A West Virginia state record-breaking largemouth bass was caught in a private pond in Harrison County earlier this month.

Two more state fishing records were broken this month, the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources announced Monday, and one of the record breaking fish was caught in Harrison County.

Two West Virginia anglers reeled in record-breaking catches in May 2025, according to the Division of Natural Resources.

A fisherman at Lady Bird Lake in Austin landed a lake-record largemouth bass and then loaned it to state wildlife officials.

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The latter measurement was enough to earn the fish a spot in the books as the new state record for length on a largemouth bass. It replaced the old record of 25.75 inches caught by Eli Gain at Dog ...

The old 25.75-inch record bass was caught in 2001 by Eli Gain in Harrison County's Dog Run Lake. The state record 12.28-pound largemouth was caught in 1994 from a farm pond in Grant County by David W.

And the state record largemouth is a huge 13.13-pound fish caught by Ron Landsberger in 1976 from a farm pond. "My biggest bass until that morning was a 4.75-pound largemouth and a 4.75 smallmouth ...

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