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While a large mouth is a large mouth, I believe there are several different strains across the country. For years, I have heard Florida strain large mouth bass got larger than most other strains; while I was in Texas in the early and mid 1990s all the big buzz was about the introduction of Florida strain large mouth coming to Texas.

I know there are several different strains of musky and in southern IL, a strain from Minnesota was introduced when a few new dams were used to create a few man-made lakes. They grow huge in the waters of southern IL, but the summer heat makes them hands-off Jun - Aug.