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- How do bass become trophy size? How long do bass live? Does keeping a big bass harm the fishery? What causes a fish kill? Can 100% catch and release be worse than keeping a few? Can bass spawn more than once per year? These questions and more are answered by the nation's top warmwater lake manager, Bob Lusk, during the annual BassResource.com RoadTrip event!
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I was looking for bass guitar myths, but thanks
Myth #1: A fretless bass sounds just like a 12-string guitar.
I was looking for bass relief myths ;-)
Make sure you donât use a pick. Itâs illegal
As a bassist and a bass angler, I appreciate this comment. Try searching âbass rigsâ next.
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Give this man a television show
I was faced with the decision to pursue a smallmouth bass I saw in the Musselshell River that would have broken our Montana state record by an easy 2 pounds. In order to claim that distinction I had to kill the bass to get the 'official' weight from certified scales. Well, I just could not bring myself to kill that critter so I had to let a guy who caught a smaller smallie claim that record. The one I know about is still in the river or dead of old age now.
In my view, you did the right thing. That fish had superior genetics to reach that size, and you allowed it further opportunities to pass that along to future generations. Others will catch those progeny and derive great pleasure in doing so. Having the record could never compare with what you did. And, I think you realize that. From a dedicated angler, Thank You.
As hard as it would be, I would have done as you did
@@lannyseals2084 It truly was a moral dilemma for me. I knew where it lived, I'd seen it. It was also posted and that game of cat and mouse had to be a variable. But every place near there of any legality implied dead fish which I'd grown to be against. The only justification for pursuing that fish was it's size and remoteness. Good thing I got old thinkin about it.
Or heâs been caught and eatin đ„Ž
Good on you sir! I certainly couldnât do it either. I think having to kill a big fish kind of ruins it for everyone because like some other people said, youâre removing those big genetics from the gene pool. Iâm glad you didnât kill him, I hope heâs still kicking so someone else can catch his babies later on!
I wish this guy could speak to everyone who likes to catch bass. I watched these 2 guys fishing with live bluegill on surf rods and 12" corks end up catching a bass atleast 6 lbs probably around 8 really from a small pressured body of water and ended up killing it bc the guys scale wasn't working and he wanted a picture. Then just threw it in the water and didn't try to revive it and it ended up dying. Held it out of the water for about 10 minutes. I asked if he was gunna keep it and he said no. When I said to give him a breathe he said "oh, he'll be fine. I need to take a pic" uneducated people like that ruin alot of good fisheries.
Nick Cavazos Exatly! People using the wrong gear such as using mono and spinning gear while frogging and miss handling fish absolutely ruin good fishery lakes. I somewhat wish getting a fishing license was like a drivers license and required a class and a test to get it. Education is probably one of the most important aspects of fishing.
These types leave trash all over the fishing spot also. Be sure to raise your kids right
I donât use a digital scale anymore.. but even with it I have pics taken and the fish weighed within 40-50 seconds. Now that I use an older style scale I get them out even quicker.. never killed a fish jacking around, wish more folks would respect the fish they battle
i mean, it's pretty much common knowledge right? fish can't breathe out of the water....
shoot, if i struggle to get a hook out for a long time i always give it some air in the water.
Was this foolio not able to dunk him for a bit on and off? I had a tough time getting a hook out of a big cat just yesterday and I ran him through the water until I could get my hands on some pliers to pop the hook out. Iâm pretty sure I even apologized to him, I am Canadian though so itâs kinda in my nature. This kind of guy sounds like the type to leave litter behind and chuck his cigarette butts in the water. Tsk tsk
Such an awesome video! Great info and great messages to all anglers! Please catch and release the big girls!
Yes, absolutely DEBO'S Fishing! Thanks for watching!
No one needed to tell me that, always have and always will.
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Thanks for making this a public video and sharing. Great audio and enjoyed how points were well made and supported with Bob experience and knowledge.
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching.
This is my favorite bass fishing lecture of all time (aside from âmoby whaleâ....seriously dude?)
