Dante Piraino enjoyed a successful day of tournament bass fishing last Sunday in New York, logging a five-fish bag limit totaling 31.4 pounds.
One of those fish – a 9-pound smallmouth bass – is a pending state record.
Piraino, who was participating in a New York Federation B.A.S.S. Nation Tournament in Ogdensburg, landed the smallmouth while casting a soft-plastic lure on the St. Lawrence River.
He told Wired2Fish that he hooked the fish at about 9 a.m. and figured it weighed six pounds.