11.2 lb Spotted bass was caught at Bullards Bar reservior in CA this weekend.

Tom

Yup. That was on the club scale, 10.95 lbs on a certified scale, which is still the world record! That thing is fat.

Such a beast of a fish. I'm sure it's not the only one in there either.

Yeesh, that had to be the fight of a lifetime haha

I wonder what it was caught on.

Yeesh, that had to be the fight of a lifetime haha

I wonder what it was caught on.

Yamamoto grub on a darter head

That girl needs to lay off the cake and pie!!! What a gut. Brian.

California- where the record spotted bass is the size of the record largemouth in most other states. 

That one has some girth to it.

A grub and darter head ehhh? I was expecting a 10in swimbait or something lol. That's awesome!

I read the article.He caught it on a spinning rod,8lb test.Took about 3 minutes to get it  in the net.

Potential spotted bass record caught at Bullards Bar Reservoir

22.Feb.2015 by Jody White

On Saturday, Feb. 21, Lou Ferrante of Sparks, Nev., caught a 10.95-pound spotted bass from Bullards Bar Reservoir in California. If certified, it will be the new world record, beating out the current world record caught last year by Keith Bryan by about a half pound.

Ferrante, a co-angler in the Rayovac FLW Series, caught the fish while participating in a 19-boat tournament held by the Great Basin Bassers. The fish was first weighed in on the club’s scale, where it weighed 11.20 pounds. Unfortunately, the club’s scale wasn’t certified, so Ferrante had to find a place to weigh it while he drove back to Nevada. Eventually, he found a Save Mart supermarket in Truckee, Calif., where he was able to get the certified weight of 10.95 pounds. Ferrante and his partner Joe Inama finished fourth in the tournament with 12.32 pounds.

Ferrante says he caught the fish at around noon on a Quantum spinning outfit with 8-pound-test line and a brown-colored Yamamoto grub on a darter head in about 20  to 25 feet of water.

“I broke off my Senko about two or three casts before the fish bit,” says Ferrante. “I think God told me to pick up the rod with the grub instead of re-tying. It took me about two or three minutes to land it, and I almost fainted when I saw her in the net.”

Ferrante has been bass fishing since 1985, but says that this was only the third time he had ever fished at Bullards Bar. Ferrante finished in 44th place on the co-angler side at the recent Rayovac FLW Series event on Lake Havasu and plans to compete in the remainder of the Western Division events

That is one heck of a spotted bass!  Keith Bryan didn't get to hold the record for long, but I love to see records fall in bass fishing. 

What a great photo. Hes not holding it straight out to create an optical illusion. 

He must've thought he hooked into someone else's boat!  WOW!!  Can't imagine the fight a 10+ sally puts up.  

That lake is cranking out some ridiculous spots! 

Kudos to Lou. We all here in NoCal have been waiting for the record to come out of Bullards. Quite a place where when things are right a limit of spots in the high twenties is needed to win.

California- where the record spotted bass is the size of the record largemouth in most other states. 

 

Haha. To true!