I am not sure "who was the best Bass fisherman" ?
But I am sure of this!

As a group who fished the Cape Cod waters for years it had to have been the Woolner brothers ,Arnold Laine and the Worcester Striper Club
Worcester won the Schaefer Saltwater fishing contest three years in a row 1950-51-52 (how many times did they come in 2nd or 3rd ?)
The only other team to do this in the history of the event was the Martha's Vineyard fishing club , some 20 years later 1972-73-74
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