https://www.corneliustoday.com/wildlife-commission-seeks-publics-help-in-reducing-threat-from-alabama-bass-to-native-species/

Same old story, I’m just not sure how many people move these fish. I think some of them expand their range on their own (and I also think their threat is severely overblown). But alas, I’m willing to kill and eat a blue million of them. Only problem is I only catch one or two a month, usually less 

Mission accepted. Let's catch and eat as many possible.

 

I'm trying to get better at ID'ing them. Don't think I've seen them in the wild yet.

Meanwhile Dustin Connell wins redcrest with a healthy mix of smallmouth, largemouth, and Alabama bass (he also got lots of white bass amongst them all).

 

#OVERBLOWN 

You can actually catch them and donate them to the raptor rehab center at Latta Plantation. They feed them to the rehabilitating raptors. They are also phenomenal catfish bait.

Interesting. Going through some pictures a good portion of what I thought were spots are actually Alabama bass. With the only distinguishing feature being the end of the horizontal band a few can swing either way. Either way as far as I'm aware most lakes out east here have no limit on size or quantity for spots and they encourage us to eat them. As long as its not a LMB it doesnt really make a huge difference other than reporting in a new area. I believe they are further up the Tar into Nash county than the graph shows. I'm going to look at my pictures a bit harder but I'm fairly sure I've pulled them out of the Tar River Reservoir. 

I love the alabama spots. They have saved several of our NC lakes from being the dead sea that they were prior to the spots. The largemouth fishing in those lakes seems to be much better since the spots than they were before them.