When to move on?

[DitchPanda]

1 hour ago, slonezp said:

In general, fish of the same year class, hang together. If you have 5 fish totaling 10lbs in your livewell, you will be culling ounces, not pounds fishing the same school.

I don't disagree with this..but for me it doesn't matter really. I'm not tourney fishing so unless I'm on total dinks I'll stay and pound on em until they quit.

[Sphynx]

On 7/28/2020 at 7:05 AM, scaleface said:

Kind of like catching them at the mouth of creeks in the morning and the rear in the afternoon . Did the fish move or did the bite move ? I dont know why it happens , it just happens .

Questions like these are interesting as an academic exercise, but when you are fishing, it makes a lot less sense to ponder the "why". I save that sort of contemplation for when I'm at work, when I have a rod in hand, "because that's how it is" is more than a sufficient answer if it gets me bit

[Bankc]

In my experience, with live bait it's best to find a good spot and let the fish come to you.  With lures, you're best off constantly moving.  

 

Though there are so many other factors that can come into play that I wouldn't make that a hard and fast rule. It's just a gross generalization.  My only rules would be, if you've sat there a for an hour without a nibble, it's time to move.  And if you caught something on your first cast, you gotta throw a second.  

[Jim Baker]

As the Bass Resource guy said in the summer bass video, big bass are loners, so most likely if you are catching smaller bass you may be near a school of them but only one big hawg may lurk. I see that a lot in FLA ponds where we are catching 1-3 pounders but the big ones are caught in different locations.

 

 

[Skunked again]

On 7/27/2020 at 8:46 PM, BigAngus752 said:

Not in central Illiinois you didn't....LOL. 

Truer words have never been spoken! !

 

OP - on YouTube, look up tactical bassin, they have some good underwater footage. Some of it shows just how many fish are in a school.

 

Some good reading on this thread.

[Born 2 fish]

4 hours ago, Jim Baker said:

As the Bass Resource guy said in the summer bass video, big bass are loners, so most likely if you are catching smaller bass you may be near a school of them but only one big hawg may lurk. I see that a lot in FLA ponds where we are catching 1-3 pounders but the big ones are caught in different locations.

 

 

I was catching a bunch of little ones earlier and then boom a big one then back to little ones. I’ll fish a spot until they stop biting. But I’ll try a few other baits before I leave.