Angler: Manabu Kurita. Perry's bass was caught on June 2, 1932 from Montgomery Lake in … July 23, 2017 #1a Manabu Kurita. “It’s hard to believe that this crazy-looking creature will be responsible for growing the next world record largemouth, but I can promise you, it will,” Schwarz says. It is without a doubt the world record, so we let it go." Perry and his friend, J. E. Page, were fishing in Montgomery Lake, a slough off the Ocmulgee River, not for trophies but to bring food to the table during those days of the great depression. Rank: 1a* Weight: 22.311 lbs. Rank: 1b* Weight: 22.25 lbs. At that time, world records for fish didn't exist. The twenty-two pound four ounce largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) exceeded the existing record by more than two pounds and has retained the world record for more than fifty years. This largemouth bass caught in Japan officially ties a 77-year-old world record Freshwater fishing’s “Holy Grail” now has dual holders. The fish (the whopper) weighed 22 pounds, 4 ounces. Official Largemouth World Record: George Perry's Undefeated Bass On June 2nd, 1932, George Perry caught the current world record bass out of Lake Montgomery, an oxbow lake off the Ocmulgee River in southern Georgia. The 22 pound, 4 ounce largemouth bass caught by Japan’s Manabu Kurita matches the IGFA record held for 77 years by Georgia’s George Perry. The world record largemouth according to the IGFA is shared by Manabu Kurita and George W. Perry. And in fishing, "the catch" is George Perry's world record largemouth bass taken on June 2, 1932 from Lake Montgomery, an oxbow of the Ocmulgee River in … Location: Lake Biwa, Shiga, Japan. Carver, who is from Vestavia Hills, joins a relatively small group of anglers who have landed largemouth bass weighing 15-plus pounds. Hall notes that there is the potential for a lot of cash to be associated with a world-record largemouth bass. Some records date back to George S Perry’s world record bass in 1922 while others state records seem to be ... we all could literally be one cast away from from the bass fishing record books. Kurita's bass was caught from Lake Biwa in Japan on July 2, 2009 and weighed 10.12 kg (22 lbs 4 oz.) Date: July 2, 2009 *Manabu Kurita officially tied Perry’s record from 1932 but his fish did not weigh 2 ounces more than Perry’s so it did not officially beat it. Bass expert Glen Lau tried in the ’80s. State Largemouth Bass Record Chart. Growing a largemouth to top Manabu Kurita’s 22-pound, 5-ounce behemoth from Japan’s Lake Biwa has been tried before.