set a new state record for largemouth bass ... But the memory of seeing a record-breaking bass jump out of the water? “I’ll never forget what that looked like, or what that sounded like ...

It jumped out of the water and it was ... once the measurements were official and the pictures were taken, the big bass was released back into the water to hopefully be caught another day.

We caught 15 keeper-size largemouth bass to ... fooled two — before 7:30 a.m. Bass anglers know how exciting it is to see the big bass explode up out of the water to grab the lure.

Fishing Portage Lake near Three Rivers, Golec caught a golden largemouth bass on a plastic worm, FOX-17 News reports. He was jigging the soft plastic lure on a weed bed when the rare fish ate. “It ...