I believe the bass refered to was a "mean mouth" bass, a cross between a smallmouth and largemouth. The only genitic engineered bass are those in the Share A Lunker program, where the university was playing around to improve the intergrade strains of FLMB and NLMB. This isn't selective harvest that was initailly the program goal where big female and males having good genes naturally were used for producing and stocking fry.

Out west we call 500+ lb bass, black sea bass and they will sometimes see a diver as something of interest to strike.

We are up somewhere around F34 for bass stocked into DVL. It's been my experience that pure Florida's and F1 grow to giant size where the ecosystems have the right mix of water temps and prey available.

WRB

I'm sure if they could survive, then our waters would be loaded with these hybrids from people illegally stocking them now.    

Nah, they're just dumping snakeheads up here.  >

That snakehead stuff is a shame..... >

The Ohio record is 13lbs 13oz. 26 1/16 inches long caught in 1976.