SHOSHONI, Wyo. — A 12-year-old boy from Shoshoni is now the proud holder of the Junior 4-pound Line Class world record for bass after netting a 2-pound, 4-ounce largemouth in August. The boy, coincidentally with the last name Bass, caught the fish at Lake Cameahwait.
According to a release from the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, Tucker Bass and his father were fishing over the lake on a two-person kayak when the young angler reeled in the record fish. He did so on a rod and reel given to him by his grandfather.
Bass is the first Wyoming resident to hold a world record in any category for largemouth. The International Game and Fish Association oversees all world records for fishing and officially approved Bass’s catch in November.
Wyoming’s state record largemouth was caught in 2018 near Sheridan. A comprehensive list of all Wyoming record fish can be found here.
“This is an exceptional accomplishment for a young angler,” WGF Lander Region fisheries supervisor Joe Deromedi said in the release. “Tucker’s record highlights not only his skill and dedication, but also the quality fishing opportunities we have in central Wyoming. It’s always exciting to see youth developing a lifelong passion for fishing.”
Bass, an avid fisherman, also earned Trophy Angler status in the Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s Master Angler program in August.
For more information on Tucker Bass’s record catch, see the Wyoming Game and Fish website.
Gina Douglas
July 30, 2024 at 1:27 pm
In his recent guest column Representative Tom Walters asserts that “Every woman and girl deserves to feel secure in spaces designated for them, free from any undue risks or discomfort. I firmly believe that ensuring these safe spaces is a fundamental part of respecting and valuing the identity of women.” That is his way of saying that the What is a Woman Act (which defines sex and gender by plumbing) is necessary to make females feel safe.
Actually, that’s not how our legal-system works. If any person commits a crime, that person faces criminal charges. Everybody else is innocent until proven guilty. Nobody is protected from things that might happen. Nobody is protected from fear. But about transwomen, there is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
In Colorado, access to gender-segregated facilities has been determined by “innate sense of gender-identity” since 2007, and there has NEVER been a reported case of a woman being assaulted by a transwoman in one of those facilities. So women are equally safe, with or without the protection, that this act would theoretically provide.
This act is just a shiny-object to distract us from the fact that women are not safe from gun-violence or being raped on the street, and Republicans are not willing to do anything to fix that. But Republicans are certainly able to pass laws to protect women from what poses no actual danger, and then host a barn-dance to celebrate their great accomplishment.
Two years ago, sensible Republicans voted down the Freedom Caucus’ transgender-hysteria bills, because they know such bills are unjust, and bad for tourism. But last year, after attacks from dark-money, out of state, fake public-interest groups – they passed Chloe’s Law, banning gender-affirming care for youth. Now, the dark-money attacks, instead of stopping, have quadrupled – since they proved to work so splendidly.
These attacks will never stop, and it won’t be long before the Clown-Caucus runs the state as if we were Idaho, where if a doctor has to choose between saving a baby or the mother, the doctor has to save the baby and let the mother die. Today the clown-caucus is protecting women from transpeople, tomorrow they will be protecting women from the harmful effects of birth-control medications and devices.
At every rally, Trump talks about the three women who were murdered by illegal-migrants this year. But he never talks about the nine transgender-women who were murdered by regular-ole Americans in the same time-period.
Wyoming is the Equality State because women are treated as equals. Because of this, Wyoming women are strong and independent. They are not helpless southern-belles or debutantes. But this bill, and the views of the Freedom Caucus, as expressed by Walters, insults that strength and independence. It is paternalistic. It asserts that women need protection from phantom-fears, or LordyLordy, they might just faint dead-away from fears that a transwoman’s Elastic Man penis is going to squeeze through the cracks in the stall and attack them.