Bridges knows its twists and turns, its shallows and cypress stands perhaps better than anyone -- he even knows where the big bass hunker down.
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Though biologists say California is the most likely spot to produce a new world-record fish, big bass have been reported in Mexico, Cuba and even Japan.
Still, getting the second-biggest bass has cemented Crupi's reputation as the best bass angler alive. (He's also caught the sixth-largest.) "It gives me a high to catch big bass, " he says.
The money and fame have inspired hoaxes--a 2.5-pound diving weight was found in a big bass in California--but have also inspired a new band of knights to go in search of angling's holy grail.
Their sound might be described as highly textured, of-the-moment electronic pop with nods to the big drums and synth bass of the '80s.
Striped bass are a big marine fish concern of the DEC not only because they are a prized game fish for recreational anglers, but also because they are full of PCBs, thanks to the General Electric plants upstream on the Hudson that pumped the contaminants into the water for 30 years until 1976.
And the country had two wildly popular bass-fishing shows, a pro circuit and five magazines--with names like Basser and Crazy Bass--that are devoted to dekkai bass, the Japanese term for big, fat largemouths.
To that end, it announced a number of partnerships with big consumer brands, including InterContinental Hotel Group, Bass Pro Shops and Shell Oil.
Bass tournament results rarely, if ever, make big city daily sports pages.
The core four-piece unit is built to play big, with Tony "Doggen" Foster on guitars and bass, Kevin Bales on drums, Tom Edwards on keyboards, and Mr. Pierce on guitars and keys.
But when 'Sea Bass' is in one of those rampaging moods, it seems no disgrace if the big Frenchman happens to get past, as he did to Moody with one charge down the wing for a try just after half-time.
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