Larry,
??? I'm not aware of any place in mass that large mouth are stocked.
I've been around avid freshwater bass fisherman all my life, my brother is one of them. Because I work with him I gota hear how they get juiced with increased licences and nothing to show for it. IMO what it boils down to is large mouth fisherman are paying to stock trout that alot of them don't even fish. We'll never know the exact numbers but I am well aware that there is a high number of freshwater bass ain't gettin chit.
As far as C R goes, why would fresh water bass fisherman wanna keep their catch? It doesn't make sence and thats why MOST don't....I hear more and more fish over #8 being released even bass that are consideriably bigger and being throw back and having replica's made.
To me this is another reason why Mass is backa$$wards