Super User senile1 Posted July 18, 2013 Super User Posted July 18, 2013 How deep was the fish caught? 9 - 10 feet deep in 11 - 12 feet of water Did the lure contain rattles or have hinges? No. Lure was a spinnerbait. Was the lure a natural color (brown, green) or was it an unnatural color (chartreuse, orange)? chartreuse/white If possible, what moon phase was your PB caught during? 3rd Quarter Quote
MichiganFishing1997 Posted July 18, 2013 Posted July 18, 2013 How deep was the fish caught? 3-4 feet Did the lure contain rattles or have hinges? No Was the lure a natural color (brown, green) or was it an unnatural color (chartreuse, orange)? Unnatural If possible, what moon phase was your PB caught during? No idea, cought it about a week ago though. Quote
deadadrift89 Posted July 18, 2013 Posted July 18, 2013 How deep was the fish caught? 8' Did the lure contain rattles or have hinges? No Was the lure a natural color (brown, green) or was it an unnatural color (chartreuse, orange)? Junebug If possible, what moon phase was your PB caught during? Waxing Crescent Quote
Super User senile1 Posted July 18, 2013 Super User Posted July 18, 2013 If you don't know, or don't remember, the moon phase when you caught your personal best go to this site: http://www.moonconnection.com/moon_phases_calendar.phtml and enter the month and year when you caught your fish in the calendar. Make sure you choose the correct hemisphere. Then look for the day of the month. If you aren't familiar with the symbols used for the different phases, click on "moon phases explained" in the menu on the left. Quote
Jake Coucoules Posted July 18, 2013 Posted July 18, 2013 How deep was the fish caught? 6 feet Did the lure contain rattles or have hinges? no Was the lure a natural color (brown, green) or was it an unnatural color (chartreuse, orange)? shad If possible, what moon phase was your PB caught during? day after full moon Quote
Smallmouth Hunter Posted July 18, 2013 Posted July 18, 2013 Average depth caught in: <2 (spawning) Rattles/hinges vs silent: silent Natural vs unnatural colors: natural Moon phases: April 12, 2013 - don't know the phase though Quote
aqualkinbush Posted July 18, 2013 Posted July 18, 2013 How deep was the fish caught? 3-4ft on a very deep sloping bank Did the lure contain rattles or have hinges?no rapala minnow style crankbait Was the lure a natural color (brown, green) or was it an unnatural color (chartreuse, orange)? FireTiger If possible, what moon phase was your PB caught during? Not sure. Quote
chubaka Posted July 20, 2013 Posted July 20, 2013 How deep was the fish caught? 1-2ft of water. Did the lure contain rattles or have hinges? Yes it did. Was the lure a natural color (brown, green) or was it an unnatural color (chartreuse, orange)? Natural color it is. If possible, what moon phase was your PB caught during? Nada. Quote
Super User Darren. Posted July 20, 2013 Super User Posted July 20, 2013 How deep was the fish caught? ~ 4 feet Did the lure contain rattles or have hinges? No Was the lure a natural color (brown, green) or was it an unnatural color (chartreuse, orange)? Yes (natural) If possible, what moon phase was your PB caught during? April 20, 2012 looks like a waning crescent just before new moon Quote
AndyTN Posted July 20, 2013 Posted July 20, 2013 My PB was on live bait that I had caught beforehand, but for an artificial lure - How deep was the fish caught? 14-15' Did the lure contain rattles or have hinges? No - BPS 3.5" Tender Tube Was the lure a natural color (brown, green) or was it an unnatural color (chartreuse, orange)? Brown with gold specs If possible, what moon phase was your PB caught during? Unk. Quote
Mattlures Posted July 20, 2013 Posted July 20, 2013 about 3 feet but it was a bed fish. my biggest non bed fish was in about 15-20ft the bait was my soft bluegill swimbait so no hinges or rattles but my biggest non bed fish was caught on my hardgill which does have joints. The colors are very natural. I don't remember the moon. I have read Hannon's book and it was interesting. His opinions and observations are clearly made from his experiances fishing weedy shallow florida lakes. A lot of his opinions would not be the same had he grew up out west fishing deep clear resivoirs. Bass do not act the same in different types of bodies of water. While some of their habits seem to be the same others change depending upon location. It appeared as though he based his opinions on bass behavior, from a very specific environment. Quote
Super User Shane J Posted July 20, 2013 Super User Posted July 20, 2013 How deep was the fish caught? 17' Did the lure contain rattles or have hinges? No ( jig/Lobster) Was the lure a natural color (brown, green) or was it an unnatural color (chartreuse, orange)? Natural Colors If possible, what moon phase was your PB caught during? March 1, 2013 3/4 moon, Waning Quote
Jolly Green Posted July 20, 2013 Posted July 20, 2013 How deep was the fish caught? 2' Did the lure contain rattles or have hinges? Nope, 4" fluke Was the lure a natural color (brown, green) or was it an unnatural color (chartreuse, orange)? White If possible, what moon phase was your PB caught during? Waxing crescent Quote
Jay Ell Gee Posted July 21, 2013 Posted July 21, 2013 How deep was the fish caught? 1-2 ft (under shaded mat) Did the lure contain rattles or have hinges? No (Wacky Rigged Strike King Shim-e Stick) Was the lure a natural color (brown, green) or was it an unnatural color (chartreuse, orange)? Natural (Green Pumpkin/Red Flake) If possible, what moon phase was your PB caught during? Third Quarter Quote
merc1997 Posted July 21, 2013 Posted July 21, 2013 depth 15ft. jig rubber skirt, black and blue, pork trailer, no rattles new moon time 4pm Quote
