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...hasn't a woman competed in the Bassmaster Classic before? Bass fishing is not like, say, weightlifting, where it's physically impossible for the top women to lift as much weight as the top men. A woman can catch just as big a fish...
...male or female, it's not about strength - it's a mental and strategy game. Women have not always been allowed to compete with the men. There were some rules about sexual privacy - that toilet issue held women back a number of years. They weren't able to fish. That got thrown out, and a number of ladies started competing. They certainly could compete with all the guys. It's just that a lady has never qualified for this event. They decided to open up it up to one position from the Women's Bassmaster Tour, which has been going...
...that it has been. I never really understood or had a full appreciation of it until I earned this Bassmaster Classic spot. I was thinking about it from a selfish perspective, where it was all about me. And suddenly I was introduced to all these women who have been fishing for 40-odd years, who have been dreaming of this day when women would compete in the Bassmaster Classic. They're crying because this is a historical moment. I've always been into fishing, and always been allowed to fish, and when I came here to the USA, I could...
Absolutely I can win this. I've got just as good a shot as anybody. For the fishing I've seen on the Red River, I think that it's pretty easy to go out there and catch a good quality fish. It's going to come down to who gets that lucky big bite. You're going to need one or two fish that'll be bigger than the rest to really shoot ahead in the competition. I'm not fishing for 50th place. I'm fishing...
...every festival since 1986, and has brought her daughter Alex along for the last decade. And while the festival does attract the occasional lone eccentric—such as a self-proclaimed “magician” from Somerville who rotates the names Michael Fishman, Tuna Oddfellow and Fish the Magish—families are perhaps the most common type of attendee. Not all fans are fortunate enough to have cooperative children, however. In his 30th year at the festival, Cambridge resident Barry Perlman lamented his inability to pass on the sci-fi tradition...