Potential-world-record-spotted-bass-caught-What a Toad!

[Lifes2Short]

http://www.scout.com/outdoors/wired2fish/story/1617754-potential-world-record-spotted-bass-caught

How would you like to look down and find this baby on the end of your line.......YIKES!   Now this would be a Tight Line!  :-) 

[Ham]

Not really the same genetics that are swimming in TR, but still. What a fish.

 

[Phil Lilley]

Lake "X" - that's funny.

I should start a new forum and call it "Lake X"  

[Ham]

We aleady have a "River X".

 

[Phil Lilley]

Other Waters...  I like X better

[Walcrabass]

Ham,

   You are exactly correct and have made a good point. A hog is not a hog is not a hog even though they may be the same breed such as Hampshire etc. It is also their lineage that makes them what they are. Glad to know others understand this genetics stuff. There are other states in the South that regularly catch 5 pound Kentuckies from what I have seen on TV.   Also not the same Kentucky we have here.

 

Walcrabass

 

 

[Ham]

They stocked Cali with Alabama strain Spots and fed em up on Rainbows. It's a giant fish, but no way that a TR or BSL or Beaver Spot can EVER get that big. Not Hatin' just sayin'.

[Gavin]

Just a guess, but thinking Lake Perris. Its known for huge rainbow fed spotted bass.

 

[Johnsfolly]

Throw in a couple hundred or thousand triploid fish and feed them up with high fat forage you should be able make some giant spots. Of course then everyone can catch 6-10 lb spots and they would no longer be special trophy fish.

[Ham]

1 hour ago, Johnsfolly said:

Throw in a couple hundred or thousand triploid fish and feed them up with high fat forage you should be able make some giant spots. Of course then everyone can catch 6-10 lb spots and they would no longer be special trophy fish.

I promise you a 10 lb spot is ALWAYS gonna be special. If you caught 100 of them,  each fish would still bring a smile to your face.