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Article: The bass are bigger, the weather's cooler at Lake Isabella northeast of Bakersfield.
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- October 1, 1984
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The bass are bigger, the weather's cooler at Lake Isabella northeast of Bakersfield
Trophy-size bass could be your reward for a fall trip to Lake Isabella, about 100 miles southeast of Visalia. A year ago, a catch weighing some 16 1/2 pounds broke the lake record by 3 pounds and prompted news of Isabella's comeback after a lean decade. The current record, set last spring, is just under 19 pounds.
One reason for the comeback: a strain of big, hard-to-catch largemouth bass from Florida, planted in 1972 by the California Department of Fish and Game, has crossbred with the lake's smaller bass, resulting in a new, weightier strain.
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