{"id":11288,"date":"2026-01-25T03:42:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T08:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/videos.lakeforkmonsters.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/25\/lake-fork-legend-larry-barnes-tells-the-story-of-how-he-caught-valentine-17-29-lb-texas-giant\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T03:42:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T08:42:34","slug":"lake-fork-legend-larry-barnes-tells-the-story-of-how-he-caught-valentine-17-29-lb-texas-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/videos.lakeforkmonsters.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/25\/lake-fork-legend-larry-barnes-tells-the-story-of-how-he-caught-valentine-17-29-lb-texas-giant\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Fork Legend Larry Barnes Tells The Story of How He Caught &#8220;Valentine&#8221; &#8211; 17.29 Lb Texas Giant!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"630\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rilYCFtU2R4?autoplay=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>We had the honor of talking With Legendary Lake Fork Guide, Larry Barnes, about some of his historical catches over the years. In this particular clip Larry Talks about how He caught &#8220;Valentine&#8221;, A 17.29 pound Giant from Lake Fork in February of 1988! <\/p>\n<p>Caught By: Larry Barnes<br \/>\n17.29 Pound Bass<br \/>\nCaught @ Lake Fork (Texas)<br \/>\nFebruary 14th, 1988<br \/>\n(2nd Biggest Bass in Texas History at the time)<br \/>\n(Still the 5th biggest Fish in Texas History as of 03-24-2024)<\/p>\n<p>Double Digit Bass FB Page:<br \/>\nwwww.facebook.com\/DoubleDigitBass<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had the honor of talking With Legendary Lake Fork Guide, Larry Barnes, about some of his historical catches over the years. In this particular clip Larry Talks about how He caught &#8220;Valentine&#8221;, A 17.29 pound Giant from Lake Fork in February of 1988! Caught By: Larry Barnes 17.29 Pound Bass Caught @ Lake Fork &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsubmissions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/videos.lakeforkmonsters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/videos.lakeforkmonsters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/videos.lakeforkmonsters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/videos.lakeforkmonsters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/videos.lakeforkmonsters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/videos.lakeforkmonsters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/videos.lakeforkmonsters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/videos.lakeforkmonsters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/videos.lakeforkmonsters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/videos.lakeforkmonsters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}