hmmm... now didnt you make a post a while back stating the only lure a bass cant remember is a plastic worm .

"Studies have proven that the plastic worm is the only lure made that a BASS CAN NOT REMEMBER!

In most cases a bass will remember for a short time frame "hard" lures; not so with plastics. That time frame is minutes to even hours not days, weeks, months, or a life time.

Define "large" bass?

The more they try to prove bass "learn" the more asinine they sound!

This would be my definition of a large bass:

I'm not really sure if it's true or not. I know for a fact I've see times when it's not true. This last summer, for example, my dad set the hook on a fish that snapped him off. He re-rigged the same exact bait and tossed it back tot the same spot, hooked and landed the same bass which still had the other worm in it's mouth. Maybe it was just a dumb bass, or maybe there's not as much truth to that. 

 

 

I did that sort of thing last summer.  I was throwing a T-rigged worm, got bit, and somehow lost the fish and the worm.  Put on a new worm, threw to the same spot, and reeled in a bass that still had the other worm in his throat.

 

But... as has been mentioned, bass have been observed hitting the same rubber baits repeatedly in the test tank.  They are reported to ignore (for a short period of time) specific hard baits that they have been caught on.

 

Hey... you mentioned a "dumb bass."  That's what my dad always used to call me; even before I learned to fish!  

 

Tight lines,

Bob

They may not be very smart but when they refuse to bite, they refuse to bite.