Just wondering if fish in the same chain of lakes act the same. I originally posted in this section, but I'll make this thread more broad opposed to location. Is it worth fishing another lake close by if nothing's biting or pack up and change area/region of the state?

No...they may be similarities though

I fish i few lakes that are connected and they never seem to fish the same.

One pair are polar opposites and the other pair are similar. On the similar pair i do better in spring on one and summer on the other lol

Buggs Island fishes totally different than Lake Gaston.

 

What a difference a dam makes.

 

Bass will act the same in all types of water but the bottom structure, water depth and water temperatures have an affect on bass behavior from body of water to body of water.

 

This is why the pros will travel many miles to another body of water or part of the lake during a tournament.

 

This is what helps drive you nuts when you bass fish!!!!

I actually fish a few bodies of water that are fed by the same river. Each place has a manmade dam. The larger lake is where the river comes from that feeds the other two places. There is a few more areas that are along this river too but there on private land. Ok the winter run off moves fish that are stocked into the smaller bodies of water. They stock salmon and trout in the lake and we have trout and salmon all the way down the river and into the smaller bodies of water.

Now the lures I use at the smaller bodies of water are pretty much the same. The crankbaits, the topwater, the inline spinners and spinnerbaits pretty much catch fish at all of them.

Now in fishing these places for two decades now I notice just like any other place the fish can be off at one spot and two minutes down the road there on?

There connected by the same river. Go figure that's fishing.

Do the fish learn our lures if we catch and release the same fish over and over?

Do they learn my scents? Again I use one brand, one flavor of scent all the time.

I'm using a bass attractant. I'm catching nothing when it usually works. One day something was wrong, I'm catching nada. Now I switch to a garlic scent I'm catching fish again.

Your talking similarity between places, I'm saying one place can be different and there connected.

That's why it's called fishing and not catching.

But what we learn bait wise works at any different place we fish.

Our knowledge that we learn goes with us.

NO!

There is actually 6 lakes south of me that are if you counted it as 1 is probably the biggest in the whole state. Even though its all connected they are all known for something different like type of fish generally and are not all on equal fishing. levels. It the same as the great lakes. they are just on the worlds biggest scale. Actually though I am pretty sure russia has a chain like that and its bigger then ours but its in the tundra and frozen over.