World-record bass – maybe – pulled from Lake Dixon

World-record bass – maybe – pulled from Lake Dixon

By Ed Zieralski
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

12:51 p.m. March 20, 2006



Mac Weakley photo
Mike Winn shows off the 25-pound bass caught by Mac Weakley.
SAN DIEGO – Mac Weakley of Carlsbad caught what could be the world-record largemouth bass early Monday at Dixon Lake in Escondido.
The bass weighed 25 pounds, 1 ounce on a hand-held scale, which – if approved – would shatter the world record, the 22-pound, 4-ounce bass caught by George W. Perry at Montgomery Lake in Georgia in 1932.

The catch will have to be approved by the International Game Fish Association.

That may be a problem, however, because Weakley said he foul-hooked the fish – meaning the hook lodged below the dorsal fin on the fish's side, not in the fish's mouth.

Weakley was fishing with his longtime friends Mike Winn and Jed Dickerson. Dickerson caught a 21-pound, 11-ounce bass at the same lake in 2003.



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