Orville Ball Florida Bass

In this episode, The Big Bass Podcast hosts Terry Battisti and Ken Duke discuss the Florida bass experiment conducted in 1959 in San Diego, California. The story starts out with three friends fishing crappie on Lake Henshaw in Southern California, one of them wondering why the bass he caught in Florida were much bigger on average than the fish he caught in California. That question triggered an idea that turned into reality. That reality then changed the face of trophy bass fishing forever.

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Larry Bottroff hold the 15-pound 7 3/4-ounce bass poached from Lower Otay Lake in 1970.

David Zimmerlee holds his 20-15 Florida strain largemouth bass he caught from lake Miramar June 23, 1973. Photo Sept/Oct 1973 issue of Bassmaster Magazine