I come back to it in my head over and over again....the almost poetic rarity of truly large bass. Iâve always had a profound respect for the water and its inhabitants but this brings it to a new level.
Bob Lusk is a great man! Iâm hooked (pardon the pun) on him!
Wow.....Maybe the best video I have ever seen on bass, which is saying a lot (I watch a lot of fishing videos!). Thanks for this content!
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What an incredible source of information from a different point of view! I fish twice a day when the water is not frozen here in New Hampshire. This was an amazing video! And as far as catch and release, for the big Girls ALWAYS.
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Thanks for uploading this in its entirety. When you uploaded it partially and cut it off the most important message was missed... I'm glad people can see it now.
Great video.
Wish more of this type of talk and information was more readily available.
Thanks for posting and sharing.
We love to hear when we do a good job. Keep âem coming!
This makes me want to help my local stock pond more!
Wow! That was so informative, evocative, and fun. I mainly fish a 15-acre public pond in North Bergen NJ. Watching this talk has made me want to find out more about the health of my pond and how it's being or not being managed. There's a decent Bass population along with some Blue gills, and some abundant and large carp and Catfish. And there's the occasional Crappie. I've caught 15lb Carp, some Bass in the 3 to 4 lb range, and some 10 lb Catfish. On the rare occasion I catch a Crappie they are huge 11 to 12 inches. I'm going to try to reach out to the Pond Boss for advice about how to check out the health of my pond. It's so sad when I see kids come to fish and they give up when they don't catch anything. I help them catch Bluegills when I can, but I'm thinking all the fishermen could do better if we made sure the pond was being tended to like the garden he mentioned in his talk. Thank you for posting this.
Glad to help, Chuck Cooper. Let me know how it works out as I would love to see the results.
I caught a largemouth in western Pa and when i put it on my scale unknowingly it was set to Kgs. The scale read 7.4 kg. It wasn't til I put the fish back in the water that I realized it wasn't a 7lb it was a 7kg meaning it was a 16 lb fish. If u arent going to eat it put it back. I practice the same idea when I'm hunting, if I'm not gonna eat it im not gonna take its life for nothing. Unless its a groundhogs.
Hey Johnson that has to be a pa record
16? In PA??! THATS UNHEARD OF THAT IS A RECORD.
@@arielcoppola9186 by over 4 lbs. been fishing west Pa progressively over the last 2 years and talk to a lot of anglers
Only one has claimed to even have seen a double digit and that guy fishes 2 times a day almost every day during season and is 55 years old
All of them ask why Iâm even there since Iâm from Louisiana and much easier to find big fish
My local lake was famous around here for producing 8-12lb bass. I canât tell you how many pictures Iâve seen of people holding 10-12lb bass in their back yard at home⊠absolutely drives me nuts. Weigh it, measure it, take some pictures and put her back in the water!!! Iâve heard stories of people putting out yo-yos under cypress trees and catching huge bass to take home and eat.. almost makes me sick to think about it.
Wow this is the longest speech i ever heard that actually keep me interested it was great ! Iâve learned so much. I started getting in to fishing for my son but now im really enjoying this . Thanks
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching.
I wish every tournament angler could watch this guys lecture at least once
Yes, absolutely Reel Caliber Colt! Thanks for watching!
This guy is really good!
Caught a 10 pounder 11 months ago, as far as I know she still swims in wood's reservoir in TN, proud moment!
Outstanding!! Congrats!
This guy is awesome. And it sinks home the point... I'm sure a lot of you experience this, but it just hits different when you catch bigger bass. When you catch a 4 or 5 pounder you already know it beat way more odds than most of the other bass. Especially in highly pressured waters or waters with lesser food resources. A double digit bass is a lifetime catch for most anglers, and it should be. I've seen a few in the wild, and he's not kidding about heart rate. Such a cool moment witnessing something so unlikely.
Yes, absolutely Jeffrey Hill! Thanks for watching!
