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Florida: Florida largemouth bass (fresh water) Micropterus floridanus: 2007 [11] Atlantic sailfish (salt water) Istiophorus albicans: 2007 [12] Georgia: Largemouth bass: Micropterus salmoides: 1970 [13] Southern Appalachian brook trout (cold water game fish) Salvelinus fontinalis: 2006 [14] [15] Red drum (salt-water fish) Sciaenops ocellatus ...
The largemouth bass is the state fish of Georgia [8] and Mississippi, [9] and the state freshwater fish of Florida [10] and Alabama. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] It is a highly prized sport fish among anglers for their vigorous resistance when caught, and have been introduced to many regions due to their popularity in bass fishing and tolerance to urban streams .
The Florida bass resembles the largemouth bass in that it has an elongate body that varies in color from a silvery-white to brassy-green and sometimes to a pale brown in murkier waters. The coloration forms a camouflaged pattern as there is a mottling of dark olive mottling along the upper body and a wide black stripe that is normally split ...
Mar. 8—ATHENS — Stetson Davis, an 11-year-old angler from Tuttle, Okla., landed 13.31-pound ShareLunker 661 on Wednesday, topping the junior angler waterbody record for largemouth bass by more ...
Lake Fork Reservoir was established, by the Texas Parks and Wildlife, as a premier bass fishing lake, with 732,514 Florida-strain largemouth bass being stocked from 1979 through 1987. Lake Fork Reservoir offers excellent fish habitat with 80% standing timber left intact, and hydrilla, milfoil, and duckweed being the predominant vegetation.
The All-Tackle world record Black Bass was a largemouth that was caught at Montgomery Lake, GA by George Perry, weighing in at 22 lbs. 4 oz. Perry's record fish, which some consider the "Holy Grail" of all freshwater sport fishing records, was finally challenged by Japanese angler Manabu Kurita on July 22, 2009.
Jim Chapman Lake (also known as Cooper Lake) is a 19,305-acre (78.12 km 2) impoundment operated by the Army Corps of Engineers and is located 75 miles (121 km) east of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex in the state of Texas. [1] The reservoir was created by the 1991 Jim Chapman Dam and impounds the South Sulphur River, a fork of the Sulphur River ...
Hybrid striped bass: Morone chrysops × Morone saxatilis: Also known as Sunshine bass, Cherokee bass or Palmetto bass Ide: Leuciscus idus: Indigo Hamlet: Hypoplectrus indigo: Inshore lizardfish: Synodus foetens: Irish mojarra: Diapterus auratus: Jack Dempsey: Rocio octafasciata: Jack-knifefish: Equetus lanceolatus: Jaguar guapote Parachromis ...