Most common reason for not catching bass?

[rod snapper]

40 minutes ago, J.Vincent said:

 

Missing breakfast 

This  ^^^

And

If you have the opportunity, find a smaller lake or pond and find where the fish are in that water, and apply the information that you found on the larger body of water. Or just fish the smaller water, because its usually a lot easier to catch fish in that environment.?

[Mike L]

3 hours ago, davecon said:

I will take friendly exception to your last paragraph. 

 

I’m in Florida and cold fronts can really have an impact. Sure a pro might scratch some out but probably not us guys on this site.

 

I vividly remember a club tournament from the early 70’s when I had just started fishing tournaments. It was a 2 day affair. Now remember, we are just working stiffs, having a good time but still fishing hard.

 

On Saturday 18 of 22 boats had at least one 8 pounder. One fellow caught 3 over 9. If you didn’t have at least 20 pounds you were embarrassed to go to the scales.

 

Saturday night a cold front came thru.

 

Sunday, a total of ONE 12 inch bass was caught !

 

Convinced me in no uncertain terms that some days they just ain’t bitting.

 

These cold front impacts may be limited to Florida, but that’s my world.

Dave

A lot of folks don't understand what happens then and why more times than not it's just better to stay in bed. 

That is our world for sure. 

 

Florida strain transplanted to other parts of the country must not be as effected as pure bloods.  

 

 

 

 

Mike

[jbsoonerfan]

Not lucky enough 

[Tennessee Boy]

3 hours ago, davecon said:

On Saturday 18 of 22 boats had at least one 8 pounder. One fellow caught 3 over 9. If you didn’t have at least 20 pounds you were embarrassed to go to the scales.

 

Saturday night a cold front came thru.

 

Sunday, a total of ONE 12 inch bass was caught !

That is pretty brutal.  I've struggled during cold fronts but never seen a tournament like that.  

 

I fished club tournaments many years ago.  In about 250 tournament there was only one where the conditions stumped everyone.  The high for the day was in the low 20s and only six boats showed up.  One guy caught two keepers and everyone else got skunked.  Still if there had been more boats,  maybe someone would have figured them out.   I don't think we had another tournament where the winning weight was below seven pounds.  Seven pounds for two anglers with five fish limits each is not good but still worth showing up for.  Obviously,  there are extreme situations that can make fishing very difficult.  I always hit the water with the attitude that someone is gonna catch some fish on this lake today and it might as well be me.  I've had my share of days when it was not me.

[TnRiver46]

41 minutes ago, Mike L said:

Dave

A lot of folks don't understand what happens then and why more times than not it's just better to stay in bed. 

That is our world for sure. 

 

Florida strain transplanted to other parts of the country must not be as effected as pure bloods.  

 

 

 

 

Mike

They breed with the local population. The F1 hybrid that result (first generation) are the big ones that people catch. They are big like FLA bass but not bothered by cold . They DNA sampled a bunch of big bass from several weigh ins over a period over years thinking they would find all the big ones were Florida strain. 0 percent of them were pure Florida, 100 percent were F1 hybrids. I think they only sampled fish over 8 lbs.  I have experienced first hand fishing in FLA in the cold. They won't bite 

[the reel ess]

Going to work instead of fishing.

[TnRiver46]

2 minutes ago, the reel ess said:

Going to work instead of fishing.

That one gets me all the time...... Especially Monday through Friday 

[WRB]

One of the things tournament fishing teaches you is the bass are always biting someplace on lures you didn’t use or present the same technique, depth or place you fished unsuccessfully.

Making excuses is human nature. When you blank and others caught them can be humbling experience to learn from.

Tom

 

[GReb]

2 hours ago, WRB said:

One of the things tournament fishing teaches you is the bass are always biting someplace on lures you didn’t use or present the same technique, depth or place you fished unsuccessfully.

Making excuses is human nature. When you blank and others caught them can be humbling experience to learn from.

Tom

 

Nothing is more humbling than catching 1 or 2 and while your loading up the guy next to you caught 50 with a couple of toads. And the only difference he went left and you went right

[Oregon Native]

If it was easy everyone would do it...….