Here are 2 links to recent threads on the catchability topic. It includes the 2 studies TX and ILL. There is a recent article in PB mag on the topic reviewing these studies.
Largemouth 'catchability' may be inherited
http://www.pondboss.com/forums/ubbthread...true#Post159224How much fishing is too much?
http://www.pondboss.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=181009&fpart=1Here is part of one study from AFS - see red text.
Admixture Analysis of Florida Largemouth Bass and
Northern Largemouth Bass using Microsatellite Loci
DIJAR J. LUTZ-CARRILLO*
CHRIS C. NICE, TIMOTHY H. BONNER, AND MICHAEL R. J. FORSTN
LORAINE T. FRIES
Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 135:779–791, 2006
Copyright by the American Fisheries Society 2006
We found no evidence of a heterotic effect (in terms
of size) resulting from first-generation crosses between
Florida largemouth bass and northern largemouth bass.
The majority of trophy-sized fish with an admixed
genome were later-generation hybrids with a larger
percentage of Florida largemouth bass alleles. There
was also no observable negative impact on size from
the admixed genetic background in these fish, most
likely because of the modified environment to which
they were introduced and the nonadaptive radiation of
micropterids (Near et al. 2003).
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