ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Workers with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission were out at Lake Apopka Wednesday dropping net after net of Florida bass into the water as part of an ongoing ...

Somewhere in the pale shallows of Lake Apopka is a prize. It’s a bass. It’s female. She has a name. It’s Jim. Poking from her back like an antenna is plastic wire. On that orange wire is an area code ...

Organizers of the fishing-for-cash challenge in Lake Apopka wondered if they could tag their star fish, a hugely bellied female, largemouth bass named Jim, with $100,000 or any amount of prize money.

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