# @journalstarnews on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci-m2SgroeZ
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/38323654-journalstarnews-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/724731c3cd.jpg
- **Posted:** 2022-09-26T17:25:18.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Lincoln Journal Star (@journalstarnews) — https://gondola.cc/journalstarnews

## Caption

From a baby bass in a freshly stocked pond to a bluegill-devouring adult, TikTok has watched Gus the bass grow and develop through the eyes of 19-year-old influencer Michael Wiebelhaus.⁠
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Wiebelhaus, a freshman at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, caught the now-famous bass last year in a friend's backyard pond and deposited him in a 50-gallon tank.⁠
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After Wiebelhaus brought the fish home and transferred it to the tank, he started documenting the fish's life.⁠
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"I was recording everything because I like having videos to look back on," Wiebelhaus said. "I just decided to post them on TikTok one day for fun, not expecting it to blow up and, a couple videos later, one went off real big. After that, slowly, followers started growing."⁠
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Wiebelhaus started his fishing account, wiebelhaus_fishing, in 2020, and it now has more than 1.5 million followers. The Gus the bass account, gus_the_bass has just more than 800,000 followers.⁠
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🔗: Read more at the link in our bio. ⁠
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✏: Lauren Penington & 📷: Noah Riffe / Lincoln Journal Star + courtesy of Wiebelhaus

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## Credits

| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lincoln Journal Star | @journalstarnews | https://gondola.cc/journalstarnews | Newspaper |
| Noah Riffe | @ijusttake.photos | https://gondola.cc/ijusttake.photos | Photographer |

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