WORLD RECORD: HEAVIEST LARGEMOUTH BASS EVER

You’ve felt the adventure of drawing in what you think about a “big slab,” however that still doesn’t come quite close to what one angler experienced around the world capturing today’s existing world record for the greatest largemouth bass.

In fact, all the bass I have actually reeled in combined probably wouldn’t even add up to the world record bass captured by Manabu Kurita in Lake Biwa, Japan.

Technically, Kurita’s bass was one ounce larger than the previous world record largemouth bass, which was caught by George Perry in Montgomery Lake in Georgia back in 1932.

Considering that Kurita’s bass wasn’t 2 ounces heavier, it’s officially considered a tie.

For those people in the United States who don’t speak metric, that largemouth weighed about 22.4 pounds and was about 29 inches long.

It equates to 10.12 kg, and Perry’s record fish was 10.09 kilograms.

Close, but not enough of a gap to prevent the tie, says the IGFA.

Now, I don’t speak Japanese, but I think I can probably guess what they are so excited about. That is, quite simply, the biggest bass you can lay eyes on.

These are by far the most popular game fish in America, and the next world record largemouth bass could effectively originated from Florida, California, Texas, or another area where freshwater fishery management has resulted in huge, huge bass.

But bass anglers wanting to enter the record books can’t precisely eliminate Japan.

 

Sources: wideopenspaces