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Richard Peek of Alabama shows a heavyweight largemouth bass he caught April 12 during the Walmart FLW Tour bass tournament at Beaver Lake. Game & Fish fisheries biologist Ron Moore said FLW anglers caught so many quality largemouth bass this year because of an excellent spawn in 2008 when the lake level was extremely high. Moore decided to raise largemouth bass in the Beaver Lake nursery pond this year in anticipation of lower water levels during spawning time this year and possibly next year.