Shimano_1 Posted July 3, 2019 Posted July 3, 2019 Everyone can debate it til the end of time. That's part of the lure around fish of that size. Congrats to anyone that's caught anything close to that size. I've bass fished for close to 30 years and 7lbs is my personal best. Cant imagine one that could basically eat a 7lber lol. Everyone can debate it til the end of time. That's part of the lure around fish of that size. Congrats to anyone that's caught anything close to that size. I've bass fished for close to 30 years and 7lbs is my personal best. Cant imagine one that could basically eat a 7lber lol. Quote
Global Moderator TnRiver46 Posted July 3, 2019 Global Moderator Posted July 3, 2019 15 hours ago, Glaucus said: I consider the Georgia bass an illegitimate record. Very little information on the fish, almost 100 years old, no idea on the legitimacy of the scale/weight according to modern standards. Nice fish and all but I can't get behind it in these conversations. What I think doesn't matter though. I tend to lean the other way. I would imagine fishing was pretty good 100 years ago. Relatively low fishing pressure and not nearly as much pollution. Someone may have caught a 26 pound bass and just eaten it back then 1 Quote
Super User WRB Posted July 3, 2019 Super User Posted July 3, 2019 Big difference between a giant bass being eaten without recording the catch and recording the catch for monitory gain or winning tackle. When George Perry caught his bass and this wasn't the first he submitted for prizes there wasn't any official records being kept. You catch a big bass send in a photo for advertising use and win tackle without proof of the catch besides your word. Field & Stream contest you fill out the entry form and mailed it in with a photo, I did this several times in the 50's to get free tackle. Goerge Perry had no idea his bass would someday be grandfathered as a world record. What is very strange the catch wasn't used for any ads and F & S couldn't locate a photo when the IGFA requested it back in the early 50's. I IGFA did a interview with Perry to determine if he caught the bass with Perry giving details of the catch, the lure used* and where the bass was weighed and a witness name, Perry didn't have any photos of the fish. The witness Jack Page has never been located and Perry ate the bass. The was reported to be weighed on a 100 lb postal scale with 1/4 lb increments. I believe Perry caught a big bass and submitted it to afield & Stream. Years later when everyone started to question the catch Perry avoided discussing it,he was a private person and didn't want to be bothered, he didn't have proof only his word and that should be all that's needed. The should not have validated the Perry bass as a world record without a photo for proof, it put George Perry between a rock and a hard place, all Perry was looking for was a few lures during the great depression. My guess is Perry exaggerated the weight a few lbs, still a record for that time period,and things spun out of control decades later. Listing the Kurita bass with all it's athenication as a tie with Perry is another IGFA error. Tom *Creek Chub Wiggle Fish 1 Quote
Global Moderator TnRiver46 Posted July 3, 2019 Global Moderator Posted July 3, 2019 I honestly think me and my friends have broken the world record for skipjack herring a few times but have never bothered to turn it in. I think it's just over 4 lbs haha. The striper guys I know would take a 4.5 lb skipjack and put a circle hook and balloon on it in the blink of an eye . I bet in the early 1900s people didn't even know the records for most fish, maybe even a largemouth. It was most likely just more meat for anyone except pioneer sport fishermen 1 Quote
Super User Tennessee Boy Posted July 3, 2019 Super User Posted July 3, 2019 I’m sure many world and state records for the more obscure species are broken without any one noticing. In the nineties I was fishing a tournament with a guy that caught a monster Freshwater Drum on a rattletrap. It took him a half hour to land the thing. After he released it he ask me how much I thought it might weigh. I said 60lbs. He said he was thinking 55lbs. Neither of us had any experience guessing the weight of a fish that big. Neither of us knew the world record, which was caught near where we were fishing, was 54.8 lbs. Quote
ZbestBassman Posted July 4, 2019 Posted July 4, 2019 On 7/2/2019 at 10:02 PM, Glaucus said: I've caught many Whopper Plopper fish that way. Would be pretty unfair to call that a foul hook. switching the trebles to singles on most baits can avoid this issue Quote
BassThumb Posted July 4, 2019 Posted July 4, 2019 57 minutes ago, ZbestBassman said: switching the trebles to singles on most baits can avoid this issue Good luck catching fish with single hooks on Whopper Ploppers ? 2 Quote
Russ E Posted July 4, 2019 Posted July 4, 2019 1 hour ago, ZbestBassman said: switching the trebles to singles on most baits can avoid this issue 31 minutes ago, BassThumb said: Good luck catching fish with single hooks on Whopper Ploppers ? You beat me to it. Not just whopper ploppers. Crankbaits and jerkbaits are the same. My tournament partner used to hate treble hooks. He would swap them on nearly every bait. We would catch about the same amount of fish on spinnerbaits, jigs, and worms. When it came to crankbaits and jerkbaits I would smoke him. Finally after seeing the difference he went back to treble hooks. Not too surprisingly his catch rate went up. As fishermen we do not detect every swipe at a bait. Treble hooks help catch those fish. I don't know of any pro fishermen that replace treble hooks with single hooks. There is probably a reason for that. Quote
Super User WRB Posted July 4, 2019 Super User Posted July 4, 2019 The Perry world record bass was caught in June 1932 before IGFA began keeping records of saltwater game fish records in 1939. Field & Stream contest records were officially transferred to IGFA in 1978 when they included freshwater gamefish. The IGFA has stringent rules set up initially for a short list of recognized salt water game fish species caught on line classes plus all tackle world records. Field & Stream was the unoffical keeper of freshwater fish entered into thier annaul contest until 1978 when IGFA took over freshwater gamefish records applying their rules and regulations including line classes and all tackle class. George Perry passed away in 1974 before the IGFA officially kept freshwater fish records, How many giant bass were never submitted to Field & Stream or who knew about or cared about the F & H contest that started in 1925 we will never know. How many BR members know the IGFA rules or ever looked at a entry form? You need to know before catching a potential record fish! Tom Ps, the Perry bass was caught in June met it was at least 2 to 3 months post spawn. Never in the history of giant bass catches have ever been recorded in the summer, with 1 exception the Kurita bass in July in Japan. 1 Quote
Super User Catt Posted July 4, 2019 Super User Posted July 4, 2019 7 minutes ago, WRB said: 1978 when IGFA took over freshwater gamefish records applying their rules and regulations And concluded there was sufficient evidence of Perry's catch. 1 Quote
Super User Raul Posted July 5, 2019 Super User Posted July 5, 2019 Don't mind me, I'm just here for the comments ! ..... 1 Quote
JediAmoeba Posted July 5, 2019 Posted July 5, 2019 On 7/3/2019 at 12:32 PM, WRB said: *Heddon Wiggle Fish I thought it was a creek chub lure? Quote
frogflogger Posted July 5, 2019 Posted July 5, 2019 1 hour ago, JediAmoeba said: I thought it was a creek chub lure? creek chub wiggle fish Quote
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