Article on big bass behavior

[Quillback]

Got this link from the Bass Blaster.

http://www.insideline.net/index.php/feature-genfishing/1803-finding-big-fish-after-the-spawn

[176champion]

Interesting read for sure...

[podum]

Fascinating.  Thanks for sharing.  

[abkeenan]

Thanks Quill. I love that kind of info verified by science and studies.

[cheesemaster]

Great read Quillback. I love those kind of articles. I had no idea that a bass would go "back home" after being released 27 miles from capture.  Alot of things to keep in mind while fishing.

[fishinwrench]

In another tracking study they determined that fish caught from across the lake did not make it back.   If they can follow a bank and get back to their capture site then some did, but no fish crossed a large body of deep open water after they were released.  Thereby blowing holes into their alleged "homing" ability.  

They likened it to taking an ant from one end of your porch and placing him on the other side of the house, the ant will root along the edges until he finds his gang again.  But take that ant and put him on your neighbors porch and he won't know to cross the yard.  

When I was a kid my friend and I caught a GIANT garter snake (biggest one I've ever seen to date), we carried it all over town showing it off, then finally let it go.  About 2 weeks later the same snake was in the same exact spot we caught it from, and the place where we let it go was at least 3 miles away and across more than a dozen streets and 2 creeks.   

[Moswimb8slinger]

When I went to Lake Fork last month, a guide there told us of a bass they caught and tagged. Took it 17 miles to a marina on the other side of the lake where it was released. The kicker? The fish was caught 21 days later less than 200 yards from the original spot it was caught from.

 

Also another observation I made after joining the "Fishbrain" app. The 8.69lbs Largemouth I caught on Table Rock in the very back of a large (1.5 miles from the main channel) cove and released about halfway to the channel. I got to looking on Fishbrain and found a lady had caught a 8.75lbs LM on a point in the same cove in August. It's either the same fish, or there's multiple lunkers in that cove. 

[Old plug]

i think both things are true. Everytime I wonder about it I think about the fishes ability maybe use other sense such a vibrations and smell to move around. On the other hand I know they can move just because they had a  hook stuck in their lip. I have burnt out spots thru catch and  release. Then on the other hand i have caught the same bass more than one time out of the sane spot. I caught a 4 lber some years back about 4-5 times of a hump near me on the same color worm in the same spot, Sometimes only a few days apart. I got to calling her Marry Ann. Really the only thing that proves is Mary Ann was not so smart as we might like to think. After all she lived by preditation and greed. 

[wareaglecamo]

thanks for sharing Qb . . . very interesting

[Fish24/7]

 thx, Quillback

If they put  transmitters in biggins at TR and BS and followed them after the spawn they'd  have another new book to write, and I'd buy that one.