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Originally Posted by MidTNKayakAngler
Glad you got on some fish. We had those back home and called them redear. They averaged in the 9/10" range, and caught them up to 11.5".
Jeremy
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Thanks Jeremy. We call them red ear down here too. But sometimes some folks don't know what that is...LOL. VFW Lake has a lot of 10 inch ones in it.....and some that will go 14 inches. For years I have tried to time the red ear bite up at Dale Hollow. When you hit it fish in the 10-12 inch range are every cast.....and 13 inches and bigger are not uncommon. But the timing is the problem. I went last year but was off by a few days. Will try again this year too. Doug Markham also missed the timing last year. Hope to hit it at Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkely also. When I catch those out of a big reservoir I will keep some. But when I get on them in these small lakes they all go back. To me it is like a trophy fish in the smaller lakes and just not enough to be harvesting.
Regards