Read on .... great story.
What Maggie Boyer thought was a lousy cast turned out to be her best.
Boyer, of Bracebridge, Ontario, was fishing out of a 14-foot canoe with her husband, Ed Hiltz, on a small lake near Haliburton on Oct. 7 when her miscast resulted in what could be the biggest largemouth bass ever caught in Ontario.
"It was a lousy cast," Boyer said. "I was farther out away from the weeds than I would have like to have been. I was probably over 20 feet of water. Then he went chomp. It wasn't more like a hit, it was suddenly I had this big weight on."
"He just kept staying down," Boyer added. "He took a little line and he'd go down again. We didn't even know what we had on. We thought it was a turtle or something."
It wasn't a turtle. After 30 minutes Boyer landed the fish of a lifetime - a largemouth bass that measured 24 inches long with a 22-inch girth. Catch and release calculators show a fish with these measurements weighs anywhere from 10 to 13 pounds, depending on the website and calculator used. The Ontario record largemouth bass is currently 10.43 pounds.
Boyer, however, did not meet the criteria for a catch-and-release record.
Oh yeah...
By the way Maggie...
That is one heck of a nice bass you caught there..... who cares what anyone says wether it is the new live release record or not... way to go!
One nice nice bass!
