The story starts in the mid-1970s on Lake Eufaula. The legendary Tom Mann was out fishing and caught a little 1-pound bass that somehow seemed very different to him. As Mann put ...

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