Chickamauga has been the best bass lake in the Southeast, if not in the whole country, the past few months. Many, many bass weighing more than 8 pounds have been landed, and in most tournaments you didn’t even need to weigh-in if you had five bass weighing less than 25 pounds.
Why is Chickamauga so hot with big bass right now? Stockings by the state of Tennessee of Florida and Northern strain largemouth bass has produced a cross, an F1 hybrid, that grows very fast and is very aggressive. Tennessee DNR reports show they stocked both Florida- and Northern-strain largemouth as well as hatchery-produced F1 hybrids in 2002. Those fish have reached trophy size, and their offspring are reaching bragging size every year.
Biologists stop short of attributing the incredible catches of huge bass at Chickamauga just to Florida-strain and F1 hybrid genetics, citing...
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Literally living and working—he...
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