What a catch!!! New world record bass.

[sooner n houston]

http://espn-att.starwave.com/winnercomm/outdoors/fishing/i/P2_f_Mar20_06_MWeakley.jpg

http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/fishing/news/story?page=f_fea_bass_world-record_Weakley_25.1

[C&CDean]

Foul hooked. The record shouldn't stand.

[TUSooner]

C'mon - He put a bowling ball inside it !

[TopDaugIn2000]

Foul hooked. The record shouldn't stand.

maybe his record could just have a big * by it

you know, like :eddie: 798*

[sooner n houston]

Foul hooked. The record shouldn't stand.

According to the article;

"It may still qualify," Hall said. "The IGFA (International Game Fish Association, the most-recognized keeper of angling records) has a pretty vague rule about foul-hooking, which states you cannot intentionally foul-hook a fish."

Weakley now plans to submit his catch — along with photos, video, the line and the scale — for verification by the International Game Fish Association.

"We didn't know" about the foul-hooking specifics, he said. "Now we are learning other things about it. If you accidentally foul-hook a fish and you instinctively set the hook, apparently it counts."

[Flagstaffsooner]

"I feel good, awesome, in fact," said Weakley, 32, of Carlsbad, Calif, who used a white jig with a skirt and rattle."
That's how Mack hooked Chrissy.:D

[NormanPride]

I'm just stoked to see a fish that big.

Hmm...?

[IB4OU2]

I'm thinking Dixon Lake is gonna start getting a lot of pressure............

[BlondeSoonerGirl]

What is 'foul-hooked'?

I'm at work - I ain't Googling that...

[C&CDean]

He was retrieving his lure and it hooked the fish in the body, not the mouth.

[C&CDean]

Wait, why am I suddenly getting a warm rush "down there."

[Flagstaffsooner]

What is 'foul-hooked'?

I'm at work - I ain't Googling that...Just snagged it. Like women do to men.;)

[IB4OU2]

What is 'foul-hooked'?

I'm at work - I ain't Googling that...

Hookin' the fish anywhere other than the mouth and I'm surprised the guy admitted it.........

[C&CDean]

No record, but a nice little bass out of one of my ponds caught this past weekend by my kid.

http://www.picfury.com/2/drewfish2-1-th.JPG (http://www.picfury.com/2/drewfish2-1.html)

http://www.picfury.com/2/drewfish1-2-th.JPG (http://www.picfury.com/2/drewfish1-2.html)

[BlondeSoonerGirl]

So no actual fishing skill was used but it's still one big-a$$ fish...

Got it.

[IB4OU2]

No record, but a nice little bass out of one of my ponds caught this past weekend by my kid.

http://www.picfury.com/2/drewfish2-1-th.JPG (http://www.picfury.com/2/drewfish2-1.html)

http://www.picfury.com/2/drewfish1-2-th.JPG (http://www.picfury.com/2/drewfish1-2.html)

Farm pond fishin's a fun, nice catch and btw Turkey Seasons only a few weeks away..........

[Flagstaffsooner]

Turkey Seasons only a few weeks away..........Wrong, we don't play oSu until 11/25.;)

[OUinFLA]

The past decade has been filled with anticipation that a new world record bass would be caught from one of Californis's deep water resevoirs. Lake Castiac has yeilded several catches in the 21-23# range over the past 4 years.

The size of the fish is attributed to an initial stocking of the Florida strain of Largemouth bass which have grown more rapidly and larger than the more common Kentucky strain. Texas lakes have benefited from stocking the Florida strain as well. Over the past decade the Texas record has jumped from about 12# (I think) to over 17#. Attriubted to the new strain introduced in the Texas lake system.

Also the lakes in question in California are about 300 feet deep and the largemouth bass has a huge vertical column to avoid fishing pressure in. Those same lakes are also stocked with several million trout fry each year which become instant fodder for largemouth and aid in their tremendous growth rate.

The record size bass was thought by some to be unobtainable for many years as it was felt the bass would die of old age before it reached the 23# range. Due to the heat, shallow water and fishing pressure that Florida lakes receive, it was assumed that even though our bass grow rapidly to the 10#+ size, that a record was going to be out of the question. The Florida environment was not conducive to a fish living long enough to obtain record size.

However, in California, the feed(trout fry), the cooler water, the depth of the lakes, the lessor fishing pressure, and the adaptabliity of the Florida strain of bass to the California lakes has led to great optimism that a new record would soon occur.

This particular fish is still a questionable record. Not just IMO, but also in the minds of many experts in the field.

For those of you unfamilier with the dollar consequence of catching a legit new world record bass, it has been pegged at somewhere in the neighborhood of 2.5 million dollars. Mostly from endorsements by the equipment manufacurers of what ever was being used to catch the elusive record bass. That estimate is a few years old and certainly catching such a fish could garner the lucky fisherman a nifty retirement nest egg.

[TopDaugIn2000]

I don't have any photo editing tools at work, so someone else has to put the "b!tch stole my fish kid" here for me.

[IB4OU2]

The past decade has been filled with anticipation that a new world record bass would be caught from one of Californis's deep water resevoirs. Lake Castiac has yeilded several catches in the 21-23# range over the past 4 years.

The size of the fish is attributed to an initial stocking of the Florida strain of Largemouth bass which have grown more rapidly and larger than the more common Kentucky strain. Texas lakes have benefited from stocking the Florida strain as well. Over the past decade the Texas record has jumped from about 12# (I think) to over 17#. Attriubted to the new strain introduced in the Texas lake system.

Also the lakes in question in California are about 300 feet deep and the largemouth bass has a huge vertical column to avoid fishing pressure in. Those same lakes are also stocked with several million trout fry each year which become instant fodder for largemouth and aid in their tremendous growth rate.

The record size bass was thought by some to be unobtainable for many years as it was felt the bass would die of old age before it reached the 23# range. Due to the heat, shallow water and fishing pressure that Florida lakes receive, it was assumed that even though our bass grow rapidly to the 10#+ size, that a record was going to be out of the question. The Florida environment was not conducive to a fish living long enough to obtain record size.

However, in California, the feed(trout fry), the cooler water, the depth of the lakes, the lessor fishing pressure, and the adaptabliity of the Florida strain of bass to the California lakes has led to great optimism that a new record would soon occur.

This particular fish is still a questionable record. Not just IMO, but also in the minds of many experts in the field.

For those of you unfamilier with the dollar consequence of catching a legit new world record bass, it has been pegged at somewhere in the neighborhood of 2.5 million dollars. Mostly from endorsements by the equipment manufacurers of what ever was being used to catch the elusive record bass. That estimate is a few years old and certainly catching such a fish could garner the lucky fisherman a nifty retirement nest egg.

Iv'e been to Castaic and Piru but not Dixon........those are all very deep lakes and there were more folks fishing for trout than Bass.