Would You Rather? 2025

smr_hga reply :

Edit: LiftedSquare13 failed horribly at making a poll so you'll have to view the question somewhere down there vvv

EricTheAngler reply :

Whats the poll?

A-Jay reply :

Nope ~ No way I'd Never . . . . .

Not even if you asked nicely.

And please don't ask again.

A-Jay

smr_hga reply :

On 12/5/2015 at 8:39 AM, EricTheAngler said:
Whats the poll?

I can't get it to show up! Never done a poll before. Well this is embarassing...

EricTheAngler reply :

On 12/5/2015 at 8:45 AM, LiftedSquare13 said:
I can't get it to show up! Never done a poll before. Well this is embarassing...

What was it so we can still answer in text.

smr_hga reply :

On 12/5/2015 at 8:49 AM, EricTheAngler said:
What was it so we can still answer in text.

It Was:

Would you rather catch a big fish that didn't fight much or a small fish that fought hard?

A: Big Fish, Small Fight

B: Small Fish, Big Fight

I Vote A

EricTheAngler reply :

On 12/5/2015 at 8:52 AM, LiftedSquare13 said:

It Was:

Would you rather catch a big fish that didn't fight much or a small fish that fought hard?

A: Big Fish, Small Fight

B: Small Fish, Big Fight

I Vote A

Fish Fights are fun, but big fish are fun to. I have to pick big fish because my pb is small at this point.

Jar11591 reply :

soflabasser reply :

I vote for catching a big fish over tiny fish.

Big C reply :

Catch and Grease reply :

Big fish so I can take a picture and brag to my bros hahaha

68camaro reply :

A. I still haven't caught a really big one.

Senko lover reply :

Notice the disparity in all the answers you're getting

clh121787 reply :

A. No brainer imo

Derekbass02 reply :

A of course. Unless I got paid for choosing B. LOL

smr_hga reply :

On 12/5/2015 at 9:57 AM, Senko lover said:
Notice the disparity in all the answers you're getting

Haha i expected this. Part of me just wanted to ask to see if anyone would choose B.

NorcalBassin reply :

slonezp reply :

All you guys voting A should become walleye fishermen.

I vote B. Mind you the OP used the word fish and not bass. A 2lb hybrid striper will put up 10X the fight a 2lb largemouth will. If we are strictly talking LMB than A would be the answer

scaleface reply :

If I dont vote do I lose the right to complain if I dont catch any bass ?

Maxximus Redneckus reply :

For me its 20% fight 50% jumping 30% will she snag me or throw the lure.

bholtzinger14 reply :

I think if people preferred B you would see a lot of light and ultra light combos on the water.

smr_hga reply :

On 12/5/2015 at 9:22 PM, slonezp said:
Mind you the OP used the word fish and not bass.

Yes any type of fish would count. Not just a LMB.

soflabasser reply :

I agree that Hybrid Striper fight much harder for their size,but still rather catch another 10 pound bass than a 2 pounder!

MIbassyaker reply :

On 12/5/2015 at 9:22 PM, slonezp said:

All you guys voting A should become walleye fishermen.

I vote B. Mind you the OP used the word fish and not bass. A 2lb hybrid striper will put up 10X the fight a 2lb largemouth will. If we are strictly talking LMB than A would be the answer

My wife's uncle -- a walleye fanatic -- tries to pick on me for targeting a species I don't eat....my counter is always, at least I target a species capable of resisting....

Fishing Rhino reply :

The main reason I quit fishing when the weather turned cold was because it was not a fair fight.

A few years ago I set a goal to catch a bass every month of the year from a pond which has very good largemouth fishing. I caught three nice bass on Dec 31. It wasn't really fun even though they were between four and five pounds. They were like dragging in an old tire. They'd try to jump and could barely get their noses out of the water. It was not much better than dragging in dead weight.

I went out on January 1. I got on the water and was not really looking forward to catching a January fish. It was more out of determination to catch a bass in January than to have fun. After about an hour, I realized that the goal of catching a fish in every month was rather meaningless when the fish were so lethargic.

I went home and packed it in until late March.

Small or large, no fight equals no fun. Not for me anyway.

grampa1114 reply :

On 12/6/2015 at 1:38 AM, bholtzinger14 said:
I think if people preferred B you would see a lot of light and ultra light combos on the water.

About half of my rods are light or ultralight and my 7.2 PB was caught on one of them...My tournament days are over so I'm personally in it for the fight.

JMHO

Grampa

bholtzinger14 reply :

I fished when I was younger with ultralight and it was very fun. At this point I want to make sure I get the fish in the boat though. Lol

Fishing Rhino reply :

On 12/6/2015 at 10:39 PM, grampa1114 said:

About half of my rods are light or ultralight and my 7.2 PB was caught on one of them...My tournament days are over so I'm personally in it for the fight.

JMHO

Grampa

I've seen Grampa's arsenal. They are not ultra light. They are buggy whips.

Bankbeater reply :

Big fish, less fight. The more they jump around the more they might get off.

ward131 reply :

A. I prefer to catch bigger fish but when a smallmouth grabs the bait it is always a fun fight!

Scott F reply :

I choose B. I can see why guys might choose a large fish because they are more rare, but I've caught large smallmouth out of cold water on the Great Lakes that had little fight in them. Much smaller smallies caught in rivers are a LOT more fun to catch. There is just no quit in them. You get a 14 inch smallmouth on and you'd swear it was at least 4 or 5 pounds and then you see it and are amazed. Big river smallies are even more fun. I don't fish tournaments so the size of the fish doesn't matter at all. It's all about the fight.

