18 4 at Corona lake????

[BTB]

I just got this report from a news service for Corona Lake:

"Lake record largemouth bass toppled
again at Corona Lake with 18 1/4-pounder
Randy Muirhead of Glen Ivy broke his own lake record for largemouth bass at Corona Lake by catching an 18 1/4-pounder this past Thursday evening while fishing a crawdad-colored crankbait from his pontoon float tube. The fish breaks the lake record of 17-pounds, 10-ounces that Muirhead caught a month ago.. . . . . . .
Note to Editors: We'll forward a photo of the new lake record Corona Lake bass as soon as we get it."

Next HBC at Corona Lake?? LOL

I don't know if this is verifiable but they said pictures are coming. The 17 10 looked big and healthy in the pic but I don't know.

Someone please call Snopes - inquiring minds want to know.

[tunaman]

It was in this week's WON also. Someone caught a 17-1 just a week or so ago, and said he caught several other big ones including a pair of 12's.

Not much bass-fishing pressure, so I'm sure it is a good fishery at the right time.

Roger

[fishnuts]

It was in this week's WON also. Someone caught a 17-1 just a week or so ago, and said he caught several other big ones including a pair of 12's.

Not much bass-fishing pressure, so I'm sure it is a good fishery at the right time.

Roger

Same guy.....

[BTB]

Same guy - another fish. this one was just last Thursday.

[Chris N]

Anybody weigh the fish? The first one didn't look like a 17? I could be wrong, obviously...

just looking at the size of the guys fingers and the lack of a basketball belly- looks like a nice fish held out at arms length, of course I've never caught one close to 17-10, but I've caught some that look like the one in the picture, and now an 18+?? curious I guess...

(fixed it for ya )
when upper teen fish like that start jumping on cranks like they are going out of style, with lots of extra double digits as well, something crazy is going on- aka Castaic in 1991 or something

[buddy brown]

Does not suprise me w/ all the trout they dump in that place as well as the lack of bass fisherman that fish. I imagine that Irvine has a few giants in there as well. It is suprising that he caught those two fish so close together though.

[Chris N]

Thanks for the photo help!

[some guy]

so its the same guy as last week? wow. Very interesting that he caught two giants so close together. Makes you wonder.

[DL]

so its the same guy as last week? wow. Very interesting that he caught two giants so close together. Makes you wonder.

Ya, why did Mike Long let this guy catch his fish??? I give it a week and Mike will be on that place like stink on shyt...

[powerwiggler]

That's a hell of a smile he has there.

[some guy]

I agree Chris. The 13-2 my dad has on his wall he got out of Vail looks bigger than this. Its a great fish no matter what it weighs. I wonder if the fish was weighed on a personal scale or a certified scale. Anyone know? Looks like i need to make some laps around that place with the swimbait.

[BTB]

Are you doing those laps on a float tube?

This catch has an asterisk** Caught from a float tube.

[some guy]

it says here private boat launch fee is 8 bucks.

[bigb8er]

yup, and right next to him will be a bucket of live bait...

[Chris N]

Since I was a little grom reading WON and then getting spanked at Irvine when 8 million pounds of trout were stocked every 5 minutes, I've been a little skeptical of the "marketing" the pay to fish lakes do... call me a cynic

Look at the 10-4 a guy caught at the FLW today at the Delta, same pose, that fish looks even bigger- not trying to knock the guy (Lunker Tooth Murphy) that caught a very nice fish, and also got attacked by a bunch of other huge bass while tubing, just wondering about the incredible stats flying out of Corona aka "The El Salto of the 909" all of a sudden...


damn I suck at posting pics...

[Oldschool]

As a general rule in regards to Florida strain LMB or F* intergrades, the girth is usually about 90% of the length when giants get over the 15 lb mark. 17+ lbs., the bass should be about 27 to 28 inches long with a girth of 24 to 25 inches. The bass in the photo looks to be a 80% girth bass 21 to 22 inch, if the bass was 27 inches long, that would equal 13+ bass (L X L X G / 1200 = weight in lbs.) and that is what the bass in the photo looks like to me.
I am not trying to down play the catch, length and girth measurement don't lie, however we only have a photo and no way to varify the weight.
Tom

[BTB]

As a general rule in regards to Florida strain LMB or F* intergrades, the girth is usually about 90% of the length when giants get over the 15 lb mark. 17+ lbs., the bass should be about 27 to 28 inches long with a girth of 24 to 25 inches. The bass in the photo looks to be a 80% girth bass 21 to 22 inch, if the bass was 27 inches long, that would equal 13+ bass (L X L X G / 1200 = weight in lbs.) and that is what the bass in the photo looks like to me.
I am not trying to down play the catch, length and girth measurement don't lie, however we only have a photo and no way to varify the weight.
Tom

The accepted formula of taping any fish to determine weight is: Girth squared x length divied by 800 = weight. So IF the fish has a 22 inch girth and is 27 inches long the weight would be calculated as follows:

22 x 22 = 484 x 27 = 13,068 dived by 800 = 16.335 pounds.

So assuming your guess at girth and length is accurate this fish reported to be 17-3 would weigh 16-4. Not too far off. I was surprised when I applied the formula, as the fish does not look that heavy.

As you note, we do not have any measurements so all of this is a guess. I still haven't heard if the fish was weighed on the lake scales or not. I am waiting on a picture of the 18-4 or some more information.

Inquiring minds want to know!

[Oldschool]

IGFA weight formula for tuna and marlin doesn't work for bass.
I have somw expierence with measuring over 100 of my own 10+ LMB and a dozen between 16 to 19 lbs and have a good idea of what a 17+ looks like having caught 3 of them.
Tom

[BTB]

No offense intended.

I wasn't trying to disrespect.

I enjoy the exchange of information and I am just as curious about the weight of these fish as anyone else.

I have used the formula on a lot of different fish and it works pretty good on all of them, but a scale would be best.

[Oldschool]

No problem, the IGFA formula has been mis used for LMB by a lot of folks for a long time.
It is possible that Corona lake could produce giant bass, it has everything need, stocked trout and low fishing pressure, up until now.
Tom

[tALLkAN]

nice fish dude