My Next Excuse 2025
stk44 reply :
The next time I get shut out this will be my excuse:
"Largemouth bass are considered the most intelligent fish that swim in freshwater. After one experience with an artificial lure, a large bass will often avoid that particular style of lure for the rest of its life. That’s why the style and quality of a hook is crucial."
All jokes aside, that's pretty cool as long as this is true.
desmobob reply :
My reading suggests they may avoid a particular lure in the future. But only for about 15 minutes into the future...
Anyone that refers to any fish as the "most intelligent" should probably not be taken very seriously, IMO!
Tight lines,
Bob
stk44 reply :
On 11/9/2015 at 8:09 AM, desmobob said:My reading suggests they may avoid a particular lure in the future. But only for about 15 minutes into the future...
Anyone that refers to any fish as the "most intelligent" should probably not be taken very seriously, IMO!
Tight lines,
Bob
Hey, I found it on the Internet, so it's gotta be true.
GetJigginWithIt reply :
On 11/9/2015 at 8:02 AM, stk44 said:The next time I get shut out this will be my excuse:
"Largemouth bass are considered the most intelligent fish that swim in freshwater. After one experience with an artificial lure, a large bass will often avoid that particular style of lure for the rest of its life. That’s why the style and quality of a hook is crucial."
All jokes aside, that's pretty cool as long as this is true.
So funny.
desmobob reply :
On 11/9/2015 at 9:14 AM, stk44 said:Hey, I found it on the Internet, so it's gotta be true.
I don't know... If it was true, there'd be a reality show about it by now, right?
Tight lines,
Bob
davecon reply :
There is. It's called " The Bass Masters " !
Bassguytom reply :
I remember seeing a tuna that spoke ironically selling tuna in a can so it in in actuality was a cannibalistic speaking tuna so it's probably true. Oh wait that's salt water so it might not be true.
WPCfishing reply :
The bass are not eating much and they're not aggressive at all.
I was out yesterday the water was near 60'. I caught one, I had
3 others roll behind toads and I had zero action on jigs.
Today I had zero action. The water dropped about 5 degrees
overnight.. The wind was strong and consistent for the last two days,
It pulled the temp quickly.
WPCfishing reply :
I'm missing this in a big way...
Bankbeater reply :
Soon the water will be frozen over and the bass will forget what our baits look like.
WIGuide reply :
I'm not really sure if it's true or not. I know for a fact I've see times when it's not true. This last summer, for example, my dad set the hook on a fish that snapped him off. He re-rigged the same exact bait and tossed it back tot the same spot, hooked and landed the same bass which still had the other worm in it's mouth. Maybe it was just a dumb bass, or maybe there's not as much truth to that.
Catt reply :
If that were true would it not stand to reason that at some point we would no longer be able to catch any bass?
Raul reply :
I´ve caught the same fish 4 times in the same week, I´ve caught the same fish with the same bait in a location maybe 20 ft away from the location where I caught it originally less than half an hour before.
So much for being the "most intelligent". 
stk44 reply :
On 11/10/2015 at 12:58 AM, Catt said:If that were true would it not stand to reason that at some point we would no longer be able to catch any bass?
I'm playing the devils advocate here but, it says large bass. So their dumb baby bass may still bite. :-)
stk44 reply :
On 11/10/2015 at 1:06 AM, Raul said:I´ve caught the same fish 4 times in the same week, I´ve caught the same fish with the same bait in a location maybe 20 ft away from the location where I caught it originally less than half an hour before.
So much for being the "most intelligent".
Maybe this only applies to the U.S. Or Canadian bass ;-)
scaleface reply :
I only know that bass that have never seen a bait before are really easy to catch .I've had them swim between my legs , ****** my worm dangling form a canoe , follow me around like hungry cats and devour anything dropped in front of them . Not just dinks either, I remember one time while paddling a canoe two big smallmouths keeping pace right beside me , I caught both of them by just lowering my bait in the water .
J Francho reply :
Whatever excuse makes you feel better works, I guess. I don't blame my lures, I chalk it up to not being there when they were willing to bite.
