Chris

Attract bass no keep on on the hook maybe, cause the bait to sink yes, make the bait softer the longer you use it yes.

What determines what you do most? My mood... If I feel like battling waves and being bounced around fighting the wind all day just for a crankbait bite I do it. If I feel like picking up my flipping stick and pitching to the same beaver hut for hours guess what I do it. The thing about it is if it is something that I feel like doing then chances are it will work in some shape or form. I have never been a fair weather fishermen and not many conditions just make me cringe or prevent me from giving 100% even if I fail. I do not live and die by one lure or technique. I guess because of this conditions don't make me run and hide it just rules out what would work or where I should fish. With any group of people you can always pick out the flippers and crankers and finesse fishermen based upon what conditions they hate to fish in. I love them all 8-) as long as safety is not an issue. When I first get to the lake yeah I check out how windy it is or the water temp. I check out many things but the main thing I check out is what techniques I know how to use under the conditions I am faced with that I feel confident in. I start refining when they don't work and then mix it up and find something that will work.

pad fields all day long morning fish the edge afternoon dig in.

Junebug and gold color hard baits

I know for myself in super clear water I can not catch bass on a spinnerbait for nothing

Let's break this down a little if you don't mind pscarbor. Are you fishing clear water? around cover? What is the the spinnerbait you are currently using more importanly what configuration? (Blade) It could be that you just need to tweak what your doing a little.

That was out of a bassmaster mag and to be honest I am not surprised that it was wrong ;)http://myfwc.com/Fishing/updates/rodm-rec.html

Kentucky Spot, redeye, suwannee, largemouth, smallmouth, Florida strain, shoal bass

That is not the point a Florida Bass is considered it's own species of bass separate than any other bass. It is the only bass that has the capability to grow really big in a short period of time. While one bass out of millions of other species might get a chance to grow 10 lbs or bigger the odds are greater that a Florida bass will grow bigger than 10 lbs because of genetics. Food don't matter but the difference is in deep lakes that have trout stocking programs trout can thrive in deep water so larger bass have more of a deep water food source. This means that a large bass don't need to move shallow to find food so they have less contact with anglers except during spawn.

Florida record in 1961 was 19 lbs Uncertified State Record - 20 pounds, 2 ounces, caught in Big Fish Lake (private pond) in Pasco County in 1923. * 20 lb 15 oz 1974 CA record was between 12 and 14 years old. Studies have shown that a Florida strain should live another five years or more. 1973 it was said that a 25 lb largemouth or better might become a reality in the next few years based upon the conditions and the due to their feeding on trout.

Here is the problem in 1968 the California record bass 14 lbs 15 oz. May 1959 is when they stocked with Florida bass. 1972 California record 17 lbs 14 oz.....1973 20 lb 15 oz. It wasn't until they stocked with Florida bass that they ever beat their own state record.

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The FAQ is just like Ragu it's in there!