At a public lake I fish the average goes around 2 to 5 pounds however I have seen 8 and 9 pounder's as well. What I haven't seen in years is a population of bluegill over 4 inches. We do have a fare share of catch and keep angler's there as well, maybe thats why. 10 years ago we had crappie. I haven't caught one since then, somebody introduced tilapia to the lake and I have seen some strange bluegill maybe a hybrid but none of them large at all. Back in 2004 these students showed up in a weird boat we never seen before turns out it was a shock boat and they were going in to check the fish population we got lucky and they took us with them to observe. We collected fish all around the central islands of the lake where no one could fish because they haven't allowed boat rentals since the mid 70's what stumped us was the very small amount of bass we found and their small size. Lake management in public lakes like you said must be tough with all the cut's in funding but as long as I can catch a few each time I go I'm happy, I've been going there since I was a kid so I do know many honey holes LOL.
Thanks for watching IrAbynormal!
Best video on the channel so far. I'm going to college to do exactly what he's doing, but I'm hoping to use this knowledge to fish bass fishing tournaments.
Thanks for the support, JPipFishing, and thanks for watching!
Never met him or even herd of the pond boss but I felt like I was herring myself talk plus some things thank you sir I hope we meet
Hi Eric Gray. Thanks for the feedback and support. I look forward to hearing more from you.
Man what an awesome talk from an obvious expert & lover of the job he does!!!!! Damnit i just wanted to go ahead & hear the Q&A portion so if anyone knows where the rest of this vid is at pls post & also post any other lecturers this wonderful God fearing man has put out!!! Im from TN so the minute he mentioned Bill Dance....well i must say im just a little partial so forgive me for that but these are the kind of experts all of us fish loving anglers need to get our advice, info & otherwise from!!!! Because he has an obvious passion to keep this fun sport up & goin strong!!!! God bless & lets keep the fish âONâ!!!!
I am so glad youâve released the full version!
When we first released it, CZcams was limiting videos to 10 mins. We thought it was time to release the full version, now that they no longer restrict videos.
Fan-BASS-Tic! Again.
5 people in the audience caught double-digit bass. Any idea how many people there were in total? So, 5 out of how many?
Lusk is hilarious, wise, and fun to watch.
Roger, The Smiling BassHole
Why do you want to know?
@@bassresource I'm taking a class in critical thinking. One assignment is to discuss a CZcams video, "critiquing" the content. To better judge how small 5 anglers from the audience is, I wondered what the audience size is. 30 or 200?
It's nothing critical. I LOVE (and had previously loved!) Lusk's speech. And I certainly learned a lot. But I wondered things like:
"How did he reach the 1 in 25/30 million odds?"
"How long has data on pond/lake management been kept?" He mentions working on a lake created in 1985, âto kinda bring that into perspective for you young guys, 1835 was 1 year before Davy Crockett was killed in the Alamo. It was 10 years before Texas became a state.â 1:31 That is amazing to be sure! But did it provide him any data as well?
Certainly not trying to step on any toes. If it's not information you're comfortable giving out, forgive my asking!
And, again, this is a terrific talk, and I'd love to hear Lusk in person! (I have communicated with his staff at "Pond Boss Magazine," who were most pleasant. That was a long while back, and I received a free copy of the magazine. But alas, I don't have a bass pond!
Love your site and forums. And I'm amazed at the rapid response!
Thanks.
Roger, The Smiling BassHole (www.thesmilingbasshole.com)
@@bassresource Awesome. Of course those 60 are the âselectâ anglers smart enough to attend seminars, especially this one! I know some bass fisherfolk who never try to learn from experts.
And thank YOU for all YOU do to make more learning possible.
Incredible video thank you for that. I was sad it ended
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching.
Great information! Thanks a lot!
Glad I came across this! Lots of information I'm gonna try and retain, especially being a sorta new angler. Appreciate this info guys!
Glad you liked it Josh Dor!
Very informative, its refreshing too here the science behind it all
Glad it was helpful!
I want to get his book pond boss.
Also what are good ideas to make bass friendly brush piles. Hopefully economically.....
Also If I want to fertilize the eco systeam. How do I get the water analyzed and a recipe for that body of water??
Thanks
just jim
I enjoyed the video.
I recommend watching the whole video.
Thanks for watching pink mist!
