5 fantastic photos from Outdoor Canada readers

Kudos to Gavin Gerrits, 12, for releasing this monster smallmouth bass on Ontario’s Baptiste Lake this past July, even though it may have been a new Ontario record. With a length of 26 inches and girth of 20, it calculated to 9.45 pounds, just under the 9.84-pound record. “He didn’t have a scale with him, so he couldn’t record the weight,” says dad Mark Gerrits. “He threw it back for someone else to catch.”