What’s going to kill all of the bass next?

[CaptMikeStarrett]

Ned rig.. hmmm OR Maybe the furbit frog will be the real killer this year.

 

Capt Mike

[TriStateBassin106]

The only thing that's going to end up killing bass is if we mutate some hybrid bass and other fish species like they did with the T-rex in jurassic world and the new predator only feeds on normal bass. 

 

 

Bass aren't going anywhere, I hear so many people say that the common carp are going to wipe them out but this is only a half truth and depends on the body of water. 

 

IMO If a pond/lake has a huge carp population and if they just started to stock bass in the waterbodies odds are the bass won't do well. 

 

(We have a Carp Pond here in my town in NY that they tried stocking bass and bluegil in and the bass haven't really been doing well in there. You'd be lucky to catch one at all.) 

 

IMO if a waterbody introduces carp to a huge bass population they actually work pretty well together. Carp clean up on the excessive vegetation and can open up more body structure for bass to hang out in such as channels and humps. 

[BassNJake]

23 hours ago, J Francho said:

Spinner rims (Sprewells)

 

 

 

 

Leave my rims out of this, ain't never hurt nobody

[Logan S]

Dang, page two and no one has mentioned livewells or bed-fishing yet? ?

[Tennessee Boy]

1 hour ago, Logan S said:

Dang, page two and no one has mentioned livewells or bed-fishing yet? ?

Good catch.  I also forgot.

 

Using a net to land fish

  and

Not using a net to land fish

[kdubracing]

I live 3 blocks from the Illinois River. It is overrun with Asian carp. The fishing on this river is ridiculously terrible due to them.

[Columbia Craw]

State Fish and Wildlife Management

[JediAmoeba]

Has anyone mentioned plastic straws?  I heard they are systematically wiping out all the wildlife.

[MickD]

On 1/13/2020 at 3:12 PM, TnRiver46 said:

Gloom and doom from bass fishermen is their greatest threat 

How does gloom and doom threaten bass?

I think in MI the biggest threat is the proposals to allow tournaments during the spawn.  This not immediate release, but the traditional "take em to a distant weigh int tournament."

[LadiMopar]

On 1/13/2020 at 2:52 PM, MN Fisher said:

Over Management.

PETA

 

I've been a member of PETA my whole life....People Eating Tasty Animals ? ?

[Bluebasser86]

2 hours ago, kdubracing said:

I live 3 blocks from the Illinois River. It is overrun with Asian carp. The fishing on this river is ridiculously terrible due to them.

It's weird how they've overrun that river like they have, but they're in the Mississippi, Missouri, and Kansas rivers, have been for a couple decades now, but the fish populations have learned to live with them (see also, eat them). Can't find many shad anymore, but man is everything in the river fat and happy and packed full of baby Asian carp (or adult carp in the case of big flatheads and blue cats).

[bassguytom]

The 2 things that are responsible for the decline of my bass fishery are the Banjo Mnnow and the Helicopter  Lure. 

[kdubracing]

2 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

It's weird how they've overrun that river like they have, but they're in the Mississippi, Missouri, and Kansas rivers, have been for a couple decades now, but the fish populations have learned to live with them (see also, eat them). Can't find many shad anymore, but man is everything in the river fat and happy and packed full of baby Asian carp (or adult carp in the case of big flatheads and blue cats).

The only thing I can think of is 

1. there isn’t anything to eat the eggs and

2. The predators aren’t big enough to eat any carp of some size. 
 

Whatever the reason is, it’s a huge problem in this river.

[TnRiver46]

12 hours ago, MickD said:

How does gloom and doom threaten bass?

I think in MI the biggest threat is the proposals to allow tournaments during the spawn.  This not immediate release, but the traditional "take em to a distant weigh int tournament."

Because humans tend to panic and intervene, typically making things worse. Like introducing kudzu to control erosion, turns out it only contributes to the problem  

[1024cwalker]

On 1/13/2020 at 5:42 PM, Tennessee Boy said:

For everything on my list, I could have written a paragraph or more about the serious conversations I’ve had over the years with fishing friends and fellow bass club members about how these things were going to ruin fishing.  Some of the things on the list still could I guess.  The point I think needs to be made is fishery’s are complex and we really don’t know how they will react to changes. Most of the things anglers were panicking about 30 years ago turned out not to be a problem.  At one point people were afraid that evasive aquatic vegetation was going to destroy Lake Guntersville.  Twenty years later the bass fishing community went  ballistic when there was talk of trying to kill it all.  Sometimes what we think is harmful turns out to be helpful.  I have released every bass I have caught in the last 30 years but I’m not sure if that helps the fishing or contributes to overpopulation.  It probably depends on the fishery.  Something has had a major impact on Kentucky Lake in the last few years.  Most people are blaming Asian Carp.  I’m sure they haven’t helped but I don’t know how much they are to blame.  The experts are not say they are the only cause.  Some people around here are saying they need to kill everything in Kentucky lake and start over.  That’s crazy on so many levels and it’s impossible.  I try to listen to the experts and follow their recommendations and the regulations that are implemented based on their findings.  I also try to not to panic when some pro says the Ned rig is killing thousands of bass.

If a boat sinks almost instantly the life in the water adapts to it, nothing we as people is gonna actually help. Our waterways would be fine without us. We might make changes to amend problems we made ourselves but Unfortunately I feel like alot of the brain storming we do is just trying to rational why fishing isnt the same. Bass will only make the same mistakes a few times in their lives so unless ky starts focusing on fishing to match the influx of people interested in fishing Texas with their sharelunker program will run the states fishing scene.

[Woody B]

Forward Facing Sonar is going to kill off all the bass.   All you have to do it turn it on, and they jump in the boat.   (yes I'm kidding,  and I never call if forward facing sonar)

[Darth-Baiter]

Humans.  

[throttleplate]

10 hours ago, Woody B said:

Forward Facing Sonar is going to kill off all the bass.   All you have to do it turn it on, and they jump in the boat.   (yes I'm kidding,  and I never call if forward facing sonar)

 

[RB 77]

On 1/13/2020 at 10:56 AM, J Francho said:

Sankeheads

EU milfoil

Curly leaf pond weed

Round gobies

Quagga mussels

Assorted cichlid species

Lawn fertilizer

Jumping carp

Damming

Drought

Acid Rain

Body piercing

Tatoos

Kale

Legalization

Cable TV

EVs

Samsung

Wildfires

Sharknado

Spinner rims (Sprewells)

Crocks

Socks that don't match

Tofurky

 

 

 

 

You forgot 5G...

[Woody B]

1 hour ago, RB 77 said:

 

 

You forgot 5G...

5G isn't killing bass, it's killing us.

[A-Jay]

Through the lip cull clips, gobies, Zebra mussels and fillet knives will end it all.

No sense even making a cast these days.

A-Jay

 

 

[WRB]

32 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

Through the lip cull clips, gobies, Zebra mussels and fillet knives will end it all.

No sense even making a cast these days.

A-Jay

 

 

If you look at the tournament result of 2023 derbies at Castiac and Casitas only a hand full of bass were weighed in;

Winning weight for 2 events was under 3 Lbs, the heavier was 7 lbs with 90% of the field blanked! 

Tom