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I personally know of at least one Bass caught in my area around Lismore that was at least 60cm. However my personal best was just a fin over 50cm taken in the Clarence Gorge. As far as yella's are concerned I've never heard of one bigger that about 55cm but that's not final obviously. Yella's tend to explode outwards like a fat kid in a chocolate factory. It seems therefore that most folk guage their bass capture by length while the yella's are guaged by weight?JD
I take reports of big bass from NSW with a grain of salt, they are overlapping with the estuary perch range. The Perch grow bigger, and to the uninitiated the two are difficult to tell apart. Odds are a "big bass" could be an estuary perch.
Fellas I have seen solid proof of a 65cm Bass. It was caught near the boat ramp in Lismore on the Wilson River less than a year back. I was in Suffolks Sports store when the bloke came in and had taken a picture of it with his mobile phone with his wifes dressmaking tape along it. The thing is that the tape wasn't dead straight. Had it been straight it could have added about 2-3cm to the length. We asked him if it swam away OK and he said "Oh I took it home and ate it." Bogan! It's just possible that this fish was getting old and tired and the smelly thing this clod had on his hook was to easy to pass up. Thought for the day; When these big fish die what happens to them? Is there a bass graveyard somewhere like the mythical Elephants graveyard? I have never seen a dead Bass floating other than after a fish kill when there were many others and various species as well.JD
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