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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lbursell" data-source="post: 170823" data-attributes="member: 3905"><p>Here in Texas, we have the Lone Star Share-A-Lunker program.  Catch a bass over 13 pounds and Texas Parks and Wildlife will send a crew to take possesion of her.  They take her to their hatchery in Athens for breeding, which is intended to improve the genetics for the next year's stocking.  In return, they give you a fiberglass mount for bragging rights and return the fish to you when they are done.  Most return her to her home waters.  Not sure of the exact number, but I believe they have had well over a hundred donations, with the biggest number (but by no means all) coming from Lake Fork.  The Share-A-Lunker program has been going for at least fifteen years, that I know of.</p></blockquote><p></p>