State record largemouth caught.

[WORM82]

In the kingsport times news paper today there is a story on a man I used to work with catching a 15lb largemouth in the holston river above Cherokee lake. The story is that he put it in his live well and left for the Twra office but no one was there so he went to a store with certified scales and weighed it at 15lbs even and took some pics then went back to the river to release it. The woman working at the store was his witness to the weight and later a Twra officer looked at his pics and said that it looked 30" inches long easily. But without Twra actually seeing it in person and taking a fin clipping for DNA and all that, they couldn't reconize it as a state record.

 

[mike243]

That's a shame, glad the fish lived to see another sunset

 

[RUGER]

Wow.

 

[stik]

That's a shame, glad the fish lived to see another sunset

or did it? a fish that size has to be near the end of its lifecycle and the stress of being hauled around and handled could very well have killed it.

 

[Unicam]

That's a shame, glad the fish lived to see another sunset

or did it? a fish that size has to be near the end of its lifecycle and the stress of being hauled around and handled could very well have killed it.

Very true. Many bass caught in Tournements die after being released.

 

[WORM82]

In the news paper article the Twra officer said the same thing. That after being handled and stressed it prob swam off and died.

 

[Poleaxe]

Least he didn't eat it.

 

[Crow Terminator]

Least he didn't eat it.

LOL I see what you did there

 

[Boone 58]

I would eat it!

 

[TheRealSpurhunter]

I cant locate any kind of article on this catch, got any links?

 

[Smoke]

http://www.timesnews.net/tearsheets/
Select May 16 2014
Section B page 5

 

[SilverFox]

 

[TheRealSpurhunter]

I call that proof that it happened! Thanks for posting it.

 

[Winchester]

Good for him and the fish, 100% chance it would be dead had he kept it!

 

[doubledownranch]

I think that's an awesome story. I could give two hoots about ever holding any records. It's awesome to know the beast is still out there...

 

[Ladys man]

Does it say what he caught it on?? I fish the Holstein all the time in my younger days ll I ever caught were smallies tho never fished for largemouth

 

[WORM82]

He caught it on a 4 inch plastic worm Texas rigged. In my opinion I think it was caught in what's called beech creek on the holston river. It's kinda like a tiny lake where the Rogersville steam plant backs the water up for about a mile. There are some big largemouths in there.

 

[TNReb]

I called my buddy with the TWRA fisheries department to see if he has any update on this. He's asking around... I'm just curious to hear what the TWRA says about it instead of a newspaper.