Remember it well, Hank Parker entered Freedom Hall with a paper bag over his head embarrassed about getting skunked, a lot of those guys were humbled. I think that was the first time that BASS pulled the boats into the arena for the weigh-in.
A group of us set on the bank watching George Cochran fishing 100 yards away - the boats weren't wrapped and identified like they are now so we didn't know that's who it was, I watched him with a set of binoculars trained on him for an hour and couldn't figure out what he was fishing with, he was a machine, the lure was never out of the water long enough to ID it!
Gary Klein had the weight to win but couldn?t lock through McAlpine in time to win . . .
I don't remember an Expo.
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