Will Bass eat soon after getting hooked?

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.