Haha I'm tryin bro!

So... What would you call catching a big bass on a private pond while eating a snickers bar? You know, you set your rod down to open the snickers bar and next thing you know is there is a fish pulling on the line. Is that an accomplishment? Should you be proud of that fish?

I am so glad you brought that up but you are a little confused. The fish I caught while eating my Snickers bar was the one that won me $55,000 at Fork in the BC Dodge thing. LOL

I actually had the rod in my hand when my 15 pounder bit me at Camelot Bell.


And Yes.. I am very proud of BOTH of them!

I am so glad you brought that up but you are a little confused. The fish I caught while eating my Snickers bar was the one that won me $55,000 at Fork in the BC Dodge thing. LOL

I actually had the rod in my hand when my 15 pounder bit me at Camelot Bell.


And Yes.. I am very proud of BOTH of them!

I am so glad you brought that up but you are a little confused. The fish I caught while eating my Snickers bar was the one that won me $55,000 at Fork in the BC Dodge thing. LOL

I actually had the rod in my hand when my 15 pounder bit me at Camelot Bell.


And Yes.. I am very proud of BOTH of them!

Being the operator of my own pay bass fishery, I enjoy these discussions and learn from them.

I see a lot of similarities.....the "huge bass" especially.

We drained a lake full of gizzard shad and carp. My Guatemalan helpers wanted some fish out of the "hole" as the lake was going dry. One throw with a 30' diameter net and about 10 large carp and one bass, a 14.5 pounder were in the net.

I took that bass back to my holding facility and gave it its own 12' diameter tank. Fed that basstage all it's eat for about three months. When we weighed it before putting it back it had gained a pound to 15.5.

When the lake was rebuilt, re-contoured, refilled, and restocked with plentiful forage, we put that and many other large, female bass back into the seven acre lake. No males. That was two years ago. To date nobody has caught that monster. No dead fish turned up (a dead fish that big would smell bad) and as far as we know that big fish is still in that tiny, seven acre pond, not being caught.

To date, also no record of a spawn, nobody more surprised than me, I may be good, but I'm not perfect.

Even in a relatively confined space, seven measly acres, a large bass can find all it needs to eat, and remain uncaught for more than two years.

Now I feed a lot to that lake. And bass DO come to feed, maybe not to a pellet feeder so much, but if you dump 1000 pounds of bait a week in the same place for a few years, the fish will be there every time they hear a truck go by.

I don't have the money to spend, and must make do with what I can think up, but I do have a hatchery on that facility and another one, where I can raise a LOT of fish, shrimp and crawfish to feed my bass.

If you are trying to make bass get big in a lake off only what that lake may produce, you'd best only have one or two bass to feed. Otherwise you will need to raise, purchase or otherwise bring live food.

We've one customer with a 50 acre lake that buys about 30,000 pounds of shiners, 2000 pounds of bluegills, and 1000 pounds of tilapia a year. Go shock the lake and all you catch is bass, they've eaten everything else.

To quote a buddy, "The largemouth bass is an inherently unmanageable animal."

Ken you left out the part about fishing out of your $65k boat, while eating a snickers, while catching the fish that won you a truck and a boat(that you really did not need).

It's very important you include all the pertinent details for all the "haters"....