How Many Bass Do You Think Are In One Lake? 2024
MikeOGNR reply :
Random topic, but it is a realistic question, How many bass do you think are in a lake at a time. try to estimate spawning and other factors that may affect the number just a different question to ask.
Shanes7614 reply :
On 7/8/2015 at 6:02 AM, MikeOGNR said:Random topic, but it is a realistic question, How many bass do you think are in a lake at a time. try to estimate spawning and other factors that may affect the number just a different question to ask.
Way too random to ask. It has to do with size of the lake firstly and then obviously the amount of forage in each specific lake. Lake Okeechobee is 451,000sq acres where as your local small pond may only be 5 acres. That number is obviously gonna be different.
Neil McCauley reply :
28,000 acre lake...395 islands...hurts my brain to think about.
RoLo reply :
You mean 'bass-per-acre', right?
scaleface reply :
41115
CeeJay reply :
There are exactly 14 bass in every lake.
Shanes7614 reply :
On 7/8/2015 at 8:07 AM, CeeJay said:There are exactly 14 bass in every lake.
Someone please tag this with best answer!!!!!
bassless reply :
53.
long island basser reply :
On 7/8/2015 at 6:02 AM, MikeOGNR said:Random topic, but it is a realistic question, How many bass do you think are in a lake at a time. try to estimate spawning and other factors that may affect the number just a different question to ask.
A lot.
kcdinkerz reply :
How many I can catch lol
Long Mike reply :
Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer. Eleventy-seven.
Todd2 reply :
Way too many variables of course but shock surveys at lakes are for that very reason...population ESTIMATE analysis.
lectricbassman reply :
For those of you in the knoe, whats a healthy per acre number?
Todd2 reply :
The average CPUE (Catch Per Unit Effort) that's listed in my map book for the combined areas of my lake is 119.6 for example. That figure from the F/W folks is a few years old. I don't know how that relates to acreage or if it's a good number. Maybe some body knows this stuff?
Team9nine reply :
Our IDNR biologists have completed several lake surveys with population estimates of the number of potentially catchable bass (those >8"). In Lake Monroe, our largest reservoir with 10,750 ac., they estimated 22,797 bass. Surveys and modeling combined to give an estimate of 16,754 bass (>8") swimming around in Hardy Lake (741 ac.). Over at Sullivan Lake they estimated 12,243 bass roaming its waters (468 ac.). As a slightly different set of numbers, at Brookville Res.(5,260 ac.) , there are about 137 smallmouth bass per mile of shoreline, and another 307 largemouth in that same 1-mile stretch.
You can do the math to get things like approx. bass/acre, or the number more commonly referred to in our surveys is catch per unit effort (CPUE), the number of a given fish species sampled (usually shocked) per unit of time, most always in #'s per hour. Our worst waters are single digits, but typically our lakes fall into two classes, a group at about 50 bass per hour, and another at about 150 bass per hour.
-T9
Shanes7614 reply :
On 7/8/2015 at 8:56 AM, Long Mike said:Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer. Eleventy-seven.
That's not nice.... Isn't NO question stupid they say???
Shanes7614 reply :
I think his wording and more knowledge of how fish populations are actually counted would have served him better. Asking about what each persons avg numbers per acre they fish would have been a way better way to ask this.
Derekbass02 reply :
Each lake has exactly 84127 bass in it.
Shanes7614 reply :
On 7/8/2015 at 11:45 AM, Derekbass02 said:Each lake has exactly 84127 bass in it.
Nope. It's 14 as stated above. Lol. 200 guys out on Okeechobee at one time fishing for 14 bass.
jiggerpole reply :
OK, I will chime in on this one. It really does depend on allot of variables. Depending on the fertility of the water, depth, location, etc. This may be the best answer. Anywhere from 15 to 50 per surface acre. Read the pdf and draw your on conclusions. As far as fish per surface acre, I have seen 12,000 pounds of fish come from a one acre pond. (Threadfin Shad)
http://www.in.gov/dnr/fishwild/files/fishmgt.pdf
Mike L reply :
Random questions will get random answers..
You guy's make my head hurt
Mike
A-Jay reply :
Some days it seems like there are NONE ~
A-Jay
NEBasser101 reply :
318
Smokinal reply :
I'm going tree fiddy on this one
Bluegiller reply :
I often wonder about the number in lakes I fish, especially when I don't get a single bite all day .
rboat reply :
remember 90% of the fish are found in 10% of the lake so it must depend on which acre you are looking at. 
BooyahMan reply :
If i get skunked, there are 0 bass. If I catch 1, there is 1 bass. If I catch 2, there are 2 bass...
Alonerankin2 reply :
When I read this question, I panicked.. Then I looked at my phone & realized its not Winter time yet.. Not yet!
Carry on fellas..
RoLo reply :
On 7/9/2015 at 7:02 AM, BooyahMan said:If i get skunked, there are 0 bass. If I catch 1, there is 1 bass. If I catch 2, there are 2 bass...
I like that.
On slow days, I often turn to my wife and ask: "Have you ever read anything that said there's bass in this lake??".
Same church, different pew
Roger
kingmotorboat reply :
Quite obviously o.p. was on one of these 14 bass lakes today a wee bit too long. The sun can be evil
Felixone reply :
On 7/8/2015 at 7:39 PM, A-Jay said:Some days it seems like there are NONE ~
A-Jay
Are we fishing the same waters 
wytstang reply :
I see a lot of bass in my ponds, it's cathing them is the problem 
Felix77 reply :
Based on my catches as of late ... I would say about 3-5. 
garvin reply :
All of them.
heyitzpetah reply :
Not enough
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