Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 22:57:43 GMT, "NOYB" wrote:


"basskisser" wrote in message
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Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:19:41 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/sports...-bn20bass.html

They've been saying for years that the world's record largemouth was
going to come out of that lake. Looks like it will eventually.

They've stocked it and other CA lakes with Florida largemouths.

I'm guessing that Florida doesn't have the largest largemouths because of
the high likelihood that they're eaten by gators before they can get that
big.

"Florida" bass aren't really "Florida" bass anymore anyway.

Largemouth has become so hybridized by illegal stockings that they are
fairly homogenous across the US.

What makes the CA largemouths at Dixon Lake so large is they are
hybrids with Mexican largemouths.

Or so I'be been told.

Several years ago there was an extensive program to stock CA lakes with
FLORIDA bass. I'd seriously doubt that biologists would take the
chances of introducing strains from Mexico.

http://www.backwoodsbound.com/ybigbass.html

This website also has information on Florida bass in CA, and also does
a good job of explaining the Florida strains of black bass.:
http://myfwc.com/fishing/updates/FBCC2003.html

And and excerpt:
No article about bass stocking would be complete without mentioning the
success of Florida strain bass introductions west of the Mississippi
river, outside the natural range of the Florida bass. California,
Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas and other states have all
experienced dramatic increases in the size of bass available to anglers
after Florida bass were stocked. Texas' largemouth state record stood
at just over 13 pounds for nearly fifty years, yet in 1980, just eight
years after Texas Parks and Wildlife Department began stocking Florida
bass in the state, the record was broken by a 14 pound Florida. From
that point on the record climbed steadily until the 18 pound mark was
topped in 1992 with a Florida strain bass from Lake Fork. Other states
saw similar results, although not all were as dramatic as the results
in Texas. Obviously, Florida bass grow larger than Northern bass in
some situations, and Florida bass stockings have resulted in anglers
having a much better chance of catching a trophy size largemouth. They
have also generated a lot of excitement for anglers and brought
increased business from fishermen to lakes in each state.