Three comments...

1) Doug Hannon knows his stuff...they don't call him the Bass Professor for nothing

2) His comments make sense to me. I wonder when exactly that fat storing mechanism kicks in, i.e at what temps? I also wonder if it varies by climate and perhaps even genetics. What is the range for a native bass in southern waters? What is the range for a Florida bass in southern waters? Or an F1? Sounds like a good research project.

3) That mechanism may actually fly in the face of those standard theories that LMB do not feed in the cooler temperatures.

I was going to stock rainbows last winter but the hurricane overcame those good intentions...this winter will see a couple of hundred pounds go into my LMB ponds...and I can't wait to see if Doug's theory applies also to southern LMB of various genetics.