Nah. The secret fly that Bryant Earl Baines used to catch multiple 20-plus-pound bass in Georgia was apparently not in the arsenal of professional angler Manabu Kurita, who caught a 22-pound, 5-ounce bass in Lake Biwa, Japan's largest lake. He used live bait.
If you missed our April Fool's Day article, be sure to read "Operation Quittman" on MidCurrent.
This Bass is here
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