alwaysfishking wrote:
I always wondered. I posted a picture of a fish my buddy Jeremy caught early
this morning. This fish had some serious hook wounds that were healing up.
Good size fish and very distinctive lower lip from all the times it was
hooked...... I caught this fish yesterday morning on the same lure, a Blue
Saphire Ozmo dipped halfway in green watermelon garlic, This fish hardly
fought either time tending to just want to go deep after being hooked,
didn't flop one time while it was in the boat either. On another lake there
is a fish with distinct patterns that hangs out in the same spot all the
time, This fish we have named "Rufus" it has been caught and released at
least 6 times that we know of and again like the big fish, no jump and kinda
comes to the boat like a wet sock. Anyone else experience this? Just
curious. There was also a fish that I had caught about two weeks ago, gut
hooked with a 2/0 red gammy, That fish has been caught two more times since
then, just as hungry now as it was then.


Randy,

I have seen some crazy stuff along those lines. I caught a 22" brown
trout that had a huge thunderstick stuck in its mouth, eye, and back. I
caught a Smallies, that had a old rotting jig hanging out of its anus,
and line coming out of its throat, and huge claws froma crayfish stick
out of its throat that was a very recent feed. I have caught a
largemouth on back to back days on the same exact bait (could tell by
specific scars).

Yet, (this isn't personal experience, but a study I have read) , where
after a particular tagged fish was hook for what they believe to be the
first time ever, for the next six months, when a boat came near it, and
a bait hit the water, it would run over 100 yards away as quick as it
possibly could.

So I don't know, Brown trout are supposed to be the most sensitive
feeders out there (intelligent they say) (fresh water, along with
bluegills I think). But I have caught the same steelhead within an hour
, but being it was attempting to spawn it was very territorial(and I
hate myself for hooking it once, let alone twice, but there was a huge
pod of them,and it was cold out, and needed some action) My friend and
I found a summer run steelhead in May in one river that probably went
about 13lbs, that I ran across and fished with 4lb test and a 1"
crawfish I picked from the rocks under a float, and every time I swung
past him he would move out of the way. My buddy had 2lb test fluoro
running even a smaller craw and the fish actually moved and smashed his
bait right as it settled about 20' away from where it was sitting when I
was fishing it. I know the brown and steelhead are not bass, but those
instances I think show the individualism of not only the species
themselves, but fish as a whole. Those are the factors in fishing that
keep me coming back, knowing that the quarry doesn't you are pursuing
isn't the same from individual to individual!

Chris