Behavioral Differences Between Bass Species

[Catt]

Here's your reason coryn!

I have a project, experiment, assignment or what ever ya want to call it for 2014.

Take the total of you in 2013 & double it in 2014!

Take the largest bass you caught in 2013 & add 8 ozs to it in 2014!

To truly understand the behavior of a bass one must also understand its environment & its ecosystem.

Here's question for you?

Can you stand on the bank of a body, look at the shoreline cover; grass, shrubs, brush, trees, emergent, submergent vegetation & then determine bottom composition.

Streams, creeks, bayous, rivers, ponds, natural lake, & reservoirs are all different ecosystems. Each has a pronounced yet different on the behavior on bass.

They are affected by sunlight, water claity, dissolved oxygen, PH balance, water temperature, tide, salinity level, algae types, prey species & on. All of this determines the bass's behavior & most of it is not present in the controlled environment!

You have an understanding well beyond your years but you are looking at only one half of the picture.

[Brian Needham]

Catt that is an excellent project for everyone!

 

I wish I could look to exsisting cover and determine bottom hardness..... I have read some on the topic, but seem to go brain dead on the water and not pay the attention I should.

[coryn h. fishowl]

Take the total of you in 2013 & double it in 2014!

Take the largest bass you caught in 2013 & add 8 ozs to it in 2014!

To truly understand the behavior of a bass one must also understand its environment & its ecosystem.

Can you stand on the bank of a body, look at the shoreline cover; grass, shrubs, brush, trees, emergent, submergent vegetation & then determine bottom composition.

Streams, creeks, bayous, rivers, ponds, natural lake, & reservoirs are all different ecosystems. Each has a pronounced yet different on the behavior on bass.

They are affected by sunlight, water claity, dissolved oxygen, PH balance, water temperature, tide, salinity level, algae types, prey species & on. All of this determines the bass's behavior & most of it is not present in the controlled environment!

 

LOVE IT!!! Happy new years. Sorry for yet another hiatus, my user account on my computer got corrupted/deleted. *sigh*

 

 

 

I wish I could look to exsisting cover and determine bottom hardness..... I have read some on the topic, but seem to go brain dead on the water and not pay the attention I should.

Something similar happens to me too, quite often, I will go brain dead while reading the article...but usually because I find myself reading the stuff at 1:30 in the morning haha

[Fish'N Impossible]

I have noticed on our local lake, mud bottom, they red crawfish colors do not get bit, crankbaits included, because the crawfish in the lake never reach a red color, usually only brown or green. But 30 miles away in our Rock bottom lake red is a great color and performs very well consistently, because those crass actually get hot enough to turn the red hue in the summer.

[Catt]

coryn, you will find there is a method to my madness & it will make you a better angler if you can hang!

[coryn h. fishowl]

I can see the madness part, 13,000+ posts...good lord man, I'm a teenager and I don''t post on social networks that much. haha    Fishing>facebook

So how is cabin fever season? Whitetail season is dwon too, so I'm weathering the storm with a new book...Bass Wisdom

[Catt]

If ya gonna do the math do all of it!

13,220 post over 9 yrs or approximately 3,050 days, which averages 4.34 post daily.

The bulk of that is found in my ongoing thread on teaching anglers to fish Toledo Bend, which just happens to the the largest ongoing thread on the site.

I've also authored several large threads on fishing structure, fishing grass, & fishing pre-spawn through the spawn.

All of it is based on personal experience not some thing I Googled!

[Nitrofreak]

coryn, you will find there is a method to my madness & it will make you a better angler if you can hang!

 

True Dat !!!!

[coryn h. fishowl]

If ya gonna do the math do all of it!

13,220 post over 9 yrs or approximately 3,050 days, which averages 4.34 post daily.

The bulk of that is found in my ongoing thread on teaching anglers to fish Toledo Bend, which just happens to the the largest ongoing thread on the site.

I've also authored several large threads on fishing structure, fishing grass, & fishing pre-spawn through the spawn.

All of it is based on personal experience not some thing I Googled!

The great thing about fishing is, you learn from screw ups (because having a hook stuck in you or losing a $10 Rapala is a good motivator to not screw up again.) haha

[A-Jay]

On this most snowy Thursday in February, I'm bringing this one back ~

It's a little dusty but it's LOADED

with so many 'Golden Nuggets' of info.

What I really appreciate is the sharing from so many great minds

and just how many different directions they each approach the subject matter from.

Nicely Done.

A-Jay

 

[Swamp Girl]

On 10/27/2013 at 1:20 AM, coryn h. fishowl said:

NE bass are less likely to strike (brightly colored) salamander baits because the real thing, inn that area, is usually poisonous.

 

There are always exceptions. I live in the northeastiest state and only used a salamander one time. It was bright blue and I caught twenty-some bass before I switched to an underspin because the salamander bass were smaller than the ones I usually catch.

 

On 10/29/2013 at 12:14 PM, WRB said:

What happened to the green weenie? Why did bass everywhere stop eating it? Did anglers tire of catching bass on weenies or did the bass learn to avoid it.

 

I bet it would work again, that the bass learned to avoid it, but have since forgotten to avoid it and weren't alive to learn to the initial lesson.

 

On 10/29/2013 at 9:11 AM, coryn h. fishowl said:

Fish are stupid and on a scale of intelligence as compared to higher forms, ranks right down there with insects and as with insects have reflexes and instincts to help them survive.

 

Don't underestimate instincts. They are vastly superior to intellect in some ways. Imagine that some mysterious force suddenly hollowed your bones. That same force also made you grow feathers and wings and lose lots of weight. On paper, you can fly, but in person, do you really think you can survive learning to fly? Do you think you'll ever learn to do what a common sparrow can do, i.e. fly pell-mell into trees and never strike a single branch?

 

Watch an infant learn to walk: It's slow and involves lots of falls...and that's after nine to eighteen months of maturation. A caribou calf walks within seconds of being born. So do many other animals. 

 

My point is that inferior intellect doesn't make bass dumb. They have instincts, which are arguably superior. Our species has only been here 200,000 years. Bass have been here 23,000,000 years. I wouldn't bet a dime that humans will still be here in 22,800,000 years. 

 

Yes, I understand that intellect has enabled us to fly and cross oceans in great ships, but those planes and ships were created by the rare giants who arise among our species. The rest of us are pygmies standing atop their shoulders. 

[Rockhopper]

3 hours ago, A-Jay said:

On this most snowy Thursday in February, I'm bringing this one back ~

It's a little dusty but it's LOADED

with so many 'Golden Nuggets' of info.

What I really appreciate is the sharing from so many great minds

and just how many different directions they each approach the subject matter from.

Nicely Done.

A-Jay

 

Thank you for doing so.  This thread was a good read.