He used a Palomar knot. Either way, we all could literally be one cast away from from the bass fishing record books.

The newest of the Game and Fish nature centers opened in Little Rock next to the River Market last December, and they put this mount on display. You'll notice there's a river depth guage in the lower left part of the display case, leaning against the same wall. Beam, 37, could not find a certified scale because of business closures related to the COVID-19 pandemic, so he weighed it twice on a friend’s bathroom scale: 81 and 79 pounds, so he split the difference. The main problem we face is how objectively to distinguish a big hybrid from a fat striper. A Southern California kayak fisherman caught his first-ever white seabass last Saturday and it turned out to be one of the largest ever landed. He stretches the skin around a form that he makes himself and paints those stripes on with an airbrush. The Heat will be shorthanded against the Lakers in Game 2 of the NBA Finals. Beam added that a rush of adrenaline helped with the task of hoisting such a heavy fish onto his kayak, after tethering it with rope. I tried to get the camera equidistant from both the mount and the guage, but I can't be be sure how successfully I did that. First I'll give you the particulars on the catch, and then I'll go into my search for the present location of the mount.

Mr. Shaum took his catch in to the Fairfield Bay Marina, and it was so out of proportion to any expected fish that there was some question as to exactly what this thing was. The display doesn't list the length or weight or any other details. What do you think? Maybe it was a drum. Its back is dark, with white sides and belly, and with narrow dark stripes running lengthwise on its sides. Search for the biggest fish in the International Game Fish Association's database of biggest fish for each species. This is a textbook example of a striper and obviously not the same kind of thing as the fish in the top picture. Trouble is, there are lots of big stripedy fish about that long. “I broke the first six knots I tried to tie,” LaFleur said.

It really was that big.”. Further, the museum at the Little Rock office was undergoing renovations, so a lot of stuff was in storage. His post also displayed photos of fish he caught with the help of Ooshies. Sources: Cleburn County … *follow @ForTheWin: https://www.twitter.com/forthewin So if you visit the Nature Center at Riverfront Park in Little Rock, you can see what is either the world record hybrid striped bass or a striper that is very close to the same size and shape as the world record hybrid striped bass. It was right over a door, the width of which I could measure. The current world record is 3.50 pounds. Also, the stripes are unbroken, and we can see in the record photo that the stripes of the Shaum fish are broken, as is typical of a hybrid. The angler has reached out to the International Game Fish Assn. Outdoor Activities. “I had never fished that spot before,” he said of the main Devils Lake basin, in 40-feet of water. The world record bass was 22 pounds and 4 ounces. I did not even plan to send the information, but when I saw the fish was a good size, I decided to send in the official documentation.”.

“It’s truly a remarkable accomplishment and I feel blessed to have had the opportunity to achieve and share it.”, –Photos courtesy of James Loud (top) and John Holland, Sign up for the For The Win newsletter to get our top stories in your inbox every morning. White seabass, members of the croaker family, are found from Magdalena Bay in Baja California Sur to Juneau, Alaska. Fishing. A taxidermist would retain those characteristics, although he might correct other flaws like physical scars or patches of parasites. At first, they usually think they've hooked something else, like a log or a gar or a carp or catfish. Devils Lake Convention & Visitors Bureau Reports, Devils Lake Convention and Visitors Bureau, Your Daily Wisconsin Outdoor News Update – October 1, 2020, Your Daily Minnesota Outdoor News Update – October 1, 2020, Illinois Outdoor News Calendar – October 2, 2020, Male wolf killed by vehicle in southern Wisconsin – outside of known wolf territory, Anglers urged to be on lookout for invasive fish in Delaware River, Father, son charged with poaching elk, other species, Jewelweed: a natural remedy for poison ivy, stinging nettles, Smart sensory strategies for fooling whitetails in Pennsylvania.

The scale at the marina was broken, so they called up Don Pennington at Game and Fish to meet them at Reaves IGA to witness and identify the catch. The more posterior of the two dorsal fins is much softer, and is thus called a soft-ray. %link% Gary Graham, author of the Baja Bytes column, quoted Reyes as saying, “I did not expect to win a world record. It's not the kind of thing you'd think would be hard to track down. It seemed too big to be a hybrid or a white bass, too deep-bodied to be a striper. An angler fishing recently in Baja California Sur, Mexico, caught an 88-pound white seabass that could break a 67-year-old world record.

The porthole in... A Woolworths promotion involving Disney+ Ooshies has become a boon of sorts for an angler in Australia, who says the popular collectibles help him catch fish. 3 oz. So over the months I visited the nature centers and waited for the construction and renovations to be completed, and as specimens appeared on walls and in display cases, I saw several large striped fish, but none labelled as the world record. Caught by a fishing guide named Jerry Shaum of Shirley.

The previous state record was 22 pounds. Regardless of what type of tackle is used, only one person may be involved in subduing the … I've been on a quest for over a year to find the mount of this world record hybrid striped bass.

And compare the taper of the body from the anal fin to the tail. It weighed 22 pounds 4 ounces and was caught from an oxbow lake off the Ocmulgee River called Montgomery Lake. He identified it provisionally as a hybrid even though the stripes on a hybrid are usually broken and these were largely intact like those of a white or striper.

It's got a lot of girth, like the fish in the upper photo, but it's rounded like a striper and not flattened like a hybrid. Using the technique outlined in debunking the Tennessee Walleye from the walleye story, assuming the width of a man's hand across the knuckles at about 3-1/2 inches, we estimate the length of the Shaum record at 32 - 35 inches as illustrated in the photo on the left. Might he have made what he thought were cosmetic corrections to present a better looking display?

LaFleur said he moved 25 times that day, hunting by drilling hundreds of holes until stumbling into a school of white bass. It towed him a half-mile south before he reeled it into view. And that mount I found at Pine Bluff is a striper with a really full belly. ALSO ON FTW OUTDOORS: Paddleboarder surrounded by orcas, reacts accordingly, “I’d never even seen one over three pounds before,“ Beam told For The Win Outdoors.

It came the day before Valentine’s Day on Devils Lake — likely the new International Game Fish Association line-class world record white bass. The results of that test arrived a week later and identified this as a hybrid striped bass and therefore a world record.

The identity question had to be decided by genetic testing at Auburn University. Beyond that we face the same difficulties as the people who caught and weighed and verified the thing to begin with. “When I'm deck boss, I spend my time on the main deck ,” Croft wrote. The answers to the usual questions are: 27 pounds, 5 ounces. The lure was a shiny 1/16–ounce Northland Buckshot rattle spoon, the rod a Thorne Brothers Sweetheart customized perch rod made to LaFleur’s specifications.

(…), https://ftw.usatoday.com/2020/06/giant-white-seabass-could-break-67-year-old-world-record, Giant white seabass could break 67-year-old world record, I found this on FTW and wanted to share:

Measuring right off the computer screen and dividing the length (11.9 cm) by the depth (3.7 cm) gives us 3.22 for the record hybrid. Greg Myerson struggles to hold up the world-record striped bass.

Hybrid Striped Bass: 15 lbs. So we take a ratio of length from nose to tail and depth from the base of the front of the dorsal fin to the base of the pectoral fin, as shown in the picture. It looks like a better candidate, although it also is not labelled as the hybrid record. The mount at the Riverfront Nature center has a ratio of 3.33, pretty darned close to that of the photo of the world record considering I'm working from photos taken at less than ideal angles. The fish measured 54 inches in length and tipped Jack’s digital scale at 81.88 pounds. 6 oz. It looked bigger than my kayak and I still had no idea what it was, which added to the excitement.”.