The meeting and interview occurred some twenty years after the … The official world record spotted bass, caught by angler Nick Dulleck, weighed 11 pounds and 4 ounces, beating the previous record by nearly a pound. The current International Gamefish Federation Association (IFGA) world record is 22 pounds, 4 ounces and was caught back in 1932. largemouth is still the world record bass (officially it's in a tie with a bass caught in Japan by Manabu Kurita). It still is, although in 2009 it was tied by a 22-5 caught in Japan's Lake Biwa by a young angler named Manabu Kurita.

Manabu Kurita shocked the fishing world with his 22-pound, 4.97-ounce largemouth from Lake Biwa, Japan in 2009. With a headline that stopped many striper fishermen in their tracks, the Virginian-Pilot reported yesterday of a “ world record striped bass caught and released off Cape Charles .”.

Well in this case, it might’ve been closer to the 3,000th time.

Doug Brown, the 23-year-old marine sniper who actually found the record fish, remains unknown to even the most devoted Dottie tabloid readers. The mystery that has surrounded the 22-pound, 4-ounce world recordlargemouth bass caught by George Perry in Georgia's Montgomery Lake on June 2,1932, has persisted more than seven decades - and so has the record itself. Black Sea Bass: 9lbs 8oz: Joe Mizelle Jr. Virginia Beach, VA: January 9, 1987: Black Sea Bass: 9lbs 8oz: Jack G. Stallings Jr. Virginia Beach, VA: December 22, 1990: Blackfin Tuna: 45lbs 8oz: Sam J. Burnett: Key West, FL: May 4, 1996: Blue Runner: 11lbs 2oz: Stacey M. Moiren: Dauphin Island, AL: June 28, 1997: Blue Shark: 454lbs: Pete Bergin: Martha’s Vineyard, MA: July 19, 1996: Bluefin Tuna Fished for by thousands of anglers, the monster largemouth bass that could have broken the 22-pound 4-ounce world record, was found floating on the surface of Lake Dixon last May. Well how about being a part of Guinness World Records' biggest event of the year, GWR Day? In Jan. 2010, the IGFA certified the bass as a tie with Perry; to claim the world record, it had to exceed Perry's catch by 2 ounces or more. The bass weighed 22 pounds, 4 ounces and the magazine, keeper of world fish records of the time, a few years later recognized the bass as the world record for the species. Simply make your application and select the event "GWR Day 2020" when prompted, and join in the celebrations! And in fishing, "the catch" is George Perry's world record largemouth bass taken on June 2, 1932 from Lake Montgomery, an oxbow of the Ocmulgee River in South Georgia. Alex Foster of West Virginia holds up a 122 centimeter striped bass that is the pending International Game Fish Association release world record for the species. In 1932, George Washington Perry was a 20-year-old farmer living in rural Georgia. The striper was boated by Greg Myerson and weighed in at 81.88 pounds, which edges out the previous record of 78.8 pounds caught in 1982.

Joe Stearns of Georgia Game and Fish met and interviewed George Perry whose 22 lb. Hereis the true story of the 20-year-old farmer's famous catch. 4 oz. Are you thinking of making a record application (either as an individual or in a small team) in the next few months? Guinness World Records Day.

The striper, however, is not in the size class of the current 81.88-pound IGFA world record striped bass caught in Connecticut in 2012. The new world-record striped bass was caught on the night of August 4, 2011 in Connecticut waters. The fish weighed 22 pounds, 4 ounces and is the most sought after sportfishing record in history. World Record Bass. September 1953 issue. What’s the saying… third time’s the charm?