This year it was Sean Swank who caught the giant bass at Caddo Lake in Texas. Whose turn will it be next year?
Swank used a jig to entice the 16.07-pound largemouth bass off her spawning bed last Friday. It's the heaviest known bass to be caught in Texas this year.
Last year, on March 20, Keith Burns landed the same female bass in the same area on the lake, near the Louisiana border.
Biologists with Texas Parks & Wildlife are sure it was the same bass because they'd implanted a microchip in order to be able to identify the bass if it were caught again.
Interestingly, the bass was slightly heavier last year (16.17 pounds), because she was more laden with eggs.
Biologists reportedly will use the lunker for hatchery breeding purposes before delivering it back to Caddo Lake. Next year at this time she'll probably be back on a shallow nest, ready for another spawning season, tempted by more tasty-looking jigs zooming through the water.
-- Pete Thomas
Image of Sean Swank and the 16.07-pound bass he caught is courtesy of Texas Parks & Wildlife
Twitter: @Pete_Thomas
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