Caddo Lake bass caught two years in a row

[basspastor]

Caddo Lake giant caught for second straight year .
Tuesday, 22 March 2011 08:36 Staff report .Sean Swank holds the 16.07 pound bass he caught in Caddo Lake. The fish is the biggest bass caught in Texas this year. Photo by TPWD.
Sean Swank of De Berry hauled in a giant bass Friday, March 18 in Caddo Lake near the Louisiana border.

The big bass weighed 16.07 pounds, making it the largest bass caught in the state so far this year.

Swank was fishing with a jig in four feet of water when the big female struck.

She was 27 inches long and had a 22.75-inch girth.

When Texas Parks and Wildlife officials arrived to transport the fish to Athens, they said hello to an old friend.

According to Angie King, tour boat operator from Johnson’s Ranch Marina where the fish was weighed, the bass had been caught one year ago and sent to Athens.

Officials implanted a microchip in the bass and were able to identify the big fish, which was caught in a similar part of the lake.

The fish will be taken to Athens for breeding and released back into Caddo Lake for the next person to catch this fish.

Last year, the fish weighed 16.17 pounds and was caught by Keith Burns of Jefferson on March 20, 2010.

[Stompy]

That's pretty neat..

[elm creek]

Pretty neat , We have never had one of our lunkers caught twice

[duCt8]

Sean Swank

[Tx Champ]

Alan Henry had one caught 3 years in a row and sent to SAL each time. I mentoined this a while back on one of the posts, but fats had his fingers in his ears and singing lalalalalalalalala ...

[tshooter]

I've been thinking about my PB I caught last year in early April at HC. You can count on me being at that spot again and throwing the exact same thing I did then.

If things don't work out I can always just repost the same picture from last year

[JD#5]

That's pretty damn neat! Makes ya wonder if we make things too complicated!

[FireSam]

Neat.

[Bobs21X]

She just wanted to take a little pampered vacation from being at Caddo and all

Great Story

[Kevin R.]

[fishergal]

Gerald - where's the picture??????? I want to see one that big!

[bigfishingstud]

That's Awesome