Vet aiming to become oldest Classic angler

If Oklahoma native Ken Carter does well enough at this week’s B.A.S.S. Nation Championship on Alabama’s Pickwick Lake, he’ll earn the right to compete in the 2019 Bassmaster Classic at the age of 80, making him the oldest angler ever to compete in bass fishing’s biggest event by a wide margin. ‘I tell people I’m three days older than dirt,’ laughed the always-joyful Carter during a hot August fishing trip to Lake Keystone, a few minutes west of his longtime sponsor Zebco’s headquarters.

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