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2026-02-16, 12:16:52
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Hi Dan, see you next month.

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ESPN BASS finally replaces Rucks with Ricks

Started by djkimmel, February 22, 2007, 12:00:31 AM

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I was just wondering if ESPN BASS GM Don Rucks had been replaced yet and bingo, bango, bongo, I get this not from BASSMASTER central:

Exclusive Interview with new BASS GM Tom Ricks
By Ken Duke
BASS Senior Editor
Feb. 12, 2007

(Editor's note: Following is a Web-exclusive interview by BASS Senior Editor Ken Duke with newly appointed BASS General Manager Tom Ricks.)

Tom, as BASS' new general manager, everyone's interested in learning more about you and your background. Tell us about your childhood and how you got into the sport of fishing?

I grew up right outside of Atlanta, in a little town called Forest Park. The South is the land of bass fishing, and I spent my youth fishing every body of water within miles of my home. The first fishing trip I can remember with my father was spent chasing bluegills at the age of four or five. On that same trip I caught a three-pound bass, and I was hooked from that point forward. Bass were the only fish I wanted to fish for after that. I nagged my dad every day of the week to take me fishing. It was a big part of my childhood and a big part of my relationship with my father as I was growing up. We fished every weekend together during the spring and summer and hunted and fished in the fall and winter...continue

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