WORLD RECORD BASS

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Historical marker can be seen at:

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World Record Bass Marker Near Jacksonville, Ga.

World Record Bass State Historical Marker
Located on Ga. 117 four miles east of Jacksonville, Ga.

Approximately two miles from this spot, on June 2, 1932, George W. Perry,
a
19-year old farm boy, caught what was to become America's most famous
fish.
The twenty-two pound four ounce largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides)
exceeded the existing record by more than two pounds has retained the
world
record for more than fifty years. Perry and his friend, J.E. Page, were
fishing in Montgomery Lake, a slough off the Ocmulgee River, not for
trophies but to bring food to the table during those days of the great
depression. The fish was caught on a Creek Chub Perch Scale Wigglefish,
Perry's only lure, and was 32 1/2 inches in length and 28 1/2 inches in
girth. The weight and measurements were taken, recorded and notarized in
Helena, Georgia and Perry's only reward was seventy-five dollars in
merchandise as first prize in Field and Stream Magazine's fishing contest.
The longstanding record is one of the reasons that the largemouth bass was
made Georgia's Official State Fish. Montgomery Lake is today part of the
Department of natural Resources' Horse Creek Wildlife Management Area.

134-4 GEORGIA HISTORIC MARKER 1984

Photo and Text Credit to Ed Jackson, CVIOG, UGA, Athens, Ga.
NOTE: As of June 2, 2002, the record has stood for 70 years!



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