The record previous to the current one was from Black Pond in Middlefield, and was 10-8. After the Domurat fish was certified as a new record in '61, the only fish I know of that bested the old 10-8 record were a 10-10 from East Twin (Frank Peters) and Paul Caruso's 11-4 (or was it 11-10?) from Moodus. Many years ago, a DEP emplyee showed me photos of two monsters that were taken in one night electroshocking. One was over 11. The other was well over the current State Record. That was in the '70s. He would not say where they came from, for fear of putting a stampede of crazy bass fishermen on a sub-200 acre impoundment. He also claimed that they had shocked a smallie over 8 pounds from Bantam. That was back when the smallmouth record was only 7-2.