The International Game Fish Association is going to announce tomorrow at 1:30 if there is a tie for the world record. When they say tie its because the IGFA rule says the fish has to be at least 2 oz bigger to beat the record. On July 2, 2009, Japan's Manabu Kurita caught a 22-pound, 4.97-ounce largemouth bass from Lake Biwa the current record has been held for 77 years by George W. Perry in 1932 from Georgia's Montgomery Lake, an oxbow of the Ocmulgee River. 22pound 4 oz.
In 2007 Mac Weakley caught a bass that reportedly weighed 25 lbs 1 oz from a lake in California, however he chose not to submit it for consideration as a new world record. The fish was released alive back into the lake where it was caught.
To bad, the record would have definitely stayed in the u.s.
To bad, the record would have definitely stayed in the u.s.
that boggles the mind..seriously..theres no way anything that size will ever grow in CT..too cold.. but i think we could generate a record smallmouth in places like Candlewood if people stopped taking fish altogether for like a decade.. that would be awesome.
January issue of Bass Master had article on Manabu Kurita's record fish pulled from Lake Biwa, Japan. Says in there he saw a SCHOOL of 20 lb bass when he caught the record fish. You won't see that anywhere around here. In fact, never heard of that in the states. I've seen schools of runts, but nothing of good size schooling together.
