[Jared]

My question is this:

Perry caught the world record in Georgia in 1932. Which strain was this? I'd assume that it was a Florida strain but then again, I'm pretty sure the waters in the area that Perry caught his fish do dip into the low 40's high 30s in the winter months.

 

[Jared]

I will post the photo but I will have to wait till I get home from work as it is on my pc at the house.

 

[Jared]

There is no way I would discredit Perry's fish. There are a lot who would like to and I think the main motivator there is money. We have to realize that when Perry's fish was caught the pressure on the bass population was so miniscule it wasn't funny, especially when compared with today.

 

[Jared]

In Doug Hannon's book "Big Bass Magic" (an awesome book! If you havent read it, I highly recommend you do!) he discusses the hunt for the world record. One of the facts that he brings up is the length of Perry's bass, which was around 32". He then goes on to discuss the massive bass coming from California and the length they have been. The length of most of these huge CA bass is considerably shorter than Perry's. Hannon's then brings up an interesting fact and that is that if the Perry's bass had the same length to girth ratio as the Cali bass, his bass would have weighed in the area of 38lbs!

Can you imagine??

 

[Jared]

This is the exact quote from Hannon's book

Dave Zimmerlee's 20 lb. 15 oz. bass was only 26 1/2" long, while George Perry's 22 lb. 4.oz. world record bass was 32 1/2" long. I have seen two 32-inch bass in all my years in Florida. By simple mathematics, a 32-inch bass of the same weight-to-length ratio as Zimmerlee's would weigh 36lbs. 14oz., while a 32 1/2" bass using this ratio would weight 38 lbs. 10 oz.

Perhaps he is using a different calculation.