It was a wonderful lecture. thank you very much.
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching.
This was good information on large mouth. But do you know anything on lamd lock fresh water strippers?
Really good video. Lots of food for thought...for all us anglers.
Appreciate it Glen.
Thanks, WorkN2 Fish, I appreciate your feedback.
That was a very informative video , it had me listening to the whole conversation about how fish reacted and how they all go back to the same place again great video keep up the good work !
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching.
Great video, I could watch fishing videos allll day. Sucks it is so cold where I live to get out as often as I would like!
I know! Tell me about it!
About the hybridization,introduced smallmouth naturally hybridize with the guadalupe bass,sunfish hybridize,rainbow trout are a genetic threat to many populations of cutthroat. Many species that are closely related and reproduce in the same manner and timing will often hybridize.
Good information. Thanks for sharing. Have fun making the grandkids successful catchers.
Would like to hear his explanation how bass get conditioned to some lures so quickly, and refuse them to bite.
I donât think thatâs particularly difficult dilemma. Even if a creature isnât âintelligentâ, it can learn in its bones what is and isnât food....what is and isnât safe to be around. And bass are individuals like us. One might fall for the spinnerbait okie doke five times while another gets caught twice then ârealizesâ itâs not food the next time he sees one.
Memory
What a awesome video. Great information! Thank you!
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching.
Fantastic video that should be shared by all. Lake owners and fishermen alike should be following this advice, especially on public lakes.
Great job! I can't imagine why anyone would not "Like" this video!
Very informative but think a good portion of anglers aren't interested in catch and release. I catch and release 100% and never realized I should actually be keeping some to help manage the waters I fish.
You got that right! Thanks for watching, Bryan Rudy!
if you are not going to mount a bass that is over 18" let it go! If you fish long enough this will not be a big trophy and you can not eat them the meat is soft, especially in the heat of summer, and the fun of catching is shared with your co anglers!
so when he says they drove around with the fish for 45 min and found the fish the next day back where they caught it, how does it remember to go back there if its memory is only 15 min?
ericstrongman because he's telling a 30 to 45 minute video of lies guys like him come up with đ© like that to say so the people who keep fish will stop its kinda like the History book where white people have altered and lied about for years
one word...wow.
Great Video. Awesome Lecture !!
Fantastic lecture! Very informative
i live in Texas pretty close to this guy and i feel like i have seen him around lake ray roberts a few times :o
A very informative video. Would love more of this kind of info.
Glad you liked it Robert Timmerman!
Wow this is a great video! Very informative. Thank you for sharing! đșđž
Andrew Miller, glad I could help. Looking forward to hearing much more from you.
Great presentation Bob!
amazing
Which lake in NC?
Amazing bass knowledge.
Thank you Brother!!!
You're welcome Kevin David Brummett! Thanks for watching.
Thanks for the information.
man this was great. thanks.
Learning how to unhook a gut hooked fish will come in handy once in a while, if you release your catches
You're right. Here ya go! www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-forums/topic/12981-how-do-i-remove-a-hook-a-bass-has-swallowed/?do=findComment&comment=153524
Very good info here. Thanks for posting.
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching.
That was fantastic! Thank you!
Catch and Release
I hate seeing guys and kids who catch 7-10 pounders on Fishbrain and when you look at the catch and release tab it reads NO
Does a 10 pound bass even taste good? I'll never know!!!
Great speech, his religious views dictate his theories on hybridization far too much tho. Anyone who's fished a few years can tell you Sunfish hybridize ALL the damn time, and Smallmouth/Largemouth do it occasionally in the wild.
I fish logan martin lake in alabama and it is a Coosa river spotted bass hotbed. I have recently been keeping all or most of the pound and a half and smaller fish I catch. Believe it or not I have began to catch more 3 to 5 pound spots from that area than I ever have.
Matt Jones this past winter will help too. More of a true winter pushed down for all the great seasonal triggers. So far the spawn has seemed strong across all species here to your north on Pickwick.