Choporoz reply :
^16...SF, I've read your post a couple times and it still cracks me up...not sure what you meant to say exactly...nor what came before the ****, but it makes me laugh....hope your worm made it through ok
scaleface reply :
On 11/10/2015 at 2:39 AM, Choporoz said:^16...SF, I've read your post a couple times and it still cracks me up...not sure what you meant to say exactly...nor what came before the ****, but it makes me laugh....hope your worm made it through ok
Yep , a classic gutterhead post made funnier by a censored word.
J Francho reply :
From the unnecessary censorship stock files....
Raul reply :
On 11/10/2015 at 1:24 AM, stk44 said:Maybe this only applies to the U.S. Or Canadian bass ;-)
Should have said: I´ve caught the same fish with the same bait in a location maybe 20 ft away from the location where I caught it originally less than half an hour before." at Choke Canyon Reservoir, Texas.
I don´t need excuses, for me it´s very simple: if I´m not catching them then they are not biting, period.
stk44 reply :
On 11/10/2015 at 4:11 AM, Raul said:Should have said: I´ve caught the same fish with the same bait in a location maybe 20 ft away from the location where I caught it originally less than half an hour before." at Choke Canyon Reservoir, Texas.
I don´t need excuses, for me it´s very simple: if I´m not catching them then they are not biting, period.
Stone cold killer....
stk44 reply :
On 11/10/2015 at 2:17 AM, scaleface said:I only know that bass that have never seen a bait before are really easy to catch .I've had them swim between my legs , ****** my worm dangling form a canoe , follow me around like hungry cats and devour anything dropped in front of them . Not just dinks either, I remember one time while paddling a canoe two big smallmouths keeping pace right beside me , I caught both of them by just lowering my bait in the water .
I volunteer at the VA and show vets how to fly fish and how to tie flies. A lot of landowners are very generous and let us fish their ponds. These ponds are barely fished. Everything I threw, including pretty big poppers were annihilated. Not just by bass, but slab blue gills too.
You feel like an absolutely pro at those small lakes/ponds.
Catt reply :
On 11/10/2015 at 1:17 AM, stk44 said:I'm playing the devils advocate here but, it says large bass. So their dumb baby bass may still bite. :-)
Define "large" bass?
The more they try to prove bass "learn" the more asinine they sound!
scaleface reply :
On 11/10/2015 at 5:13 AM, Catt said:Define "large" bass?
The more they try to prove bass "learn" the more asinine they sound!
hmmm... now didnt you make a post a while back stating the only lure a bass cant remember is a plastic worm .
"Studies have proven that the plastic worm is the only lure made that a BASS CAN NOT REMEMBER!
Catt reply :
On 11/10/2015 at 5:40 AM, scaleface said:hmmm... now didnt you make a post a while back stating the only lure a bass cant remember is a plastic worm .
"Studies have proven that the plastic worm is the only lure made that a BASS CAN NOT REMEMBER!
In most cases a bass will remember for a short time frame "hard" lures; not so with plastics. That time frame is minutes to even hours not days, weeks, months, or a life time.
stk44 reply :
On 11/10/2015 at 5:13 AM, Catt said:Define "large" bass?
The more they try to prove bass "learn" the more asinine they sound!
This would be my definition of a large bass:
desmobob reply :
On 11/9/2015 at 11:10 PM, WIGuide said:I'm not really sure if it's true or not. I know for a fact I've see times when it's not true. This last summer, for example, my dad set the hook on a fish that snapped him off. He re-rigged the same exact bait and tossed it back tot the same spot, hooked and landed the same bass which still had the other worm in it's mouth. Maybe it was just a dumb bass, or maybe there's not as much truth to that.
I did that sort of thing last summer. I was throwing a T-rigged worm, got bit, and somehow lost the fish and the worm. Put on a new worm, threw to the same spot, and reeled in a bass that still had the other worm in his throat.
But... as has been mentioned, bass have been observed hitting the same rubber baits repeatedly in the test tank. They are reported to ignore (for a short period of time) specific hard baits that they have been caught on.
Hey... you mentioned a "dumb bass." That's what my dad always used to call me; even before I learned to fish! 
Tight lines,
Bob
Ratherbfishing reply :
They may not be very smart but when they refuse to bite, they refuse to bite.
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