
The recent Bass Pro Tour event at Cayuga Lake produced eye-popping numbers as 25-pound bags of smallmouth weren't sufficient to advance to the final round in some cases. In Joe Balog's view, the catch-and-immediate-release format that the tournament was conducted under is the only way to go on premier smallmouth fisheries during the period when fish are on the spawning beds.
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