He picks her up and and sets her in the boat and that’s when we turned our headlamps on. “So I get her to the boat and she started jumping and splashing and it was hard for my buddy to to net her in the darkness, but he finally got her. During all this madness we didn’t have time to turn the headlamps on so we didn’t have much of a gauge of how big she was. “At that point things started to get really serious. “For a moment I thought I was hung up and then I felt her head shake,” Oates recalled.
Oates said he and John Davilla had fished several spots on Lake Austin without any luck before the the giant bass struck at 9:30 p.m. As a bass fisherman, this is what we fish for every time we go out on the water.” I’ve caught a few 12-pounders and handful of 10-pounders, but this one here is special for me. “This was one of the best days of my life. Moore, who used a Carolina rig, told San Angelo Live: Oates’ catch, on a football jig, occurred less than a week after Travis Moore landed a 13.44-pound largemouth bass during a tournament on Sam Rayburn Reservoir. They named themselves Juicebox after a 2005 single by The Strokes, a propulsive, guitar-and-bass-heavy anthem that is not unlike their own music: danceable, guitar-driven indie rock that takes sonic cues from the likes of Two Door Cinema Club and Last Dinosaurs, with vocal melodies that aspire to. “Congratulations, CJ, and thank you for your contribution to helping make bass fishing bigger and better in Texas!” Parks and Wildlife wrote on Facebook.Īccording to the ShareLunker website, “Out of the millions of bass anglers in Texas, only a select few have ever crossed the 13-pound threshold.” Biologist encourage spawning and rear the young for future stocking opportunities. There are several divisions but only Legacy Class fish – those 13 pounds or heavier – are used in a selective breeding program that runs during the spawning period from January through March. It was the second “Legacy Class” largemouth bass to have been donated live to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department in 2021, marking a fast start to the agency’s seasonal Toyota ShareLunker Program.ĪLSO ON FTW OUTDOORS: Sea lions surf giant waves in ‘awesome’ display caught on video “She was built like a mini school bus.”Īfter a nighttime fight described as “madness,” Oates boated a bass that weighed 13.02 pounds, a milestone catch and a fish that could help boost fishing opportunities around the state.
“She was so massive that I could barely reel to get her in,” Oates, who was fishing at Lake Austin, Texas, told For the Win Outdoors. CJ Oates on Thursday was reeling his lure past a wooden dock when “I felt the slightest tick.” He reared back, inspiring a violent head shake, and realized that he had hooked an enormous largemouth bass.
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