Great fish and beautiful pics!

BTW, Where have you been? We miss you.

-Kent

8-)

Hey guys....

Paul, yea', that's been discussed before about a lot of the Smallies from that lake.

But keep this in mind;

Their is a big long list of things that biologists use to test for hybridization of fish species, and coloration is one of the very last things on that list... or should I say, color is one of the least important factors. Reason is, coloration is SOOO variable depending on food sources, water clarity, individual fishes mood, health, etc, etc....

While with many anglers, color is the very first factor taken into consideration.

That said, I'd give this fish (and others which are even greener than this one) less than a 10% chance of being a hybrid.

I have a close buddy who is a fisheries biologist, who told me last year, that they were going to be genetically testing some of these fish, but I don't know what ever came of that. Talked to him last week, but didn't think to ask....

Hey RW, you know me...... I get onto whatever kick I'm into at the moment, and I forget about everything but that one thing. That's the AADD thing in action. Oh well. This Winter it was the new truck, and then stereo stuff.....

But don't worry, I have flipped that switch off now, and fixing to forget about "every other thing on the planet" except trophy bass !     ;D 8-) : ;D

It's funny.... I actually had a guy tell me recently, that he admired how I can have such solid, single minded focus on whatever I choose to..... I laughed and told him, "Dude.... It's actually a psychological problem ! I can't think about 2 "different things" at the same time if I tried ! I guess for some things AADD is not all bad :-)

Great fishing to you guys,

I'll try not to start posting so much I'm driving everyone crazy :-)

Peace,

Fish

fish chris all i can say is wow!!!!!!

Beautiful fish and photos as always Chris.  Congrats.  

My personal best is a 20.5 in the picture below caught on Laurel River Lake in south-east Kentucky.

I seen 6 over 20 caught in the same day once by my fishing partner on the same lake, but I only mustered up one keeper that day. We didn't have a camera, wasn't expecting that kind of catch. But I got to see a good show that day, and got a reel good workout on the dip net.

Fish Chris,

Well, I'm glad you're back and speaking for everyone on this

Forum, we NEVER tire of your posts!

As for me, a combination of factors have kept me away from

the river this winter, so I have nothing to report. I am looking

forward to Kentucky Lake in a couple of weeks. We should have

a lot of nice pics posted shortly and maybe a few will be brown

fish!

8-)

It looks like that thing swallowed a baby. Incredibly fish chris. My longest is Two 22". Both on Jerkbaits.

I haven't measured them, I usually just weigh them but I would say around 20-21 inches.