My dad caught a 10 pounder from Houston County Lake and we released it in our friends private pond.

doh..you might wanna take this down

It's going to die in a week most likely.

Yup

Why take it down?

Isn't this illegal?

Did y'all weigh it? Looked more like 12.

there are legal issues transporting fish from water body to water body ... i think it is ok to transport them from a lake to a private body of water though as long as it isnt an under or slotfish...might be wrong though ...im sure someone who knows for sure will chime in though

It's not illegal. You can go from a public water to private, but not from public to public.

Who cares?$ Biologist
Ban d says itll die in a week.

A good pond? Deep? Good supply of water? Size? I wish her luck.

Nice release!

nice... wait for the bass fisherman to start calling u selfish now...

awesome fish btw.

It was a completely legal fish to catch and keep, and the water we released it in is a completely private pond as well, very deep, lots of vegetation. We also handled the fish very little, once when we caught it to photograph and weigh it, then in the livewell it went with the pumps running all day. Didn't touch her again until releasing her.

Great video

Outstanding! The new genetics will do great things for the pond if she spawns. Hope she does.

Well if it is all good.

NICE!!!!

friend does that with choke bass all the time, he just pulled out a 9lber the other day from he tank, it's fun fishing over there. i lost a huge bass last summer, just plowed through the grass till it broke.

i have stocked a few ponds like this the fish will most likely live

Thanks for sharing. Have restocked farm ponds with fish from other ponds. Transported in a 5 gallon bucket and fish, though smaller survived and thrived. The new "large" gene pool should make that pond awesome.

I've done that from private pond to private pond and quite frankly the pond I moved them to was not as nice for the pond I was taking them from. This has been years ago and have established a pretty nice population of bass in the lesser pond. This pond had no bass in it when I started.

good deal,..

cant wait to catch another Pig out of houston county lake!

Very nice