Man ties record for largest bass caught

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DANIA BEACH, Fla. — A man was being credited with tying the 77-year-old world record for catching the biggest largemouth bass. The International Game Fish Association announced Friday that it had confirmed the 22-pound, 4-ounce fish caught by Manabu Kurita. The Florida-based group said Kurita caught the fish July 2 on Lake Biwa, Japan's largest lake.

Kurita's fish tied the record of George Perry, who caught his bass on Georgia's Montgomery Lake on June 2, 1932.

Kurita used 25-pound test line and a live blue gill as bait.

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dundadundun

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yeah, that's a big bass!
 

fishman1979

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that sure is a big'un
 

FISHSHROD

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That's one bigas bass :)
 

Sounguru

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It almost didn't count according the the government of Japan he was fishing in a restricted area and using illegal bait. They have rules over there that all bass and sunfish must be kept and not released back into the water. So since he was using one as bait they claimed he was releasing it back into the water and he was tied up outside the restricted area and cast into it from my understanding. There was a lot of hoopla over this and it is one of the reasons it just now got confirmed.

Still one very large fish and I would love to fish that lake but it cost an arm and a leg just to launch a boat.
 
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