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Guido Hibdon, winner of the 1988 Bassmaster Classic, can still catch them. (Courtesy Evinrude)
By Steve Rogers, OutdoorChannel.com
LAS VEGAS -- By today’s professional bass angling standards, Guido Hibdon had a tiny amount of lures at his disposal when he won the 1988 Bassmaster Classic on the James River in Virginia.
“When I won the Classic,” Hibdon said recently at the International Convention of Allied Sportfishing Trades (ICAST) in Las Vegas, “I went into that thing and luckily they bit it because I sure didn’t have much else in the boat.”
Times have changed.
Today’s pro bass anglers carry cases of lures, plugs, jigs, worms, grubs, spinnerbaits, swimbaits, buzzbaits – and they’re constantly looking for more.
“New...