Leap year weekend of 2020 was a good time to be fishing in Texas apparently with two bass weighing more than 13 pounds being caught. Two crazy catches. The first fish was caught by Joe Castle and was the 2nd ShareLunker Legacy Class of 2020. The mammoth largemouth bass weighed 15.34 pounds and is the pending new lake record for Nacogdoches Lake. The previous record was set 34 years ago and was just a hair over 14 pounds.
Equally as crazy was the third ShareLunker of the season, and just 3 weeks removed from catching a 14.36-pound largemouth from Lake Alan Henry, Blake Cockrell caught a second fish weighing 13.28-pounds this weekend, also from Alan Henry.
Man if I lived in Texas I’d be making some plans to get on the water, the big fish are stirring and ready to be caught! But for now enjoy some closer looks at these two beautiful largemouths from Texas in the slides below. See more about the ShareLunker Program at TexasShareLunker.com
Blake Cockrell with his second Alan Henry Lunker
Blake Cockrell’s 13-pounder being weighed
Blake Cockrell Turning his largemouth bass over to ShareLunker
Close-up of Blake Cockrell’s 13.28-pound Texas largemouth bass
Joe Castle poses with his fish before turning it over to TPWD
Close-up of 15 pounder on Lake Nacogdoches in Texas
Joe Castle with an impressive frame on this 15-pounder
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COO and Publisher, Jason Sealock came to Wired2fish shortly after inception in January of 2010. Prior to that he was the Editor-in-Chief of FLW Outdoors Magazines. He worked up from Associate Editor to Photo Editor and finally Editor in Chief of three magazines FLW Bass, FLW Walleye and FLW Saltwater. Now he sets the content direction for Wired2fish while also working directly with programmers, consultants and industry partners.
Sealock has been an avid angler for the better part of 40 years and has been writing and shooting fishing and outdoors content for more than 25 years. He is an expert with fishing electronics and technologies and an accomplished angler, photographer, writer and editor. He has taught a lot of people to find fish with their electronics and has been instrumental in teaching these technologies to the masses. He's also the industry authority on new fishing tackle and has personally reviewed more than 10,000 products in his tenure.
He has a 30-year background in information technologies and was a certified engineer for a time in Microsoft, Novell, Cisco, and HP.
He mostly fishes for bass and panfish around the house. He has, however, caught fish in 42 of the 50 states in the US as well as Costa Rica, Mexico, and Canada and hopes to soon add Finland, Japan, Africa and Australia to his list.