Bass Culture ( social behaviors transmitted to peers or offspring ) in isolated populations of largemouth bass.
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Crazy how crazy this is to people lol uhhh duhhhh
Good information! We have all had those hard days on the water, just makes you want to go back for redemption!
Im with your thought process. I would also add that competition is also a variable to consider, both for ecosystem and territory. This is an obvious outlier at first but if you consider it, it is an environmental adaptation that can become programmed to become an inherited trait, much like many other constants in the mind of the bass. Catch and release has the same affect as we are planting programmed minds back to the water.( I believe in catch and release, especially on superior genetics, but I believe in some cases a slot size for removal could be beneficial)
I took this article/video and modified it slightly. I feel like the sentiment was the same but needed to figure out baits at the same time. Anyway, by dedicating myself to one Lake last year (2021), I can honestly now look back and say it was the best thing I could have ever done for my fishing. Not only did I learn a ton about my home lake, but bass in general. Being able to take those insights into a new lake this year yielded almost instant successful trophy catches. Quest for the cure + pursuit of giant bass = 🏆🎣
Just got into big baits this year around February… Had to figure out how to fish again pretty much just because of the fact I was searching for bigger bass. And you stated it exactly the trend I figured out in one of the striper lakes here in California… Small striper schools held big bass in them… Also i found out big largies were running with the big stripers chasing the shad schools during the shad boom. Great stuff. Learning everyday
Bring this sh*t back, please. Very interesting topic.
Interesting. These ideas are almost universally accepted on land-based animals, it’s just I’ve never considered herd behavior in fish. Good stuff 👍🏻
There's a lot there for sure…I think about it constantly. Finally broke down & got Livescope Plus and I'm seeing some mind blowing behavior I never knew existed
Man you turned a bad day of fishin into a great for video! Speaking of learned behavior. Can you imagine what happens on that lake after all the boats leave? I'll bet there's some monster bass that only eat at night
The “trophy bass targeting released fish”???? We talking about Lake mission Viejo? 🔥🤙🏼
Inspiring content!
What really triggers bass making them willing biters or not are water temperatures, lighting(bright/dark/cloudy), water current, and water oxygen levels. There's a channel called "The Nature of Fishing" where the host Paul Roberts studies bass and their behaviors making scientific documentary style videos explaining what makes bass willing biters or not.
I totally agree. Snorkeling in a FL spring, I overved a 4 lbs bass meld in with a similar sized school of mullet. Time after time, it would dart out and smash a shiner or bluegill and meld right back in with the school. I was blown away. Bass are smart and can solve complex issues to get some chow.
Interesting stuff. On the same line of thought I used to mow lawns back in the day. One of the houses I mowed was on a lake and I always noticed when I mowed down close to the water the bass would bust all the baitfish that were being scared out of the weeds by the commotion of the mower. Not sure if this is a common thing or not but it happened like clockwork at this particular location. I would say it was definitely a learned behavior by the bass. When lawn mowers were down by the lake they could get an easy meal by waiting just outside the weed line.
I bet your bass know y’all can’t fish at night. I bet the freaks come out at night when y’all have to go home
The ones who can understand this video will know. Pay attention to everything that’s happening in and around you when your out fishing and learn how to work your ways to be successful under any conditions. It’s more then just fishing and trying to catch a fish. I hear you on this one. 👍 it’s crazy how much there is to learn and know this game.
The next Doug Hannon you
I like where your heads at. I'm just a humble bank angler, but this is the type of thing I've been trying to take note of lately. It amazes me how different bass behave in different locations and situations. This reminds me of something I heard Larry Dahlberg say about learning to fish the immediate environment. That being said, I put into practice something you said a few years ago about sticking with a particular body of water in order to really learn it well. It's caused me to start ask a lot more than just "What are they eating?" It's a deep rabbit hole, but definitely one worth exploring
Lots of great information to take in and it’s awesome you’re willing to share with your fellow trophy hunters. Has my brain churning. Never consider the different types of teeth but have definitely noticed craw eaters not having those sharper teeth.
Now if I can just get the striper fisherman to let me throw big glides next to there boats I could prove your theory. Excellent idea
We must be related do you wake up at odd hours and think about this stuff ? I have studied and read I have spent most of my time and considerable amounts of cash chasing these fish . Still there are things about them that I cannot explain . They still can utterly surprise me when I find them where they aren’t supposed to be doing what they are not supposed to be doing . At least that what I think of at 3:00 am
That trait with the trophy Bass eating fish being released happen to be in San Diego county haha me and my family have had bass eat our trout off the line while reeling them in
I 100% agree brotha. Each body of water the fish behave slightly different then the "Norm". Good ol Evolution
I love this stuff lol. I could talk theories and populations and internal vs external influencing factors all day.
Genetically modified Bass
Makes sense. No two lakes are the same, different climates, different bait assemblages, different ratios of bait species, different pressure, different habitat ratios, different genetics, different species of predators, different ratio of predator species and different water levels. So many variables there’s no way two lakes are exactly the same and there’s good reason to believe no two populations of bass utilize two lakes in the exact same way. The philosophy of bassin
Excellent points. I was just thinking about this recently. Not nearly to this extent though ha. I’ve gone to a few new lakes recently, and the mind wanders down these paths the longer you go without figuring anything out. One lake specifically I fished for the first time, I went 7 hours with nothing. Then I put a pattern together that they literally couldn’t get enough of. A pattern I’d never caught a single Fish on in any of the other lakes I usually fish. Caught 8 in the last hour of fishing. This talk def opened the door of thought a bit more for me. Appreciate the insight
great video and insight – Doug Hannon touched on this : big bass laying under small bass waiting for injured or regurgitated minnows…I also read an article back in the day about bass feeding on dead shiners tossed overboard. It seems 'smart' animals learn by patterns. Buck Perry said that any bass over 6 pounds was a 'freak', meaning that they don't play by the rules and therefore are very difficult to pattern…
Stripers at the delta VS stripers at Hogan Lake. Completely different fish.
I have never put any thought into the condition of the 'teeth' and how that correlates to their forage. Great video man, appreciate the thought provoking content!
This video explains so much…
One of the lakes I fished primarily in Washington State was very shallow and dirty. The particulate in the water absorbed the sunlight which made the shallow water heat up much more rapidly than most clear water lakes. Because of this, the bass in this lake reacted to temperature changes, (mostly related to a higher-than-normal rate of change, in either direction) than in other lakes which were deeper and/or clearer. (i.e. every other lake in the Pacific Northwest) Again, great info Mike.
Weirdly, I find when I can't find any bites on my lake, the carp usually ARENT flopping. Jumping carp for me typically is a sign that the bass are active 🤔
đź’Ż agree! You see different behavior in pond all the time even if you have 2 ponds right beside each other, so why should it be different in lakes.
My day was like that until noon. I turned all the graphs off , reset myself and then just went down the bank with a spook and a jig. And I smashed on em the rest of the day. Sometimes even in fishing u have to unplug!
Have you ever had the same female return to the same bed? I have a theory
Dude you need to check out this guys research on bass behavior – https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCata79WFUPYPDG33LrC57Wg/videos. This guy put a lot of time in on this information.
My local lake makes me feel like I have no clue what im doing on the daily. Just when I feel like im on to something everything changes and the fish that were there are gone, but if I travel to the well know socal bass lakes I do great.
agree with you Mike 100% great vid
these vids are actually too fire dat shi burnin
It’s a concept called “imprinting” or more vaguely observational learning, but it’s where when bass are really young they can learn certain behaviors that become innate (or like a instinct) to them and then they teach they’re young and so on and so forth