It s almost unreal : 15-year-old angler sets new bass record for Lake Travis
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Young angler from Buda Trace Jansen, 15, set a new largemouth bass record for Lake Travis on Sunday.Trace JansenShow MoreShow Less
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Young angler from Buda Trace Jansen, 15, set a new largemouth bass record for Lake Travis on Sunday.Trace JansenShow MoreShow Less
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A young 15-year-old angler reeled in the best catch of his life last weekend.
Trace Jansen from Buda caught a 15.32-pound and 28-inch largemouth bass on Lake Travis Sunday, setting a new waterbody record for the Austin area lake. According to Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, the old bass record was caught at 13 pounds in 1993.
East Texas anglers bag two ShareLunkers, two tournament titles Derek Mundy of Broaddus with 13.62lbs (Source: Texas Parks and Wildlife) By KTRE Digital Media Staff | February 2, 2021 at 4:28 PM CST - Updated February 3 at 12:45 AM
EAST Texas (KTRE) - The 2021 Toyota ShareLunker season continued its hot start after anglers reeled in two more Legacy Class Lunkers during the final weekend of January. That brings the total to four this year, equaling the amount caught during the 2020 season with two more months still to go. In addition, both anglers went on to win their respective tournaments due in large part to landing the Legacy Lunkers.
TPWD fishing program off to hot start with more extremely rare bass turning up
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On Friday, angler Derek Mundy, from Broaddus, landed a 13.62-pounder during the Toyota Series Southwestern Division tournament on Sam Rayburn Reservoir, which is 70 miles north of Beaumont.The 2021 Toyota ShareLunker Show MoreShow Less
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In another Texas tournament, angler Daniel Ramsey, from Trinidad, became the fourth Legacy Class member after catching a fish at 13.07 pounds on Saturday off Lake Palestine, which is about 100 miles southeast of Dallas.The 2021 Toyota ShareLunker season Show MoreShow Less
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CJ Oates from Lago Vista reeled in a massive 13.02-pound largemouth bass while fishing in Lake Austin on Jan. 14.The 2021 Toyota ShareLunker season Show MoreShow Less
Lake Austin Produces Second Toyota ShareLunker
AUSTIN – In less than a week, the second Legacy Class largemouth bass of the 2021 Toyota ShareLunker season was reeled in at Lake Austin Thursday evening January 14. Angler CJ Oates, from Lago Vista, Texas, caught the 13.02-pounder just a few days after “ShareLunker 586” was claimed at Sam Rayburn.
“It was a last-minute decision whether to fish Lake Travis or Austin,” said Oates. “Luckily my good buddy John Davilla talked me into Austin. The bites started off very slow and at the first 5 spots we hit we had nothing. Around 9:30, BOOM, he catches a 11.30-pound giant on a glide bait swimming it next to a dock. We yelled, high-fived, took pictures, and then waited about 15 minutes before hitting that same dock. Low and behold, two casts later the fish of a lifetime. I then called Texas Parks and Wildlife, spoke to Kyle [Brookshear] and the rest is history! The ShareLunker program is truly a great program.”
Bigger in Texas: Angler catches extremely rare largemouth bass from Lake Austin
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On Thursday, CJ Oates from Largo Vista reeled in a massive 13.02-pound largemouth bass while out fishing in Lake Austin. According to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, largemouth bass over 12 pounds are extremely rare. Toyota ShareLunker Program - Texas Parks and Wildlife
Everything truly is bigger in Texas.
On Thursday, CJ Oates from Lago Vista reeled in a massive 13.02-pound largemouth bass while fishing in Lake Austin. According to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, largemouth bass over 10 to 12 pounds are extremely rare. There are only a few other states that have produced a fish that s larger than that, Kyle Brookshear, a Toyota ShareLunker Program Coordinator for TPWD, said. Texas is unique, and we really are a destination for personal record class sized fish, and 13 pounds is abnormal. It s a world-class sized fish. It doesn t happen very often.