Replacement fish

[BW from AZ]

If you remove a large fish from where you caught it "do other large fish take its place" or is it just any fish any size? I guess what i want to know is do i go back for another try at that spot or look else where for a while.
Bob W
4 days till splash
PS little brother caught more bait than he could keep and two stripers
in 2 1/2 hours.

[Back Beach]

Real good question.
With many of the places I've frequented in my fishing career I've observed resident fish as your question suggests. I typically experience this during the summer months when seasonal fish show up and hang out in an area. Many times I've taken a large fish on the first or second cast in a spot, then nothing for the rest of the night. Come back the next night and same thing. When I did a lot of boat fishing on the outer cape in the shallows, large single fish would sit on specific pieces of bottom such as mussels or pronounced humps . You could drift over the spot, see the single fish on patrol and then catch it. After the fish was taken off the piece of structure another one would take its place within two or three tide changes. Usually they were very large fish too. 40 plus pound stuff.

[baldwin]

Just like corporate folks, they compete for the best positions. Who is best able to compete?

[BassDawg]

and it seems to be true for my big producer
up Cape Ann way, although i've only got two seasons
of data ~~the numbers and catches would concur, Jake.

even down to the two to three tide changes, then

another Big COW holds court, and why wouldn't SHE?


which fish are gonna tell her to MOOOOve?
if this theory holds, it's gonna be a goooood year this year!!!

[BW from AZ]

Thanks for the info. Now I understand the concern with spot burning and serching for the perfect honey hole. I haven't seen it explained that way. Bob W

51 weeks of planing
2 days till splash