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["W"]

BASS....Trout are easy to catch

[Armand16]

Originally Posted by "W"

BASS....Trout are easy to catch

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[mikedatiger]

Originally Posted by "W"

BASS....Trout are easy to catch

Gotta go with trout. While I agree that trout (numbers) are easy to catch I feel like Big Trout are harder to catch than Big Bass. No scientific evidence to back it up, but how many people do you know who have caught an 8+lb bass vs an 8+lb trout?

["W"]

Originally Posted by mikedatiger

Gotta go with trout. While I agree that trout (numbers) are easy to catch I feel like Big Trout are harder to catch than Big Bass. No scientific evidence to back it up, but how many people do you know who have caught an 8+lb bass vs an 8+lb trout?

I never caught an 8lb bass....... How many people do you see fishing the TROUT MASTERS????? Or is that BASS MASTERS....

[specktator]

Originally Posted by "W"

I never caught an 8lb bass....... How many people do you see fishing the TROUT MASTERS????? Or is that BASS MASTERS....

And how many times have u been bass fishing in the last 5 years? I'm guessing less than 10 compared to about 1,000 trout fishing

[cmdrost]

world record - Bass - better known worldwide

State record - Trout

Species: TROUT, SPECKLED (SPOTTED SEA TROUT)

Cynoscion nebulosus
Rank Weight Angler Where Caught Date Caught
1. 12.38 Leon Mattes Lake Hermatage April 1950
2. 11.99 Kenneth Kreeger Lake Pontchartain Janaury 1999
3. 11.24 Jason Troullier Rigolets (Lk. Borgne) September 1999
4. 11.16 Timothy Mahoney, II Calcasieu Lake May 2002
5. 10.81 Kevin Galley Calcasieu Lake May 1997

6. 10.75 Randolph D. Green Sandy Point August 1970

7. 10.70 Barry Terrell Calcasieu Lake May 2004
8. 10.63 John Kaparis May 1979
9. 10.50 Dudley Vandenborre, Jr. Lake Pontchartrain April 2002

9. 10.50 Ed Sexton Venice April 2000

[Big Kahunaz]

Originally Posted by cmdrost

world record - Bass - better known worldwide

State record - Trout

Species: TROUT, SPECKLED (SPOTTED SEA TROUT)

Cynoscion nebulosus
Rank Weight Angler Where Caught Date Caught
1. 12.38 Leon Mattes Lake Hermatage April 1950
2. 11.99 Kenneth Kreeger Lake Pontchartain Janaury 1999
3. 11.24 Jason Troullier Rigolets (Lk. Borgne) September 1999
4. 11.16 Timothy Mahoney, II Calcasieu Lake May 2002
5. 10.81 Kevin Galley Calcasieu Lake May 1997

6. 10.75 Randolph D. Green Sandy Point August 1970

7. 10.70 Barry Terrell Calcasieu Lake May 2004

8. 10.63 John Kaparis May 1979
9. 10.50 Dudley Vandenborre, Jr. Lake Pontchartrain April 2002

9. 10.50 Ed Sexton Venice April 2000

Could we killl the Texas has smaller fish topic by posting their state records for largest trout? Thx!

[Big Kahunaz]

Originally Posted by "W"

I never caught an 8lb bass....... How many people do you see fishing the TROUT MASTERS????? Or is that BASS MASTERS....

where are you going with this? I've fished 10 x the amount on toledo and rayburn in my lifetime and my biggest fish is 5.9lbs...up to 5 years ago...started focusing on big trout and i've caught over 20 fish bigger than 5.9lbs with a couple touching and going over 8lbs. "To me" bass fishing is the harder of the 2! And if trout weren't part of the (literally) "weakfish" family....then i could guarantee you there would be no redfish cup...it'd be a speck cup!

["W"]

Originally Posted by Big Kahunaz

where are you going with this? I've fished 10 x the amount on toledo and rayburn in my lifetime and my biggest fish is 5.9lbs...up to 5 years ago...started focusing on big trout and i've caught over 20 fish bigger than 5.9lbs with a couple touching and going over 8lbs. "To me" bass fishing is the harder of the 2! And if trout weren't part of the (literally) "weakfish" family....then i could guarantee you there would be no redfish cup...it'd be a speck cup!

Im saying Bass fishing is way more of a challenge than trout fishing by far!!!....I grew up bass fishing...Bass fished my whole life from the marsh to big lakes.... Biggest Bass i ever landed was over 6lb in the pool back in 1995 or 96.....

I have a trout over 8 and numerous over 6 and 7lbs....Big trout are not hard to catch.... Big Bass are..

[meaux fishing]

Originally Posted by "W"

Im saying Bass fishing is way more of a challenge than trout fishing by far!!!....I grew up bass fishing...Bass fished my whole life from the marsh to big lakes.... Biggest Bass i ever landed was over 6lb in the pool back in 1995 or 96.....

I have a trout over 8 and numerous over 6 and 7lbs....Big trout are not hard to catch.... Big Bass are..

Its all in where you fish too... like I said earlier the first time i ever went fishing exclusively for bass was in 2005. In may of 2007 i caught a 9lb 8oz bass... I know of at least 8 people that have caught bass over 9 out of that lake and two that have caught 12's. Big lake is a great big trout estuary and so I think you guys are spoiled having grown up fishing there.

[Salty]

Originally Posted by mikedatiger

Gotta go with trout. While I agree that trout (numbers) are easy to catch I feel like Big Trout are harder to catch than Big Bass. No scientific evidence to back it up, but how many people do you know who have caught an 8+lb bass vs an 8+lb trout?

8 lb. bass are more common than 8 lb. trout simply because there are probably 10,000 x more people fishin' for 'em.