Read the book, Sowbelly and it will give you a clearer picture of what's in play at places like Camelot Bell. He stocks a lot of trout for the bass to eat and has a separate lake that from what I understand is off limits and he has only put 12# or bigger bass in it.

Not quite clear on what this place "Camelot Bell" is.

They talk about having bass in their aquarium for sale. A 14 pound bass is $16,000! A bred doe is $10,000! Is it just a guy that made a 40 acre lake and flew in Florida largemouth and feeds them to get them to grow and then sells them to places that want to jump start their own private lakes or something? I don't see any stuff on their site about being a "member" or "joining" their "club" or anything like that. Strange.

If a world record would come out of that place, I don't think it should be a legit record. It's not a wild bass. All those bass are essentially pets that live in a giant, 40 acre aquarium. If I'm wrong, please someone correct me.

He no longer keeps any fish in his aquarium. He will sell fish to you if you want to buy them.

JD is right. No place that I know of even comes close to CB for giant bass. There is not a club membership. All you have to do is call, book a fishing date and show up. The owner, Mike Frazier provides an older 20' bass rig for you and will even go out and guide you if you want.

The state of Texas keeps two sets of records. One for public water and one for private. Mike has no interest in the current public water STATE record. That is 15.74 currently. There have been several fish larger than that caught here already. He is interested in one thing and only one thing. To grow the absolute largest bass he can.

The demonstrate his commitment to this task he does a few things I have never heard of for a private lake owner.

1. He removes EVERY fish of 7 pounds and down. He either sells them or puts them in his brother's lake down the road.

2. He pumps the forage to the lake like crazy. Tilapia in the summer, rainbow trout in the winter, rio grande prawns in the spring.

There is no lake above his lake that can rise and flood into it. There is no lake below it that can rise and back up into it. There is virtually no way for the genes of his fish to be diluted from any native fish.

He put coppernose bluegill, & shad in one year before the planted the first bass. After he was certain the bait had taken hold he put 250 Florida fingerlings in the lake. Let's say half of them were females. That is 125 female bass in a 50 acre lake, extremely low bass population. His intent from Day One was to raise Giant bass, not numbers of fish but simply Giant fish.

I have posted many times about my trips to CB. There are a handful of guys on here that have been there more than a dozen times. I am very fortunate to be one of those guys. The guys that have been there will tell you that you can get skunked there just as easily as any other lake, maybe more so. This is not a lake where you go and catch 50-100 bass a day. It is a true trophy lake for true trophy hunters that are very serious about their commitment to catching the largest bass of their lives.

I have met a half dozen guys and shown them what to take for their trip to CB. I will offer to do the same for you or anyone else that is serious about going. If you think it is a guaranteed thing that you will go and smash them just because of the smaller size body of water you may want to reconsider. The fish at CB are big, mean, cautious, spooky, and finicky.

But to answer your original question about where in Texas would you have the best chance to catch a ten pounder, like the Yankee said, No other place comes close.

He no longer keeps any fish in his aquarium. He will sell fish to you if you want to buy them.

JD is right. No place that I know of even comes close to CB for giant bass. There is not a club membership. All you have to do is call, book a fishing date and show up. The owner, Mike Frazier provides an older 20' bass rig for you and will even go out and guide you if you want.

The state of Texas keeps two sets of records. One for public water and one for private. Mike has no interest in the current public water STATE record. That is 15.74 currently. There have been several fish larger than that caught here already. He is interested in one thing and only one thing. To grow the absolute largest bass he can.

The demonstrate his commitment to this task he does a few things I have never heard of for a private lake owner.

1. He removes EVERY fish of 7 pounds and down. He either sells them or puts them in his brother's lake down the road.

2. He pumps the forage to the lake like crazy. Tilapia in the summer, rainbow trout in the winter, rio grande prawns in the spring.

There is no lake above his lake that can rise and flood into it. There is no lake below it that can rise and back up into it. There is virtually no way for the genes of his fish to be diluted from any native fish.

He put coppernose bluegill, & shad in one year before the planted the first bass. After he was certain the bait had taken hold he put 250 Florida fingerlings in the lake. Let's say half of them were females. That is 125 female bass in a 50 acre lake, extremely low bass population. His intent from Day One was to raise Giant bass, not numbers of fish but simply Giant fish.

I have posted many times about my trips to CB. There are a handful of guys on here that have been there more than a dozen times. I am very fortunate to be one of those guys. The guys that have been there will tell you that you can get skunked there just as easily as any other lake, maybe more so. This is not a lake where you go and catch 50-100 bass a day. It is a true trophy lake for true trophy hunters that are very serious about their commitment to catching the largest bass of their lives.

I have met a half dozen guys and shown them what to take for their trip to CB. I will offer to do the same for you or anyone else that is serious about going. If you think it is a guaranteed thing that you will go and smash them just because of the smaller size body of water you may want to reconsider. The fish at CB are big, mean, cautious, spooky, and finicky.

But to answer your original question about where in Texas would you have the best chance to catch a ten pounder, like the Yankee said, No other place comes close.