Thoroughly enjoyed this and your guest. I met you late September on lake Fork just before a storm brewed up. I am with the Kemp high school fishing team and you took time to take a picture with me. I appreciated that. Wishing you success on the lakes. Fish on!

I have loved every episode, but I was not ready for this one to end!!! I was glued to every second of this one. Future second appearance officially requested!!!!

These are the kind of interviews I love. Maybe you can bring him back after some of the new studies publish. Thank you for posting

What a great piece, loved the change up. Thoroughly enjoyed the science behind it. Thank you for the great work!

love when fishing podcasts have biologists on as the guest! Science 🤝Fishermen great job!

This is one of the most interesting fishing podcasts I've ever heard.

You guys are killing it on these podcasts keep em coming!!

This deserves waay more likes that that considering how many watched it...good stuff zaldains as usual..these guys got great info...

Texas Parks & Wildlife is the best! Another good one Chris & Trait

Best one yet! Love to hear what our Parks and Wildlife are working on here in the Great State of TX

So interesting! Tom is right about Florida lakes. Mostly shallow bowls with little to no structure and TONS of vegetation. I wish I had been an angler while living in Dallas for 24 years. So many nice, deep, rocky lakes and reservoirs to choose from. Ivie has been on my bucket list forever. One day! Thanks for this awesome podcast!

Trait’s comments and questions are the best.

I love the information from these kind of interviews. I want to fish some of the lakes around Fort Worth when I visit my daughter this spring.

excellent content with a fresh transparent discussion.

Very informative. Love the pod cast. Keep the real content coming! 🤟 You all probably don't read these but me and my fellow MFers would love to see Ben on the podcast.

Excellent podcast and interview!! I learned some things for sure. Thanks!

These are the best info pod casts I love the information. 46:50

To answer your question about the negatives of spraying aquatic vegetation. One of the herbicides that is popular for Hydrilla is Diquat Bromide. Within the last few years research has been conducted that connects the bromide portion of the herbicide to a algal species that can create a neurotoxin. This neurotoxin has been shown to cause the deaths of birds and most notably, eagles. If you’re curious about the algae it is called Aetokhtonous hydrilicola.

Great job a lot of information really makes you think.

Man this is good information. It’s crazy the difference in management between states. Here in the Carolinas we used to say “you are really chasing pressured fish” however I don’t think you can find a great Largemouth lake that isn’t pressured in the US.

Great episode! Packed full of information!

Love the pod cast, look forward to each one. 👍👍

Many thanks to the TPWD biologist and fisheries personnel who do great things with our fisheries...

Dr Martin Vennemem a doctorate of biology and founder of the oxygen meter spent two summers with a crew that implanted transmitters in both largemouth and small mouth bass and followed them around every day from spring until freeze up on pool 8 of the upper Mississippi River in the late 1980’s. I fished with Marty and told me that what they found out was largemouths were like Gypsy’s and moved great distances sometimes up to 15 miles in one day. Smallmouth lived in huge schools on bare sandbars and only left their 30:15 home area once a year for about two weeks then returned to their home area after what he termed it was their vacation. The sad part of these studies were all of the bass that had implants put in them did not survive. The interesting info he gave me on small mouth bass was generally they fed as a school every 2.8 days. He indicated this was a hard fast rule as the group of researchers fished in the school of smallmouth that the telemetry fight were part of and caught lots of smallmouth on the 2.8 day schedule and very few in between.

I was fortunate enough to witness, live, a salmon fly hatch on the Yellowstone River 10 miles from Gardner and the number of giant trout I saw actually frightened me for a bit. Yankee Jim Canyon is a known place.

Great info and really enjoyed the detail. Thanks.

The mud hole outside of Nashville is old hickory

How many are not dealing with Share-A-Lunker for myriad reasons, as a fisherman of 40 years bass fishing in Texas. I'd say 50% don't get involved in it and just kiss and release. I caught a 15/7 off Falcon, but because my recirculating pump was out on my live well, I had 20 miles back to ramp and another 30 miles into town to deposit it. He'd have never lived. And I say he because the taxedermy at Fork made me a fiberglass replica. From the pictures I provided and the fact that the fish was 29 1/2" long, they told me they thought it very likely was a male. If we kept records by sex - he might have been a top runner for world record male black bass. Enjoy your shows, do keep 'em up!

Very interesting! I could listen to fish statistics all day.

Great interview - really enjoyed it

Love the show man!!

