Is The Legend Of Alabama’s Leroy Brown A Big Boss Bass Or Big Fish Tale?

Alabama News Center | November 16, 2019 @ 5:01 am

By Emmett Burnett
Alabama Living

In the heart of lovely Eufaula stands a statue like no other. About waist-high, under shady trees, it is a testament to a town hero, Leroy Brown. What’s so unique about that, you ask?

Leroy Brown is a fish.

Leroy was a larger-than-life, livin’ large, largemouth bass. This is the story, his legend, a fish tail – I mean tale.

On a sunny Eufaula Lake day in 1973, Tom Mann caught the bass that changed his life. “Dad knew something was different when the line yanked,” said his daughter, Sharon Mann Dixon. “Leroy weighed less than 2 pounds but fought hard because he was a king and knew it.”

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