What was the weight of the famous 1932 world-record largemouth bass caught by George Perry?

George Perry’s famous 1932 largemouth bass weighed 22 pounds 4 ounces.

Perry caught the bass on June 2, 1932, in Montgomery Lake, Georgia. The fish became the benchmark for the largemouth bass world record and held the record for decades. Its weight is commonly given as 22 pounds 4 ounces, or approximately 10.09 kilograms.

The catch became legendary because Perry reportedly had no formal scale available at the time and took the fish to a nearby store to be weighed. The original documentation was later lost, but the record remained recognized through accepted historical records.

In 2009, Manabu Kurita caught a largemouth bass in Japan that matched the record weight. Under International Game Fish Association rules, a tie at the same weight does not erase the earlier record, so Perry’s fish remains part of the shared record history. The species is Micropterus salmoides.