{"id":64546,"date":"2016-08-18T12:40:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T12:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpms.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/bothell-man-breaks-40-year-old-record-for-biggest\/"},"modified":"2016-08-18T12:40:08","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T12:40:08","slug":"bothell-man-breaks-40-year-old-record-for-biggest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/bothell-man-breaks-40-year-old-record-for-biggest\/","title":{"rendered":"Bothell man breaks 40-year-old record for biggest largemouth bass &#8211; HeraldNet.com &#8211; Everett and Snohomish County news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.heraldnet.com\/sports\/bothell-man-breaks-40-year-old-record-for-biggest-largemouth-bass\/'>Bothell man breaks 40-year-old record for biggest largemouth bass &#8211; HeraldNet.com &#8211; Everett and Snohomish County news<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p>he was semi-serious.<\/p>\n<p>But even as steeped in the salmonid mystique as we are, we can still fully appreciate the breaking of a state bass record set way back in 1977, because it would have to be a huge fish to accomplish what some good bass fishermen thought might never happen. And it was, indeed, an awesome largemouth caught early last week \u2014 12.53 pounds, 20 inches in length and with a girth of 22.5 inches. It destroyed the previous record of 11.57 pounds, caught nearly 40 years ago in Banks Lake.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Evans of Bothell caught the monster bass Aug. 8 in Lake Bosworth, a small lake about two miles south of Granite Falls and a popular opening-day trout water. Evans is a veteran of four decades of bass fishing but moved here a few years back and only broke out his tackle this summer. He fished several lakes in the area; last week being his first trip to Bosworth.<\/p>\n<p>The lucky lure was a 5-inch Strike King Shim-E-stick, wacky-rigged on a 1\/0 hook. The Strike King folks tout the plastic worm as a good alternate to sinking stick bait-type lures, and Curt Kraemer of Marysville says \u201cwacky-rigged\u201d means simply hooked part way down the worm to give it more of an off-center, erratic movement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bothell man breaks 40-year-old record for biggest largemouth bass &#8211; HeraldNet.com &#8211; Everett and Snohomish County news he was semi-serious. But even as steeped in the salmonid mystique as we are, we can still fully appreciate the breaking of a state bass record set way back in 1977, because it would have to be a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[354,360,454,517,516],"class_list":["post-64546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bass","tag-bass-fishing","tag-bassfirst","tag-hunting-and-fishing","tag-outdoorsfirst","post_format-post-format-link"],"acf":[],"youtube_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}