How deep was the fish caught? 9 - 10 feet deep in 11 - 12 feet of water

Did the lure contain rattles or have hinges? No.  Lure was a spinnerbait. 

Was the lure a natural color (brown, green) or was it an unnatural color (chartreuse, orange)?  chartreuse/white

If possible, what moon phase was your PB caught during?  3rd Quarter

How deep was the fish caught? 3-4 feet

Did the lure contain rattles or have hinges? No

Was the lure a natural color (brown, green) or was it an unnatural color (chartreuse, orange)? Unnatural

If possible, what moon phase was your PB caught during? No idea, cought it about a week ago though.

How deep was the fish caught? 8'

Did the lure contain rattles or have hinges? No

Was the lure a natural color (brown, green) or was it an unnatural color (chartreuse, orange)? Junebug

If possible, what moon phase was your PB caught during? Waxing Crescent

If you don't know, or don't remember, the moon phase when you caught your personal best go to this site:  http://www.moonconnection.com/moon_phases_calendar.phtml and enter the month and year when you caught your fish in the calendar.  Make sure you choose the correct hemisphere.  Then look for the day of the month.  If you aren't familiar with the symbols used for the different phases, click on "moon phases explained" in the menu on the left.

How deep was the fish caught? 6 feet

Did the lure contain rattles or have hinges? no

Was the lure a natural color (brown, green) or was it an unnatural color (chartreuse, orange)? shad

If possible, what moon phase was your PB caught during? day after full moon

Average depth caught in: <2 (spawning)

Rattles/hinges vs silent: silent

Natural vs unnatural colors: natural

Moon phases: April 12, 2013 - don't know the phase though

How deep was the fish caught? 3-4ft on a very deep sloping bank

Did the lure contain rattles or have hinges?no rapala minnow style crankbait

Was the lure a natural color (brown, green) or was it an unnatural color (chartreuse, orange)? FireTiger

If possible, what moon phase was your PB caught during? Not sure.

How deep was the fish caught? 1-2ft of water.

Did the lure contain rattles or have hinges? Yes it did.

Was the lure a natural color (brown, green) or was it an unnatural color (chartreuse, orange)? Natural color it is.

If possible, what moon phase was your PB caught during? Nada. 

 

How deep was the fish caught? ~ 4 feet

Did the lure contain rattles or have hinges? No

Was the lure a natural color (brown, green) or was it an unnatural color (chartreuse, orange)? Yes (natural)

If possible, what moon phase was your PB caught during? April 20, 2012 looks like a waning crescent just before new moon

 

My PB was on live bait that I had caught beforehand, but for an artificial lure - 

 

How deep was the fish caught? 14-15'

Did the lure contain rattles or have hinges? No - BPS 3.5" Tender Tube

Was the lure a natural color (brown, green) or was it an unnatural color (chartreuse, orange)? Brown with gold specs

If possible, what moon phase was your PB caught during? Unk.

about 3 feet but it was a bed fish. my biggest non bed fish was in about 15-20ft

the bait was my soft bluegill swimbait so no hinges or rattles  but my biggest non bed fish was caught on my hardgill which does have joints.

The colors are very natural.

I don't remember the moon.

I have read Hannon's book and it was interesting. His opinions and observations are clearly made from his experiances fishing weedy shallow florida lakes. A lot of his opinions would not be the same had he grew up out west fishing deep clear resivoirs. Bass do not act the same in different types of bodies of water. While some of their habits seem to be the same others change depending upon location. It appeared as though he based his opinions on bass behavior, from a very specific environment.

How deep was the fish caught?   17'

Did the lure contain rattles or have hinges?   No ( jig/Lobster)

Was the lure a natural color (brown, green) or was it an unnatural color (chartreuse, orange)?    Natural Colors

If possible, what moon phase was your PB caught during?   March 1, 2013   3/4 moon, Waning

How deep was the fish caught? 2'

Did the lure contain rattles or have hinges? Nope, 4" fluke

Was the lure a natural color (brown, green) or was it an unnatural color (chartreuse, orange)? White

If possible, what moon phase was your PB caught during? Waxing crescent

How deep was the fish caught? 1-2 ft (under shaded mat)

Did the lure contain rattles or have hinges?

No (Wacky Rigged Strike King Shim-e Stick)

Was the lure a natural color (brown, green) or was it an unnatural color (chartreuse, orange)?

