"If your fishery tends to ice over during the winter season, then you are most likely too far north to gain anything from stocking pure Florida genetics. "
Agreed, but that's a LOT of cold water territory. And the folks who live in such areas still need LMB. Pedigreed Florida's may be all the rage, but if they go belly up when my pond locks up in late December, I'll take a plain old rugged, cold-tolerant, 12 lb northern LMB over a 15 lb Florida anytime.
