From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: rec.outdoors.fishing
Subject: Re: Bass vs. Trout
Date: 26 Aug 92 19:54:54 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Aug26.170759.28760@mcnc.org> kevins@mcnc.org (Kevin Siefering) writes:
|>>"Sink The Bass Boats!"
|>>Me, after a week on Lower Saranac Lake
|
|>	BASS:  A slow lazy fish chased by people in floating Corvetts.
|
|I can't understand this.  We have one vein going in which trout are
|claimed to be superior to bass and another vein going regarding catching
|trout while CHUMMING WITH CORN!!!

Uh oh.  I don't think this is going to be pretty.  And just after we were
getting over the CAR debates...

|Whoever said bass are slow??? I've tried to chase them while snorkeling
|with flippers.

And what would you have done if you had caught one.

|I would also contend that bass are just as smart.  One piece of evidence . . .
|In a good 18 years of bass fishing I have NEVER seen a bass hit a lure
|with even a small shred of weed on it.  They know that natural things
|simply don't haul weeds around and won't hit anything with weeds
|on it.
 
Natural?  Do you mean like spinner baits?  I remember quite a few years 
ago there was a crankbait lure made by Rebel (I believe) that looked like
a small budweiser can.  Apparently it worked.

|And fishing for bass is everybit as much of an art as trout fishing 
|in my book.  Consistently catching bass requires the same levels
|of skill, knowledge, and patience.  Using the right lure, in the
|right color, at the right time, with the right presentation, in the
|right spot is just as difficult for bass as trout.

Agreed.  Spot casting with a baitcasting outfit can be a challenge as well
as a lot of fun.  I fish a lake that is basically a flooded canyon and many
of the trees extend out into the water quite a distance. There's a lot of
little nooks and crannys and dropping your lure into a spot a couple of feet
wide and then watch the water explode when a hawg  slams the lure is
quite a thrill.  So was the time that I was fishing from a canoe and hit a 
likely looking spot with precision accuracy, let it sit there for a few
seconds, began my retrieve, and as the lure reached the boat and I was lifting
the lure out for another cast, a three pound bass hit my lure and raced back
to the spot that I had just hit.  I probably had about 9" of line out when
the fish attacked (and attack is the best word for it) on the lure.  It was 
close enough so that I got splashed pretty good when he hit.

|  And who ever said 
|that a flyrod is somehow naturally superior to a modern baitcasting outfit?  
 
A lot of people fish for bass with a flyrod as well.

|Now, I'll be the first one to agree that some bass fishermen can be
|extremely annoying with their high powered boats.  But please don't
|slam the fish itself.  
|
|Bass men unite!  We don't have to put up with trout fisher snobbery
|anymore!  


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| John Fereira            "Is that all you ever think about?"                |
| johnf@auspex.com                                                           |
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