OT "..home of the fighting Florida strain micropterus salmoides"
I had to go look this up, thinking I would find some little creepy-crawly little salmonella-like microbe that infests the cracks of your skin, or some such other evil fungus. LOL.
Around here they're called big-mouth bass, because in our mountain rivers the small-mouth is also very common. I grew up in Oklahoma, where they were most commonly called black bass, or wide-mouth bass.
I thought they were the most fun fish in the world to catch, but the first time I got hold of a 2½ pound small mouth after I moved to East Tennessee, I found its equal.
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