It didn’t take Bill Evans of Bothell very long to set a new state record for a largemouth bass. The long-time bass angler who moved to the Seattle area a few years ago, just started to pursue bass in local waters and managed to catch a big one on Lake Bosworth in Snohomish County on...
It didn’t take Bill Evans of Bothell very long to set a new state record for a largemouth bass.
The long-time bass angler who moved to the Seattle area a few years ago, just started to pursue bass in local waters and managed to catch a big one on Lake Bosworth in Snohomish County on Aug. 8.
Evans caught the largemouth bass that weighed 12.53 pounds and measured 23 inches with a girth of 22.5 inches on a Strike King 5-inch Shim-E-Stick, wacky-rigged on a 1/0 hook.
“As soon as I set the hook, I knew it had to be a big one because the bottom pulled hard and it just wouldn’t quit,” Evans said in a news release. “When she finally tried to jump, she could only get her head out of the water.”
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The previous record was set by Carl Pruitt way back in 1977 at Banks Lake with a fish weighing 11.57 pounds, nearly one pound less.
Evans has fished several lakes in the Bothell area, but this was his first time fishing at Lake Bosworth.