This big striped bass didn't slip the hook
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Link: GloucesterTimes.com, Gloucester, MA.
Back at Winchester's Fishing Company where it was weighed into an annual contest as the leader by far, MacKenzie learned he had caught a 54-pound bass — so far as Winchester's knows, the largest bass of the decade, and only the second 50-plus bass in 15 years.
Winchester's has already weighed in five other fish of more than 35 pounds in a season that seems ready to take its place as the best for fish of a certain size.
By the standard chart of length, age and weight, the MacKenzie bass likely hatched from an egg in 1986,