Ok, so I was reading some question’s answers and came across one that mentioned a new world record largemouth bass of 22 pounds, 5 ounces being caught recently by “pro” Manabu Kurita on Lake Biwa…
IN JAPAN!
I’ve read as many articles as I could find on the subject and they all practically say the same thing.http://www.wfn.tv/news/?news=1135http://www.thebassholes.com/news.php?ite…http://www.igfa.org/forum/forum_posts.as…http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/bassm…
You can find more on your own…
But no, this CANNOT be happening, it’s not possible.
Japan does not support a long growth season for a bass. They have winters over there, long, cold, harsh winters. The only way anybody could have caught a bass that big was by force feeding it in a small, controlled environment. Like a pond or something.
Japan has the U.S. beat on practically everything; automobiles, automobile sales, technology, robotics, computers, medicines, and whatever else, is Japan going to take the cake on bass fishing too!? What the hell!?
I’m serious, I am dead serious… if the IGFA accepts this fish and declares it as the new world record I am giving up bass fishing for the rest of my life. I’ve been bass fishing since I was just a wee lad in a chest carrier… that’s been practically 25 years! But I mean it…
I betcha anything Mac Weakly is kickin’ himself in the *** for admitting his 25-1 was foul hooked…
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No… No… No! This Is Not Possible!?
Posted on 19 February 2010 by admin
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February 20th, 2010 at 1:34 am
l kind of agree with your growth season for bass in lake biwa. it is fed by mountain streams and rivers. cold water and cold winters suggest to me that the bass there should be more in line with the bass in the northern tier of the U.S. however, just as in so cal, they have a large trout population to prey on and grow them big and fat. the one in the pics IS pretty darn fat. but not so much more than Dottie.
no one is suggesting that bass won’t survive japanese winters. it’s just a question of how large can one get with a short growing season as compared to a year long growth season as in florida, california and texas.
and it is my understanding that they have had them since the eighties. how long had they been in lake isabella until they were seeing 18 and 19 pounders? it too is fed by a mountain stream, the kern, and is no where near as large as biwa. l suppose isabella being shallower would warm sooner thus maintaining a longer growth season.
with their history of dealings with us, l suppose a bit of trickery in the fishing sector would be nothing to them.
but don’t give in to them! we’ll grow a legitimately larger one here. maybe right here in lake casitas.
hang on to your bass tackle.
many more questions. fortunately it wasn’t caught in n. korea or iran where we couldn’t check any claims.
February 20th, 2010 at 1:39 am
In the old days I did a good bit of net fishing.In one of the photos of the fish it seemed to exhibit a few net “marks” but not enough to make a judgment call.In no way am I saying the fish was caught in a net, I’m just stating that there were a few oddities about the fish.
February 20th, 2010 at 2:09 am
I can only open the bassholes site since I am at work… but if that fish is real, it looks to me like it would weigh a lot more than that.
And, ADAWOLF… are you retarded? It is not about the record, it is about the fight a 22 pounder would put up… could you imagine?
February 19th, 2010 at 10:03 pm
I am really pissed now. I have written enough about this for any sane person to have understood by now. If you spend some time reading instead of shooting off your mouth you would realize what a stupid statement that is.
I invite you to stop in to my site where Manabu Kurita is, and read! If you have a legitimate question or comment, then feel free to ask, but this crap about force feeding is getting me ticked off.
Steve Owner World record Trophy Bass
February 20th, 2010 at 3:25 am
I found a photo of a big bucket mouth.http://fishwithjd.com/wp-content/uploads…
February 20th, 2010 at 7:35 am
How can a 28″ bass weigh that much? Them Japanese are giving those bass steroids. Japan is taking over. That’s all i got to say.
February 20th, 2010 at 2:13 pm
dont give up bass fishing! youve been doing it since you were a wee lad! Japanese people eat weird things.
February 20th, 2010 at 2:15 pm
I saw this and read about it and I just about broke down into tears.
February 20th, 2010 at 6:36 pm
hey there, in the past years, japan has been experimenting with all kinds of growth hormons and other crap like that. if they did catch a word record LM bass then i can gaurantee you that the fish didnt grow naturally in the wild. i am sure that the waters were treated in something and juiced up foods were given to the fish. but ol well where there is one there will be more. hell it was the japs that made drop shotting for bass such a popular method to fish for bass with. i would like to say it was me since i been doin that for 20 plus years but the japanese did show the word about drop shotting. ol well there will be another record breaking bass and you never know it just might be in your fishin hole. good luck good fishin be safe and remember to share the experience
February 20th, 2010 at 11:23 pm
I was slightly amused when i read your question, because you got me thinking-yes the Japanese do seem to make everything that’s more technologically advanced than the rest of the world.
You also mentioned the winters of Japan being too cold for the fish, but i would think geographically the winters differ from place to place both in severity and in length-so it must be possible for bass to survive.
As for giving up bass fishing, maybe that’s going to the extreme-the fish record will have to be verified by the IGFA-as you quite rightly said-they will look into the conditions that it was raised in and the area it was caught to see if it had actually been recently stocked after being grown in a fish farm.
I am willing to say however that somehwere out there in the world there will be a natural bass a lot bigger than that just waiting to be caught and after all isn’t that what keeps most of us fishing? striving constantly for bigger and more thrilling fish?
February 21st, 2010 at 12:57 am
I read the same thing and was surprised but not amazed. There have been several 17lb plus coming from japan the last several years. I think one major factor may be the forage fish that these bass in japan are feeding on are obviously plentiful and protein rich and possibly easy for the bass to catch(koi possibly?) And I wouldn’t give up fishing just yet. The rules governing world record game fish state that to break a record less than 25 pounds the new contender must be at least 2 ounces heavier which this fish is not. It will be at best a tie to george perry’s record bass. And I think we may soon see another challenger out of california or possibly mexico. Til then I’ll keep chasing the dream in south mississippi!
February 21st, 2010 at 1:29 am
Dude , I don’t see what’s the big deal of a record bass is. If you wanna beat one for publicity. Just build a nice pond similar to a koi pond. Just throw about 6 of them in there and feed them food that has the appropriate amount of vitamins and stuff for a largemouth bass.
You guys should just fish for fun, not for the record. Because a fish hobbyist can easily beat that record in only a matter of time if they want too.
Respond to some no life at the botttom : Nobody cares about the fight. They only care about the size of the fish.
If you were a true fisherman , you wouldn’t care about a record.