With its Bud ShareLunker program breeding big-bass genetics in a hatchery, Texas Parks and Wildlife has declared its intention of producing a world-record largemouth. California is more laid back ...

Georgia angler Travis Harrell caught a 52-pound striped bass in March that broke a record for the Flint River.

According to the International Game Fish Assn., the world record for largemouth bass stands at 22 pounds, 4 ounces, for a fish caught at Montgomery Lake, Ga., in 1932.