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water temp upper 60's water level down 8 or 9 ft ? me & Fuji wore lifejackets everytime we moved. lots of dangerous places. caught them schooling did not catch a striper all day in a school but caught spots and lg mouth some 3+ several. water was clear enough to see the bottom @ 7' you had to keep your stuff moving we guessed so they did not get a good look@ it also caught several crankin. them spots r some mean suckers ok share some Good Fishing

If you can get on those fish tomorrow it would be worth $150 to you. Come out to Twin Lakes in the morning and fish with us.

$25 per team
Safelight till 3pm

should have around 15 to 20 boats unless it rains

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would love to fish with you guys but can't do it gonna try to post a picture from Thursday its Fugi with 2 little moochies This was a diffrent place and these fish were on crankbaits. 5 biggest were about 25# Good Fishing

thanks for the report and the pict!!

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waters still down BFL boats were everywhere fish r still bitin and them spots r still mean this one had to weigh 4#s magnum I say good fishin

oh yea Fugi is a machine you can't take him anywhere without him showing out

That is not a spot. Look carefully! It is a redeye or as commonly referred to at Hartwell, it is a coosa. Not a spot and maybe close to a state record if it weighed 4.

I looked it up and the state record redeye is 5 lbs 2.5 oz. Extremely nice one though. The spots are making them disappear from Hartwell. They are not in there like they were several years ago.

ok you got me it looked like a giant redeye it was as wide side to side as top to bottom. the body had outgrown the head. fugi & I both think it was 4# we're usally pretty close here's a blurred shot how can you tell the diffrence? Good Fishing

It is not that hard to tell the two species apart. A redeye like you are holding in the picture has some dead give-away. They typically look more like a smallmouth than a largemouth. Really they look like a smallmouth with a largemouth body if you ask me. Anyway, notice the white sections along the bottom of the tail fin. That is a dead give away for a redeye. The nasty, no good, unwanted, trespassing spots don't have this. Also the strip of white around the eye is a give away. Most of the time you can simply identify the redeye by the color and markings on their sides but when in doubt, look for that white strip on the tail fin.

The DNR says the spots are cross-breeding with the redeyes and this hybridization is eliminating the species. The DNR is not worried that the non-native spots are displacing our natural largemouth. They simply don't have their priorities in order.

The redeyes in Hartwell are unusual. Where else can you catch a 4 lb redeye? Not many other places.

Thats why we call em spoosas on hartwell. I have seen 5+ pound spoosas come out of hartwell regularly especially in the winter.