How big was Dottie The largemouth bass?

Then, on March 19, 2006, when the 3 friends were out on the lake fishing the men spotted “Dottie” – a 25 lb female largemouth stuffed full of rainbow trout and distinguished by a black dot on her right gil-plate.

What was Dottie The bass caught on?

Manabu Kurita caught this huge fish on July 2, 2009 on Lake Biwa while using a live bluegill as bait and it immediately rocked the bass fishing world. It took six months for the International Game Fish Association to rule the catch as legitimate.

What is the largest bass ever caught?

Official Largemouth World Record: George Perry’s Undefeated Bass. On June 2nd, 1932, George Perry caught the current world record bass out of Lake Montgomery, an oxbow lake off the Ocmulgee River in southern Georgia. The fish (the whopper) weighed 22 pounds, 4 ounces.

How long can a bass live?

How long will a bass live? Bass in cooler areas tend to live longer. The maximum would be 16 to 20 years. The average bass would usually live 5 to 10 years.

Has anyone ever caught a whale?

This is the best fishing story EVER! Yes, ever. Charlie Dostounis of New Zealand was fishing with friends this past Saturday when he hooked into a killer whale.

Which is biggest fish in the world?

whale shark
The whale shark (Rhincodon typus) earns the name “whale” solely because of its size. Just as the blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is the largest living mammal*, the whale shark is the largest species of any fish, known to reach more than 40 feet in length.

How long will a bass live?

Their lifespan is on average 16 years. Immature largemouth bass may tend to congregate in schools, but adults are usually solitary.

Who is the world record holder for bass?

Patrick Sebile has fished all across the world and holds many IGFA records. On a recent trip to Lake Okeechobee, Fla., Sebile set out to fish his way into the record books once again and succeeded on the trip using a lure he designed called the Sebile Proppler Buzz.

When did Paul Duclos set the world record for bass?

Where Paul Duclos weighed his potential Spring Lake world record largemouth bass on a bathroom scale in 1997, Leaha Trew’s biggest folly in 2003 was simply not taking more photos of her catch from the same lake.

Where did Jed Dickerson catch the world record bass?

Jed Dickerson claims the 21.7-pounder he caught in 2003 (above) at California’s Dixon Lake is the same 25.1-pounder taken this morning by his angling parter Weakley. Only later did they discover that may not be the case.

What’s the world record for a bucketmouth bass?

Weakley already has a 19.44-pound bucketmouth — considered No. 15 all-time — to his credit, taken on a swimbait at Dixon Lake on May 20, 2003. (Dixon has yielded one other top-25 bass — Mike Long’s 20¾-pounder that was boated on a swimbait April 27, 2001, and that ranks as No. 9.)