Tennessee Boy

Let's keep the Kentucky Lake carp disaster in prospective. Tournament results aren't the best way to judge the health of a fishery but the numbers are readily available. Here are the winning weights of all FLW Tour events on Kentucky Lake. *2018 and 2016 were the top weights of all tournaments for those years. 5/17/18 = 101-9 * 6/09/16 = 97-2 * 6/26/14 = 88-10 6/07/12 = 77-3 6/16/11 = 73-3 6/11/09 = 82-10 5/10/06 = 71-5 5/12/04 = 61-14 5/14/03 = 75-13 5/06/98 = 66-5 5/28/97 = 77-9 4/20/96 = 57-9

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There are a number of different asian carp. In the 90s people were introducing grass carp into Guntersville in an attempt to get rid of the grass. The fishermen (including me) were freaking out about it. The carp have muliplied and the grass is still there. The carp that are in Kentucky lake are not grass carp. They are the ones that eat plankton and compete with shad for food. I know the number of threadfin shad in the lake has plumited and this can't be good for the bass. I think the fishing has been worse over the last few years and many people are blaming it on the carp. I personally think the fishing is still better than it was twenty years ago and it's much better than most other area lakes. I'm concerned about the carp but I'm not freaking out yet.

What would happen if you took a wide selection of rods, removed all branding and pricing information and allowed anglers to select the one they like the most. I'm convenced there would be very little corolation between price and the ones selected.

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Obviously when you crank the motor a voltage glitch is causing a glitch in your Solix which is causing it to reboot.. It's not loosing power completely. If it were you would have to power it on again to restart it. Check the voltage displayed on your Solix and see if you can see a pattern between the voltage displayed before you crank and when the problem occurs. The voltage should be the highest when the cranking battery is fully charged and everything but the Solix is turned off. If it only happens when the voltage is below a certain value then I would look at your the wiring. If it happens regardless of the displayed voltage then it's going to be more diffcult.

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They've got to change the scoring for me to really take them seriously. I like not having a limit but you've got to reward catching larger fish. No one thinks five one pound fish are equal to one five pound fish. The scoring should reflect that.

I enjoy watching MLF but it feels more like reality TV than a fishing tournament.

Very nice fish! Congrats.

I’ve broke 2 rods in 45 years. Neither of them while fishing.

The blue tooth heading sensor will continue to draw current as long as it has power.

Welcome to BR. I was up your way a couple of years ago. Beautiful country.

I agree with @Team9nine . I've seen nothing to suggest that bass have an innate genetic drive to spawn in the same place they were born. We know Salmon do have this drive so it's not unthinkable that bass could also have it to a lesser degree. I thinks it's best to reject a theory until there is some evidence to support it. Your old nursery my be a hidden gem for the other reasons you described. It's probably just a good place to spawn so bass return there year after year.

My remote always says TM not deployed when it's stowed so I don't think you can record a track without it being deployed. It might be possible to deploy the TM, raise it out the water with the speed set to zero and record the track using your big motor. I have an Ultex so I don't have the option of raising and lowering the motor with the touch of a button like you do and I'm making some assumptions about how high you can raise the motor when it's deployed.

Yeah, I think most of us go on gut instinct. I'm not sure that's always a good thing. Do we really give much thought to how we evaluate something new? Let's say your fishing trick worms. I've found myself do this. I'll start with my favorite color, if that doesn't work I'll try some of my other favorites. If none of my favorites are working I might give that new color I just bought a try. If you're not careful you end up only fishing a new color trick worm when the fish aren't hitting trick worms. That's no way to evaluate a new color or anything else new.

How long do you throw a given bait/color combination on a given day before you can say it's not what the fish want on that day? How many days does a bait have to fail to catch fish before you decide it doesn't deserve a permanent place in your tackle box?

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Great thread! Made me do a lot of thinking. Thanks!

That's a great question. I know some people fish their spots but try to shake off the fish if they get hit. Could this teach the fish that the lure is not real? ?

I just pulled out the book to make sure I've got this right. Several groups of six bass were allowed to freely strike an artificial minnow for five minutes. The bass as a group hit the lure twenty four times on average. Half of the groups were retested two weeks later and they hit the same lure at one tenth the rate as in the first test. The other half of the groups were tested after three months and hit the lure a little more. It looks like they averaged about four strikes on the lure according to the graph. Think about what it would mean if the results were exactly the same in the wild. You fish a pond that has never been fished. You throw a minnow lure in a spot that has six fish. You should get twenty four opportunities to catch a fish. Of course as you catch them the number of strikes would be reduces. It's safe to say you should catch several of the fish with a good chance of catching all six. Now what if you are fishing on a pressured lake and you throw the same minnow lure in a spot that has six fish that have been educated to the same level as the ones in the experiment. You should expect two to four strikes if you don't hook any of them. We don't know if the strikes were concentrated to a few fish in the experiment or if they were evenly distributed among the six. You should probably expect to catch one for sure, maybe as many as four in this scenario. Jones' results do not suggest that none of us should be catching any fish. I have no idea what percentage of the fish that see my lure actually strike it. I'm guessing it's less than one in six. So real life might be worse than the results from the lab.