Bass getting ready to spawn at the gorge

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Caught a nice bass at the gorge today on a crawdad colored rapala.
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She was fat and full of eggs and crawdads. Its about bass time!

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[bassattttic]

Sounds like a good idea to me, lets let all the big females come up to lay a bunch of eggs and before they can dispurse of the eggs lets catch them and eat them. We are having a problem with small mouth population in there and we think it's because of the burbot and I'm not saying the burbot help by all means but I think the red flag of a small mouth spawn bite is what really hurts the fisherie. I wish they would enforce catch and release during a certain time of yr for all fisheries.
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[TyeDyeTwins]

Nice fish!![fishin]

Did you get a measurement on it? I bet it tugged really hard!
Thanks for sharing the pics!
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[kokeking]

Why did you keep a spawning female that was full of eggs? With the small mouth in decline at the gorge,every spawning fish put back helps.
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