Excellent Weekend Coming
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Shoal bass are an endemic species to the southern drainages that flow directly to the Gulf (i.e. not to the Mississippi or to the Atlantic).
Jaison,
Shoalies are our version of smallmouth…..very similar in appearance and just as aggressive. In my younger days (30 years ago) I would wear them out on the Flint River with an ultralite spinning rod and white Beetle Spins.
Zach…..I hope the weather is better this time. Maybe you should leave that UGA tent/canopy at home to avoid any bad luck. Take some gar flies as well. ;D
Pretty interesting, looking forward to seeing a picture.
Shoal bass are an endemic species to the southern drainages that flow directly to the Gulf (i.e. not to the Mississippi or to the Atlantic). That pretty much limits them to Georgia and Alabama and the Florida panhandle. They weren’t even recognized as their own unique species until 1999 – up until then, they were termed “redeye bass” and thought to be just larger specimens of some non-descript panfish (I have heard the term “redeye” applied to a fish we called “warmouth” in Arkansas).
But shoal bass are decidedly worth catching on the fly. They get up to 8 lbs. in their sweet spot in the lower Flint drainage, and they reach very entertaining sizes in the Hooch right through Atlanta. I had an 11″er bend a 7 weight TFO TiCr (a very stiff rod) right over when I went fishing under the I-75 bridges last Sunday.
As soon as I catch a fish big enough to bother photographing, I’ll put a picture up. They basically look like smallmouth with red eyes.
Zach
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