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6 and 7 pound bass caught at the same time with the same rapala

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taxid:
First of all a disclaimer: I don't try to compare these to public water fish as these came from one of my private ponds where I feed and grow out trophy size fish for the taxidermy and replica market. Just thought some of you might find this interesting.

Anyway I have a order for 20 largemouth in the 4 to 5 pound range for a taxidermy school. I prefer hook and line harvest for the fun and I hate pulling a seine through the 1/2 acre pond especially being the only one doing it.

These two largemouth that weighed 6.06 pounds and 7.07 pounds hit the same jointed rapala at the same time. Even though the drag was set to release, I am glad I spooled with 12 pound test and had a large net handy. Ironically I was hoping for just one more fish for the evening and ended up with a double hitter.

These fish are very stocky at only 19 1/2 inches for the 6 pound fish and 20 1/8 for the 7 pound fish. I feed them a special diet for largemouth bass where the pellets are massive in size.  I pulled out 6 others in the 4 to 5 pound range. One of the 18 inch fish was 4 1/2 pounds.

The fish were planted in June of 2016 and were hatched in an Arkansas in the fall of 2015. (They do two hatches a year by manipulating the photoperiod of their brood fish indoors.) So they are 7 year old fish.



Some of the first few before the biggest ones were caught. I overdose with clove oil to euthanize them before freezing.



A yellow perch that's just over twice the length of the rapala used.

taxid:
A 4.8 pound fish before the largest fish were caught. I know I should have a picture of the 6 and 7 pounders on a measuring board but it wasn't a priority at the time.

The measuring board was made out of 8 inch PVC.

rivereddy:
Wow, those are some fish.  From their silvery color,I'm also guessing the water in your ponds is
pretty clear.

fish on,

rivereddy

taxid:

--- Quote from: rivereddy on Nov 03, 2022, 07:30 AM ---Wow, those are some fish.  From their silvery color,I'm also guessing the water in your ponds is
pretty clear.

fish on,

rivereddy

--- End quote ---

If I didn't add a dye to keep weed growth down I would be able to see the bottom at 9 feet. I top it off with well water with no ground runoff going in. Clarity does vary a little from year to year depending phytoplankton and macrophyte growth, whichever is dominant.

iceman260:
Taxid those are some nice fish, are they expensive to feed.

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