re: Which SEC state has the best bass fishing?

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Most every sec state is fishing after Florida strain bass. That probably answers it.

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For about 60 years the native habitat of pure Florida strain Lm bass was thought to be the peninsular of Florida and about 50 miles north into Georgia. All other lm bass outside that region were believed to be northern LM. Biologists now know this is not so, native LM bass in almost all of the Piedmont from Alabama to Virginia are almost exclusively florida strain LM or were before the 60s when large scale stocking of northern lm was done on a large scale. The resulting “hybrid” retains the fast growing characterstics of the Florida strain and the improved heartiness of the northern strain.

Interestingly the world record caught off the ocmulgee river was assumed to be a northern lm for years because it was further north than biologists thought native Florida strain bass were. They now know that bass in that area are as close to pure Florida strain lm as there is anywhere.

There is also a delta strain of lm in the SE that radiate from mobile bay. They grow slightly slower than Florida lm but gain weight earlier….they are also no found from mobile to Michigan and west to Arizona and east to the Atlantic coast.