15.5 lb’er caught at Lake Fork yesterday

  • Tom Redington
    Lake Fork, TX
    Posts: 133
    February 23, 2006 at 2:44 am #1249015

    For those of you iced in up North, this should give you something to drool about! Here’s a pic of a 15.5 lb’er caught at Lake Fork yesterday by a local angler (not in my boat unfortunately) in 8′ on a black/blue Senko. 25-1/4″ long with a 23″ girth. Talk about a fattie! I believe she ranks as 39th largest ever in Texas. Considering we had an ice storm and our worst cold front this year, not a bad day for that angler!

    matt_grow
    Albertville MN
    Posts: 2019
    February 23, 2006 at 2:49 am #423442

    What a pig! Did she come out of the water squealing?

    luke_haugland
    Iowa City, Iowa
    Posts: 3037
    February 23, 2006 at 2:57 am #423444

    WOW!!!- NICE FISH!!!
    Bow Down

    wade_kuehl
    Northwest Iowa
    Posts: 6167
    February 23, 2006 at 2:57 am #423446

    Sheeeeeeeeeeeeoooooooooooot! Everything really is bigger in Texas!

    Thanks for the pic Tom.

    sliderfishn
    Blaine, MN
    Posts: 5432
    February 23, 2006 at 2:58 am #423447

    That is a brute.
    Is it going to be put into the ShareLunker program?

    Ron

    Jack Naylor
    Apple Valley, MN
    Posts: 5668
    February 23, 2006 at 3:22 am #423474

    WOW, what a PIG. Great BASS.
    Yes we are iced IN, but sure like looking at Trophy fish. Does get the blood pressure going, and and day dreaming..
    Tom, keep those reports and pics coming.
    thanks, Jack..

    theodorenugget
    Sugar Land, TX
    Posts: 609
    February 23, 2006 at 3:29 am #423480

    Wow ! Post some more photos of that one. I’m sure you have more than just that one !! I would.

    Tom Redington
    Lake Fork, TX
    Posts: 133
    February 23, 2006 at 3:37 am #423491

    This is the pic from the ShareLunker program. Probably not clear enough in my post. She was caught by a local angler, not by one of my customers. She’ll spawn with a monster male at the TX Freshwater Fisheries Center and their fingerlings will be stocked back in Fork and other primo TX lakes. Hopefully their superbabies will be the next state record bass of TX.

    James Holst
    Keymaster
    SE Minnesota
    Posts: 18926
    February 23, 2006 at 5:27 am #423543

    That share-a-lunker program sounds cost-effective and innovative. Instead of the DNR spending bucks to raise big mama bass or net them, giving anglers an incentive to “donate” prime breeding stock make a heck of a lot of sense.

    Thanks for posting that bass pic. It is likely the largest bass photo we’ve had on the site that didn’t come out of a magazine.

    Jami Ritter
    Hastings, MN
    Posts: 3067
    February 23, 2006 at 6:28 am #423559

    Holy schmolly thats a brute.

    revermann
    Rice, MN
    Posts: 195
    February 23, 2006 at 2:58 pm #423656

    Man that fish looks huge. I couldn’t imagine having that pulling on the end of my line.
    Jamie

    sliderfishn
    Blaine, MN
    Posts: 5432
    February 23, 2006 at 3:28 pm #423667

    I agree James.
    The program is a great idea. Fisherman and women get a graphite mount and help the Texas Fishery Department. For more info about this program click on the link below:
    Budweiser ShareLunker program

    I visited the Edwin L. Cox, Jr., Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center (TFFC) a few years ago. A very informative place. If you are ever in that area I highly recommend a visit.

    Ron

    timdomaille
    Rochester Mn
    Posts: 1908
    February 23, 2006 at 7:28 pm #423772

    Ice, Ice go away!!!!!

    brad_gravenhof
    Rochester MN
    Posts: 289
    February 23, 2006 at 11:21 pm #423857


    You said it Goose!!
    Later,Brad G

    dank
    Minneapolis, MN
    Posts: 1123
    February 24, 2006 at 7:40 pm #424148

    Monster fish, I got to get down there.

    Bring on the open water.

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