Growing World Record Bass

Interesting and cool in a way. Who wouldn't love to own a private managed bass fishery?

https://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/outposts/post/the-secret-for-growing-world-record-bass/

sort of like high fence trophy hunting! would be awesome to fish!

Personally, I think it would be wrong to allow fish like this to count toward any records. They're using non natural food sources to generate this growth. If you allow this, do you then allow them to genetically alter the fishes DNA, or inject the fish with growth enhancement drugs similar to steroids to achieve a new record? Sure it would be fun to fish in places that had some of these monsters, but where do you draw the line when it comes to state/world records. What it boils down to is the person with the most money can hold all the records because you know those monster fish will be up for sale sooner or later.

It shouldn't count for a world record, I agree with that.

I still want a private managed lake like Redbug. :lol:

JMichael said:

Personally, I think it would be wrong to allow fish like this to count toward any records. They're using non natural food sources to generate this growth. If you allow this, do you then allow them to genetically alter the fishes DNA, or inject the fish with growth enhancement drugs similar to steroids to achieve a new record? Sure it would be fun to fish in places that had some of these monsters, but where do you draw the line when it comes to state/world records. What it boils down to is the person with the most money can hold all the records because you know those monster fish will be up for sale sooner or later.

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The only argument I have against this is that you would now have to discredit any fish caught in California waters where they get huge from eating the trout that get stocked there.

This is similar to the discussion from a couple months back about the kid that caught the MD state record LM from a private pond. Where do you draw the line and who gets to make that decision?

Also to mention on this issue of whether or not a bass should count as a record. All of the Florida strain bass that have been stocked outside of their native home range are apart of this question as well. These fish do not face the same competition in other areas as they do in their native range. Just my opinion here, fish are different from other wild life, you can grow the freaks of nature through management but they remain wild whether caught in a 2 acre pond or a giant reservoir. It still takes a large part of skill by the angler to catch these fish. Take lake Dixon and Mission Viejo in California. They are small well stocked electric only lakes and the next world record may be swimming in them right now. The true trophy anglers dedicate a lot of time and they are highly skilled. Dotty a potential world record from lake Dixon was foul hooked accidently by a couple of trophy hunters, according to California law a foul hooked fish cant be submitted for a record. The fish was filmed while it was weighed on a Berkley digital scale at just over 25lbs. These guys fished year after year for this fish, day after day ( they paid their dues ). If that fish was caught in any other state it would have qualified to be a potential world record. According to the IGFA no laws can be broken while attempting to catch a world record along with a list of other rules that have to be followed in order to qualify for the record books.

There's more to this world record thing than just going fishing.

Always an interesting topic. Im still shooting for an official 7+ :LOL2: