The pink shirt guy is right, in the last 80 years there only been a couple of bass seen of that size. You think about how many guys fish everyday for bass and it takes every 50 years to see a bass that size.
Makes me wonder what percentage of bass are physically capable of getting that size. Then they have to grow to that size, and then you have to catch them. It's threading a needle 30 yards away and underwater.
@@RandyLeftHandy Not only is it rare to get to that size but then someone has to get lucky and find it, My guess is once the bass gets that big it doesnt last long due to dieing
Hell yeah I love how they were happy for him and not immediately talking trash like no I've seen bigger. He was like that's the biggest fish I've ever seen! Let's go fishin!!!
It would be obvious to anyone that they hadn’t seen a fish that big. Fish that big are like unicorns. You pull one out of the water that big and everyone in a 2,000 mile radius wouldn’t have seen one bigger. 99% of fishermen alive right now haven’t seen one that big in person.
They kept the big ones back in the day for mounting purposes. Now you just need a picture and measurements for them to mount, so you can let them go. I’ve always been a big catch and release guy!
OK here we go. You can believe it if you want.. I lived in southern calif in the 1980s. I was a fishing nut. I fished almost daily for the entire decade. More like 1983-1993. I even had a part time job in the fishing dept of Sportmart in Northridge. I mostly fished lake Castaic and the afterbay. There were times probably around 1986-1988 when me and few friends would have nights that we caught 17 pounders, 15 pounders, and one night off the beach I caught a bass that was a 20 pounder. Easily a 20. And let it go off the first beach by the lifeguard tower. A few years before cell phones and easy photos. After that, I started carrying a 35mm Vivitar camera to get pics of big bass. Back then that's just what was around. And I was a shore angler, no boat! It wasn't any special angling feat. Just needed 25 lb test line. Some days people walked around lower castaic with 8 or ten 14 pounders on a stringer. I was strictly a catch and release guy. Most lakes in southern calif had bass like that then. I moved out of the valley up to Palmdale around 1986ish for my main job, railroad. There was a breakfast Cafe on Palmdale blvd called Karen's kitchen . Anyone reading this remember this? The owner was a fisherman who had a display on his wall with quite a few beasts in it. A 19 some 17s, mostly from lake Isabella. All us railroad workers ate there. Castaic had The Leo Torres bass. The Mike Arujo bass, the Bob Crupi bass and a few others pushing 20 lb mark. A 18 lber didn't even turn a head back then. Castaic was built in 1971. It took about 10 years to get fertile, good weedbeds, structure and a great baitfish supply goin to turn it into a giant fish producing machine in the 1980s. Bass were the only predators in there. Then the buzz really got out about world record bass and a million dollar payday and fame for the 22.4 + bass, and the lake started its decline . Around 1990, the line to get into upper castaic was 200 boats cars and jet skis deep, all the way down lake Hughes road almost to the mini mart. It was a absolute zoo. If you weren't there at 10 pm on a Friday night for Sat morning at 6, forget it. All the jet skis and onslaught of boats and thousands of fishermen daily started taking its toll. Plus everyone keeping fish. Companies like Castaic bait company sprung up making huge swim baits, worm king plastics, AC plugs etc. Then around 1992 the real nail in the coffin. The first striped bass arrived . It probably Swam thru the aqueduct from lake pyramid, 25 miles up the chain apparently. That created 2 predators competing for The bait and trout. Fish (bass) got smaller. Stripers got bigger. But.....it created a whole new ballgame for anglers. 50+ pound stripers! The game got better. Suddenly I stopped fishing castaic, started fishing lake pyramid, Silverwood and all the other striper lakes. They don't call me STRIPERVINCE for no reason. The striper wars were on!!! Guys like Allen Cole started carving his own custom foot long jointed trout baits. What great baits they were. They produced huge bass and stripers. Since most of the southern California lakes were off limits at night, you had to sneak in to fish at night. There were people hiding up in the hills with binoculars to see who was using live trout for bait, trying to discredit anyone with a giant catch, it got crazy. I rung up some impressive catches in that 10-15 year period, travelling all over calif fishing for giant bass and stripers. It was a great time to live there, and I'm glad I was there for the bass revolution. I moved on in 1994, and haven't really followed the calif fishing scene in the Last 25 years. I'm currently back striper fishing again after I recently moved out of Florida to a area with lots of rivers lakes and huge stripers. I was glad to have been there for the southern calif bass revolution almost 40 years ago!!!
@@JoeyMo973 i miss those days joey i have lots of pics of some of those fish. No video tho. Never kept one. All were released alive, most of the time i fished with flattened barbs so they were easy safe releases for the fishees. Hard to believe that the 1980s were 40 years ago. Wow
Son!!! I use to watch Roland fish in Lake Okechobee when my dad and I fished in the same area he recognized our boat and stopped by to say hi to us. Also watched Orlando Wilson Fishin show
Those helicopter lures were NO JOKE back in the day. I STILL HAVE ONE IN MY TACKLE BOX. My Dad and I were fishing in a small private bond in Valpo Indiana and he had a monsters jump out of the water and snap that lure in half. Then he woke up a sleeping monster that grabbed that half chewed lure and broke his line. My Dad easily had a 18lb+ bass on the line. I bet those lures would work like magic today.
@@Coopersboy7 nope the warning not to bite that specific lure gets passed into genes of newer generations and they might not bite it. Scientifically proven.
@@Coopersboy7not at all true . The more popular a lure becomes, the more people are throwing it in front of fish... It can and will still get bites, but the fish will become used to the same lure and be less likely to get tricked into biting it
I mean female bass can grow up too 3 lbs a year so I mean yeah it's kinda messed up cause if they released that fish which was clearly a female it would be a world record the next year lmao
@@MaddenMotion0 It wouldn’t be caught again, it didn’t fit in the live well, these guys have done so much for bass ,killing a huge one to be mounted and intact for ever is no big deal
Its just how it was back then, everyone kept everything. Now its pretty much catch and release. Back in the day it was all about how many bucket fulls or the size of the stringer.
I remembered when this first aired when I was a kid, and it was right around the time that stupid helicopter lure came out. I'm a little skeptical it got caught on a helicopter lure, but wtf knows. It was Mexico in the 90's so those bass probably ate anything back then
I see everyone complaining about them killing that fish but back then replicas were not as good as they are now and people back then thought taking a fish like that would not hurt the population. For example look at the population of trout in Wisconsin now compared to in the 70’s. That generation hurt the fishing economy
What’s the difference in killing to have it mounted and it probably dying with a broke off lure in his throat or dying after being released? I say you catch it, do what you want with it
They obviously landed it so they could have properly unhooked it and released it with a decent chance of it surviving. I understand why they kept it but it's still a shame to see such an incredible fish die.
When i was a kid i would fill the bathtub up and put my biggest fish of the day in it. Alive! Just to watch it for awhile. Lol. Boy my Mom would get so pissed! Especially if it was a big catfish.
I caught a seven pounder a couple weeks ago out of my kayak and it was so big it literally scared me so I don’t even want to know how big that Fish was
I’m pretty sure they caught that fish the day before or earlier on the trip, it was probably already in a freezer to preserve it and that’s why they had it on ice instead of the live well. This was staged for the TV show to sell more helicopter lures.
People crying that he kept the bass. Who cares it was his catch thats why DNR gives up the option to keep it if we want he didn't break no law and if everyone threw back the bass they catch you bass fishermen crying right now would be catching one pounders only all day long
That’s just not true man😂😂 because they mainly only take home fish that are big enough, leaving all the small fish, but if you put a bog bass back, someone else can catch it
I caught an 8lb on a spinner blade w/orange & charteusse on 9/11/2001 ! Just after catching two largemouths, maybe 2 - 3 lbers. That cat came out of a mud bank to attack it. Right close to where a stream was coming into a back channel of my lake, I fish in. And I ate it, but the bass were catch and release...
Mordecai isntgoodatfishing Yup.. I call bs. It was discontinued it sucked so bad. It was endorsed by Roland, so I feel like the guy was trying to suck up and help Roland out. I’m not buying it.
Roland would sell you anything ... that fish was found completely dead , not caught, it’s a well known fact down there . It was either found floating dead the day before from natural causes /choked on a tilapia or was caught by one of the locals netting tilapia. So pathetic to try and claim you caught that and say it’s on the helicopter lure 😆
Chris Purmort it's funny for a sec when he pulled the scale out I thought it was a phone. I was like what year is this then noticed I'm a dumb ass and it was a scale.
I remember this episode Roland Martin was trying to push the helicopter Lure. If you don’t remember it there’s a reason why Roland tried to get this guy To say he caught it on his helicopter lure
Once a bass gets that big and you actually catch it.. Why not mount it? That fish was not going to be caught again in another year or two and probably would have died from old age or stress from the fight and being handled. Throwing back those 10 to 15 pound bass is important because they have time left to grow.
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The pink shirt guy is right, in the last 80 years there only been a couple of bass seen of that size. You think about how many guys fish everyday for bass and it takes every 50 years to see a bass that size.
Makes me wonder what percentage of bass are physically capable of getting that size. Then they have to grow to that size, and then you have to catch them. It's threading a needle 30 yards away and underwater.
@@RandyLeftHandy Not only is it rare to get to that size but then someone has to get lucky and find it, My guess is once the bass gets that big it doesnt last long due to dieing
I’ve seen bass like these before but I’m never fishing when I’ve seen them. Some will be in packs of two during breeding season.
@@motorcycleislife8296 can't be easy to move around. They're basically Jabba the Hutt at that point
once bass reach a certain size they will only eat big fish & won't return to the shallow water most fisherman fish at.
Hell yeah I love how they were happy for him and not immediately talking trash like no I've seen bigger. He was like that's the biggest fish I've ever seen! Let's go fishin!!!
It would be obvious to anyone that they hadn’t seen a fish that big. Fish that big are like unicorns. You pull one out of the water that big and everyone in a 2,000 mile radius wouldn’t have seen one bigger. 99% of fishermen alive right now haven’t seen one that big in person.
@@LeskoBrandon2x Exactly
It don’t matter how much you bass fish or how good how you are… Roland Martin would be screaming at that
Son!!! Back in the good ol' days when TNN was still around! I used to watch Roland on Sunday nights back then.
You mean TNT... That's what it was before TNN.
@@elonmust7470 nope
@@matthewdombroskas7634 yeah kid
Sorry old man 🤦♂️
@@matthewdombroskas7634 Yeah snotnose, I'm 33, hardly an old man..
I never get tired of Roland's reaction when he pulls that bass out of the ice cooler.
oahoahohoooo son
yourbudjerry lonely and depressed bud?
joeeeec hahaha! Spot on
absolutely priceless. sheer excitement and joy.
@@harrytwatter6021 depressed because he gets excited about seeing roland go crazy over a huge fish? Wtf is the matter with u boy?
My son would never have to work a day in his life if I had $1 for every time Roland said SON!!!
Well that calls for a SONNNN!!!!
God made work and fish.
Roland is like my old boss. If your talking he cuts you off and starts talking right over top of ya.
That's just pure excitement.
I can't listen to him.
I turn the sound off n just watch
They kept the big ones back in the day for mounting purposes. Now you just need a picture and measurements for them to mount, so you can let them go. I’ve always been a big catch and release guy!
Same
Yeah I'm sure you would throw that fish back.....
@@jasonturner3711 I'd snap a picture and throw it back! In a year that thing could of been a record breaker for someone
@@jedsteelwell2354 plus it could've passed down those nice genetics down a few more spawns
@@jasonturner3711 Yup 10 out of 10 times.
