The bass at Berryessa do not spook easily

[Wizzlebiz]

Took the wife to lake Berryessa yesterday for a bit of fishing and swimming. 

 

The bass just did not care about us being in the water at all. They swam incredibly close to us. One jumped out of the water 2 feet from the wifes head. 

 

They also didnt seem to care if my lure hit hard soft or in between during fishing time. Fish everywhere just doing there thing. 

 

These bass are so desensitized to human activity its mind boggling.

[islandbass]

Some of the bass in a lake I fish are acclimated as such. 

 

I even let jigs and senkos bump bump them on their heads without a flinch.

 

I have even had one swim up barely a rod’s length away look and stare at me for a few seconds and then nonchalantly about face and swim away. 

 

My findings have been that that while they can be skittish, they can be equally non skittish. 

[Wizzlebiz]

4 minutes ago, islandbass said:

Some of the bass in a lake I fish are acclimated as such. 

 

I even let jigs and senkos bump bump them on their heads without a flinch.

 

I have even had one swim up barely a rod’s length away look and stare at me for a few seconds and then nonchalantly about face and swim away. 

 

My findings have been that that while they can be skittish, they can be equally non skittish. 

They were swimming directly at me while I was fishing. I would try to lead them with my lure but they just didnt care. They were swimming the bank all day long. They saw me and just kept doing what they do. 

 

Like you said I could have hit them on the head with a jig and they wouldnt have cared. 

[islandbass]

2 hours ago, Wizzlebiz said:

They were swimming directly at me while I was fishing. I would try to lead them with my lure but they just didnt care. They were swimming the bank all day long. They saw me and just kept doing what they do. 

 

Like you said I could have hit them on the head with a jig and they wouldnt have cared. 

I actually hit them on the head with my precise pitches, lol.

 

I do have an idea about what those bass might have been discussing about you, and it was probably what the bass in my lake talked about among each other.

 

Islandbass' Bass

Bass 1: Hey, look. It's islandbass coming up on the dock.

Bass 2: Awesome. I love giving him a hard time of not biting.

Bass 3: Right! Okay, here's the deal.  Nobody bite on any lure he throws to us.  Nothing. No matter what.

Bass 1: Sounds good, but let's have an exception.

Bass 2: Like what?

Bass 3: Oh, Oh, oh! I know, unless he throw's a rooster tail.

Bass 2: But he hasn't thrown one since he first started fishing years ago.

Bass 1: (chuckling) -- That's the point, you dumb bass, he won't have one.

 

 

 

 

[JediAmoeba]

They need to introduce musky and Pike to all the California lakes.  I want to see them losing lures like the northerners 

[MassYak85]

When I was down in Virginia for a couple summers I fished some relatively pressured reservoirs. I had what was probably a 6lb bass swim right up to my kayak to check me out, taunt me for a few seconds and then lazily swim away without a care in the world. Bass are weird, sometimes they act like this other times you look at them wrong and they dart into deep water. 

[Bluebasser86]

For every one you see hanging around, you probably scared 10 off with your presence.

[Wizzlebiz]

6 minutes ago, Bluebasser86 said:

For every one you see hanging around, you probably scared 10 off with your presence.

Im sure you are correct on that.