SDoolittle Posted July 21, 2013 Posted July 21, 2013 How deep was the fish caught? 30' Did the lure contain rattles or have hinges? No Was the lure a natural color (brown, green) or was it an unnatural color (chartreuse, orange)? Natural If possible, what moon phase was your PB caught during? New moon Quote
bgraham91 Posted July 21, 2013 Posted July 21, 2013 How deep was the fish caught? 11 FT Did the lure contain rattles or have hinges? RATTLES Was the lure a natural color (brown, green) or was it an unnatural color (chartreuse, orange)? WHITE If possible, what moon phase was your PB caught during? NS Quote
Derriick Posted July 22, 2013 Posted July 22, 2013 about 3 feet but it was a bed fish. my biggest non bed fish was in about 15-20ft the bait was my soft bluegill swimbait so no hinges or rattles but my biggest non bed fish was caught on my hardgill which does have joints. The colors are very natural. I don't remember the moon. I have read Hannon's book and it was interesting. His opinions and observations are clearly made from his experiances fishing weedy shallow florida lakes. A lot of his opinions would not be the same had he grew up out west fishing deep clear resivoirs. Bass do not act the same in different types of bodies of water. While some of their habits seem to be the same others change depending upon location. It appeared as though he based his opinions on bass behavior, from a very specific environment. This. Quote
Super User flyfisher Posted July 22, 2013 Super User Posted July 22, 2013 3-4 ft no no and i have no idea Wouldn't time of year have a big role in this as well? Quote
gripnrip Posted July 22, 2013 Posted July 22, 2013 How deep was the fish caught? Topwater Did the lure contain rattles or have hinges? Yes Was the lure a natural color (brown, green) or was it an unnatural color (chartreuse, orange)? Natural/all chrome If possible, what moon phase was your PB caught during? I wish I could tell you. It was 20 years ago and during the summer. Quote
NEjitterbugger Posted July 22, 2013 Posted July 22, 2013 How deep was the fish caught? 4 ft Did the lure contain rattles or have hinges? yes Was the lure a natural color (brown, green) or was it an unnatural color (chartreuse, orange)? natural If possible, what moon phase was your PB caught during? no idea Quote
Brian6428 Posted July 22, 2013 Author Posted July 22, 2013 Thanks for all the replies. You guys brought up some very good points about Hannons observations being geared to shallow flordia lakes, and can't be compared to many of the western lakes, or even northern lakes. Either way, thanks for chiming in, it was still cool to see some of the qualities of the lures you guys caught your pb on. I dont have the exact nubmers but I think natural colors beat out unnatural by about a 70/30 split, and roughly the same for silent vs rattles, with silent winning. Thanks again! Brian Quote
Dave P Posted July 22, 2013 Posted July 22, 2013 How deep was the fish caught? 4 feet of water Did the lure contain rattles or have hinges? No Was the lure a natural color (brown, green) or was it an unnatural color (chartreuse, orange)? Chartreuse and Blue If possible, what moon phase was your PB caught during? Unknown. It was August the 3rd at 3 in the afternoon. Quote
Nice_Bass Posted July 23, 2013 Posted July 23, 2013 A few thoughts on this as I started to read the book after reading this thread to see if I could understand it myself. It seems that out of all the variables included in your questionnaire “depth” would be the most difficult to quantify for several different reasons. (yet oddly is only quantifiable) The first; would be part of the human element in that most don’t know the exact depth of the fish. Most are estimates at best and the actual depth could vary several feet in either direction. This can lead to variances in the data pool and would need a large set of data in order to eliminate some of the inaccuracies. Critical and less quantifiable would be the great geographic differences as others have mentioned between different coasts, even different ecosystems within the same area. Variables too numerous to count will change the depth at which the bass are feeding at, water quality, traffic, temperature, clarity, bottom composition, time of year etc. Taking into account that in his book he stated: “…large bass feed primarily in a depth range centering at 8 feet and ranging 5 feet on either side; in other words a 3 to 13 foot depth range.” Pg. 35 BBM If you were to take a large enough data set, such as the whole of Bass Resource data on PB’s, removing outliers and such data such as topwater in 35 ft, spawn in 1 fow, etc. and performed a statistical analysis on the remaining data I am still fairly confident that you would in fact find that the data would fall in that very same depth range of 8 fow with a 5 ft. deviation. While it may be true that most of the big fish come out of these deviations, it does not necessarily mean that the biggest fish of any population will in fact come out of that depth range. In addition, this way of thinking also assumes that everything will fall under this perfect normal distribution/Gaussian distribution since we in fact did remove the outliers which technically are a sub-populations that has been removed since it does not fit the model... but really should very well influence it. I guess long story short- you will need a ton data here and to get the real determination of that data will have to put a ton of work into the statistical analysis of it. I think it would be really neat if Bass Resource was able to collect that data from individual members at signup or by other means as a way of compiling that data for you. There could be data sets available already however- I would think states with great Fishery mgmt. such as Texas may have some available however it may take a bit of research. Also, butter milk. Not bad to drink-strangely satisfying and not just for marinating any longer. Quote
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