I love these old timey bass fishin guys. Just havin a good time back when life was simple
"Helicopter lure" at lake Baccarat!!
I remember that commercial like it was yesterday
OK here we go. You can believe it if you want.. I lived in southern calif in the 1980s. I was a fishing nut. I fished almost daily for the entire decade. More like 1983-1993. I even had a part time job in the fishing dept of Sportmart in Northridge. I mostly fished lake Castaic and the afterbay. There were times probably around 1986-1988 when me and few friends would have nights that we caught 17 pounders, 15 pounders, and one night off the beach I caught a bass that was a 20 pounder. Easily a 20. And let it go off the first beach by the lifeguard tower. A few years before cell phones and easy photos. After that, I started carrying a 35mm Vivitar camera to get pics of big bass. Back then that's just what was around. And I was a shore angler, no boat! It wasn't any special angling feat. Just needed 25 lb test line. Some days people walked around lower castaic with 8 or ten 14 pounders on a stringer. I was strictly a catch and release guy. Most lakes in southern calif had bass like that then. I moved out of the valley up to Palmdale around 1986ish for my main job, railroad. There was a breakfast Cafe on Palmdale blvd called Karen's kitchen . Anyone reading this remember this? The owner was a fisherman who had a display on his wall with quite a few beasts in it. A 19 some 17s, mostly from lake Isabella. All us railroad workers ate there. Castaic had The Leo Torres bass. The Mike Arujo bass, the Bob Crupi bass and a few others pushing 20 lb mark. A 18 lber didn't even turn a head back then. Castaic was built in 1971. It took about 10 years to get fertile, good weedbeds, structure and a great baitfish supply goin to turn it into a giant fish producing machine in the 1980s. Bass were the only predators in there. Then the buzz really got out about world record bass and a million dollar payday and fame for the 22.4 + bass, and the lake started its decline . Around 1990, the line to get into upper castaic was 200 boats cars and jet skis deep, all the way down lake Hughes road almost to the mini mart. It was a absolute zoo. If you weren't there at 10 pm on a Friday night for Sat morning at 6, forget it. All the jet skis and onslaught of boats and thousands of fishermen daily started taking its toll. Plus everyone keeping fish. Companies like Castaic bait company sprung up making huge swim baits, worm king plastics, AC plugs etc. Then around 1992 the real nail in the coffin. The first striped bass arrived . It probably Swam thru the aqueduct from lake pyramid, 25 miles up the chain apparently. That created 2 predators competing for The bait and trout. Fish (bass) got smaller. Stripers got bigger. But.....it created a whole new ballgame for anglers. 50+ pound stripers! The game got better. Suddenly I stopped fishing castaic, started fishing lake pyramid, Silverwood and all the other striper lakes. They don't call me STRIPERVINCE for no reason. The striper wars were on!!! Guys like Allen Cole started carving his own custom foot long jointed trout baits. What great baits they were. They produced huge bass and stripers. Since most of the southern California lakes were off limits at night, you had to sneak in to fish at night. There were people hiding up in the hills with binoculars to see who was using live trout for bait, trying to discredit anyone with a giant catch, it got crazy. I rung up some impressive catches in that 10-15 year period, travelling all over calif fishing for giant bass and stripers. It was a great time to live there, and I'm glad I was there for the bass revolution. I moved on in 1994, and haven't really followed the calif fishing scene in the Last 25 years. I'm currently back striper fishing again after I recently moved out of Florida to a area with lots of rivers lakes and huge stripers. I was glad to have been there for the southern calif bass revolution almost 40 years ago!!!
very interesting to read!!
Great story!
@@JoeyMo973 i miss those days joey i have lots of pics of some of those fish. No video tho. Never kept one. All were released alive, most of the time i fished with flattened barbs so they were easy safe releases for the fishees. Hard to believe that the 1980s were 40 years ago. Wow
@@stripervince1 bro I'd love to see those pics! U have them on IG?
