Remember, not all lakes in Central California have flordida strain bass. Lopez, Margarita, San Antonio, Nacimiento and Cachuma are all predominantly northern strain. Cachuma and Lopez may have some florida strain fish in them, but the only one of those lakes that has produced a fish over 15 is Cachuma.

If you head east to lakes like Isabella, Kaweah, Success, Eastman, and Hensley ... I'm pretty sure they all have florida strain fish and odds consequently go way up for bigger fish. In 2001, Success produced a 19.03lb fish. In 1984 Isabella kicked out fish that were 18lbs 13oz and 18lbs 15oz.

Whether or not the canals you are talking about could produce a huge fish depends on a lot of things but the first thing is florida strain bass. If they aren't' floridas, anything over 14lbs is pretty much impossible.

When you look at the top 25 of all time, there's not much in the way of canals listed, so that's probably why people don't talk about canals producing the world record. Not saying it couldn't happen, anything could happen, just pointing out the realities

http://espn.go.com/outdoors/fishing/s/f_fea_bass_top25list.html