Caught on lake marion where i live here in SC .
As for the pic frickin monster!
congratulations:lifter are you gonna eat that thing?
Dang hdgb! And I thought Lake Marions claim to fame were the "RockFish"
I'm thinking cold beer, steaks or Gumbo, slow cooked.
Ya i suppose it used to be but do to many years of drought in this area as well as the proliferation of Commarrant birds wintering here. The numbers of Rockfish (land locked striper) have dropped off alot. The size limit has dropped as well as the creel limit and they close all striper fishing all summer. Maybe down the road it will help. They simply are not what they use to be here.
The catfishing has been very good w/ some true monster being caught but even that has taken a hit as some charter boats intertaining guests take hundreds of pounds a day. Ya i did say hundreds of pounds of catfish. We also have commercial trot liners leaving hooks all over the lake harvesting an incredible number of these fish. Regs have restricted the taking of blue cats to one over 36in a day. personnally i don't keep any that big just take a pic and send em back to make more. The size of the lake system and lack of law enforcement people on it make it vertually impossible to enforce any regs anyway.