Bass dont eat thier own kind...Huh?

[airborne_angler]

I went out yesterday and was near a guy who was having some trouble catching fish. I was tying on a Baby Bass colored Kinami Flash(same as Senko),and I was telling him how I was tearin the fish up with this color. He came back at me saying

"Thats ridiculous,Bass dont eat thier own kind".

Well I responded with :

"Why are there so many crankbaits patterned after baby bass?"

I proceeded to throw my Bait and had 5 "Dinks" within about 25 minutes. The bait is 5 inches and these fish couldnt be more than 8 or 9 inches long.

See ,I guess I showed him .........huh!!

[George Welcome]

Were the bass hitting the paint job or the lure? Would they have hit another crankbait that was 4" and painted orange?

[KU_Bassmaster.]

My most productive lure the past couple weeks ........... a baby bass patteren cankbait.

[Brad_Coovert]

Baby Bass pattern is just another fish pattern.  Greenish on top and white on the bottom.  It just looks like a fish.

Bass will eat bass fry until there is no tommorrow.  I was at Barkley a few weeks ago and they were eating their own fry with reckless abandon.

Brad

[basskid1]

I was fishing in a pond beside my house and you might not beleave me but i caught a little dink and was reeling it in and then i had a moster bass come up and  eat the bass and i let it have some line for about a min. and then set the hook and he ended up going in to a tree that had fell in to the water and cut me off so i think that a bass will eat a bass.

[Rattlinrogue]

Bass will eat bass fry ,and yes baby bass pattern c-baits are working right now for me.

[Chris]

Right now anything that looks like a bass pattern is a good lure to throw. Right after a bass comes off the bed and guarding fry guess what their feed bag is on and baby bass is just one of many things on their plate.

[adolan]

Was fishing the local lake for a tourny and the bass were nailing the fry. You'd see the fry start to "boil" on the surface and then a bass would explode out of the water. We flipped into those spots and got fish every time

[el_jewapo]

do you think a bass even knows it's a bass? fish can't see their self.

[booty0]

I caught about a 3 pounder the other day that had the tail of a small bass sticking out of it's throat. Too bad it wasn't a tourney fish...

[deep_waters]

Bass are very aggressive fish.  If they'll eat ducklings (saw this one, no kidding), they'll eat anything in my opinion.  A friend of mine caught a 10lber out of a private lake with a small snake sticking 1/2 the way out of its mouth, so like I said, they'll eat anything!