Japan's Continuing Influence on American Bass Fishing
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While there had historically been some overlap between Japanese bass fishing culture and the U.S. market, that seemed to peak somewhere between the popularization of companies like Lucky Craft I the mid-1990s and Takahiro Omori’s Bassmaster Classic win in 2004. Anyone who thinks it stopped there simply hasn’t been paying attention.
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