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I thought you green carp lovers would like to check out the thread at the link below.

http://www.taxidermy.net/forum/index.php/topic,299806.0.html

Out of all those pics, only one LMB is being held correctly....

You mean for catch and release? The taxidermist in the thread said he had 14 bass over 10 lbs. in the freezer to mount, perhaps they weren't destined to be released?

You're right. C&R. I keep thinking about the presentation at the last conference by the lady from BPS about how badly some of the fish are injured by the anglers and what lengths they have to go to keep them alive.

The one pic where the angler is holding up 2 fish, the fish on his right seems to be a male. The bottom of it's tail is pretty beat up. That'a a pretty large male LMB!

I could be wrong but I don't put much faith in the tails being worn down to show a fish is a male. The reason being is mounting a lot of old large fish I see it often with both sexes (I can tell what sex they are some times when I remove the carcass.)

I've also see it with some of my older trout of both sexes.

The females may not specifically fan the nest or redd but during the course of spawning will often rub on the substrate while doing the dance from what I have observed.

True. I also read somewhere the female Florida strain is more involved with the nest building than it's northern counterpart.

I witnessed male and female largemouths paired up in a nearby retention pond/park in Florida back in January when I visited my parents. Two fish close together with one of them substantially smaller than the other. I observed two pairs in shallow water.