Record bass confirmed – Ontario OUT of DOORS

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Record bass confirmed – Ontario OUT of DOORS


Record bass confirmed – Ontario OUT of DOORS
Photo: Ohio Department of Natural Resources

A ten.15-pound, 23.75-inch smallmouth bass caught in Lake Erie by an Ohio angler earlier this month is the brand new Ontario document.

The Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters (OFAH), which operates the Ontario Record Fish Registry, confirmed the document on Monday, Nov. 14 after Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) biologists confirmed the fish was freed from international objects by way of X-ray.

Gregg Gallagher of Fremont netted document bass utilizing drop-shot and eight-pound check on Thursday, Nov. 3. The species, size, and 19.275-inch girth had been vetted ODNR biologists, who held the fish pending affirmation.

68-year-old document beat

The smallmouth — the one licensed 10-pound bass caught in any of the Great Lakes — beat the earlier document of 9.84 kilos from Birchbark Lake, close to Kinmount, northwest of Peterborough, set in 1954.

It’s additionally the third largest registered as a jurisdictional document behind the world document from Dale Hollow Lake on the Tennessee/Kentucky border (11 kilos, 15 ounces) and the Alabama state document from Wheeler Dam (10 kilos, 8 ounces), ODNR Lake Erie Fisheries Program Administrator Travis J. Hartman acknowledged in an e mail.

“We are all fortunate to have witnessed and documented this truly amazing catch,” he wrote. “While I don’t believe it is possible to truly document a representative list of every certified 10-pound smallmouth bass ever caught, we know that there isn’t evidence of a certified 10-pound smallmouth in any Great Lake or connected waterway.” 

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