Spikes reels in big one

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Gator linebacker Brandon Spikes shows off his 8-pound, 10-ounce bass caught on Newnan’s Lake.

Brandon Spikes got in on the Newnan’s bonanza, making an outstanding catch recently while speck fishing the north shore. But, in his usual style, the elite athlete managed to locate a much harder-fighting foe. The Gator great was casting a small jig/minnow combination with light tackle when he hooked something obviously too strong and heavy to be another speck. Spikes played the big fish carefully, and eventually wore down a whopping bass. After weighing the 8-pound, 10-ounce fish on tested scales at The Tackle Box, he released it back into the lake. The fine catch probably wouldn’t rank among Brandon Spikes’ top sporting conquests, but it was the best Newnan’s bass we have seen in years.

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