OMC I think we may be close neighbors. Maybe we can meet up sometime. My thoughts are it would be possible that a neighbor might just drop some Caddo lake LMB into your new pond. I have a place on Caddo and have kept up with the lake stocking over the past 4 yrs. The State of Texas has stocked around 3,000,000 Florida fingerlings in the lake in this time frame and Florida's have been in the lake for many yrs now. So a pure Florida strain bass could come from the lake. But I can also see a mistake a stocking could also occur. We all make mistakes, and I could see where LMB fingerlings might be put on a truck by mistake. If you take someone like me, who stocked 4,000+ BG and 1,000+ RES along with FHM and Thredfin shad. Who looks at all those? Not me. No way I'm going to look at each and every fingerling. And when Overtons brought my forage out, some were in different containers and the fatheads and shiners came from an enclosed compartment on the truck and deposited directly into the pond. I will say that Walt, with Overtons knows his job. But I am also thinking that lmb fingerlings added to forage fish would have a lot to eat for until forage was mostly gone and that might put those bass fingerlings around the size of the lmb in the picture. People make mistakes !! It happens by the best of us.
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