Natural (Green Pumpkin/Red Flake)

If possible, what moon phase was your PB caught during? Third Quarter

depth 15ft.

jig rubber skirt, black and blue, pork trailer, no rattles

new moon

time 4pm

How deep was the fish caught? 30'

 

Did the lure contain rattles or have hinges? No

 

Was the lure a natural color (brown, green) or was it an unnatural color (chartreuse, orange)? Natural

 

If possible, what moon phase was your PB caught during? New moon

How deep was the fish caught? 11 FT

Did the lure contain rattles or have hinges? RATTLES

Was the lure a natural color (brown, green) or was it an unnatural color (chartreuse, orange)? WHITE

If possible, what moon phase was your PB caught during? NS

0-3 feet

No

Yes

Don't remember

about 3 feet but it was a bed fish. my biggest non bed fish was in about 15-20ft

the bait was my soft bluegill swimbait so no hinges or rattles but my biggest non bed fish was caught on my hardgill which does have joints.

The colors are very natural.

I don't remember the moon.

I have read Hannon's book and it was interesting. His opinions and observations are clearly made from his experiances fishing weedy shallow florida lakes. A lot of his opinions would not be the same had he grew up out west fishing deep clear resivoirs. Bass do not act the same in different types of bodies of water. While some of their habits seem to be the same others change depending upon location. It appeared as though he based his opinions on bass behavior, from a very specific environment.

This.

3-4 ft

no

no

and i have no idea

 

Wouldn't time of year have a big role in this as well?

How deep was the fish caught? Topwater

Did the lure contain rattles or have hinges? Yes

Was the lure a natural color (brown, green) or was it an unnatural color (chartreuse, orange)? Natural/all chrome

If possible, what moon phase was your PB caught during? I wish I could tell you.  It was 20 years ago and during the summer. 

How deep was the fish caught? 4 ft

Did the lure contain rattles or have hinges? yes

Was the lure a natural color (brown, green) or was it an unnatural color (chartreuse, orange)? natural

If possible, what moon phase was your PB caught during? no idea

Thanks for all the replies. You guys brought up some very good points about Hannons observations being geared to shallow flordia lakes, and can't be compared to many of the western lakes, or even northern lakes. Either way, thanks for chiming in, it was still cool to see some of the qualities of the lures you guys caught your pb on. I dont have the exact nubmers but I think natural colors beat out unnatural by about a 70/30 split, and roughly the same for silent vs rattles, with silent winning. Thanks again!

 

Brian

How deep was the fish caught? 4 feet of water

Did the lure contain rattles or have hinges? No

Was the lure a natural color (brown, green) or was it an unnatural color (chartreuse, orange)? Chartreuse and Blue

If possible, what moon phase was your PB caught during? Unknown. It was August the 3rd at 3 in the afternoon.

A few thoughts on this as I started to read the book after reading this thread to see if I could understand it myself.

It seems that out of all the variables included in your questionnaire “depth” would be the most difficult to quantify for several different reasons.  (yet oddly is only quantifiable) 

The first; would be part of the human element in that most don’t know the exact depth of the fish.  Most are estimates at best and the actual depth could vary several feet in either direction. This can lead to variances in the data pool and would need a large set of data in order to eliminate some of the inaccuracies. 

Critical and less quantifiable would be the great geographic differences as others have mentioned between different coasts, even different ecosystems within the same area.  Variables too numerous to count will change the depth at which the bass are feeding at, water quality, traffic, temperature, clarity, bottom composition, time of year etc.     

 

Taking into account that in his book he stated: “…large bass feed primarily in a depth range centering at 8 feet and ranging 5 feet on either side; in other words a 3 to 13 foot depth range.” Pg. 35 BBM

If you were to take a large enough data set, such as the whole of Bass Resource data on PB’s, removing outliers and such data such as topwater in 35 ft, spawn in 1 fow, etc. and performed a statistical analysis on the remaining data I am still fairly confident that you would in fact find that the data would fall in that very same depth range of 8 fow with a 5 ft. deviation.  While it may be true that most of the big fish come out of these deviations, it does not necessarily mean that the biggest fish of any population will in fact come out of that depth range.

In addition, this way of thinking also assumes that everything will fall under this perfect normal distribution/Gaussian distribution since we in fact did remove the outliers which technically are a sub-populations that has been removed since it does not fit the model... but  really should very well influence it.

 

I guess long story short- you will need a ton data here and to get the real determination of that data will have to put a ton of work into the statistical analysis of it.  I think it would be really neat if Bass Resource was able to collect that data from individual members at signup or by other means as a way of compiling that data for you.  There could be data sets available already however- I would think states with great Fishery mgmt. such as Texas may have some available however it may take a bit of research. 

 

Also, butter milk.  Not bad to drink-strangely satisfying and not just for marinating any longer.