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Bham, AL is the best place in the world to live if you are a bass fishermen. Within 1.5 hrs of the house, I have every lake type and river type imaginable to fish. Say whatever else you want about it, but we have the fisheries.

Maybe if you are eating them but if you want mountable fish, I would say down here around Lakeland is a great place. I have seen people put back 10 pound bass as they are considered small. There is a lot of phosphate mining here and the fish aren't that edible in some of these places that are left behind after mining. You just have to watch out for gators but they are a lot of fun to catch.

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Posted by awestruck

Member since Jan 2015

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Posted on 11/4/17 at 4:00 am to 88TIger

while not just bass...

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the great Mobile River basin, which covers some two-thirds of the state, has a greater yield of water per square mile of land than any other basin in the United States, including the Mississippi River. ... Alabama's springs, streams, rivers, lakes, and wetlands are home to more species of aquatic and semi-aquatic animals than any other state in the union LINK

When you include this along with other sources shared with other states such as the Tennessee River system, Chattahoochee River, Perdido River (etc)...

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The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that approximately 10 percent of the freshwater resources in the entire continental United States originate in or flow through Alabama. LINK

ETA: (Disclaimer)... could go on for far too long; however not to bore you with such, as I once did educational river trips for the Cahaba River Society (in my time off between jobs - after taking a voluntary severance package - largely in part to do things like paddle whitewater all over the country).

This post was edited on 11/4/17 at 7:29 am

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