Maryland Record Bass Caught Up the Road

12-Year Old Breaks 30-Year Maryland Largemouth Bass Record

According to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Colton Lambert, 12, caught a Maryland record largemouth bass while fishing at a farm pond in his hometown of Huntingtown on July 31. The fish was 11 pounds, 6 ounces and measured 26 inches in length with an 18-inch girth.

Now that's a nice largemouth!

Colton was fishing with his father and younger brother at approximately 7:30 p.m. when he thought his line was caught on something. “All of a sudden something started to move very quickly and broke the surface and took off, peeling line off the reel,” he said. “It was really hard to control and reel in; when I finally slid it up on the shallow bank, my dad started getting all excited.”

Sounds a lot like the story of the current record holder for largemouth bass, 81 years ago, when George Perry caught a largemouth reported to be over 22 lbs in Georgia.

His father knew this was the biggest largemouth bass he had seen. They put the fish in a large bucket of water and the next day took it to Tyler’s Tackle in Chesapeake Beach, an Award Center for the Maryland Fishing Challenge. It was weighed on the certified scale of the store’s adjoining seafood market. Colton caught the fish using a spinning rod loaded with an 8-pound test line and a Texas-rigged weightless worm.

 Good job, Colton.  Now, don't go thinking every fishing trip is going to end that way.