Inga Havey scored this 13 lbs. 8 oz. monster in Rodman Reservoir "This beautiful fish fought amazing. Stripped line twice before boating. Few quick pics and released to be caught again someday."

That is one BEAUTIFUL bucket mouth??

I live close by there, nice fish.

what did she catch it with. 

Rodman is a great fishery.  We are lucky it's still there.   Environmentalists have been trying to shut it down for years. It's been there so long, it is the environment.   Thousands of different birds, fish and animals call it home.    Back in the seventies, it was the best place in Florida to catch a double digit bass.  Most of the big bass caught in Rodman are caught on live native shiners.   Rodman is full of hydrilla.  To control the hydrilla, it gets drawn down from time to time.  Weed spraying is not allowed.  If you are going to fish it for the first time, you need a guide. It's not an easy place to navigate.

 

Rodman is a reservoir left over from the defunct Cross Florida Barge Canal dreamed up in the sixties.  It was formed by damming up one of the most beautiful natural rivers in the world.  If you run the river at the north end, you can get a small  glimpse of how beautiful this river was.  Restoring Rodman back to a river would destroy a significant recreational resource.  It would turn this great fishery into a field of muck for 100 years. Now that the damage has been done, let's hope they leave it alone.