I agree with Baron but think like Stu.

It's the old salt in me.

I would look under the fish you are catching. Get to the bottom quicker. Big=lazy

If no luck,......go find 'em elsewhere.

Well put LBH, that is what I meant to say...  :-[

If I'm fishing a worm or jig and get a instant bite or if a fish swims up an take the bait aggressive my first instinct is crankbait,spinnerbait or buzzbait. Mostly whats close at hand and goes fast. The hope is to wear them out and then switch back to what ever the first bite came on.

Then it's what I know about the body of water if they are  2's and you need 4's after 5 cast I move. If some bigger fish are mix I beat on them to death.

Garnet

First off I'm a shore fishermen and whenever I do find feeding frenzy's like this I usually go bigger on my lure size. Since I'm limited to moving around and finding other spots. Usually the bigger lure does it.

When I'm fun fishing and get on a good school of fish----that's when I pull out some new lures or practice a technique I'm too strong at.  This is a perfect time to gain confidence in a new lure or technique.

For largemouth, it doesn't matter to me whether its a competition or not, I live and die by the big ones.  Similar to what Baron and LBH were saying, I think sometimes you nave to "fish through" the smaller fish.  In fact, I've found you may have to fish through the smaller species.  Many times, working a particular spot, first cast will be a Rockie, next one a small bass, then a few casts later with a slower bait gets bit by a larger fish.

In a totally different realm, if I'm fishing deep clear water for smallmouth in summer, I will leave an area after four or five smaller fish in quick succession.  I believe smallmouth "school up" in similar sizes, but the truly big fish seem to take up any prime real estate rather than wander.

When the bite is hot I don 't waste my time pursuing bigger fish, not because I 'm catching lots of fish, it 's because the bite is hot and there will be hundreds of fish ready to pounce on whatever I throw that will get to the bait a lot before a bigger fish has a chance of even sniffing at the bait.

The bite is hot right now, been 4 Sundays to the same lake and have caught a little over 300 fish, all of them between 8" and a pound, have thrown big worms, jigs with monster sized trailers, spinnerbaits with blades the size of a hub cap, swimbaits and they still manage to get hooked on them.

Benn serously thinking about changing my screen name to "DINKMASTER".  

You shoud change it to Burley

I fish alot, 4 hours or so in salt most mornings and a few more in freshwater in the afternoon, everyday, so if I miss a few small ones I'm not too upset.

I do mostly canal fishing from shore for bass and peacocks and I seem to think the larger bass are protecting their own turf, so I keep moving.

I have only noticed the bass boiling in the ponds not in the canals down here and when they do they will hit anything, size seems to be quite irrevelent.

When I find fish I'll never leave, because here on St. Clair, the big girls are not prejudice. If you are catching one to three pound fish, stay there, because the fives and sixes are there too.

Every six pound plus smallie I've caught, was caught while landing a boatload of smaller fish.

Falcon

You would have to drag me off that spot  ;D

guess it all depends for me. If my buddies or GF is going with me, I'll probably sit on that hole until the cows come home. It does my heart good to see them get into it. If I'm studying for a tournament or looking to learn something new, I'll spend a few minutes to get dailed in or focused better but then I start my search for the big uns. I enjoy catching a few hawgs more than a hundred dinks but have no problem taking a few notes on what all the bass are doing.