My two cents from west Tx. That FFS technology is an awesome step forward in sonar technology. BUT, it will be the ultimate downfall to fisheries world wide if it’s not managed properly. The wrong people with that technology in hand will be a detrimental combo.. I expect fish populations to plummet in the oceans, and lakes mainly, from over fishing commercially& guided trips with FFS tech. When an average joe with 0 experience can clear out a school of crappie, striper, white bass, hybrids, etc because of the sonar tech bought for their boat.. that’s going to be a huge problem that generations ahead will have to grapple with in more than one aspect. -tight lines db

Chris is my dude! I love this podcast deal. I wish I could fish with you for a day🙏 I'm a top Zalamander!🤙🇺🇸

"We just sunk a bunch of PVC artificial habitats.." Chris: "Where at????" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Lots of good info here. Thanks.

Great information! I wish Alabama would get on a program like that.

Great show! Very informative.

Opened up Apple Podcasts and all the episodes were, it like Christmas came early!!!!!!

Very good and interesting information. Great job.

Being a senior about to graduate in fisheries and wildlife. I’d love to explore this topic for masters work

I wish I knew this was happening. I’ve got tons of questions about bank erosion, blue green algae, and “ich”, that I’ve noticed occurring in the small private lake I live on.

#1 podcast hands down. Great adult conversation and points. please keep these coming.yoir a lucky man like me to have a spouse serious about fishing kudos ripsumlipz

We need bass management like this in Missouri for the white river lakes. These lakes are declining for bass quantity and size quality. Table Rock Lake has really been impacted over the past 20 years.

This is phenomenal content. Thank you all for the quality information. BtW… Is that a Bud “Heavy” in a Koe Wetzel koozie? 😂

I would love to hear his opinion on tournament release, If the bass travel back to the area they were caught or relocate. Great video

Cool podcasts

Killer podcast. I typically catch a d release fish bass and musky. However, I do like a fish fry from time to time when i take the family out. I teach my kids selective harvest... bluegill, crappie, perch, bass, walleye, etc. All fair game if harvesting and I also teach them to not always keep the jumbo but also not all the babies. Take a variety of species and size and nature will recoup. That's my take at least. And also, don't take more than you need, no need to stock the freezer.

great show!

Good stuff!

I caught a 8.6lber just down the road from his office at the bottom of the spillway off the waterfall

Awesome episode… how often will y’all be putting out shows? Weekly? Monthly?

I’m a nerd. And this was awesome.

Yeah those Lone Star bass are like the Coosa Spots they just look different than the other from the same species

Awesome.

This video made a subscriber out of me. Great content

Awesome

I just had a conversation about watching fish swim off on my graph. Crappie, perch, and any type of pan fish will follow a lure to the boat. As soon as you mark a bass, you just slowly see it move to the bottom.

I let my kid keep a feeder goldish. That was 13 years ago and it's still swimming upstairs right now. I've changed that water more times than I care to remember.

Great episode. Sprinkled with a Koe Wetzel koozie.

they need to re-introduce big smallies to lake whitney. At one time they were booming and nearly had a 8 lb. lake record by a old friend of mine Ron Gardner. Now Striper have flooded the texas parks and wildlife's resources because of revenue.

We need a law that says, wakeboarding on main lake ONLY!

I LOVE TPW.

I can't figure out how the fish adapt after spraying. It's prevalent here on our natural northern lakes in the late summer/early fall. I can't find anything other than super scattered single fish. Any tips?

TPW is actually going to put in a rock pile in at Fork according to the local biologist.

Not true on Toledo. There are large pockets of grass coming back to include hydrilla. In a few years it be back up at the top. I'm talking large areas have grass now. But not near like 2016.

F that fly haha, got to me too when watching this. 🤣

Thank you for saying Sunfish and not perch. They are sunfish. Great podcast Zaldaingerous.

Great episode! Do you think you could include timestamps?

water temp cool well systems works great water temp at top is 91 I try to see what temp it at 3 to 5 feet then set my system to 10 below that so say it's 83 at 5 feet I set it at 70 are close to it no dead fish at all set it and it does all the work only thing u lose one back storage with ice for the system.. oooo yea one bag works for around 8 to 10 hours cause after u get it cool off then it's just maintain the temp at say 70 all day

So I was told that you shouldn't let other water in and then treat your water with peroxide and ice.

Of course there are way too many tournaments! Ban livescope too!!!

I wish Montana had this kind of fish and game. Ours is good, but could be better.

Smallies are mighty fine on a plate, too. Texas has a good fish and game dept.

Check out Ken Smith fishing channel and search for Todd Driscoll Tracking Study

Don’t be talking down on lady Lewisville now! 😂

I'd really enjoy watching this if Chris wasn't hosting

Not a fan of people tanking there fish all day just to show they can catch a fish to share on show you media

This government employee just milks a payday. Its simple

Effort? not Indiana! such a joke

I don’t know why it took so long to sub. My bad! Big fan and been watching you fish for awhile. Awesome content! Looking forward to seeing more. Thanks

Awesome episode… how often will y’all be putting out shows? Weekly? Monthly?

Awesome episode… how often will y’all be putting out shows? Weekly? Monthly?