Fishing Rhino reply :

If big is what you want, I've caught about twenty of these. The second largest living fish, the basking shark. An adult can be 26 feet in length.

But, I wish I had never caught one. One night, hauling gear about fifty miles south of the harbor we had to deal with six of these things, two on one trawl.

They swim with their mouths open feeding on plankton. Occasionally, they will swim into the ground line. When they do, they start rolling and thrashing, trying to get free. The pot warp gets tangled up on their tails and fins. They will get wrapped in so much line that there can be two, three, and even as many as four lobster traps pulled against their bodies.

The ones that I caught were dead when we hauled them in. It could take over an hour to get them untangled and the line and gear freed from them. A basking shark can weigh 8 to 9 tons.

FloridaFishinFool reply :

This question gets down to the nitty gritty of why I fish in the first place. So if I am honest with myself and ask myself (without talking to myself) why do I fish in the first place it is to have fun. Fishing is a pleasure sport first and foremost. And I live in central Florida which is bass capitol and one of the best places in the country for fishing.

So to ask myself and be truthful, do I fish purely for the big one, or do I fish to have fun and just catch fish? My honest answer is to have fun with it. Catching big ones is nice, but it is not an obsession for me. If it were an obsession I think a lot of the fun would be lost to some degree as I would be passing up a lot of fish I could have caught in my hunt for that big one.

So over the years I have intentionally adjusted my fishing to catch more fish even if they are smaller fish, rather than just fish for the big ones and ignore the smaller fish.

I'd have to say one of the greatest thrills for me fishing is the initial hookup. I love it when the fish grabs the lure and hits hard with a solid hookup. I want as many of those as I can get.

I have caught some big bass that simply came to the surface rolled over and I dragged them in like a sled on top of the water. Not a whole lot of fun in that. But I have caught some 3 and 4 pound brawlers that just would not give up.

So for me, I actually adjust my fishing for quantity over quality. I would rather catch 30 smaller fish than 1 or 2 larger fish. I am there to catch fish, not focus on just a big one. If I did that I would probably have some disappointing days with zero bass to show for it.

Let me tell you a story about this summer... the summer of 2015 that directly relates to this thread question...

The bass I am holding in my avatar photo I caught while focusing on quantity over quality... My big bass of this summer.

I put my boat into the St. Johns river at a public boat ramp in mid June and headed north on the river in the main channel. I was passing up two smaller channels on my right that went around two small islands in the river. I looked up into the center channel and I saw bass jumping out of the water. I was like whoa! I immediately throttled down, circled back around, cut the motor off in the main channel, dropped the trolling motor into the water and I quietly slipped up into that center channel.

I paid attention to where most of the activity was and I anchored up along the western shoreline pushing up into shallow water anchoring up there with clean clear casting access left and right up and down the river in front of me. I was amazed to watch literally thousands of bass hitting on bait fish in a prolonged feeding frenzy for the next 4 hours. There would be single boils or several different boils going on at the same time. Sometimes they would be right next to the boat.

If I were just going for the big one, would I pass up a bass feeding frenzy like this just because 90% of the bass were between 1 to 3 pounds? Hell no! I am out here to have fun and catch as many as I can. And if I catch a big one, then hey great! But with a feeding frenzy like this I could not resist it.

So I prepared several rods with match the hatch type of lures. I had a 7' ML spinning rod with 10 pound braid on it that I put on Berkley 2" soft swim baits. I had a curado i on a 6'6" MH fast action rod with 15 pound braid and 3" Berkley or Calcutta soft swim baits. And I had a 5' ultra-light spinning rod with 8 pound braid I put on a rapala minnow lure. Another bait cast rod and reel with a rattle trap on it. And another with a spinner on it.

For about 4 hours anchored in one spot I was catching bass as fast as I could cast. If I had 6 arms and 6 rods and reels I would have done even better! But it was really cool to just sit in one spot and have the bass at my feet as I sat there on my casting seat on the front deck of the boat with finger on line ready to cast at any second waiting and watching for a bass boil up at my 9 o'clock position, or 12 o'clock right in front of me or off to my right or all of them at the same time and I did not know which boil to cast to! It was amazing! For the next 2 months- mid June through mid August it was awesome! There was a week at the peak where I lost count of the numbers of bass I was catching a day, with one 4 day spree topping out at over 150 bass caught, probably darn near just as many missed too!

But you know, to me this is what bass fishing is all about. It is not about that one big one. It is about the fun of catching them! I'd say most of the bass caught out there averaged 2 pounds. Probably 80 to 90% of them. 10% of the bass were upwards of 3 pounds plus average. I caught a few above 4 and 5 pounds, and then one day late in the summer I was using zoom 3.5" paddle tail swim baits rigged weedless with a stinger treble hook on it when the big one hit. And she did not put up much of a fight either. The smaller 3 pounders gave me more of a fight! And I had a lot more of those!

So I have to vote for smaller fish and more of them! Lots more of them!

BigSkyBasser reply :

Depends heavily on the circumstance

When I'm tournament fishing I'll take big fish with a small fight all day long.

But when it's just for fun, we all know we love a good bend in the rod with the drag singing!

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