The World Record Alabama Spotted Bass has been broken many times over the past several years in California. There are so many official and unofficial record weights that I've lost count. In my honest opinion. Here is a factual website link:How many world record bass are there? And how does one guy get in the same boat with multiple world records? Virgil???
I thought that record had been around awhile.

Spotted bass at Lake Perris once broke all the records, but now they are gone
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com When Lake Perris first opened to the public in 1974, Ken Aasen, a fishery biologist with the Department of Fish and Game, had created a fishery in the new lake like none other in the state. This was back in the era when the DFG (now Department of Fish...

If you want to try and catch the world record largemouth bass, I would suggest trying Italian Slough on the California Delta. I've caught monster bass there. I heard a rumor that there is a 22lber, maybe pushing 23lber there right now. Her name is Big Bertha, she's been caught once but never landed. In my humble opinion, that's not a rumor, it's actually quite believable.