Why? What about that area would prohibit it from having large bass?

Climate seems to fit.

You would just have to take my word for it. The supposed fish was caught in the ocumulgee river. This is a very shallow river that 3lb bass are considered big

I think we ought to leave the dead man and his record bass be. Unless you have positive proof the bass didn't exist or that the length and weight were falsified just let it go. It's been considered without doubt for lo these many years a world record. Guess next we'll start a new debate about Lee Harvey Oswald.

Was it as shallow 84 years ago?

Yes, it been the same since 1911. Think something like the llano river except muddy. Lots of shoals

Dang, you must be a pretty ol feller if you've been around that river that long.

This the picture your talking about Doc?

Guess all the stories i have read through the the years and pictures I have seen of the "lake" are false than. The ones of Lake Montgomery. An oxbow lake OFF the river. Never claimed to have been caught in the Ocmulgee River but the old oxbow lake created by the river many years before his (reported) catch. Furthermore, pictures of the lake back then show it was much more of "fishy" lake than the silted in mud hole it has become today. "Study bodies of water"? :-)

Well, if you haven't fished or---lived in the record area... you might need to do some research on your own before you question someone that lives there.. I know this gentelman, he has always been above honest and reliable... jm2c's he lived here in Texas for a good while...

Never doubted he lived there Red, just how he knew what the area was like in 1911. I was raised in Frisco but it looks nothing now like it did when I lived there. Look how much Fork has changed in 20 years.