Amazing

http://www.westernbass.com/utah/libr...w.html?id=1140


Alwaysfishking wrote:
Ok this one kinda shocked me. Was out early fishing with Jeremy on the small
lake here in NE Pennsylvania, Now I have fished these lakes for over 7 years
now and thought I had caught every fish in them. LM bass, Catfish, toothy
critters, sunfish, bluegill, even eels.

Well as we were fishing Jeremy has his spinnerbait just get slammed by a
fish. It leaps, looks like a good fish then manages to put a decent bend in
his rod till he gets it into the boat. As he;s lifting it over the side, I
saw something that I never saw before in these waters. A smallmouth bass.
Beautiful fish in the 2-2 1/2 pound range. And living up to everybit of the
name bronzeback. I was stunned. We both kinda looked at each other with that
"what the f%^&" look.


So now I have a bunch of questions.

1) Whats the chances that there are more in this lake and that me Dave and a
variety of other anglers have never caught any? ( Me thinks not possible)

2) What are the chances that this SM was the only one released in this lake
by someone?

3) Do smallmouth bass and Lm bass cross breed?

Hell and I have to move now

"Chris Rennert" wrote in message
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http://www.westernbass.com/utah/libr...w.html?id=1140



quote
"Where separate species occur naturally together the fish do not appear to
be hybridizing," says Garrett, "it's when they are introduced to waters they
are not indigenous to. When you have two species together in a location
where they have never occurred naturally together, they tend to hybridize
like mad.
/quote

Hmmm.... I didn't think any species of bass was native east of The Rockies.
I think his statement may be an over generalization.


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Rennert"
Newsgroups: rec.outdoors.fishing.bass
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 5:36 AM
Subject: Check this out guys.


http://www.westernbass.com/utah/libr...w.html?id=1140



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The situation in most western states is considerably different. In
California, for instance, there are no species of bass that are native to
the waters. Some species are doing quite well adapting to the environment,
but to determine which species or hybrid is best for a particular body of
water in California is still being researched.
.quote

LOL.

Bob La Londe
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