South Dakota smallie record broken

[Flysmallie]

32 minutes ago, Johnsfolly said:

Don't even get started about developing and releasing triploid smallmouth bass just to have them pack on weight .

Anyone read the Outdoor life article about the guys trying to produce the next world record largemouth in Texas? It's headed up by one of the guys that developed the Tecomate deer feed programs. Trying to use the same thought process of high quality genetics, high fat/protein diets, and age in a ultra-managed lake system. 

 

High Fence Smallmouth???   Yuck.

[Smalliebigs]

1 hour ago, DADAKOTA said:

Some of ya sound just like deer hunters.  A guy whacks a big one and folks start tearing it down, speculating on this or that, etc.  Jealousy?  That smallie is an absolute toad.  Give the feller his due.

I think the first fish was caught by a woman, not that gender really means anything anymore.....it's really only how you feel at the moment

[Flysmallie]

5 minutes ago, Smalliebigs said:

I think the first fish was caught by a woman,

Well she has a really nice beard.

[DADAKOTA]

48 minutes ago, Smalliebigs said:

I think the first fish was caught by a woman, not that gender really means anything anymore.....it's really only how you feel at the moment

Not even at quitting time does that look like a woman.  The dude's name is Lyal.  The story states, 

“When the fished jumped and I saw it’s girth, I knew right then that this fish had the potential to be a state record,” Lyal said.

He was right; the fish was 19 1/2 inches long with an amazing 19-inch girth."  Not sure what saloons you been hanging out in.

[Hog Wally]

I caught a 19" yesterday that weighed 3 lbs 4 oz. 

[Old plug]

I reallywould like to see whats in that things  stomach. 

[Al Agnew]

Nobody is denying that weight has always been and probably will always be the measure by which huge fish are judged.  As has been said, the point was that the fish was abnormally fat for it's length and that a lot of people here in Missouri have caught far longer fish out of Ozark streams, and my point was that weight changes with the vagaries of time of year and diet, while length mostly is a linear progression; the older (and presumably harder to catch) the fish is, the longer it is.  And this points out another huge factor in record fish--catching a record is largely a matter of luck.  Yes, you can put yourself in the best possible situation to catch a record; fish in places where it's possible, using lures and techniques that are more likely to produce big fish, and fish them well.  But not many people actually go out to catch a record bass and succeed, because tha final "oomph", the actual weight of the fish caught, is still a matter of luck.  What if that Dakota fish was that fat because it had just eaten a couple of 12 inch rainbow trout?  And what if the guy had caught it one day earlier, before it ate those trout?  It would have probably weighed a pound less.  Same guy, same fish, same length, same degree of difficulty in catching it, but because of one day's difference, it wouldn't have been a record.  And the guy could have caught literally thousands of smallmouth from those same waters that were the same length, same age, same degree of difficulty in catching, which would have never been a record.  He just caught the one fish, at the one time, that was.  

But luck or not, it's the catch of a lifetime.  No denying that.

 

[DADAKOTA]

Those fellers sure did enough planning.  Far more than probably all the fish records.  I'd agree that record fish typical involve some luck.  A lot of trophy deer were luck as well.

[joeD]

Sunday, on Mothers Day, I will tell my wife of 24 years that, yes, she is lucky to have me, because I am both fairly tall and extremely heavy. Obviously a stone cold "trophy."  My gift to her will be giving her piece of mind. Her trophy husband agrees to stick around for another year.

[Chief Grey Bear]

There's more crawdading action here than a Mitch craw on the Meramec.