Tennessee has a new state record Largemouth Bass (Micropterus salmoides), caught at 11:00 a.m. this morning on Lake Chickamauga in Chattanooga ,Tennessee. The new record weighs 15lbs 2oz. The old record was caught in Lawrence county, Tennessee on October 17th 1954 and it weighed 14lbs 8oz.
Lake Chickamauga in Chattanooga Tennessee has a history of producing huge limits of bass weighed in at local and national tournament events held there since local anglers pooled money together and bought 175,000 F-1 Northern/Florida Strain Largemouth Bass hybrids in the early 2000's. We knew it would just be a matter of time because of all the huge bass being caught with such regularity here. 5 years or so ago Lake Chickamauga was #60 something on the Bassmaster top 100 Lakes in America. The last 2 years it has been around #4-6 on that list. TVA has stopped spraying herbicides on the lake to kill aquatic vegetation there FINALLY. Now with the ceasing of spraying the herbicides and the hybrids we stocked, we have the "Perfect Storm" of fish growing potential in our lake. Lake Chickamauga is a reservoir on the Tennessee River that is about 39,000 acres in size. Thanks.
Lake Chickamauga in Chattanooga Tennessee has a history of producing huge limits of bass weighed in at local and national tournament events held there since local anglers pooled money together and bought 175,000 F-1 Northern/Florida Strain Largemouth Bass hybrids in the early 2000's. We knew it would just be a matter of time because of all the huge bass being caught with such regularity here. 5 years or so ago Lake Chickamauga was #60 something on the Bassmaster top 100 Lakes in America. The last 2 years it has been around #4-6 on that list. TVA has stopped spraying herbicides on the lake to kill aquatic vegetation there FINALLY. Now with the ceasing of spraying the herbicides and the hybrids we stocked, we have the "Perfect Storm" of fish growing potential in our lake. Lake Chickamauga is a reservoir on the Tennessee River that is about 39,000 acres in size. Thanks.
