Corona Lake record bass revealed

This monstrous largemouth bass was caught by Randy Muirhead of Glen Ivy on Sept. 2, but the photo didn't begin to circulate until Thursday afternoon. At 17 pounds, 10 ounces, it set a Corona Lake record. And what's remarkable is that Muirhead, who was initially reluctant to share the information,
caught two others during the same week weighing 12-plus pounds.

The record fish, he added, inhaled a plastic worm and was the smallest of several bass he had hooked on Sept. 2.

"I don’t know what was going on that night, but there were a bunch of big fish and they were all hitting," he said. "I had one fish rip the hook right off my lure, a jointed crank plug."

Muirhead released all the bass back into the small, freeway-side fishery, so imagine their girth and weight come spawning season next spring.

Muirhead, to his chagrin, will have plenty of company.

-- Pete Thomas

Photo courtesy of Corona Lake