At 21 inches! Thanks to my cousin Binh, after setting the hook the fish dug deep followed by a couple leaps and wrapped himself underneath a log jam. For a couple minutes we thought the fish was gone and the hook was snagged into the tree underwater. A few paddle strokes and maneuvering the canoe, the line miraculously came free and the monster bass leaped out of the water! We got it in the net, a couple pics, and back in the water he went to fight another day.