Texas Parks and Wildlife’s Toyota ShareLunker program archives are bustling with big bass records dating back nearly four decades. Through mid-December, the popular spawning and genetics research program had taken in 3,856 entries between 8 and 18.18 pounds. It’s an impressive list representing 175 different public reservoirs, several private lakes and an army of anglers who have participated since the program’s inception in 1986.
Lawrence Lee of Tolar knows his way around the Toyota ShareLunker mobile entry app way better than most. The electronic app allows anglers to use a Smart Phone to enter qualifying fish weighing at least eight pounds or 24 inches in multiple categories over the course of the year. Fish also can be entered online at texassharelunker.com.
Lee has entered 69 bass weighing upwards of eight pounds in the program during 2024 alone. His single year total is more than twice the number fish entered by the program’s No. 2 contributor, Deric Miller of Southlake. Miller has registered 35 entries spanning 2018-23 from three different lakes — Fairfield, Mill Creek and Purtis Creek, according to Natalie Goldstrohm, Toyota Share-Lunker program coordinator.
