12.35 lbs caught from Cayuga Lake pending New York state record largemouth. 

 

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=507840905144236&set=a.164145632847100

 

Good lord . The link won’t work but 12 is a monster 

When I posted it was working. But now it gives a message the link might be broken or the page removed. It was posted on Facebook & Instagram. Try searching on Facebook & it comes up as a reel & several other posts.

26 minutes ago, Dwight Hottle said:

When I posted it was working. But now it gives a message the link might be broken or the page removed. It was posted on Facebook & Instagram. Try searching on Facebook & it comes up as a reel & several other posts.

 

New link try again.

According to that link the record has been confirmed? 
 

Oh my gosh. Can’t even wrap my head around that. A 12 pound largemouth caught just an hour and a half west of me. The NYS LM record is something I thought would never fall. 

What a fish! According to In-Fisherman, its southern equivalent would be about 18.5 pounds. 

I need to fish Cayuga more often.

2 hours ago, Jar11591 said:

According to that link the record has been confirmed? 
 

Oh my gosh. Can’t even wrap my head around that. A 12 pound largemouth called just an hour and half west of me. The NYS LM record is something I thought would never fall. 

Confirmed but pending official release. The angler that caught it said he weighed it on a certified scale & they were going to re-certify the scale.

That 's a big bass,

That's a big girl

Word is, caught on a wacky worm off the end of a boat dock. 

 

Anyone that has fished Cayuga knows it's like thr Jurassic park of Bass fishing. Sooo many bass and they are so big. 5's are pretty common.

 

They need to put gobies in all the northern lakes. Lol 

Wowza!!!

That’s ridiculous for a northern strain fish.

Awesome! Thanks for sharing. That'll get your mustache to flapping in the breeze!

Wow!!

Here is an article on Outdoor Life

 

https://www.outdoorlife.com/fishing/new-york-record-bass/

25" and 12.35 lb. What a freak!  Sounds like a lot of fun too on a spinning rod in the grass 😂👍🏼🎣

 

What a HAWG!

What a catch and what a lake.  I've seen more than a few 8+ at tournaments there.  Glad to see the record caught from a public lake.  Congrats!

Dang shame what the IGFA has done to the record books, they created a Northern Strain record only to put the Perry/Kurita fish as the record.    Then they put a 15lb Ivie fish caught by Kyle Hall in March as the Florida Strain LM WR Bass.   

 

They could have done something great for all the Yankee Bassers and given them a WR to chase after.    This fish is the textbook example of what should be the new WR for Northern Strain LM.   

 

All that aside, this fish has solidified my opinion that Cayuga Lake is the best Bass fishing in the North.   I had already believed this after last year's MLF Cayuga debacle, but now that we learn it has LMs like this, it's a no brainer imho.

 

So many 6-7lb SMs, and now you got the SR LM Bass.....what a Bass paradise.  

Did they analyze the fish, I mean via a scale? (Fish scale) not a weight scale. 
 

What are the differences between the strains? I’m familiar with the southern species it’s the northern ones I’m not sure of. 

27 minutes ago, alonerankin2 said:

Did they analyze the fish, I mean via a scale? (Fish scale) not a weight scale. 
 

What are the differences between the strains? I’m familiar with the southern species it’s the northern ones I’m not sure of. 

While there are some visual markers like lateral line scale counts and visual pigmentation, they are not guarantees since the two strains can interbreed. Genetic analysis is the only real way to definitively differentiate and determine lineage. At the moment, hybrids aren’t eligible for either WR all-tackle categories.

 

There is also some discussion by those directly involved in all this to test the NY bass and perhaps make it the northern WR. There is also interest in the MA state record (if it could ever be located), or possibly the IN state record for these same reasons. Not sure where that discussion might go yet.

8 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

All that aside, this fish has solidified my opinion that Cayuga Lake is the best Bass fishing in the North.

Find the stage 6 MLF event there from 2 years ago. Smashfest.

7 hours ago, Team9nine said:

Genetic analysis is the only real way to definitively differentiate and determine lineage.

So are you saying that northern strain largemouth which are caught in the north could be partial Florida strain largemouth? That’s doesn’t seem possible in far northern locations. It’s just way too cold for half the year. Plus, how would Florida strain largemouth even get into lakes and rivers in the far north? Not like they’re being stocked.

 

I’m very skeptical that there’s largemouth bass in the lakes I fish that have partial Florida strain genetics.

 

Further south, yes, certainly possible.

31 minutes ago, PhishLI said:

Find the stage 6 MLF event there from 2 years ago. Smashfest.

That's the one I was talking about in my reply, but I thought it was last year.

 

It was the most stupid SM fishing I've ever seen including last year's Elite Series on SLR.    Felt kind of dirty watching that event though, catching the same spawning fish over and over.