Bass Tournament Stories: The Day I Zeroed Out (And What I Learned)

The final weigh-in was brutal. Boat after boat returned with fish. I sat in my empty bass boat, rod tips pointed skyward like monuments to failure, watching the numbers go up on

Dale Hawkins

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