{"id":877,"date":"2023-03-02T02:41:19","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T02:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americangunpeople.com\/?p=877"},"modified":"2023-03-02T02:41:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T02:41:19","slug":"huge-louisiana-bass-ranks-among-states-top-10-ever-caught","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americangunpeople.com\/?p=877","title":{"rendered":"Huge Louisiana Bass Ranks Among State&#8217;s Top 10 Ever Caught"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"SingleImage-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<p>Robert Rush holds up the eighth heaviest largemouth ever recorded in Louisiana. <span class=\"SingleImage-credit\">courtesy of Robert Rush<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Bussey Brake has been one of Louisiana\u2019s top-producing bass lakes for years, but the action there has been especially hot this winter, with anglers breaking the lake record twice in February. Todd Herrington of Bastrop caught a 13.58-pound largemouth on Feb. 13, but his record wouldn\u2019t stand for long. It was broken on Feb. 26 by Arkansan Robert Rush, whose 15.36-pound bucketmouth ranks as one of the top 10 biggest bass ever recorded in the state, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ldwffb\/posts\/pfbid02t5sMGe9uj78AiT9PBdt8e2PymbDypKBp6xzeXMfd9gwVpKE49yFBR6VVVAme1HXKl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fldwffb%2Fposts%2Fpfbid0pYEAMUXYsm6iZ3VEzhjgzU9SPFCMqaWpDaDSMPsHA2w8xVRryjLwomv9yzyV7eLCl&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"850\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Rush was able to release the bass into Bussey Brake after it was weighed and measured. And since he lives only 21 miles away from the 2,200-acre reservoir, he\u2019ll likely be back to try to beat his own record as the big females get into spawning mode.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went to church that Sunday morning, and decided it was a good day to go to Bussey Brake for big pre-spawn bass,\u201d Rush tells <em>Outdoor Life<\/em>. \u201cI called my buddy Mark Beasley to go with me, but he couldn\u2019t make it. So, I loaded up my boat and headed there alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rush launched his 18.5-foot Javelin bass boat around midday, and he caught some smaller bass that afternoon. Around 4 p.m. he had a solid hit on a large, weedless-rigged, dark-colored tube jig, but he missed the fish. He kept fishing and caught a two-pounder, followed by a five-pounder.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Next:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outdoorlife.com\/fishing\/world-record-bass-2\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Biggest Bass of All Time<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s when I thought I better turn back and try for the fish that hit, but I didn\u2019t hook,\u201d says Rush, a longtime bass angler who fishes the occasional local tournament. \u201cI got back to the area where I missed the fish, made a cast, and she jumped all over that same lure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then the fish went \u201cbonzo\u201d, according to Rush, making a few powerful runs and peeling line off his Abu Garcia 5500C baitcaster. At first he didn\u2019t know how big the bass was, but when it jumped twice and cleared the water, he knew it had to weigh well over 10 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>Rush didn\u2019t have a net. So, after a two-minute fight that seemed to take a lot longer, he drew the fish close to his boat, carefully lipped the lunker, and put it in his boat\u2019s live well.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\" data-dimension=\"portrait\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.outdoorlife.com\/uploads\/2023\/03\/01\/louisiana_top_ten_bass_2.jpg\" alt=\"louisiana top ten bass 2\" class=\"wp-image-234360\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Rush released the big female back into the lake after the fish was weighed and measured. <i>courtesy of Robert Rush<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI went back to fishing for about 10 minutes, but the more I thought about that big fish, I figured I better get it weighed,\u201d says Rush.<\/p>\n<p>He called an LDWF game warden and explained what he\u2019d just caught. The warden told Rush there was a storage shed on shore near the boat ramp of the public lake, and inside the shed there was a certified weigh scale he could use to document the fish.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[The warden] gave me the combination to the lock to get inside the shed, like they\u2019ve done with other fishermen who catch big ones on Bussey Brake,\u201d Rush explained. \u201cI got back to the boat ramp and Randy Bentz was there, and he asked how I\u2019d done fishing. I told him I had a good bass in the boat live well, and he helped me get into the shed, weigh the bass, and [take] some photos.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-louisiana-s-top-10-list\">Louisiana\u2019s Top 10 List<\/h2>\n<p>The bass officially weighed 15.36-pounds, with a 26-inch length and 22-inch girth. With the fish weighed and measured, Rush released it into Bussey Brake. The paperwork for his lake record catch has been registered with LDWF, and the agency says Rush\u2019s bass ranks as the eighth biggest bass ever recorded in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at Louisiana\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/louisianaoutdoorwriters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/LOWA-Louisiana-State-Fish-Records.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Top 10 list<\/a>, all the biggest bass in state history are within a fraction of a pound of each other. The state-record largemouth, caught in 1994 from Caney Lake, weighed 15.97 pounds, which is just over a half-pound heavier than Rush\u2019s fish.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v3.2\" id=\"facebook-js-js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outdoorlife.com\/fishing\/huge-louisiana-bass\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Rush holds up the eighth heaviest largemouth ever recorded in Louisiana. courtesy of Robert Rush Bussey Brake has been one of Louisiana\u2019s top-producing bass lakes for years, but the action there has been especially hot this winter, with anglers breaking the lake record twice in February. Todd Herrington of Bastrop caught a 13.58-pound largemouth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gun-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americangunpeople.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americangunpeople.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americangunpeople.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americangunpeople.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americangunpeople.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americangunpeople.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americangunpeople.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americangunpeople.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americangunpeople.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americangunpeople.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}