[gambusia]

Current record is from a private impoundment.

So is there a chance a state record class bigmouth is swimming in a public lake or pond?

 

[wademaster]

Is there a chance? Definitely.

 

[trigger22]

Yes, there is a 50 percent chance it will come from public water

 

[Gremlinsrus]

I have no doubt that it is possible.. there is a lot of public waters that are overlooked.

 

[jerry condrey]

Maybe so. But I would go 60-40 farm pond.

 

[OptiMystic]

I have no doubt that it is possible.. there is a lot of public waters that are overlooked.

I agree with where that thinking may lead - it would likely come from some place that will surprise us if it happens. The heavily fished seemingly likely public waters haven't had many near misses (actually none that I have heard of). I think the monster fish are more likely to be in smallish lakes where they rule an area of it that is hard to fish due to timber or other obstructions.

 

[jerry condrey]

I do know for a fact that bass approaching 15 pounds have been shocked up at one of my fave small lakes during surveys.

 

[NCStateFisher]

I'd just about put money on the fact that there's a state record in both jordan and harris somewhere

 

[crappie89]

My cousin caught an 11 pounder in a residential lake about 6 years ago. If that fish is still alive it could well be approaching the state record size.

 

[lewisfishing]

I hope it does. I am not keen on any record type fish coming from private waters that have limited pressure and the possibility that they are being fed, too.


To fish is human!

 

[Neilslure]

If i remember right the state record is 15 something. Its not real often you hear of anything much over 10 from anywhere in NC. I remember seeing a 13 out of Jordan back in the 90s and Phil Cable caught one over 14 in the early 90s.

I have heard of some potential records being shocked up.

 

[jerry condrey]

Fifteen Fourteen. Union County farm pond.

 

[Drum Runner]

90% chance that where it's told it came from isn't where it came from.

 

[OptiMystic]

90% chance that where it's told it came from isn't where it came from.

You mean because it came from a county bordering SC, where it would not have been a record?

 

[Drum Runner]

No. Who would reveal their fishing hole? I would be a mile or two off minimum.

 

[Fishscalz]

If I wanted to catch the next NC State record Largemouth Bass, Jordan, Falls, and Salem lake in W-S would be where I would spend my time. Each of these lakes has had multiple LM Bass in double digits electro-shocked during surveys over the years. There are multiple year classes of Bass in these lakes that have the potential to be over 15 #s.

Fishscalz

 

[Drum Runner]

I would be in a healthy pond. Less water to cover to find such a fish.

 

[Fish_Fiend]

I would focus on old city lakes personaly.

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[Nat's Dad]

I've actually been on a shocking boat and picked their brains where such fish might lurk. I know four lakes were ( at least ) they were at one time and none are over 1000 acres. One lake had TWO in a hundred yard stretch of bank.........................what's more interesting is where the 4-5 pound crappie and bream were.

 

[GSRswapandslow]

there's a pond in Reidsville that will put up 15-16lb bass..........there's been several caught already, possibly even larger....it's on private land