Great read
Roland is the definition of a legend
Son!!! I use to watch Roland fish in Lake Okechobee when my dad and I fished in the same area he recognized our boat and stopped by to say hi to us.
Also watched Orlando Wilson Fishin show
Those helicopter lures were NO JOKE back in the day. I STILL HAVE ONE IN MY TACKLE BOX. My Dad and I were fishing in a small private bond in Valpo Indiana and he had a monsters jump out of the water and snap that lure in half. Then he woke up a sleeping monster that grabbed that half chewed lure and broke his line. My Dad easily had a 18lb+ bass on the line. I bet those lures would work like magic today.
Ayeeeee NWI!
I've only heard bad things about the helicopter lure
Lures don’t stop working. If fish bit them before they’ll bite them now
@@Coopersboy7 nope the warning not to bite that specific lure gets passed into genes of newer generations and they might not bite it. Scientifically proven.
@@Coopersboy7not at all true . The more popular a lure becomes, the more people are throwing it in front of fish...
It can and will still get bites, but the fish will become used to the same lure and be less likely to get tricked into biting it
How do you even fish after seeing that monster.. I’d cry in the car
I used to wake up every Saturday to watch TNN just to see Roland. Great American Fisherman theme song is my ringtone . Lol
I used to love the helicopter lure,, I caught so many fish on that lure when I was a kid,,
I love Roland's reaction 😂😂
I like how that guy had the hook & weight app for that cell phone. I need one too.
Very underrated comment 👏
This is like the 50th video I’ve seen with the title “world record” bass
I love when Roland says "son" when he's excited lol
son! what a big ole bass! KILLED HER!!!
Now days this guy would be publicly crucified by keyboard warriors for killing a bass that size.
Oh without a doubt I’m ready to hammer in the nail myself
I mean female bass can grow up too 3 lbs a year so I mean yeah it's kinda messed up cause if they released that fish which was clearly a female it would be a world record the next year lmao
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@@MaddenMotion0 It wouldn’t be caught again, it didn’t fit in the live well, these guys have done so much for bass ,killing a huge one to be mounted and intact for ever is no big deal
@@Ruger34 pretty gay tho
Its just how it was back then, everyone kept everything. Now its pretty much catch and release. Back in the day it was all about how many bucket fulls or the size of the stringer.
Lol that's how over fishing happens. Prob changed for the better
I Don't Want Someone Standing That Close To Me When I'm Fishing..Move Over!!!
Eddie Etheridge lol, classic! :-)
Exactally or im going to brake ur jaw
I remembered when this first aired when I was a kid, and it was right around the time that stupid helicopter lure came out. I'm a little skeptical it got caught on a helicopter lure, but wtf knows. It was Mexico in the 90's so those bass probably ate anything back then
I use to crush em on the helicopter lure when I was a kid.
I read a previous comment that they said Roland was pushing the helicopter lure and wanted him to say that but I don't know
If he caught that in the prespawn...
@M1A2 Abrams MBT didnt you do exactly the same thing? Lol.
@M1A2 Abrams MBT youre doing exactly what youre telling him not to do haha. Fire =fire.
@M1A2 Abrams MBT "no need to be a f###### a## h### about it.....control your emotions..."
Youre doing exactly what they did.
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@M1A2 Abrams MBT im pointing out that youre a hipcrite and either too proud to admit or too slow to realize it.
@M1A2 Abrams MBT if you going to speak to "me" at least learn how to spell it.
I see everyone complaining about them killing that fish but back then replicas were not as good as they are now and people back then thought taking a fish like that would not hurt the population. For example look at the population of trout in Wisconsin now compared to in the 70’s. That generation hurt the fishing economy
What’s the difference in killing to have it mounted and it probably dying with a broke off lure in his throat or dying after being released? I say you catch it, do what you want with it
They obviously landed it so they could have properly unhooked it and released it with a decent chance of it surviving. I understand why they kept it but it's still a shame to see such an incredible fish die.
