Editor’s note: This story appears courtesy of Randy Zellers with the Arkansas Game & Fish Commission.
“This is probably one of the most exciting things I’ve been a part of in my career.” Arkansas Game and Fish Commission Fisheries Division Chief Tommy Laird could have been speaking for at least a dozen members of the AGFC’s staff when he said those words in mid-July at the unveiling of the Legacy Lunker trophy bass program that will kick off Jan. 1.
Arkansas Legacy Lunker combines citizen science with advanced hatchery technology and techniques to reinforce superior genetics in Arkansas’ largemouth bass populations…