1/24/16 Big M

[gitnby]

12 hours ago, mixermarkb said:

If those are all 15" that's the biggest center box I've seen on a bass boat. 

Don't know about the center box, but it's pretty obvious to me that those fish are all 15". The 2 in the middle are probably right on it, and the 2 on the outside appear to be 17"+/-.

My best guess is the 6 add up to right about 15-16, best 5 probably 14?

I agree about the carpet thing, though. Not a good way to handle em!

 

 

[whiteley.matt]

I did find out that these were all jerkbait fish.  He also said that they are all back in the water and seemed just fine.  They found several schools of fish deep, but, were only able to catch one short with a spoon.

[Champ188]

Good to hear they're back among the swimming. Photos of dead fish tend to get met with resistance on this site. It's not that those who catch and kill are outlaws, but some of us believe the law doesn't protect the resource as well as it should.

Thanks much, Matt, for your trouble to find out and post the pattern. It's good to hear the jerkbait bite is coming around. It's certainly time.

[abkeenan]

28 minutes ago, whiteley.matt said:

I did find out that these were all jerkbait fish.  He also said that they are all back in the water and seemed just fine.  They found several schools of fish deep, but, were only able to catch one short with a spoon.

Like Champ has stated that good news on all home fronts...fish swimming to be caught another day and can dump a nice load of eggs of some fine genetically blessed fish here in a few months and that the jerkbait bite is finally coming around!

[BillDance]

How does the law not protect the resource?

[Champ188]

Many of us here hold the opinion that because Table Rock does not receive supplemental stockings of bass, we need to do all we can to protect the ones we have. Therefore, we advocate absolute catch and release. Every time a bass is taken home and eaten, that fish is gone and so is every egg/fry it may have produced in the future.

Table Rock is nationally renowned as a bass fishery and therefore receives a ton of pressure. Us C&R guys believe that in order for that continue, we need to practice and promote CPR --- catch, photograph, release.

It's not a matter of right or wrong. It's our opinion/conviction. Obviously, others are welcome to do as they please within the law.

[fishinwrench]

I hope I live to see the day when bass are no longer being relocated constantly.   Bass are for the most part "home base" creatures, and I'd love to be able to fish a lake where their natural habits aren't constantly being jacked with.   

Maybe the reason fish seem so unpredictable and flakey is because we keep screwing up their life.   It would suck to be snatched from your home town and dumped into a different one every few weeks/months.  Find a new wife, find a new job, find out where the best grocery store is, ect.   Then just when you start to become "at home again".... Boom, taken to yet another new town.     Sonofabitch!!!!!

[abkeenan]

31 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

I hope I live to see the day when bass are no longer being relocated constantly.   Bass are for the most part "home base" creatures, and I'd love to be able to fish a lake where their natural habits aren't constantly being jacked with.   

Maybe the reason fish seem so unpredictable and flakey is because we keep screwing up their life.   It would suck to be snatched from your home town and dumped into a different one every few weeks/months.  Find a new wife, find a new job, find out where the best grocery store is, ect.   Then just when you start to become "at home again".... Boom, taken to yet another new town.     Sonofabitch!!!!!

Maybe you are looking at it the wrong way.....new home with no payments, leave your crummy job for a different one in the same field that you're accustomed too and get a new wife that doesn't want to kill you yet! Wooo hooooo.

[mjk86]

1 hour ago, fishinwrench said:

I hope I live to see the day when bass are no longer being relocated constantly.   Bass are for the most part "home base" creatures, and I'd love to be able to fish a lake where their natural habits aren't constantly being jacked with.   

Maybe the reason fish seem so unpredictable and flakey is because we keep screwing up their life.   It would suck to be snatched from your home town and dumped into a different one every few weeks/months.  Find a new wife, find a new job, find out where the best grocery store is, ect.   Then just when you start to become "at home again".... Boom, taken to yet another new town.     Sonofabitch!!!!!

I wonder how much this can really effect the fishery?   Im curious how quickly they can adapt to a new environment, even if its strikingly similar to their previous one?  It cant be as bad as makin sandwiches out of em, but does it actually hurt/kill the fish?  or prevent them from reproducing?   

[Eric the awful fisherman]

I heard that they find their way back to their territory in a few days. Not sure if that's true or not. Pretty talented if so