Dickerson, a casino gaming manager from Carlsbad who landed the fourth-largest bass in May on Lake Dixon, a reservoir on the outskirts of San Diego.

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They were among 83 two-person teams, drawn from college fishing clubs from across the country, in the second annual National Collegiate Bass Fishing Championship on Lake Lewisville, a huge reservoir just north of Dallas.

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Sitting on his bass boat on the lagoon portion of Castaic Lake, a reservoir in a desert some 45 minutes north of L.A., Crupi bakes under a merciless southern California sun from 6 a.m. until 5 p.m.

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But rain forecast for Tuesday afternoon could hamper the clean-up by carrying oil sheen towards nearby Lake Conway, a popular destination for bass, catfish, bream and crappie fishing.

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The lake is where in the 1990s a 26-pound bass was reportedly caught by a Cuban, though it was eaten before it could be verified as the new world record.

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The story goes that back in 1925, a Japanese businessman named Tetsuma Akaboshi procured 400 bass from California and smuggled them into his home country, dumping the fingerlings into Lake Ashinoko, not far from Tokyo.

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