A guy I met at the B.A.S.S. University when they swung through Cupertino back in, like, '96 or '97, and he told me he caught a 16-plus out at Anderson, up the creek channel at the north end, when the water was up. He says he hitched his boat back up & drove it over to Coyote Bait & Tackle but for some reason couldn't get any kind of certification or acknowledgement of his catch (supposedly for 'lake record' status or some such thing).

I don't recall exactly what his issues were around that, but he told a pretty convincing story. I have no real grounds to deny him his tale. I believe he also said he rushed it back to the lake again to release it alive, although it was struggling some to stay vertical.

He also claimed the bass boat he owned (which I went out with him once on) was won at a Georgia or Alabama tournament, before he moved to California. It was pretty cool -- one of the first times I had seen that PinPoint trolling motor/depthfinder combo in action, where it tracks to the shoreline and/or depth contours, in 'auto-pilot' mode. Neat little package!


In any case, they're out there, boys, rest assured!

- jeff

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