Continuing coverage by B.A.S.S.: One day after Chris Lane’s bass boat was destroyed by fire, there are more questions than answers concerning the cause. “The fire marshal is trying to figure out the cause of the fire,” said Lane, prior to Friday’s takeoff at the Bassmaster Elite Series event on Lake Dardanelle. “That may take a day or a week or months, who knows?” There has been one interesting development in the initial search for answers. It seems there were two fires in the boat – the obvious one in the back and another in one of the rod lockers below the front deck.
If you looked at Lane’s boat, which was still parked in the Super 8 motel lot Friday, the back end was charred almost beyond recognition. The backs of the driver and passenger seats were burned, but everything forward looked unscarred.
It appeared that Lane would have been able to get his rods, reels and tackle from the storage lockers and use them Thursday. But Lane needed all new everything. The locker fire destroyed the tackle stowed under the front deck.
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