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Originally Posted by Vogt
I have experienced very similar situations, however I feel this type of thing is veryspot dependant. I think it has alot to do with the way the bass relate to that specific spot. It could simply be an area that only a couple bass patrol at any given time. Other spots that produce more steady numbers of fish over the course of the night may be spots that bass are constantly moving through. This is just the theory that bass hunt differently depending on the spot (including factors such as tide, current, etc..).
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What Vogt said - at least in my experience.
I always chalk it up to there being just a few fish of a larger size in that particular area or stage of the tide.
I always figure that might be it for the spot - but yeah, I always hang out longer than I probably should just to see if the big girl was cruising the area with one of her fat friends
The 'fish-of-a-similar-size-schooling-for-efficiency-in-feeding' theory seems to not apply to larger bass very often - the bigger they get, it seems the more likely they are to be loners. Stands to reason - there aren't that many of them around once they attain a certain size. Then they cruise singly or in pairs from what I've experienced first hand.
Not to say there aren't big fish blitzes of schools of cows - it just doesn't happen all that often. The ones that do occur become the stuff of legend for guys who were there - like DZ's experience with the Snowstorm Blitz on BI (in '87 I think it was).
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