New Oklahoma Record Largemouth 2025
SDoolittle reply :
http://www.tulsaworld.com/sportsextra/article.aspx?subjectid=25&articleid=20120324_25_B1_CUTLIN280382&allcom=1
Dwight Hottle reply :
2012 will probably go down as THE YEAR of big bass & new state records.
retiredbosn reply :
caught it on a jig awesome, not the alabama rig even better
KansasBassin reply :
Wow awesome fish, I think Dwight is right though about 2012 being a big year
Captain Shane Procell reply :
That is awesome!
scrutch reply :
Great catch. Terrible decision afterwards. The fish was kept and was going to be made into a wall mount. Nothing like removing the best line of genetics in the lake! It was about to spawn. You would think that a tournament fisherman would know better!
Take a ton of pics and measurements and release her! Retarded!
Ozarksman reply :
That's a big one
Bluebasser86 reply :
Hopefully he has everything squared away so this one doesn't go down like Arkansas' record did.
retiredbosn reply :
On 3/25/2012 at 4:10 AM, scrutch said:Great catch. Terrible decision afterwards. The fish was kept and was going to be made into a wall mount. Nothing like removing the best line of genetics in the lake! It was about to spawn. You would think that a tournament fisherman would know better!
Take a ton of pics and measurements and release her! Retarded!
The requirements to verify a state record varies, some states require verification from a Game Warden, others you need witnesses, but all require a certified scale. You can depending on the state have your scale certified but not all. In short if someone wants the accolades of having caught the state record there may be no other way, it will have to removed from the water to be verified. Add to that if he was using a Mustad hook, he may want the 100k from Mustad. Additionally there is no way to conclusively state that he removed the best genetics, unless of course someone has electo-fished the entire lake and knows without a doubt that was the biggest fish. I was told by a biologist that a lake in WV holds the new state record there, in fact there are several in the lake that will shatter the state record, but I recieved that info about 5 years ago, and the old state record is still intact.
MaineBassFishin reply :
They have to keep it if they want the state record..On 3/25/2012 at 4:10 AM, scrutch said:Great catch. Terrible decision afterwards. The fish was kept and was going to be made into a wall mount. Nothing like removing the best line of genetics in the lake! It was about to spawn. You would think that a tournament fisherman would know better!
Take a ton of pics and measurements and release her! Retarded!
scrutch reply :
On 3/25/2012 at 6:00 AM, MaineBassFishin said:They have to keep it if they want the state record..
There has to be a good way to get it weighed and all that state record stuff done without killing the fish. The pro tours do it every week.
SDoolittle reply :
On 3/25/2012 at 5:37 AM, retiredbosn said:Add to that if he was using a Mustad hook, he may want the 100k from Mustad.
I thought about that, but the article says that he caught it on a 1/4 oz Strike King jig. I believe the only 1/4 oz jig that Strike King makes is the Bitsy Bug, and it has a Gamakatsu hook. The Denny Brauer Premier jig is made with a Mustad hook, but it doesn't come in 1/4 oz.
On 3/25/2012 at 8:21 AM, scrutch said:There has to be a good way to get it weighed and all that state record stuff done without killing the fish. The pro tours do it every week.
The pros don't fish out of jon boats. Sure, it would have been nice to see that fish released, but what he did was perfectly legal.
preach4bass reply :
On 3/25/2012 at 4:10 AM, scrutch said:Great catch. Terrible decision afterwards. The fish was kept and was going to be made into a wall mount. Nothing like removing the best line of genetics in the lake! It was about to spawn. You would think that a tournament fisherman would know better!
Take a ton of pics and measurements and release her! Retarded!
Ray Scott (who is the father of catch and release bass fishing) said, in an article a few years ago, that if someone caught the world record bass, they should keep it instead of releasing it. In my opinion, the same thing goes for a state record. I know if I caught the NC record, folks would just have to talk junk about me, because that thing would be hanging on my wall!
Congratulations to the lucky angler!
scrutch reply :
All good valid points. IMO if I caught it, I'd do everything I could possibly do to keep it alive, then after the circus is over, turn her loose. I'd have a replica mount made, and then I'd go out again and again to try to catch her again. Just my .02. 
Mountain Angler reply :
Thats awesome and i agree 2012 is the year of big fish
POPRG reply :
Thanks for the article bird dog..strike king makes a 1/4 ounce "tour-grade" football jig,just picked up 4 of em last week. they use gammy hooks though..
South FLA reply :
He caught that MONSTER on a
Medium action 7-foot 7-inch Wright & McGill Skeet Reese signature series
that old girl must have given him a heck of a pull ! Those are some whippy rods!
Bassn Blvd reply :
On 3/25/2012 at 10:14 AM, South FLA said:He caught that MONSTER on a
Medium action 7-foot 7-inch Wright & McGill Skeet Reese signature series
that old girl must have given him a heck of a pull ! Those are some whippy rods!
I was thinking the same thing.
AND, at least it wasn't caught on a Diawa, LMAO.
jignfule reply :
I've caught & released my whole life. NO way am I going to criticize any one for keeping a State Record fish.
CoBass reply :
I agree that it would be nice to be able to do all of the necessary verification without killing the fish but in a lot of states it's just not possible. Here's a link to the verification process for Oklahoma http://www.wildlifedepartment.com/fishing/recordrules.htm It would be pretty hard to keep a fish alive especially if they decide they want tissue samples.
A friend of mine caught a state record channel cat a few years ago and we have the same requirement that a state biologist must examine the fish. It was several days before a biologist was able to do his examination so there was no way to keep the fish alive if he wanted to claim the record.
flipin4bass reply :
BOOMER SOONER! and that's all I have to say about that.
angler3 reply :
thats a nice fish, too bad he wasn't using a mustad hook, they are giving away 100,000 for a state record largie caught on their hook!
snakeajj1 reply :
Wow i'm a little surprised. The record for massachusetts is 15.4 on a little 310 acre pond, back in '75. Seems small(wow calling a 14lbs largemouth small 
)
angler3 reply :
there should also be a way of keeping that fish alive weighing and certifying it and putting it back in the lake, i agree on thats the gene pool that you want and need in the lake plus nowadays you can take a good picture and get the girth and length measurements and they will make a fiberglass replica of that fish that you couldn't tell the difference if it was fake or real. I believe in protecting your resource
rockchalk06 reply :
Oklahoma well central Oklahoma doesnt have the biggest bass around. 14 is a monster here. Hell anything over 5 pounds your sportin a chubby
AK-Jax86 reply :
Man that thing is a monster!!!
ToddP reply :
On 3/25/2012 at 4:10 AM, scrutch said:Great catch. Terrible decision afterwards. The fish was kept and was going to be made into a wall mount. Nothing like removing the best line of genetics in the lake! It was about to spawn. You would think that a tournament fisherman would know better!
Take a ton of pics and measurements and release her! Retarded!
I'm all about CPR (Catch, Photograph, Release), but some states require such lengthy "verification" of the catch (dorsal fin samples, tracking down Game & Fish, etc) that it would do extreme harm to the fish to have her out of the water that long. Also, in this particular incident, if he would have released the fish after the Warden weighed the fish the first time (improperly), it would have just been a big catch, not the State Record.
Although, nothing wrong with a "big catch" lol.
I'm not sure what I would have done in that situation, would have been really hard to keep/kill the fish. But I'm not going to fault the guy.
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