Tug Of War!

[Darren.]

more like he fishes in texas where those pigbeasts are relatively plentiful.

 

A running joke with Big-O...

[Dead River]

A running joke with Big-O...

 

I know, I get it. I am headed out in the am looking for 9 lb hammer!

[Big-O]

Believe you recycled that picture, Big-O. 

 

Time to come clean and admit you use a green background and fabricate the pictures using the same bass you caught 10 years ago. 

 

That's a GOOD idea Darren... Then it wouldn't be as obvious that the years haven't been as good to me as the Bass have

[roadwarrior]

Which Rage Tails were red hot at the Classic?

[Big-O]

Which Rage Tails were red hot at the Classic?

The Cut'R worm and the Db Craw got a lot of Attention... But I showed around my latest design that's coming out here pretty quick and those that saw it said "It's About TIME" I'll find out if we can discuss and show it prior to ICAST

[shimmy]

more like he fishes in texas where those pigbeasts are relatively plentiful.

Aside from Texas, California, and Florida, I'd say many if not most of the big bass posts i have seen on this site are from Georgia. You are sitting in a gem, don't be so quick to admire or seek the grass on the other side of the fence. There is a reason the world record was caught in Georgia. There are a ton of BIG bass in the 10+ range. Additionally, Texas's sharelunker program has yet to completely yield the results they have planned on due to the early stages its in. Time will tell. Texas is just a good climate, just like Georgia. Especially southern Georgia where you are catching those nice bass in the flooded timber lakes like the PFA.

[Dead River]

Aside from Texas, California, and Florida, I'd say many if not most of the big bass posts i have seen on this site are from Georgia. You are sitting in a gem, don't be so quick to admire or seek the grass on the other side of the fence. There is a reason the world record was caught in Georgia. There are a ton of BIG bass in the 10+ range. Additionally, Texas's sharelunker program has yet to completely yield the results they have planned on due to the early stages its in. Time will tell. Texas is just a good climate, just like Georgia. Especially southern Georgia where you are catching those nice bass in the flooded timber lakes like the PFA.

 

But Texas is stocking pure florida strain bass whereas Georgia won't. Granted you don't have to have a pure florida strain bass to produce a giant or trophy, generally speaking the higher the florida allele the bigger the bass. Bear in mind that Perry's bass was an fx likely with a very high florida allele due to where it was landed in the state. Let's be honest though, Perry's fish was caught generations ago... nothing save a fish or two from Marben Farms when it was private have come anywhere close to that. Nothing in the 20 lb range. Texas has a lot of large lakes which produce giant largemouth on a regular basis; Georgia does not. Some double digit bass are caught annually from large lakes but teeners are not common. Private waters, trout stocked lakes, impoundments under 1000 acres (many electric only lakes around atl), and a few trophy managed pfa lakes produce a few giant fish. Is Georgia a good place to be to have opportunities for ten pound bass, sure. But it's no California and it doesn't produce big fish like texas, especially from the large lakes. we have too many stripers an hybrids in the lakes. I'd like to see some dedication at the state level to growing more trophy green fish.

 

Btw, that pfa had to be closed due to the lake draining from beneath. Was an amazing place to fish while it lasted...

[shimmy]

Fun food for thought and this definitely adds to more questions, but here is an article of a guy catching an 18 pound 8 ounce bass which would be bigger than Texas's state record. But i do agree, there are parts of Texas and California where there is a high abundance of large fish. Georgia aint nobody's fool though. 

 

http://www.gon.com/article.php?id=2039&show=articleimages

[pbrussell]

Fun food for thought and this definitely adds to more questions, but here is an article of a guy catching an 18 pound 8 ounce bass which would be bigger than Texas's state record. But i do agree, there are parts of Texas and California where there is a high abundance of large fish. Georgia aint nobody's fool though. 

 

http://www.gon.com/article.php?id=2039&show=articleimages

 

Sounds delicious.

[Dead River]

Fun food for thought and this definitely adds to more questions, but here is an article of a guy catching an 18 pound 8 ounce bass which would be bigger than Texas's state record. But i do agree, there are parts of Texas and California where there is a high abundance of large fish. Georgia aint nobody's fool though. 

 

http://www.gon.com/article.php?id=2039&show=articleimages

that article is about as fraudulent as your 26 lb pb, the fish was a little over 9 lbs and was caught in a pond not in the Satilla river

 

Georgia doesn't produce many fish like that any more. it would take a very well managed new reservoir to produce one.

[shimmy]

that article is about as fraudulent as your 26 lb pb, the fish was a little over 9 lbs and was caught in a pond not in the Satilla river

 

Georgia doesn't produce many fish like that any more. it would take a very well managed new reservoir to produce one.

 

I'll have to apologize since i did not know you were well acquainted with Otis. I think the point i am making is there are a million big bass in Georgia. Your double digit page of fish, while exciting, is not an anomaly and there is a reason people report soooooo many big bass from Georgia. Fight the George Perry's bass all you want, that fish was ridiculously huge and came from Georgia. And no one knows Otis's real fish size but based off of so many fisherman's reports and pictures of 10+ bass from Georgia, something good is brewing in that water and your constant attempts to disqualify the states bass fishery is confusing. But we do agree, my 26 pound bass is fraudulent, but i did catch it in my dreams. Several times.

[Dead River]

I'll have to apologize since i did not know you were well acquainted with Otis. I think the point i am making is there are a million big bass in Georgia. Your double digit page of fish, while exciting, is not an anomaly and there is a reason people report soooooo many big bass from Georgia. Fight the George Perry's bass all you want, that fish was ridiculously huge and came from Georgia. And no one knows Otis's real fish size but based off of so many fisherman's reports and pictures of 10+ bass from Georgia, something good is brewing in that water and your constant attempts to disqualify the states bass fishery is confusing. But we do agree, my 26 pound bass is fraudulent, but i did catch it in my dreams. Several times.

 

I like Georgia fine but more could be done to grow trophy bass. the northern trout lakes could be managed to produce big bass, trout could be supplementally stocked in other lakes during the cooler months, large impoundments could be managed for big bass, hybrid and striper stockings could be reduced.

 

Georgia is a fine place to fish but the fact is that teener fish are just not very common around here. Nothin even remotely close to Perry's record has been caught in ages. Mississippi is producing bigger fish more consistently than Georgia, remember a 17 + came from North East Miss last year.

 

yeah it's a good place to fish, esp for guys like you and others that live to the north, but I'm just saying my state could do more to see to it that we turned out more fish akin to Perry's