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Re: Texas State Record Largemouth Poll
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08/31/18 02:03 AM
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Peepaw on Fork
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Back a couple years ago they did an electro-shock on fork to study the fish size and populationf and brought up 30+ bass that would beat the world record Yep...when they grow up lol
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Re: Texas State Record Largemouth Poll
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08/31/18 03:44 AM
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Jarrett Latta
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Re: Texas State Record Largemouth Poll
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08/31/18 03:44 AM
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Jarrett Latta
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Back a couple years ago they did an electro-shock on fork to study the fish size and populationf and brought up 30+ bass that would beat the world record Yep...when they grow up lol Ya it was white bass...
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Re: Texas State Record Largemouth Poll
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08/31/18 11:52 AM
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Jpurdue
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It may well be that it's pretty hard to shock up the biggest bass in a system. As I recall the effective range of a shock boat is only about 8 feet. According to John Hope most giant bass don't come that shallow very often outside of the spawn. Not to mention the bigger fish tend to spook out well ahead of a shock boat moving through their area.
In any case, a single bass over 20lbs shocked out of Fork would have been news heard round the bass world for years.
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Re: Texas State Record Largemouth Poll
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08/31/18 01:58 PM
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Hoss Holding
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I do think Amistad would be a place, so many humps and valleys that are never fished. The second I would say is Choke Canyon, If and that's a big if that lake ever fills up. fish will be able to live and grow in all the new growth for many years. we saw it in the mid 2000s what it was capable of, the growth is just so much now. It would be as fertle as a new lake.
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Re: Texas State Record Largemouth Poll
[Re: Jpurdue]
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08/31/18 06:50 PM
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salex
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It may well be that it's pretty hard to shock up the biggest bass in a system. As I recall the effective range of a shock boat is only about 8 feet. According to John Hope most giant bass don't come that shallow very often outside of the spawn. Not to mention the bigger fish tend to spook out well ahead of a shock boat moving through their area.
In any case, a single bass over 20lbs shocked out of Fork would have been news heard round the bass world for years. As the owner of a shock boat and a person who shocks more than 50 lakes a year, I can tell you it is unusual to shock really big fish. The real effective depth of shocking is closer to 6 feet deep. I can count the number of double digit fish shocked, at less than 5 fish over the past 10 years. To make this even more clear, we had a lake in east Texas where our members caught via rod and reel, 11 fish over 10 lbs in a 6 week period in the summer of 2017. I have shocked the lake three times and we have never shocked a 10lb plus bass. While electrofishing is a valuable tool, and I still love shocking the big ones, electofishing shocks a disproportionate amount of smaller fish.
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Re: Texas State Record Largemouth Poll
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08/31/18 07:52 PM
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SAKS
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^^^ Read this and is great info but kind of got a ex-CIA vibe from this one. LOL.
Last edited by SAKS; 08/31/18 07:54 PM.
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Re: Texas State Record Largemouth Poll
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09/01/18 12:16 PM
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Chet
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What are the chances that someone has boated a bigger fish than the current record and due to a concern for the fishery that it came from chosen to not claim the record? Zero 100% But it was caught and released in a very large private lake in 1997. To me the post implied public waters (still zero) and by the way the 1997 catch almost sounds like camp fire talk. Surly they took pictures of the fish?
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Re: Texas State Record Largemouth Poll
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09/03/18 01:19 PM
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jla11868
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If a 10 lb hawg could be caught on lake bardwell useing a chicken mcnugget as bait anything is possible.i would also look at lake naconiche for a big fish in the future.
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Re: Texas State Record Largemouth Poll
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09/03/18 04:25 PM
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SAKS
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And if a record was caught on a McNugget would it count? As far as I am concerned that is artificial bait.
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Re: Texas State Record Largemouth Poll
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09/03/18 05:58 PM
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Ken A.
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And if a record was caught on a McNugget would it count? As far as I am concerned that is artificial bait. Artificial chicken = Artificial bait
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Re: Texas State Record Largemouth Poll
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09/05/18 03:39 AM
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NTX Angler
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I always wondered if there was one out there that would break the 20lb mark. Then one spring day site fishing on Fork I saw a girl so big I literally fell to me knees. My wife was with me that day and she said " Whats wrong are you ok?" I said I think I just saw a state a record swim under the boat. The thing that sticks out in my mind the most is just how big the eyes where on this fish, golf ball size. I went back a week later hoping to see her again all I found was about million fry. Every time I go by that spot I wonder how big was that fish? That is my big bass story
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Re: Texas State Record Largemouth Poll
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09/06/18 02:06 PM
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cegrace
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I think Lake Athens might produce the next Monster Bass. If they will let the grass grow.
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