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sonnel are investigating the potential of a third state record to topple already this year.
Officially, the state record for largemouth bass was 16 pounds until Richard Tate of Ringgold took the new record fish from Lake Conners.
The new record of 16 pounds, 4 ounces was probably up to 17 pounds at the time of netting, but because the fish died shortly after it was caught, it probably lost as much as % pounds in drying out in the cooler during several hours of continued fishing. Had Tate brought the fish in to an official weighing station immediately, he would have had a tougher mark for which other anglers could try.
The old record of 16 pounds was caught just last year by L. J. Gunn of Mayo.
Gunn will not be without a record, however, because the Virginia Game and Fish Biologists just certified his 5 pound, 4 ounce crappie as a new state record. Gunn caught the new record on March 21 in a south central Virginia private pond. He had two other crappie over three pounds that same day. Sounds like the man’s a highly successful fisherman to me!!
The third record has not been certified as yet, although it has been weight certified.
The fish was a 4 pound, 13V2 ounce brook trout caught in the Bullpasture River in Bath County, by Jay Austin of Buena Vista.
Oddly enough on the same day, May 4, 1985, the old record of 4 pounds, 2 ounces was broken twice.
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