Originally posted by Jack Spirko:
Sunil,
First thanks for the heads up on the meeting, I simply must attend! I hope to be an owner by then not just a guy remembering the "old days".
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I don't think they can make it in a pond in Texas too bad I have to go up to like Texoma or our place in Arkansas to find them. I mean I don't hate LMB and I like catching them but head to head a SMB is pound for pound a lot more fish in my opinion....
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I read about LMB that stop biting as they get old and non aggressive. I will tell you this if you live where SMB will live well they DO NOT suffer from the same issue. There are two fish I dearly love above all others, in Freshwater it is the SMB and in salt it is the snook. Pound for pound both have very few equals. Now if I could just make a hybrid snook that would live in a pond, :rolleyes:
Welcome back to Texas Jack
I love your stories and your web site as well.
IMHO should be required reading
I share your love for SMB as well, with many years experience fishing for them on Lake Texoma, as you have.
Since it is unlikey that you will be able to raise them in your ponds, have you considered the potential of Hybrid Striped Bass?
They will outfight a smallie any time - any where - only problem is they don't jump, but probaly bust all your tackle if they did.
Good luck with your search and if any of us "good ole Texas boys" can help you - give us a holler.
