For more than 80 years, Georgia has boasted of being the home of the world record largemouth bass. However, a little more than a decade ago a Japanese angler is purported to have landed a larger largemouth bass that outweighed the current world record. This story reverberated throughout the bass fishing world. Millions of anglers were left wondering whether or not such a fish had been caught and, if it had, did it topple the Georgia record?
The Angler Magazine, July 2023
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