New World Record Largemouth Bass ?

[weedwalker]

A bass caught in Japan is one ounce over old world record.

http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/bassmaster/news/story?page=b_BigBass_record_Japan_20090702

[SCcoyotehunter]

That think is huge! Sucks world record might go to Japan.

[FinsnFur]

Holy crap that thing is huge!
Can you just imagine?

[iahntr]

Did anybody else see the show on National Geographic awhile back on the three
guys that were trying to catch the new world record bass? They caught it a few
years ago ( I don't remember the exact dates or weights) and it weighed 21 lbs
and some oz.s Somebody put like a million dollar bounty on it.They fished for it for
the next several years. They ended up catching it again a few years later. They
weighed it and it weighed 25 lbs. and some oz.s They knew it was the same one
because it had a mark on it, they nicknamed her Dottie. They ended up releasing
her because they foul hooked her. I thought that was a class act. At the end of
the show one of the park rangers called one of the guys up because they found
a fish floating dead that they thought might be Dottie, he came and identified it
and it was her, she then weighed like 19 lbs. Pretty cool show. I'm sure a guy could
search it and find the info about it if interested.

[nastygunz]

It can only tie the IGFA record not beat it:
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The video also notes that Kurita has been fishing for 18 years and will submit an application for world record recognition to the International Game Fish Association. If Kurita's catch holds up, it would be the biggest legally caught certified largemouth in history (Perry's fish weighed 22-4) ... and a tie with Perry's catch as the IGFA's all-tackle world record.

A tie? That's right. According to IGFA regulations for record fish weighing less than 25 pounds (such as all of the black bass subspecies), the replacement (record applicant) must weigh at least two ounces more than the existing record. The Japanese fish that is subject of such interest and inquiry today outweighs Perry's fish by less than an ounce."A catch which matches the weight of an existing record or exceeds the weight by less than the amount required to defeat the record will be considered a tie," according to the IGFA.