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re: Which SEC state has the best bass fishing?
Posted on 1/27/24 at 7:33 pm to AwgustaDawg
Posted on 1/27/24 at 7:33 pm to AwgustaDawg
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Posted on 1/27/24 at 7:35 pm to SOSFAN
Tennessee holds the world record smallmouth
David Hayes holds the long standing record for smallmouth bass at 11 pounds, 15 ounces. Hayes caught this behemoth of a smallmouth bass out of the Tennessee side of Dale Hollow Lake that borders Kentucky and Tennessee in 1955.
David Hayes holds the long standing record for smallmouth bass at 11 pounds, 15 ounces. Hayes caught this behemoth of a smallmouth bass out of the Tennessee side of Dale Hollow Lake that borders Kentucky and Tennessee in 1955.
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Posted on 1/27/24 at 7:39 pm to Lonnie Utah
That's called shrooms
Posted on 1/27/24 at 7:41 pm to SOSFAN
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I've eaten plenty of bass but I've never caught one in a river
Black Bass (what we call all bass other than stripers and whites in the south) are really big bream. They’re sunfish just like bluegill and shell cracker. They’re all very good eating. If you’re lucky enough to fish herring lakes with spotted bass they’re is no reason to not keep spots and eat them. They’re easy to catch, eat good and if they’re not kept they will take over good largemouth lakes. If it were possible for most anglers to differentiate between them and LM there’d be no reason the limit couldn’t be as high as crappie or bream limits. They’re easy to differentiate but it’s to easy to pretend you didn’t know any better. If it has a sandpaper like toungue it’s a spot. If it don’t it’s a LM. A lot of people would pretend like they didn’t know and would keep 25 LMs.
Posted on 1/27/24 at 7:43 pm to Jrv2damac
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Posted on 1/27/24 at 7:51 pm to SmackoverHawg
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7lbs is a trophy river bass.
They also fight harder. A one pound yearling from a river would pull a 3 pounder from a COE lake backwards.
Nothing better than floating small rivers tossing a rooster tail
Posted on 1/27/24 at 7:57 pm to AwgustaDawg
If you're ever in Columbia in the spring try fishing behind the dam of Lake Murray. The saluda is stocked with trout and the striped bass come up the river to spawn. Good times.
Posted on 1/27/24 at 7:59 pm to SOSFAN
Guntersville
Eufaula
Logan Martin
Smith Lake for world class spots
Alabama is your winner. For the record , I don’t fool with bass. Strictly stripers and cats for me.
Eufaula
Logan Martin
Smith Lake for world class spots
Alabama is your winner. For the record , I don’t fool with bass. Strictly stripers and cats for me.
Posted on 1/27/24 at 8:12 pm to Bamafig
Alabama over Florida and Texas? Dude GTFO
Posted on 1/27/24 at 8:18 pm to AwgustaDawg
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If it were possible for most anglers to differentiate between them and LM there’d be no reason the limit couldn’t be as high as crappie or bream limits.
Never found it difficult to differentiate. Spots have a patch of teeth on their tongue LMs do not have and their lateral line is darker and more defined.
Posted on 1/27/24 at 9:44 pm to AwgustaDawg
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From what I have read and been told it has returned to its glory days…not that it ever was bad but it seems like it’s back to what it was in the 70s. Have they got the milfoil under better control? It’s hard to beat when it’s right
Haven’t been there since before the hurricane. Killed many a duck and a few gators there back in the day. Not sure that they ever sprayed the lake again after it negatively affected the duck numbers there. Sure was a lot of it last time I gator hunted there.
Posted on 1/27/24 at 10:05 pm to SOSFAN
Pickwick and Wilson lakes and their tributaries are the small mouth capital of the world on the Tenn River in North Al.
Posted on 1/27/24 at 10:08 pm to Che Boludo
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Tenn River in North Al.
Damn Bama I know y'all don't like Tennessee but to take their river from them is hardcore.
Posted on 1/27/24 at 10:09 pm to SmackoverHawg
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7lbs is a trophy river bass.
Caught a 10.5 lb, 24 in beast on my daughters unattended Barbie rod with 3 lb line back in '08.
It was like playing with a 70+ lb sailfish with the run and reel.
Posted on 1/27/24 at 10:10 pm to SOSFAN
Toledo Bend in Louisiana is the best bass lake in the country. Not even close
Posted on 1/27/24 at 10:11 pm to SOSFAN
The Tenn Valley Area of Bama into the first 30-50 miles of Tenn to the north is some of the best country in the land.
Posted on 1/27/24 at 10:12 pm to GoDeepCoach
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Toledo Bend
Great stripe and crappie fishing.
Big gators too.
Just need a close eye not to hit the capped off, flooded trees.
Posted on 1/27/24 at 11:42 pm to SOSFAN
Mississippi is up there, Pickwick, Ross Barnett, Enid Lake, Sardis Lake and the oxbows along the river.
Here's state records for LM bass
Here's state records for LM bass
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Posted on 1/28/24 at 12:29 am to Harry Rex Vonner
Arkansas overall has great fishing. Period. You won’t have that many reservoirs at your fingertips as you’d have in Arkansas. Not to mention rivers. Take your pick.
I hit Greer’s once a year and Norfork several times. Not to mention White River.
I hit Greer’s once a year and Norfork several times. Not to mention White River.
Posted on 1/28/24 at 1:02 am to SOSFAN
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Mississippi is the GOAT for crappie If you're ever wanting huge catfish South Carolinas Santee Cooper is the place to go.
WTF? Crappie or sac-a-lait is a perch. Nobody said anything about a sorry arse catfish.
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