Now here's a big bass!

[dreadnut]

Largemouth, 13.83 lb.

 

[Westerly Wood]

 

[Prince of Darkness]

Must admit, when I saw the title I was expecting something like this!

 

[walrus]

Me, too!



walrus

 

[dreadnut]

That is one big bass! I see he has to use the levers on the side to play it.

 

[lungimsam]

That bass in the OP is way heavier than 13 lbs. I’m gonna guess 19lbs.
This is way smaller yet is 10lbs

 

[Nuuska]

The shadow of the man holding bass on side of the truck looks fishy . . .

 

[5thumbs]

Judging by the relative size of his hands, I think we're seeing some sort of perspective of the fish's size?

 

[GGJaguar]

Must admit, when I saw the title I was expecting something like this!

Triple contra bass viol?

 

[Midnight Toker]

Triple contra bass viol?

Nope, it's an Octobass. (Notice it only has 3 strings, (and is a full octave below a double bass)) There was also another very short lived giant bass instrument that once existed w/o the mechanical levers w/ 4 strings that had to be played by two people, one bowing at ground level, and another fingering the notes while standing on a raised platform.

 

[dreadnut]

I just went by the weight they said in the article.

 

[lungimsam]

Ah yes. My bad. Its probly just the way they took that pic that makes it look much bigger than 13lbs. Note that arms are fully extended, elbows in, and the camera may have not been zooming but standing close to the extended fish to make it look huge in the pic. The fish head is bigger than the human head in the pic which is an impossibility even in the biggest bass ever recorded at 22lbs. so that gives it away that it’s a pic trick.