Afew years ago I kept track of roughly how many bass I caught and had a thread about it. It was over a thousand . I dont know how to find that thread but I'll look. 1400 is a good number of fish.

I found that thread. My year total was 1167.

32 minutes ago, scaleface said:

Afew years ago I kept track of roughly how many bass I caught and had a thrad about it. It was over a thousand . I dont know how to find that thread but I'll look. 1400 is a good number of fish.

I found that thread. My year total was 1167.

 

It's been fun to count. I'll do it again next year. 

@Swamp Girl  YOU are so blessed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  A year that everyone admires!

We hold our breaths anticipating your reports and being astounded by them!

4 minutes ago, Lottabass said:

@Swamp Girl  YOU are so blessed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  A year that everyone admires!

We hold our breaths anticipating your reports and being astounded by them!

 

Really makes you wonder how many bass live in your ponds? You don’t use electronics, so it’s probably a high curiosity of just what’s down there. A thousand bass plus is great anywhere, and something to be said to your abilities

Jon, my pond is about 170 acres. My pal's pond is twice that. AI says that each acre of water can support 50-100 bass, depending upon their sizes. If this is so, then I'm fishing water holding tens of thousands of bass. 

 

I once fished a rock in Lake Michigan that was a size of a van. I think I pulled 80 smallies off that one boulder, my point being that a lot of bass can squish into a small space.

Katie, that is very true…especially in the Great Lakes. I have a harbor I fish that has a single log in the back end of it. During early spring, that log is a magnet for largemouth with a smallie here and there. The first time I fished it, I knew right away “there’s probably bass hanging around that log”…yup. Wide open sand around it with no weeds yet at that time, so in the warming shallows…that log is obvious to fish 

52 minutes ago, JonB2 said:

Katie, that is very true…especially in the Great Lakes. I have a harbor I fish that has a single log in the back end of it. During early spring, that log is a magnet for largemouth with a smallie here and there. The first time I fished it, I knew right away “there’s probably bass hanging around that log”…yup. Wide open sand around it with no weeds yet at that time, so in the warming shallows…that log is obvious to fish 

 

Heck, yeah! Same thing for sure.

I made it, catching 27 bass, for a current total of 1,424. I wrote "current" because I might fish again this year. I don't want to commit to quitting yet because fishing was so good this afternoon and they were tight to the shore, which lets me fish safely. I'll share the pics in a stand-alone report. If there are a few more warm days and fishing stays hot and they stick tight to the shorelines, I might reach my original goal of 1,500. 

And the EB strikes again.. CONGRATS Katie.. 👏👏👏

I've kept records since May 2014, so out of curiosity I added up all the bass I've caught.

 

690 LMB and 525 SMB, for a grand total of 1215 bass in over 11 years. 

 

YEAH .... I'm moving to Maine. 

 

My budget is $800K to $1M max (as long as I can convince my wife the winter's aren't so bad up there). Will that get me something on a pond/lake up there

 @Swamp Girl ?