Big Smallie

[Stonedfish]

That thing didn’t miss too many meals or have to eat lead weights to get to that size.
SF

A Record 10-Pound Smallmouth Caught on Erie

We got reports early this afternoon, Nov. 3, 2022, of a 10-pound smallmouth bass being caught in Ontario on Lake Erie. Ross Robertson called us and confirmed his friend’s father Gregg Gallagher caught a smallmouth that was weighed officially with DNR representatives on hand at 10.15 pounds. It...

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[rattlesnake]

The thought of a 23.75” x 19.375” bass… crazy proportions

 

[Rob Allen]

Lake Erie huh? Did they check its belly for weights?

 

[Old Man]

I wonder if they returned it to the water to make more big fish. ?

 

[skyriver]

I wonder if they returned it to the water to make more big fish. ?

Yeah, that would have been great info to state in the article since most record fish get bonked.

The pictures of it in water, both in a cooler and while being weighed seems to indicate they did all they could to get it back out there alive.

Man, what a cool story. Fish of a lifetime.

 

[Florida Man]

Man. What an absolute pig.