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Toledo Bend & Lake Fork Bass Tracking Study with Telemerty Study Update with Todd Driscoll TP&W Biol



This is part 2 of our discussion with Texas Park & Wildlife fisheries biologist Todd Driscoll. Todd is updating us on the study they are currently doing using telemetry, or basically a radio transmitter implanted in large mouth bass from 3 to 8 pounds in Toledo Bend and Lake Fork in Texas. He explains what they are looking to discover as well as what they are seeing roughly 5 months into the study.

They are tracking both shallow and deep bass, every other week and observing what those fish do, how they react to boat noise, where they rest, where they feed, how they react to baits, survival rates, every thing we tournament bass fisherman want to know. This is part two of five or six total videos in the update Todd gives us 5 months into their two year study.

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Lake Fork Monsters is a group of avid bass fishermen who chase big bass in the Lake Fork area of Texas. They’re known for pursuing largemouth bass, which can reach impressive sizes in this region. If you’re interested in monster bass, Lake Fork is definitely a hotspot!

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  1. I had a pretty cool experience on Rayburn that proved to me that fish travel long ways. I used to have a tree in the back of Coleman that I would catch this same 3 pounder off of. I caught him probably about 8-10 times and he had a fairly large cut on his lateral line. One weekend I was fishing a sweet 16 tournament and I went and caught this 3 pounder and took it to weigh in at umphreys. The following weekend I went back to that tree with my partner joking that he would be there. We flip in there no bite. A few weeks later I stop by again flip in there and caught that 3 pounder with the same scar on his lateral line. Since then it’s changed my perspective on bass behavior

  2. He mentioned the barotrauma of the tagged fish and having to fizz them. Would holding the fish in the livewell with fin weights for a while be a safer option? Fizzing can cause potential infection possibly raising the mortality rate, so I've read.

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