Jim O’Neil’s world of fishing at Tinley Expo; and spring wild things

Jim O’Neil with his biggest catch bass, caught Saturday on a Duby Swimbait. (Provided)

For a few minutes in 2011, Jim O’Neil held the record for the heaviest bass weighed at the Illinois High School Association’s state finals for bass fishing.

‘‘For, like, six minutes,’’ O’Neil said. ‘‘You were interviewing me, and he weighed in a 6½[-pounder].’’