I had a day on Joe Pool where my best 5 would have been in the really high 30's, but, it's a slot lake and I weighed in 13.9 for the win. Lol.

27lb for smallmouth sounds ridiculous!!!
I�ve never even caught one!
Also, I would think it�s harder in a tourney for sure- less hours, pressure, timing, etc..

Good times... I watched him on San V do the same thing

I was close to 50 on Sugar Lake with Tommy L. a few years back!

Sturgeon bay back in 2010-2012 was crazy. It was rare to catch a fish under 4 lbs. 5's didn't turn a head. Almost every trip somebody in the boat would catch a 6+. Was up there last year and it was quiet a lot tougher. Still probably boated 23lbs.

I know you mentioned 50lbs but in 2001 Dean Rojas had a 45-02 bag during a tx on Lake Toho, a non trout stocked lake unlike these big Ca. bags. I fished Castaic and the lagoon and neither are close to what they were 20 years ago. Those big lagoon bass came from the main lake.

I've had 3 50+ days at Camelot Bell, and those are my only 50+ pound stringers. I've been a part of two 50+ pound days on Falcon with Charlie Haralson. My best three one day were 31 and Charlie had two over 10. The other trip I had 2 over and Charlie had three. We had a bunch of 45+ days together back in 2010 and 2011. My best personal day on Fork was 45 lbs, but I did it in 30 minutes with a ball and chain. That was in 2000 on a place now known as the pumphouse. Biggest one day stringer from Fork I know of was Kelly Jordon's 63 lbs. His best 10 that day weighed 101 lbs. They were all weighed on a Cull-M-Rite scale and caught on 5" weighted swimbaits in 20-30 feet.

If you had a choice for the best month or months to fish Camelot for similar results as you had what would you suggest?

Now through March and July have been my best months, but don't kid yourself. Those types of trips are a rarity. Even there. I've been skunked more times than I can remember at the Bell.

I watched 60-70# under the dock next to ramp at San Vicentes just before they starting dumping rainbow trout from ramp from hatchery truck, they just started slowly toward the ramp then all he77 broke loose. Talk about a feeding frenzy of big fish. The lake was closed on that Monday but friend worked as a biologist there. Their lakes were only open on thur,fri,sat and Sunday back then., this was back in 1978.Knew a guy that had a limit of 56# he caught schooling after trout on live water dogs. You think Amistad is clear go check oot the southern Cal lakes.

I've had some high 20s on Rayburn. Quite a few 30s on Houston County. 4 days over 35 on Falcon and 2 over 40 on Falcon with the best being 48 at Falcon in 6 hours. All fish weighed on a Cull-M-Rite.

Now that reminds me of big bluefin coming up and feeding... I swear when the back up alarm sounded don�t put your hand in the water, you would come back with a stump...

But back in the day, the biologist out there, Larry Bottrof was showing a lot of people just how trained those big 12-15 pound bass had become.

Back in the early 80�s there was a 70+ pound of bass weighed in at Lower Otay, all 5 fish were mounted and on display at several tackle shows.

Made me remember Lakes of Danbury! Same thing when they'd back up the hatcery truck to the big lake and dump a couple tons of gizzard shad at the boat ramp. There were bones crushing for a solid hour. A Zara Spook didn't stand a chance!
In retrospect, I had several other 50+ days there from 1991-1994. Thanks fishbreeder!

I fished San Vicente in 2016 just a couple weeks after they re-opened it after an 8 year closure. Super high expectations and the results were very disappointing. was expecting DD bass to be caught or atleast caught by other boats out there. I should have known better as I got skunked at Castaic in 2014 thinking all those 20lb genes from 20 years ago were lurking .

I know a lot of people like to hate on others with nice equipment and boats, but he did not fish out of that rig to "prove something", he did it because that is the type of boat that is allowed on the lake he was fishing.

To flip the script, I would like to see him compete at Toledo Bend or other lakes where you have to navigate rough water to catch a good stringer in that boat