@@Coopersboy7 whole lot of assuming going on here smh.. You know NOTHING other than what was shown in the clip
We catch and eat fish all the time. So do tons of others. They can get over it.
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Jay Mac
what the fuck are you talking about?
Simply incredible...
When i was a kid i would fill the bathtub up and put my biggest fish of the day in it. Alive! Just to watch it for awhile. Lol. Boy my Mom would get so pissed! Especially if it was a big catfish.
Lord have mercy what a bass.
The world record bass is worth 6.8 million today but the record hasn't been broken in over 80 years
It was tied about 10 years ago, and a few years after that, someone accidentally foul-hooked a bass weighing 25lb 1oz in California.
@@espeterson522 the 25lb bass was named dottie for the dot on its gill plate and was found floating dead
The best video in my recommendation
That’s like if aliens were abducting people, and they just happen to take Shaq lmao
I wonder how accurate those weighing devices are.. imagine if it actually was a world record and they never entered it cuz his thing was off
He definitely took that to the marina and weighed it officially
You dont simply weigh a 19lb bass with only one scale.
weighing device? did you forget the word scale?
Lol dude said weighing device.. Weird af
That really does look like the world record bass
Bass fishing in Mexico >>> So blessed to have a ranch behind Lake Cuchillo, tight lines.
I remember watching this as a kid on TNN.
Yup, me too!
I caught a seven pounder a couple weeks ago out of my kayak and it was so big it literally scared me so I don’t even want to know how big that Fish was
They weighed, 19 and change.
It was your mama
One of my new favorite videos! 😂
I own one of Ray Hills first one off Rangers! Blessed!
I’m pretty sure they caught that fish the day before or earlier on the trip, it was probably already in a freezer to preserve it and that’s why they had it on ice instead of the live well. This was staged for the TV show to sell more helicopter lures.
It would not fit in the live well
They probably bought it off Mexican commercial fisherman.
blah blah blah
100%
Well, so much for promoting Catch n Release.......
Monster bass,....If it was caught before spawning definitely could be a world record.
Pulled it straight outta the bass pro shop tank this morning
I’ve never caught a bass over 5
People crying that he kept the bass. Who cares it was his catch thats why DNR gives up the option to keep it if we want he didn't break no law and if everyone threw back the bass they catch you bass fishermen crying right now would be catching one pounders only all day long
That’s just not true man😂😂 because they mainly only take home fish that are big enough, leaving all the small fish, but if you put a bog bass back, someone else can catch it
2 of my 3 favorite fisherman ever
I miss watching those shows with ole Roland or Bill Dance..
I remember that episode... My friend called me and was all jacked up.....
i caught a 10lb channel cat on a helicopter lure in a pond. they really did work!
I caught an 8lb on a spinner blade w/orange & charteusse on 9/11/2001 !
Just after catching two largemouths, maybe 2 - 3 lbers. That cat came out of a mud bank to attack it. Right close to where a stream was coming into a back channel of my lake, I fish in. And I ate it, but the bass were catch and release...
Imagine if they released that monster. Many more would exist today
They’re just like we are today 😂🔥🎣
Know damn well a helicopter lure didn't take that fish.
Mordecai isntgoodatfishing Yup.. I call bs. It was discontinued it sucked so bad. It was endorsed by Roland, so I feel like the guy was trying to suck up and help Roland out. I’m not buying it.
Mordecai isntgoodatfishing agreed, he was trying to sell more units. I doubt they even caught that fish that morning.
@@mikemeyer5973 Yeah, it was obviously a planted fish.
