New state record smallmouth
Oklahoma's new state record smallmouth bass
Just eight days after the state’s largemouth bass record was broken for the first time in 13 years, a new state record smallmouth bass was caught Saturday at Lake Lawtonka in southwest Oklahoma.
Ryan Wasser of Pocasset caught the 8-pound, 7-ounce bronzeback around 11:30 a.m. on a shaky head rig. The fish was 23 1/8-inches long and had a girth of 18 inches.
Oklahoma’s previous state record smallmouth was caught on March 4, 2006 at Lake Eufaula by Steve McLarty of Broken Arrow. That fish weighed 8 pounds, 3 ounces. It’s believed to be the first time that both the state’s smallmouth and largemouth bass records have been broken in the same year.
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[...] Wasser was fishing Lake Lawtonka when an 8-pound, 7-ounce smallie hit around 11:30 a.m. on a shaky head rig. According to The Oklahoman, the fish was 23 1/8 inches long and had a girth of 18 [...]
ryan, that has too be the nicest small-mouth bass i have ever seen i tag it on my facebook page, iam coming up in may too fish this lake and check out the lawton area, congrats again, i encourage young and old too get out of the house, computers, game systems and experience life and fun in the outdoors and help the bait shops and others with the economy ed godfrey iam a big time fan of urs, iam glad iam on ur blog list, thank you for sending me stuff on oklahoma-boomer-sooner….
wow that is the biggest small- mouth i have ever seen, i have a 5lb on my wall and i thought that was big, but all i can say is WOW. (-: don,t think they get that big in Montana, sure wish they did.
ryan,thats a nice smallmouth bass, congrats too you, hope you are having it mounted, i would, when i was a kid in davis,okla i caught a 4-pounder at arbuckle lake, i ask my grapa why it had red eyes, he laughed and said grandson its a smallmouth bass, i threw it back in too grow bigger for someone else, nothing like fishing in oklahoma, i live near wichita falls,tx area and come too oklahoma too fish there…