World-record bass boated in California

[GLF]

Largemouth tips scale to 25.1 pounds, then is released back into Dixon Lake

Well, what do you expect when you notify the media that you boated a potential world-record bass?

That was the story at the home of Mac Weakley, who early Monday caught a mammoth largemouth on tiny Dixon Lake in southern California that he and his long-time fishing partners Mike Winn and Jed Dickerson weighed out at 25.1 pounds on a hand-held digital scale.

If that weight stands up it would shatter what is considered to be the granddaddy of angling records — the 22¼-pound largemouth bass taken in 1932 at Georgia's Montgomery Lake by George Washington Perry.

Read the whole story here. Record Largemouth

[GLF]

This fish is worth millions of dollars. Why would you not keep it in your live well and get it weighed on a certified scale?

[nomas]

I heard the guy threw it back? That sounds fishy to me...