Heard some news from the IGFA today that would probably interest a lot of Florida anglers.  Last summer a Japanese angler caught a 22lb. 4oz. largemouth bass on a lake in Japan, and submitted it as a potential world record catch for largemouth bass.  After a considerable amount of research and investigation the IGFA is ready to announce their decision tomorrow as to whether or not that catch qualifies as a new world record.

The current world record is held by George Perry and was set way back in 1932.  I spent quite a bit of my time bass fishing in various small ponds around Florida when I was younger, and I always wondered myself if that record would ever be beaten.  My buddies and I used to dream about what we would do with the sponsor money we would get after pulling a world record bass out of one of the backwoods ponds we used to fish.  I don't think any of us would have imagined that we would have to travel to Japan to do it!

Even though the fish is no doubt a monster sized fish, there has been some controversy about the methods used to catch it, so no matter what the decision is it should be interesting how it all plays out.  According to the IGFA's site they plan on announcing the decision tomorrow at 1:30 PM EST...

http://www.igfa.org/Records/World-Record-Largemouth-Bass.aspx

Definitely looks like a hog in the video...

http://www.igfa.org/theater/IGFA-Fishing-Hall-of-Fame-and-Museum/Manabu-Kurita-Potential-World-Record-Bass.aspx

Should be interesting to see how it all plays out.