Luckly for us dumb anglers bass don't feed by sight alone!

What a minute here were not dumb anglers. Maybe we all don't have PHD's in bass fishing. Don't let that pea sized brain fool you. Maybe they can't think like us but that little micro processor they have is a eating machine. We need to figure out what's on there menu. Plastic or metal with garlic?

Ya I suppose this sight line thing will help get you bit. Tons of time I have killed a bait and let it fall till I could nonlonget see t and get bit. It happens all day long with flukes for example. I also do it a lot with glides. Some are easy to track in clear water to th e head is marked. I will pause and let them sink and get bit a few seconds later or as soon as I move it.

I think maybe some of it might be because they are in the shadows sorta down there. Near the surface the water is much brighter and you can see everything. It's like bass sitting on the shaded side of dock pillings or something. Looking from dark to light you can see everything. But when you look from light to dark you can't really see much.

I always cast into the shaded areas parallel to the shoreline when I can. Areas that are shaded by the trees and the sun's position. Use everything to our advantage.

It's a mistake to compare a fish to human behavior. Bass evolved as cold blooded aquatic animals with very different senses and eyes. The fish eye isn't binocular , each eye is independent and has a very wide viewing angle, far greater then a human eye.

Tom