Page 10 - Mid America Boating - July 2024 issue

JULY 2024

Grant Gallagher was a star at last year’s Progressive Cleveland Boat Show at the 9 [ MID-AMERICA BOATING ]
I-X Center in Cleveland. He displayed the record 10.15-pound smallmouth bass
that was caught while he was guiding his father, Gregg Gallagher, on Lake Erie.
(Photo: D’Arcy Patrick Egan)

on the surface of the water, often providing The world’s record was set way back in 1955

the thrill of a spectacular jump into rarified by David L. Hayes while trolling Tennessee’s
air. This big female bass wallowed in the Dale Hollow Lake, an enormous 11-pound, Grant Gallagher, left, and Jared Rhode, pro staffers at Clemens Boats of Sandusky,

waves, and quickly into Grant’s waiting net. 15-ounce smallmouth bass with a tremen- rig Gallagher’s new state-of-the-art iKon LX21 fishing boat for the 2024 tournament
Both sportsmen were marveling at their dous 27-inch girth. Ohio’s record-setter is bass season. (Photo: D’Arcy Egan)
success — and especially the tremendous a 9.5-pounder boated by noted Kalama-

size of the fish. They both knew it could zoo, Mich. fishermen Randy VanDam while 1993. A 9.84-pounder had topped the Prov- “It only took a moment for us to under-

very well be one for the record books, an casting a Snakie Spoon in Ohio waters on ince of Ontario books, caught from Birch- stand this could be a record-setting small-
extremely rare happening. the west side of the Bass Islands in June bark Lake in September 1954. See Father/son Fishing Duo next page

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