I have sold these fish for 5 years. I call them F1's but American Sportfish calls them now "Tiger bass". This has been talked about on here before. They have done very well as far north as northern KY for my clients.
Not sure if I believe all they claim, but it does not matter this the only place I buy my F1's. I trust they are truley a cross betewen a norhtern and Florida and that is the point. I also know if folks follow the advice and stock proper forage and follow other pond advice they have impressive growth and catch rates.
We usually shock the lake in the following October so 16 months after stocking 2 inch fingerling. Typically the bass are 2 to 3 lbs. With closer to three being avg. We have had several over 4 lbs and the best was 5.2 lbs. No kidding in less than 1.5 years. We only stocked 25/acre in that case with super high forage base. Keep in mind this is also mostly in middle GA with a longer growing season than yankee country
Also if stokcing with existing populaitn you will need to by at least 8-10 inch fish to survivie bass predation.
