The bass measured Hickox, just 11-years-old at the time, was fishing a Strobe Spinner on May 8, 2006 with her parents, sister and a friend when she hooked into the massive bass.Once landed, the fish was measured and weighed on a portable scale, which read an incredible 16 pounds. The catchholds the title for This bass weighs
The world record bass was 22 pounds and 4 ounces.
Mac Weakley foul-hooked this massive Bass The Bass is held by Mac's buddy, Mike Winn. The 11 All-Time Biggest Largemouth Bass. photo of George holding his record largemouth bass. This magnificent 18.3lb Bass was caught by Mike That world record has held up for 8 decades!
Realizing that his rubber worm had been cut in half, he quickly put a fresh lure on and re-cast to the same location.This time, Cody hooked up and stayed connected to his 17-pound fish which he weighed in at the nearby ranger station, with the help of some older anglers fishing nearby.Even more impressive is that Cody made the decision to release the fish alive so it could make even more bass for people to catch in the future.All of these catches, but especially the last two, are exactly why bass fishing is so popular. Sebile connected previous record of 59 cm (23.228 inches). It is the "holy grail" of fishing records. Some people were skeptical of this world record because no pictures had been found, but in 2006 relatives of George Perry produced pictures of the world record fish. records, the man on the right, Frederick "Fritz" Friebel,
The previous bass fishing record had been standing since 1932 when George Perry caught a 22-pound, 4-ounce largemouth bass from Montgomery Lake in Georgia. Carver, who is from Vestavia Hills, joins a relatively small group of anglers who have landed largemouth bass weighing 15-plus pounds.
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The IGFA maintains the World Records for all species of game fish. Lake in Georgia in 1932.
would be caught again.Butch caught this 19.3lb beauty early in 2008 (at Castaic Lagoon, California) Immediately knowing he had something special, Crupi put the fish in his livewell and raced back to the docks, later to be weighed in at a nearby deli & liquor store on a certified scale.Noticing that the fish was a spawning female and full of eggs, Crupi returned the fish to the livewell after it was officially weighed in, and eventually released the fish at the same spot he pulled it from the water earlier that morning.This catch earned Crupi the men's 16-pound line class record, and once again, the third heaviest bass ever recorded by the IGFA to this day.Robert Crupi isn't the only angler that has capitalized on the incredible largemouth fishery of California's famed Castaic Lake.In fact, Dan Kadota pulled his 19-pound monster from Castaic a year before Crupi began his stretch of incredible record catches.
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of this world record because no pictures had been found, but in 2006 relatives