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Here is my attempt to show you a picture of a nice shellcracker. Hope it works. Greg 
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It worked! Thanks for your help on setting up picturestage. I may know fish , but don't know computers and even I figured it out. I will use picturestage for other uses, thanks again. That is the best bream I have ever shocked. 13.5 inches and 2.2 lbs.
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Better view! 
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Nice shellcracker (redear)!
Good picture too!
If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.
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Greg, What do you attribute the size/growth to?
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How did it taste Greg?
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Dave, Beleive it or not it came from a pond that is only 0.18 acres (the smallest I've put a boat in). I have being fertilizing it, but we have never shocked it and the pondowner rarely fishes it since he has other larger ponds. It was very bass heavy, with a bass RW of 78% and 32 bluegill greater than 5 inches and only one intermediate 3-5 inch bream. I shocked only two redear the other was huge also 11.5 inches and 1.3 lbs. I think due to the low abundance of shellcrakcer (due to bass heavy environment) very little competetion exist for food. They occupy a little different niche than bluegill and this is why she was so big. The bluegill were nice also and this is now his favorite pond for flyfishing.
Did not eat the shellcrakcer, although I think he would have filled my up, but keep out 12 stunted bass to achieve slightly better bass growth. Glad you liked the picture. Greg
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CAn't wait for mine to get that big.  Nice picture, Greg. Larry
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Greg, nice "PIC'S". We can only dream of fish that size. How old would you say that 13"+ fish was?
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Good question on age, but really have no idea I would be guessing.
BTW what is the biggest warmouth anyone has ever seen? I was doing a job this weekend shocking common carp out of a lake and shocked a 11 inch 1.3 pounder. The state record (GA) is only 2 lbs. It had a much more yellow color than most warmouth. Did I key it out wrong? I only had my regular cheap camera, but will scan and send pics when I get them developed.
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