Lake Biwa is known for having huge bass there. No surprise the record was caught there.How many people actually buy those roman made swimbaits?

The scale is in metric, but the number doesn't mean meter, but 10cm. So that fish is like 72-73cm. The "5m" in the middle is misleading. It supposed to be 0.5m which 50cm.

Stating the obvious, but that thing is a flat out pig. Very interesting read on the tackle tour link.

If I am not mistaken, Lake Biwa is the biggest lake in Japan. Unfortunately Lake Biwa is one of the many lakes in Japan foreign species totally altered the natural order of native species. Ayu and Funa are eaten by bass right and left. Bass have lots of food to grow big. There are fisherman who make living catching those native fish. Traditional way of living for people around there are effected.

The prefecture where Lake Biwa has ordinance that catch and release of bass or bluegill is illegal. But I don't think that's making any dent.

This is very sad situation if you think about the nature, land and way of life. And fish like this feels so unnatural to me.

This is very sad situation if you think about the nature, land and way of life. And fish like this feels so unnatural to me.

With that attitude any LM bass caught west of the rockies is an unnatural abomination

NGaHB

With that attitude any LM bass caught west of the rockies is an unnatural abomination

NGaHB

If you want to call what I feel about this an attitude, I don't care. I admit that I don't know much about what happened before and after re: western bass. I feel different between man-made lakes having bunch of bass vs. a natural lake with over 1000 years of history and culture around it (Biwa Lake) being dramatically changed by foreign species' total domination in last 20-30 years which won't get the things back to the way it once was.