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1974 Bassmaster Fishing Annual page 12 (In his own words) Question: What did you do after you landed the big bass? Perry: We quit fishing. That was the only fish we had caught all day. We just pulled the boat up on the bank, put the bass under a burlap sack in the back of the pick-up and drove to Helena, Ga Question: is that where you weighed it? Perry: Yes. When we got to the store some guys showed up and said, "Let's weigh and measure that thing and get it in the contest." So we did. It weighed 22lbs. 4oz. and had been out of the water for about two hours. It was 32 1/2 inches long and had a girth of 28 1/2 inches. Question: What contest were they refering to? Perry: That was the Field and Stream" fishing contest that involved several districts, like Southern region, etc., for fish like black bass. Someone got an entry blank from a magazine right there in the store. I filled it out, and it was witnessed and signed by a notary public, a Mr. McArthur. I never thought much more about it. Later on I was notified that I had won in the black bass category and received a tremendous prize of $75 in merchandise to be selected from "Field and Stream". Question: Were you notified at that time that the bass was a world record? Perry: No-no. I didn't even realize anything like that. I was just glad to win what I did; $75 was a lot of money in those days. Seems like it was later on, considerably later, that they (Field and Stream) advised me that it was a world record. Question: What did you get with the gift certificate? Perry: a Browning automatic shotgun that listed for $44.85, some shells, fishing equipment and some outdoor clothes. Like I said, that was a lot of money. We were smack in the middle of a depression. We could buy a pound of bacon for 4 1/2 cents, coffee for 12 cents a pound, loaf break for 5 cents. The value of money has changed so much you hardly think in terms of dollars and cents about things back then. Question: What else have you received as a result of the record fish? Perry: Well, a lot of phone calls and correspondence from all over, even Alaska. I made several recordings and tapes for newspapers, radio, and TV. Some advertising outfit in Miami sent me a Pfleuger Supreme reel for a little statement I made for them. I caught the bass on a Pfluegar reel and a True Temper rod. I can't say I have received another thing. Financially speaking that $75 was it. Reckon that would be worth about $80 today (1974) Question: What do you think that bass would be worth to you today, If you caught had caught it a year ago? (1973) Perry: Possibly $10,000, maybe considerable more. Question: what did you do with the record bass? Perry: We ate it! That's what a fish is for, to eat. Question: What is the next largest bass you have caught? Perry: I caught one that weighed 15 lbs. 14 oz. about four years after I caught the big one. I caught it right here in Glynn County in a small creek that runs into the Altamaha River. Question: You've read about the 20 lb. 15oz. transplanted Florida strain bass caught in California last June. What's your opinion about bass transplants, cross-breeding and so called "Super Bass" programs. Perry: Quite frankly, I feel that is not natural happening. It sounds like they are pen-feeding a lot of bass to me. A record bass, or a record anything, should be taken in it's natural state. With all this replanting and crossbreeding, you can produce almost anything you want to. Only Nature should be allowed to produce anything for a record. In my opinion, these Super Bass will not, does not, and never will compare to the bass I caught in natural surroundings in Montgomery Lake. I certainly think if a record bass is caught it should be caught in the natural waters of its habitation, on a hook and line. Question: That brings up another interesting controversy. Your world record is an established, accepted fact. But since bass fishing has grown to such tremendous proportions and since so much can be gained in prestige, and money the certifying of state and a possible world record is even more important. Almost every state has its own rules and requirements. A few have no record establishing procedures at all. The Bass Anglers Sportsman Society (BASS) see the immediate need to establish a nation wide single system for recognizing, certifying and appropriately rewarding catches of new record. Other than checking the mechanical minimums-length, girth, weight, method caught etc.,- does the possibility of administering a polygraph or lie-detector test to a person claiming the record, under strictly controlled conditions, seem to be in order? Perry: You have a point, such a method for establishing a new record would remove any doubt. I would certainly suggest that some central agency, co-operating with the state game and fish departments se up a national and state resords system for establishing new records, particularly in the event of a world record to assure catching the fish in an accepted sporting manner. Sportsmen never used to have to worry about such things. Trophies were for your own personal pleasure. Everything has changed so. I had a little ol' 14-ft boat that probably cost me 30 cents worth of material and built my first one myself. We've come from the 59 cent rod and 19 cent line I had years ago to $5000 worth of equipment now to go fishing. I guess bass fishing has come a ling way, though sometimes I wonder. By Terry Drace Bassmaster staff writter 1974

That is because you have enough light that can reflect off of it because the water is clear.

If there is one that had all the conditions right to grow that big there is another. With the same bass bite again yes if you hit it right (at night) and if the fish went back to its bed.

"Could this have been a defensive move?" The only defensive move would be where it was released. If they turned it loose far enough away from the bed it might not go back and if it has not fully spawned yet it might find a new nest or skip a year to spawn. It was smart on their part.

That quote is from a BASS publication and at the time it was originally printed Ray Scott still owned BASS.

Quote: Perry and Page took the bass to a grocery store in nearby Helena, where it was weighed. But Perry has no inkling that this bass was the largest ever certified. The International Game Fish Association (IGFA), offical keeper of fresh and saltwater world record gamefish, wouldn't exist for another seven years. "but somebody in the store mentioned the Field & stream fishing contest, which was a popular fishing competition at the time. The magazine awarded merchandise annually for the winning fish in several categories, including bass." Perry desided to enter his bass in the contest. He took it to the Helena post office, where it was weighed on certified scales. The fish weighed 22 pounds, 4 ounces, measured 32 inches in length and had a 28 inch girth. Perry won the contest and recieved $75 in merchandise.

Now before the fur starts flying and I am stuck deleting and locking it down lets be nice about this and not turn it into a sword fight or something otay :

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The thing about it is this, even back when Perry caught his record they did not give the title of record holder to just anybody. The guy can not just say hey guess what I just caught a record give me the title. There needs to be proof and if I remember correctly it was weighed on a certified scale either postal or a supermarket meat scale (don't remember which) and measured with witnesses other than relatives or friends. If the guy just had a picture or if he was trying to become a record holder just from a picture or his good word he would not be in the books. You can doubt the current record all you like but more than one person said there was enough evidence to award him the record.