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Roland would sell you anything ... that fish was found completely dead , not caught, it’s a well known fact down there . It was either found floating dead the day before from natural causes /choked on a tilapia or was caught by one of the locals netting tilapia. So pathetic to try and claim you caught that and say it’s on the helicopter lure 😆
What gets me is they are passing around a 19 pound fish without even struggling a bit. Built different
I caught one twice that big and then I woke up and realized it was the number two
Them dudes have caught a lot of bass
This whole interaction is funny and awesome lol
Is this lake el Salto? Theirs a few lakes down in Mexico where they grow like this.
On a helicopter my ASS! He probably caught that on a Jig or plastic worm.
I used to slam the bass on a helicopter lure when I was a kid.
Nice. I subscribed and liked.
Do fish have a choice and choose what they eat or dose there lateral line lead them to what there going eat
That makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up ‼️
All I could think is release the damn thing so he can spawn some more
She*, but yes. Let em go, let em grow. Nice to have that size in the gene pool of that lake reproducing... Was 😂
If you caught it legally you would get it officially weighed and you would mount it with the best taxidermist available
OOH YEAH CONGRATULATIONS WHOOO WHEEE THAT'S A GOOD HAWG
The good old days
All these people crying because it wasnt let go. Pretty sure camera phones weren't invented when this was filmed.
Chris Purmort it's funny for a sec when he pulled the scale out I thought it was a phone. I was like what year is this then noticed I'm a dumb ass and it was a scale.
WHOOO WHOOO WHEEE CONGRATULATIONS
I love seeing old guys getting excited over giant sunfish
That ain’t no sunfish
@@kendaru6365 actually closer related to a sunfish than a true bass.
Yea, it is a sunfish
Too bad that fish want released to become the potential world record bass ,,,,
I truthfully believe that if a fish that size was ever caught by me I would 100% let it go so that its genetics cobtinued.
SON!!!
How long can a bass be outta water?
Did they let it go or did it get stuffed?
That’s a baby one!🤣🤣🤣 everyone say it’s hard to catch really haven’t gone fishing or watched fishing channels🙏
How many world record bass can there be?
Thought you needed to stand on land to record accurate weight
Which is exactly why he said it's not the official weight.. he said that was just to give you an idea
That's the biggest fish I have seen
This is the googan squads parents
wish they had him reeling that fish in on camera! what a fight
Let's go fishing he said!!!!!!!
ooh Son! That's my scale, Lol. Awesome!
Bass fisherman today wouldn’t even go out in boats like that without 6 livescopes power poles etc.. lol
bass fishing has gotten ridiculous.
You mean they use what’s available for them? Thats so crazy
i love roland
Is this Lake El Salto?
Id never kill a fish that big
Back then people didn't think about conservation. Most still don't today.
Martin the commercial dork king!
Holy BASS ❗🤯🤯
I remember this episode Roland Martin was trying to push the helicopter Lure. If you don’t remember it there’s a reason why Roland tried to get this guy To say he caught it on his helicopter lure
So he didn't catch it on the helicopter lure over a big log?
Yea they can't just enjoy catching and taking a picture. They ABSOLUTELY MUST kill it.
@@Spud516 bass over 4lbs taste like absolute shit, it is most certainly not good eating
THAT is a lunker! 5 lbs bigger than my biggest and THAT was a lunker!... SON!!
Sinaloa?
Damn I thought this would be footage of Dottie. Does anybody know if footage of her exists?
………. If you know about dottie then you know theres videos
Son! ❤
Once a bass gets that big and you actually catch it.. Why not mount it? That fish was not going to be caught again in another year or two and probably would have died from old age or stress from the fight and being handled. Throwing back those 10 to 15 pound bass is important because they have time left to grow.
I agree with you unlike everybody else here saying why kill it
Reids royal Gaming thanks man. It just makes the most sense to me.
Killing a giant bass is childish self indulgence
That came out of an aquarium
"I had to put it on ice" 😥
Fish looked like he found it dead.
i bet Roland Martin listened to a lot of Jerry Reed.
SON!
No Jerry Reid Watches alot of Roland. lol
Bass pro replicas comon
The Helicopter lure yeah right
0:59 the happiness