Equipment Failure/ 2 Questions

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#1. Could there be 2 female bass and no male on the same bed?

#2. What exactly is a straight-eye megabass vision 110 supposed to do?

The failure:

I went to chuck some hudds today in my new hole. No takers. I did find a couple of bedfish; one about a 3#, the other about a 5#, both on the SAME bed. Well, swimbaiting wasn't working, so I tried to see if the bedfish would be interested in my hudd. The little one kept biting the tail and dragging it away from the bed. No luck.

Then I remembered I had a spinning rod and a megabass vision 110 in my car from yesterday. The megabass is a straight-eye, which is supposed to do something out of this world. All mine does is float with a little of it's back out, and the head down at a 60 degree angle in the water. Maybe some JDM enthusiast can say what it's exactly supposed to do?

The megabass was useless as a jerkbait, but I had another idea. Took the front treble off, and tied a little piece of rock (didn't even have a sinker) to do a little dropshotting on the bed.

The bed fish weren't big enough to fish for, but I wanted to try out Matt's (Matt Servant/ Mattlures) advice; of bedfishing aggresively and trying to gauge the fish'es reaction. It worked!

The 3# bit after about 15 minutes of working over. It actually went 2.75# though. The bigger one took almost an hour of coaxing, but finally it did bite. Set the hook, fought her for 15 odd seconds with the drag singing (10 lb test on spinning rod), and then she came off. I thought she had thrown the bait, but actually one of the barbs broke clean off! Are these Katsuage outbarbs meant to catch bluegills or what?

Anyway, I was a little mad at first. Not so much now. It was only a 5#, I tried out what I learnt from Matt's post, got her to bite. Pretty cool, all in all.

Now, only if I could find a 10# on a bed, I know what to do

[deaknh03]

The straight eye is the jdm version, and is supposed to float parallel to the surface. Did yours have the stock hooks on it still? When replacing the hooks you need to use the vision hooks to weight the bait properly.

[J Francho]

#1. Could there be 2 female bass and no male on the same bed?

What made you think you were dealing with this? The 3# was the male, since it was actively defending the nest - something females don't do as much. The larger, harder to catch fish was the female. They have nothing invested in the nest, so they generally take more time to coax.

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You're probably right J. The smaller one might have been the male.

However, 2.75# seems to be pretty big for a male (yes, I weighed him); and if it was a male, why couldn't it find a bigger female? There are fish at least as big as 8# in that reservoir...

P.S. I messed around with that megabass a bit more, and now I have a "killer" bed-fishing bait!