11-Year-Old Catches A Teener

[WB Staff]

Landing the 11th Legacy Class ShareLunker of the season at 11 years old! Stetson Davis caught ShareLunker 661 weighing in at 13.31 pounds at J.B. Thomas. This catch is the pending junior waterbody record and is the second Legacy Class bass from J.B. Thomas. Stetson, thank you for supporting a future full of bigger better bass in Texas.

[WB Staff]

Following closely in his father’s footsteps, 11-year-old Stetson Davis is already getting recognized for boating lunker bass. On March 6, the young angler from Oklahoma went fishing with his dad on J.B. Thomas Reservoir in Texas, where he caught a 13-pound largemouth that broke the junior lake record and was just a half-pound shy of the all-time lake record. The two submitted the trophy bass to the state’s ShareLunker program, making Stetson one of the youngest anglers to ever do so. “It was about 9 a.m. when we spotted a huge bass suspended in 15 feet of water with our Garmin LiveScope sonar,” Stetson’s dad, Brodey Davis, tells Outdoor Life. “We could see the fish on the Garmin, and Stetson cast to it multiple times, but it wouldn’t hit.” Read Next: Garmin ECHOMAP Ultra 126sv and LiveScope, Tested and Reviewed Using a baitcaster and 20-pound test fluorocarbon line, Stetson made about 20 casts to the fish before he got a response. Brodey says that with the dark color of the lake, he knew his son would have to put his lure right on the fish’s nose. Stetson finally got the right cast and retrieved his swimbait, a 6th Sense Whale, within inches of the suspended bass. Stetson’s lunker largemouth set a new junior record for the lake. Photograph by Brodey Davis “I watched the sonar screen as I retrieved the lure within a few inches of the bass, and I saw the fish take the bait,” Stetson says. “It didn’t strike hard. It just kind of gulped it down, then I set the hook hard.” The water boiled as the fish jumped twice and shook its head. “I thought the bass might throw the lure during those wild jumps,” Brodey says. “But there was no weight in the lure other than the 6/0 hook. So Stetson had the bass at the boat in less than a minute. I netted it when it came up beside the boat a third time.”
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[mark poulson]

Congrats!!!