A ten.15-pound, 23.75-inch smallmouth bass caught in Lake Erie by an Ohio angler earlier this month is the brand new Ontario report.
The Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters (OFAH), which operates the Ontario File Fish Registry, confirmed the report on Monday, Nov. 14 after Ohio Division of Pure Assets (ODNR) biologists confirmed the fish was freed from international objects through X-ray.
Gregg Gallagher of Fremont netted report bass utilizing drop-shot and eight-pound take a look at on Thursday, Nov. 3. The species, size, and 19.275-inch girth had been vetted ODNR biologists, who held the fish pending affirmation.
68-year-old report beat
The smallmouth — the one licensed 10-pound bass caught in any of the Nice Lakes — beat the earlier report of 9.84 kilos from Birchbark Lake, close to Kinmount, northwest of Peterborough, set in 1954.
It’s additionally the third largest registered as a jurisdictional report behind the world report from Dale Hole Lake on the Tennessee/Kentucky border (11 kilos, 15 ounces) and the Alabama state report from Wheeler Dam (10 kilos, 8 ounces), ODNR Lake Erie Fisheries Program Administrator Travis J. Hartman acknowledged in an electronic mail.
“We’re all lucky to have witnessed and documented this actually wonderful catch,” he wrote. “Whereas I don’t consider it’s doable to actually doc a consultant listing of each licensed 10-pound smallmouth bass ever caught, we all know that there isn’t proof of an authorized 10-pound smallmouth in any Nice Lake or linked waterway.”
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