SHRED wrote:
After losing that big bass yesterday I was wondering if she might hang
around that spot.
Do bass have a tendency to move or stay put?
There are plenty of baitfish and crawdads in the area.

We don't have floridas here, but yesterday wasn't the first time this
happened to me...

A buddy & I were fishing. Twenty minutes into the day, pitches his drop
shot rig to a 15 foot deep boulder surrounded by weeds. Hooks a fish,
fights it on his UL drop shot rod for a half-minute or so, then it dives
down into the crease between the weeds and the rocks and ties him up. He
puts on as much pressure as he dares, but a seconds after he says he
'feels the line scraping the rock', the line breaks. The next thing he
says isn't fit for a public newsgroup. He swears it was a four pounder.

It might've been a five pounder by next year, except for what happened 7
hours later. We're working our way back to the ramp and stop on the same
point. I pitch to the same boulder, and set the hook. Nice fish! a solid
3. (well, maybe not SOLID, but darn close to a 3, anyway). Hey, why is
there a drop shot sinker hanging out of it's mouth? I'm using a grub on
a jig head. And I don't use those chintzy BPS weights for drop shot
fishing anyway, Bu my partner does. And he uses #1 Gamakatsu DS hooks
like the one that's tied to the other end of the drop shot leader and is
buried in the roof of the fish's mouth absolutely smack dab next to my
jig hook. There's about 16" of line coming off the hook, too, and the
end is all frayed. No question that my buddy's four pounder lost a full
pound or more in the last 7 hours, because this is definitely the same fish.

Actually, that was the 2nd time yesterday that I caught one of his fish.
Earlier in the day (just before he lost the fish just discussed,
actually) he was fighting a fish and I was fiddling with a snarfle on my
reel, with the drop shot hanging down in the water. He brought his fish
to the boat and was trying to lip it and complaining that it had wrapped
itself in my line. His line broke and the fish got away. Then I reeled
up my line after straightening out the line snarfle on the spool, and --
whoa, I've got a fish on here. My hook had actually hooked into the line
loop on his drop shot sinker as his 'lost' fish swam away. (remember,
the lines had been crossed). I somehow even managed to land it without
popping his sinker off the line. Very weird.