These two fish were caught in northern Minnesota the one in my left hand was 21 inches 5 1/4 pounds, the monster in my other hand was 23 inches, had a girth of 18 inches, my digital scale I had in my tackle box read the weight at 8.5 pounds so there are monsters in northern Minnesota I caught these fish in 2008. Still to this day I have never seen a bass that could even compared to the big one in this picture.