Random topic, but it is a realistic question, How many bass do you think are in a lake at a time. try to estimate spawning and other factors that may affect the number just a different question to ask.

Random topic, but it is a realistic question, How many bass do you think are in a lake at a time. try to estimate spawning and other factors that may affect the number just a different question to ask.

Way too random to ask. It has to do with size of the lake firstly and then obviously the amount of forage in each specific lake. Lake Okeechobee is 451,000sq acres where as your local small pond may only be 5 acres. That number is obviously gonna be different.

28,000 acre lake...395 islands...hurts my brain to think about.

You mean 'bass-per-acre', right?

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There are exactly 14 bass in every lake.

There are exactly 14 bass in every lake.

Someone please tag this with best answer!!!!!

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Random topic, but it is a realistic question, How many bass do you think are in a lake at a time. try to estimate spawning and other factors that may affect the number just a different question to ask.

A lot.

How many I can catch lol

Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer.  Eleventy-seven.

Way too many variables of course but shock surveys at lakes are for that very reason...population ESTIMATE analysis.

For those of you in the knoe, whats a healthy per acre number?

The average CPUE (Catch Per Unit Effort) that's listed in my map book for the combined areas of my lake is 119.6 for example. That figure from the F/W folks is a few years old. I don't know how that relates to acreage or if it's a good number. Maybe some body knows this stuff?

Our IDNR biologists have completed several lake surveys with population estimates of the number of potentially catchable bass (those >8"). In Lake Monroe, our largest reservoir with 10,750 ac., they estimated 22,797 bass. Surveys and modeling combined to give an estimate of 16,754 bass (>8") swimming around in Hardy Lake (741 ac.). Over at Sullivan Lake they estimated 12,243 bass roaming its waters (468 ac.). As a slightly different set of numbers, at Brookville Res.(5,260 ac.) , there are about 137 smallmouth bass per mile of shoreline, and another 307 largemouth in that same 1-mile stretch.

 

You can do the math to get things like approx. bass/acre, or the number more commonly referred to in our surveys is catch per unit effort (CPUE), the number of a given fish species sampled (usually shocked) per unit of time, most always in #'s per hour. Our worst waters are single digits, but typically our lakes fall into two classes, a group at about 50 bass per hour, and another at about 150 bass per hour.

 

-T9

Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer. Eleventy-seven.

That's not nice.... Isn't NO question stupid they say???

I think his wording and more knowledge of how fish populations are actually counted would have served him better. Asking about what each persons avg numbers per acre they fish would have been a way better way to ask this.

Each lake has exactly 84127 bass in it.

Each lake has exactly 84127 bass in it.

Nope. It's 14 as stated above. Lol. 200 guys out on Okeechobee at one time fishing for 14 bass.

OK, I will chime in on this one. It really does depend on allot of variables. Depending on the fertility of the water, depth, location, etc. This may be the best answer. Anywhere from 15 to 50 per surface acre. Read the pdf and draw your on conclusions. As far as fish per surface acre, I have seen 12,000 pounds of fish come from a one acre pond. (Threadfin Shad)

 

http://www.in.gov/dnr/fishwild/files/fishmgt.pdf

Random questions will get random answers..

You guy's make my head hurt

Mike

Some days it seems like there are NONE ~

 

 

A-Jay

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I'm going tree fiddy on this one

I often wonder about the number in lakes I fish, especially when I don't get a single bite all day .