Larry Nixon (born September 3, 1950) is a professional fisherman from Bee Branch,

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Career

He has competed in more than 260 bass fishing tournaments since 1977; still competing in bass fishing tournaments to this very day. Nixon has won fourteen first-place finishes in all the professional bass fishing events. He won the 1983 BASSMASTERS Classic held on the Ohio River near Cincinnati, Ohio. His catch there is the 3rd smallest winning weight in BASSMASTERS Classic history. He is also a 2-time B.A.S.S. Angler of The Year winner. Nixon was the first angler to earn $1 million in bass tournament winnings. Nixon's career earnings in his entire bass fishing career add up to a grand total of $1,634,858.60; making him a

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in the port. His biggest fish caught to win the ''Big Bass'' award was a black bass weighing at

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on August 12, 2009. At the 2004 FLW Tour in

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), Nixon managed to catch worth of fish. This would become his largest catch of his entire career. Larry Nixon endorsed a video game which was called ''Larry Nixon's Super Bass Fishing'' in Japan. The game was released on September 23, 1994. When it was released in the

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and

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two months later, the game changed its title to '' TNN Bass Tournament of Champions'' in recognition of the former

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nixon, Larry 1950 births American fishers Living people People from Van Buren County, Arkansas