Bedding Fish

I was out taking a look around yesterday, and found lots and lots of bedding
fish. Even some areas where the beds have already been abandoned.
Amazingly, long casts with a wacky stick worm on top of bedding fish
resulted in some good hookups. While there are plenty of times when another
bait will catch a lot more fish I am beginning to think that aren't many
times when that rig won't catch them. I know where I'll be fishing today.

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Last spring I had luck throwing a trout colored 4" Senko at beds on a wacky
rig. Many other presentations failed, but when I put that wacky rig out
there, the bass came running.


Rich P


"Bob La Londe" wrote in message
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I was out taking a look around yesterday, and found lots and lots of
bedding
fish. Even some areas where the beds have already been abandoned.
Amazingly, long casts with a wacky stick worm on top of bedding fish
resulted in some good hookups. While there are plenty of times when
another
bait will catch a lot more fish I am beginning to think that aren't many
times when that rig won't catch them. I know where I'll be fishing today.

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Is bed fishing good for our sport...I don't think so, I don't do it but
that's just me.

"AJH" wrote in message
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Is bed fishing good for our sport...I don't think so, I don't do it but
that's just me.

Personally, I think that as long as the fish is caught, photo'd and
immediately released, it doesn't harm a thing.

When it gets fuzzy is when bedding bass are caught under tournament
conditions. I've read studies that say it can harm a fishery, leaving
unprotected nests. By the same token, I've read studies that claim it
doesn't hurt a fishery in the long run. I just wish I could put my fingers
on both studies.......
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"Eric Dreher" ét wrote in message SNIP

I tend to agree with all you said. Personally, I don't fish
tournaments, so all are released right over their beds after being
caught. I don't like the idea of them being removed from their beds
and released near a dock after weigh-in, but I know of no studies that
indicate it harms the population in a healthy lake.

Like I said, I wish I could find both of those studies. It made interesting
reading, and both studies made some very valid points. But it's pretty much
immaterial as like you, I like to release the fish back to their beds.
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While you are looking for those two studies, see if you can find one
that gives an idea how many of those bass released at the dock live.
It is my guess that organized tournament fishing depleats bass much
faster than bed fishing.

On the small lake that I live on, Pomme de Terre in Missouri, we can
have as amny as 20 tournaments on some weekends. That is just too
damn many boats and too much organized fishing for any lake. The bass
population is down drastically from 5 years ago. The crappie
population, which has not seen the same increase in pressure, is
holding its own.

We were once a great bass lake. Today we are a fair crappie lake.

Win