Bassmasters top 100 bass lakes 2019

[Hillbilly Bennett]

Since when did Kentucky relocate go to the northeast? It blew my mind when I woke up today and My state was on the eastern border of Ohio and the western border of PA but Lake Erie was STILL 6 hours away! On a serious note, is Guntersville really doing that well this year? I haven’t been since last fall but it would be hard to imagine that it’s doing better than Chickamagua right now. The last 3 trips I’ve taken to Chick have been just awesome and were far better than anything I’ve had at Guntersville since 2015. Could it be that Bassmaster is just trying to pump everyone up since the classic is at Guntersville next spring? Hmm....

[dh1337]

On 8/2/2019 at 12:46 AM, Bluebasser86 said:

There was a bit of sarcasm in my post, sort of. Cedar Bluff use to be a great lake until it almost dried up. Never fished Webster and have no idea what or where Norman is? Maybe you mean Norton? I fish mostly eastern Kansas. It's not terrible, but not top 100 in the country worthy or even close really. 

yea I meant norton phone auto corrected it. 

[roadwarrior]

On 8/3/2019 at 8:20 PM, Hillbilly Bennett said:

Since when did Kentucky relocate go to the northeast? It blew my mind when I woke up today and My state was on the eastern border of Ohio and the western border of PA but Lake Erie was STILL 6 hours away! On a serious note, is Guntersville really doing that well this year? I haven’t been since last fall but it would be hard to imagine that it’s doing better than Chickamagua right now. The last 3 trips I’ve taken to Chick have been just awesome and were far better than anything I’ve had at Guntersville since 2015. Could it be that Bassmaster is just trying to pump everyone up since the classic is at Guntersville next spring? Hmm....

Chick was stocked with Florida strain bass several years ago and has produced some monsters. It's

a hike from here and I have never fished the lake, but am planning to next spring.  Here is the story 

on the Tennessee State Record:  https://www.tennessean.com/story/sports/2015/02/14/teacher-catches-record-largemouth/23433607/

 

[Hillbilly Bennett]

1 hour ago, roadwarrior said:

Chick was stocked with Florida strain bass several years ago and has produced some monsters. It's

a hike from here and I have never fished the lake, but am planning to next spring.  Here is the story 

on the Tennessee State Record:  https://www.tennessean.com/story/sports/2015/02/14/teacher-catches-record-largemouth/23433607/

 

Oh I know it. Those Florida strain have hybridized with the native northern strain to make bass that get huge but don’t mind the cold. I’m the 5 or 6 trips I’ve made to Chick I’ve never had a trip where we didn’t catch one at least 5 and 5 of my top 7 personal best have come from there. It’s a giant factory. My dad caught his PB 10-7 there last September and I backed that up with a 6-8. Out best 5 that day went a little over 32 lbs. That 3 day trip was the best fishing trip I’ve ever been part of both numbers wise and size wise. This spring my fishing buddy and I went down the last week of March. We didn’t put up huge numbers but we caught huge bass. Everything was 3 pounds and over and we caught a 27 lb limit in 20 minutes on one 25 yard stretch of bank. We caught an 8-1 a 6-1, a 5-3, a 4-8 and a 4-3 in about 10 casts. All on squarebills. Don’t get me wrong, Chick can be fickle and tough as nails too. It took a couple of tough trips to figure the lake out and when I go down now we still have plenty of really hard days. I can’t really say that about Guntersville. Pretty much everyday I’ve spent on the lake down there we’ve put numbers in the boat, just not the same average size that come out of Chick.