{"id":159381,"date":"2026-02-01T19:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T19:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/159381\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T19:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T19:32:07","slug":"record-largemouth-bass-caught-at-san-diego-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/159381\/","title":{"rendered":"Record largemouth bass caught at San Diego lake"},"content":{"rendered":"

Feb. 1, 2026, 11:13 a.m. ET<\/p>\n

A massively rotund, 17.6-pound largemouth bass was caught Friday at Lake Jennings in San Diego County, setting a waterbody record.<\/p>\n

Ryan Henson\u2019s extraordinary catch, it\u2019s worth noting, occurred one day after the reservoir was stocked with 1,500 pounds of rainbow trout.<\/p>\n

\"Ryan<\/p>\n

Images on Facebook<\/a> reveal a bass belly that’s not bulging with eggs, as one follower remarked. But “full of trout,” according to Lake Jennings.<\/p>\n

ALSO: ‘Luckiest angler in Texas’ catches same enormous bass for third time<\/a><\/p>\n

Henson was fishing with a large swimbait designed to entice giant bass.\u00a0<\/p>\n

His catch is impressive, considering that it\u2019s rare anywhere in the country to catch largemouth bass topping 15 pounds. (Click here<\/a> if the Lake Jennings Facebook post doesn’t appear below.)<\/p>\n

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The International Game Fish Assn. lists as the all-tackle world record<\/a> a 22-pound, 4-ounce largemouth bass caught at Montgomery Lake, Ga., in 1932.<\/p>\n

The California record<\/a> is 21-pounds, 12-ounces, for a bass caught at Castaic Lake in Los Angles County in 1991. (Castaic, at the time, was famous for producing giant bass catches during the trout-stocking season.)<\/p>\n

Henson, who released his catch after it was weighed and photographed, was criticized by some for placing the fish on the ground for one photo<\/a>. But generally, he was congratulated.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The top comment: \u201cMight as well stop fishing there. You can\u2019t top that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 1, 2026, 11:13 a.m. ET A massively rotund, 17.6-pound largemouth bass was caught Friday at Lake Jennings…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[243,74,76,75,65609,65610,77610,3087,22201,77609,1349,20570,3092,246],"class_list":["post-159381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-accessfree","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-sstssportsoutdoors","tag-sstsnoutdoors","tag-tagbass-fish","tag-tagcalifornia","tag-tagfacebook","tag-tagfishing","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagsan-diego-county","tag-tagtourist-destinations","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}