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Bass fishing "Starting 5"

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Its ok ufatz... I get more sad pulling up to almost any random resort in the summer seeing people filleting limits of smallies... we let the bedders go and take great care to make sure they survive and also go back to the bed. Catching bedders and poaching deer is comparing apple to beef jerky smile

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Ufatz Grand Master

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Okay fellas, I agree about some of those "old time dead fish" pictures-pretty grim stuff for sure. Aren't we ALL glad people don't do that in today's world when there are ten times as many people fishing!?

A bedded bass is a sucker and most vulnerable to anything you toss in there if you keep banging away at her. Strikes me as unfair...even if you release the fish it has been stressed and you can ask any fisheries biologist what the impact of stress is on a fish. A bedded bass just can't HELP but go after anything tossed into its nest. Somebody start breaking into your car and how are you gonna react! Ha!!

And how many times a day can a female take that beating?

Perhaps someone reading these discussions will re-think things. Won't you feel better just passing by that bedded fish and smiling, knowing that you are watching the future of your fishing.

I am amazed the populations of fish in most MN lakes holds up as well as it does given the pressures compare to the "old days". I am pleased at the numbers of anglers like you and I who release most or all bass.

I'll keep nodding and smiling at Mrs.Bass as I pass her nest and you can do what your conscience dictates. Me?....I know odds are I can catch her..so what's the challenge. I'll go after her later when my outstanding fishing ability will allow me to catch her rather when we are playing on level field.

Cast straight-hook solid-release quick!

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I cant agree with Craig more! I remember watching the Elite Series a couple weeks ago and watched Edwin Evers sit and try to catch a bedded bass for over 45 minutes, and that was during a tournament. Catching a bedded bass is anything but easy, but IMO that is what makes it fun. The challenge!

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I cant agree with Craig more! I remember watching the Elite Series a couple weeks ago and watched Edwin Evers sit and try to catch a bedded bass for over 45 minutes, and that was during a tournament. Catching a bedded bass is anything but easy, but IMO that is what makes it fun. The challenge!

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Read the "day on the lake" feature in this months bassmaster magazing. Charlie Hartley parks on a bedded bass for several hours and never lands the fish. If you can see the fish, the fish can see you!

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Ufatz Grand Master

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Just for the record, and this is the last I'll add on this thread: I HAVE fished for bedded bass back when I was a different person than I am now. It always seemed pretty easy to me to toss a worm, jig, lizard or almost anything into a nest and the female would invariably move to pick it up and MOVE it...sometimes barely holding it. Didn't always just GULP it....picked it up and moved it out of the nest.

I won't argue with you guys who say its tough. Good. I'm glad it is! Ha Ha! But hey!....more of a challenge, right?

You guys have your personal rules; I have mine. I wouldn't dream of putting catsup on a steak either,I know guys-more or less cave people- who do it! LOL.

Let's all have fun out there Saturday. My brother and I will be in the Midnight Blue metalflake with his new 250 Yammie on it. It'll be the boat without a stringer hanging over the side......like in the good old days.Ha!

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Cool... Yes we're heading up tonight. Thinking of hitting some area lakes as well if the weather is rough. My wife says she'd like to avoid "bumpy water". I still have your number in my phone, maybe give you a call and see what you're up to. It'd be fun to compare notes!

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Good luck to you this weekend ufatz. Everyone has there different views of the way they hunt and fish. Like I said before. we'll just have to agree to disagree. No need to turn this great forum into a peeing match. which you in no way did. It is very good to read differing views on the subject of bass fishing. And I respect everyones opinion, which I'm sure all of us do. Good luck out there this weekend everyone, and lets have some fun.

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1. 1/8oz White/Chart. Spinnerbait

2. Sexy Shad swimjig with white Powergrub

3. Weightless Zero pumpkin/red flake

4. shaky head squirreltail in tilapia

5. Sebile Flatt Shad in Bluegill

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what color red eye shad works best for you? What size too? thanks

I really like gold chrome, and clear sexy shad. Haven't used it yet since it came out over the winter, but am pretty sure I'm going to really like the Bluegill color too. Early in the year, the chrome silver with a green back and an orange belly is good. Dunno what they call the color exactly.

I use the 1/2 oz 99% of the time. Have a couple in the 1/4 and 3/4 sizes, but rarely use them.

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I can't tell you fellas how sad it makes me to hear guys talking about fishing for bass on spawning beds.

Shoot deer over apple barrels? Mallards over spread corn?

I guess us old guys really are out of touch with what sportsmanship is all about.

Or used to be all about.

"Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that longing leans and beckons."

- James Russell Lowell

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