GRINDTV REPORTED FIRST: For nearly four decades, a 22-pound, 4-ounce largemouth bass reeled from Georgia’s Lake Montgomery stood as the highly coveted world record, and as the years passed that 1932 catch became increasingly special. Bass anglers wondered if the record ever would be broken, and the more passionate among them strived to land a bigger bass to replace George Perry’s name with theirs in the record book. To beat Perry became the holy grail of bass fishing.
Then, in 2009, at Japan’s Lake Biwa, Manabu Kurita shocked the global bass-fishing community by tying Perry’s record. (Kurita’s fish was slightly heavier, but the International Game Fish Association lists the record as a tie, explaining that it requires that any record be beaten by at least 2 ounces.)
This inspired anglers new. Perry’s record can be beat, but is there an even bigger fish out there? Will a 23-pound bass someday become a reality?
Texas rancher Dr. Gary Schwarz assures that it will, and says that it will come from one of his private lakes on La Perla Ranch. He points to a large crustacean—a spindly freshwater prawn—as the food source that will push his bass over the top.
“It’s hard to believe that this crazy-looking creature will be responsible for growing the next world-record largemouth, but I can promise you, it will,” the rancher told James Hall of Bassmaster Magazine.
Hall profiled Schwarz in a piece titled “Building the world record bass.”
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