LAKE BOIS D�ARC PROJECT, 2: Anglers, there may be a 
trophy largemouth bass in your future. We explain 
on Passport to Texas

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Lake Bois d� Arc, a new reservoir project 70 miles 
northeast of Dallas, may be the future hot spot for trophy 
largemouth bass

15�One of the main things we are doing is establishing some nursery 
ponds that we can come into and introduce some genetically superior 
largemouth bass strains that have the potential for growth into that 
trophy status over eight pounds or so. 

Dan Bennett is a natural resources specialist with Parks 
and Wildlife 
	
22�Those are Florida strain Largemouth bass and we are hoping that 
this is going to be the first opportunity to come into a new reservoir 
with some of those ShareLunker offspring that are produced at our 
Freshwater Center in Athens. The ShareLunker are fish over 13 
pounds and larger that have been donated to our selective breeding 
program.

ShareLunkers are fish with proven genetic potential 
to reach a trophy size.
	
29�So we are hoping that those fish we stocked in those nursery 
ponds come through that program.  If that�s the case, we should be 
able to track those fish long term.  Once this reservoir has existed for 
eight or ten years, we may be seeing some large fish caught by 
anglers over there that we can then genetically trace them back to a 
particular lineage that may have originated from that hatchery down 
in Athens.

The Sport Fish Restoration program supports our 
series.

 	For Texas Parks and Wildlife�I�m Cecilia Nasti. 






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