New Article: Trophy Bass Breeding

[Glenn]

Want to learn about a program that breeds trophy bass?

 

https://www.bassresource.com/fish_biology/trophy-bass-breeding.html

[GRiver]

 Very interesting, thank you.

[Pat Brown]

I listen to a lot of fishing podcasts while I work and one of the topics I find most fascinating is pond management and growing trophy fish.

 

There's a ton of conflicting info out there but it seems like one of the things I hear a LOT that confuses me is that if crappie get into your water, there will be no big bass.

 

In NC, it's literally the opposite as far as I can tell.

 

The bluegill and bass ponds, the biggest ones are 4 lbs.

 

The crappie and bass ponds, the biggest ones are 12.

 

And I catch MEGA crappie so it's not like they are all small.

 

You gotta figure the guys who make that  claim have a specific frame of reference that leads them to believe 'crappie will make big bass impossible'

 

But then again, everyone was completely convinced when I was a kid fishing lake Huron that gobies were the end of perch and smallies up North.  That was also completely false.

 

Just some fuel for discussion in the thread!

 

Cool video Glenn!

[fin]

Interesting article. The last three paragraphs are duplicated, @Glenn

 

It's surprising to me that the eggs are larger. I'm also surprised that they've had success getting those fish there alive after they're caught. They say the survival rate is 95%, but I wonder if that includes the fish from the time they are caught?

 

 

[Pat Brown]

I love how many share lunkers came from #9!

 

They are gonna be trying to figure out what made her so unique for years and probably catching more of her progeny!

[Catt]

What is impressive to me is every lake in Texas is man-made & had very little brood stock to start with. They're all stocked by ShareLunker & to see the various bodies of water producing this class of fish. O.H. I've is stupid with big bass!

[Team9nine]

2 hours ago, fin said:

I'm also surprised that they've had success getting those fish there alive after they're caught. They say the survival rate is 95%, but I wonder if that includes the fish from the time they are caught?

That’s 95% over just the past 4 years, with one year at 100% to boost that average. I recently read a similar story that stated overall program mortality was 16%, if I remember correctly. 

[Bass Junke]

Hey folks, I am not trying to hijack this thread. I know what the title says but this discussion was more about Texas's lunker program and some of the programs Florida is working on to grow bigger bass. Tom Lang is one of the speakers. Some really good stuff discussed. The other two guests are Jason Dotson a Florida biologist and Monte Burke the author of Sowbelly. 

One of the most amazing things mentioned in this video is a 18lb. bass that was only 6 years old. That's a lot of growing, 3lbs a year Zowie!