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My dad caught a ginormous carp on a hellbender at Table Rock. No bass though. This was in the late 80s. We're struggling and he pulled this old lure out and started throwing. We thought he had a trophy on!
Fishing pressure and low numbers of fish must be part of it: seems like if you fish a farm pond that no one has fished for 15 years, you can catch them on anything.
No offense, but 50 years of data on bass or climate (compared to millions of years) is not enough info. to make good assumptions. Bass adapt, but that doesn’t mean their DNA is changing. If the old fossils look just like the current fish . . . Bass adapt and get smarter, but people fish different now too. We used to catch em on old lures because that’s all we had. Habitat has changed, and the anglers have changed – stuff to think about
The pressure on my home lake Wright Patman in NE Texas is horrible. In the past five years it has become horrible !!!! I blame it on tournaments every weekend. The local clubs do not have good fish care practices. Seen it with my own eyes. No telling how many delayed mortality fish every tournament. The MLF tournament just held on it destroyed the early fall fishing. It is not a lake that is well maintained by the state fishery anyway. It is called a flood control lake. The future of the lake is in trouble and no one speaks about it. Its all about the money and bragging rights
You mention the “new”, realistic baits but I catch a lot of bass on a Ned rig, Texas rigged plastic worms, poppers, and Zara Spooks. They’re now new or even very realistic but the still catch bass.
And, I’ll bet that if you took your hellbender to the lake you’d catch fish.
Well said! I agree 100%
25 years ago, I was a flipping jig and worm guy. Now, I'm using lures that I haven't seen before.
This is not a study. These are your observations. A study has a hypothesis and controls for variables. You have no hypothesis and an unlimited amount of variables. Your observations may be valid and they may not be valid. Bass are smarter is not a hypothesis. How do you measure and test that?
Bass are so smart!! Landed a 5 pounder on a spicy gummy bear!! Hahahaha 🤣
Randy, evolution is a lie. It doesn't exist!
A Hellbender will work in the right situation. It excels in the last week of November when the water temperature is between 55 and 57 degrees with visibility between 13 and 21 inches on windy side of rip rap with channel swings that come from 14 to 5.5 feet deep and there’s some wood wedged in the rocks and it’s partly cloudy on a Tuesday. D
I'm your age and to me from what I've seen and experienced it is the fishing pressure it's unbelievable now.
After watching this video, it is pretty obvious that bass have evolved more than certain anglers.
Back at it with the Hellbenders again! Can’t wait for our holiday Blaukat drinking game this year. When you mention Hellbenders it’s always a big drink for everyone playing. Thanks for being stuck in the past and predictable… it makes for a great drinking game episode when you come out with pieces like this.
ALL wild creatures must adapt quickly, or they cannot survive. They might not be able to process like humans, but they can adapt quickly. If they don't, they cannot survive.
Don
You wanna talk about highly pressured fisheries. I live in Phoenix Arizona we have like a half a dozen lakes that are full of pleasure boaters so much you literally have to stand in line to dip a toe in the water. Fishing is absolutely TOUGH in comparison to like Michigan or Minnesota. It's rare to catch more than 1 fish in a spot because of the high fishing pressure.
Yes Randy bass are really smart. I love fishing overlooked spots that most people won't fish. The late Bill Murphy said with every pound bass get more difficult to catch. The late Doug Hannon said a 5 pound bass is downright dumb and that bass have excellent senses unmatched by intelligence. You have to remember this was from a bygone era. Even though I fish mostly untouched areas that's no guarantee you can score. Those fish find their way in there but they weren't born yesterday.
Why don’t you go try throwing it?
Zara Spook, Johnson spoon, Mann's Jelly worm, Bagley balsa B, and many others still work for me. Are the bass boycotting the Hellbender? If so, why not the other old time lures?
musky fishing has gotten so much better….becuz were a diff breed than bass fisherman
That's what I'm saying Randy.I remember growing up in Texas.Every neighborhood around us had a big pond or small trolling motor lake and we used to catch fish all the time from the bank.
Started fishing 1966. Yes the fishing sucks compared to back then. To much pressure. We need to stop pulling fish off beds, stop eating them, and maintain a better habitat.
I remember when a jitterbug would kill it on any lake. Now it takes skill to get hits.
Randy you’re killin me. You keep sayin they won’t hit a hellbender. Have you tried it?? I gurantee you find bass on a ledge and dredge that thing by em some will hit it. Explain buzzbaits and spinnerbaits and all the other weird lookin baits that look like absolutely nothing. Bass use instincts and and have a diet of pretty much anything that falls In the water. They are smart in their own way to survive, not geniuses
Randy: guys fish are so smart
Me: lands 20 pounds on fuzzy dice
Sir Randall totally agree , very sad for the future of bass fishing