Matt Jones if your keeping the small fish you better make sure they are all legally long enough to keep or else youll get a 100 dollar ticket for ever under sized fish in your live well. I also fish logan Martin and got a ticket for just one small bass
Do you think you're affecting that by just what you've culled?
Great info, thanks.
Awesome video
Thank U Sr
Glad you liked it
I`ve heard this guy before & wish everyone could hear him just once & not just bass
What a fantastic video. Great information.
Glad you liked it Copperhead Outdoors!
So if I basses memory is 15 minutes, how did that bass that he caught with the crappie in it's mouth know to swim that 400 yards back across the lake to get back to its territory so that he caught it again the next day in the same place? Great video guys. Is there a part II?
Fish had 8 minutes to get back before he forgot where he lived fish was out of the water for 7 minutes. Lol
Quinton Quiroz wow good explanation man
Some of it just comes down to instinctual things more than memory. Scent might be a factor, even just the fact that the bass had went to that spot for a reason before, why not again be it for the great cover, food, or other fish.
Great talk
Glad you liked it Greg Vincent!
Thanks for such an informative video
You're welcome Derek Stewart! Thanks for watching.
This is a great video full of information
Glad it was helpful!
If I wanted to try and help out a pond that I fish regularly that has gone downhill, what can I do? I was thinking of reaching out to ODFW!?
If it's a public pond, then that would be a good start. If it's a private pond, then a lake manager would be a good starting point.
All I can say is thank you đ. The bass god
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching.
Thank You
people. Is right I agree with.
I catch bass for fun, and catch perch and crawfish for food.
Be nice if someone stocked Lake Erie with Bass it's really not the same like the 80's
I see tons of bass here in the western basin. Absolutely tons. None that are truly big until you start hitting coves and break walls out and around the islands. The smallmouth fishing is as great as ever here. See great sizes and numbers. I dont know what you mean buddy? Its a huge lake. I am curious.
I wasn't around back then but I fish erie often on the Ontario side, great bass and pike fishing
If the lake does not have a slot state limit is 14 inches, where should I cull? Keep 14 to 16-inch release anything above 16
I just always release .
Great info
Great information, Loved the talk of more then one spawning which is something I always believed !
Thanks for watching TheWeasel606!
This is awesome thanks for uploading! Any more of bob would be awesome
Thanks for the support, 331slash, and thanks for watching!
Awesome Info!
Glad you liked it Chasing Fish!
Great video,
Bill dance doesn't think many 10+ bass are pulled out of florida? I know one fisherman who's caught 15 10-12.5 pound bass out of a local central florida lake! A 10 pounder is big but no more rare than a 5-6 pound fish up north.
Wow, more angles need to watch this video. People get the word out..
Thanks for the support, Jeff Cavitt, and thanks for watching!
im from florida... ive seen 2 bass that where over 10 pounds... one maybe close to 20 pounds... talking huuuuuuge bass never caught them but i saw them.... over 2 feet in length .. ive caught 8 pounders and the4se where twice the size... one of them was in a lake in towngate the other in a canal in grand palms infront of towngate..
anyone seen the one from grandpalms? that one was so big it scared me when he popped out the culvert
1:25,000,000 to be a double digit and right now OH Ivie producing them weekly.
10 lb bass = 1 in 30 Million
I think some people are missing the point of this lecture. Cull the dinkâs and catch and release the ones that have a chance
great video
Glad you liked it Zach Tieszen!
Caught 4 nice bass last night. Had no knife or ice. They stayed in a bucket with water for 6 hours.died ofcorce, safe to eat???
Bass canât rember 15 minuets after but can move 400 yards to the same spot hmmm
Sell&Resslers GreatOutdoors theyâre way smarter than that lol
I have a nine Acre Lake and it has a pretty big stream that feeds it and one year I caught a bass or we caught a bunch of them with a black tongue and black lips and had more pronounced teeth a they were only in the lake for that one year nobody ever caught one after that year I live in South Jersey and when I went upstream I did see were somebody had a pond that they made with riprap all around the edges and we had a bad storm and it washed everything down into my lake and that's when they showed up has anybody ever seen or heard of anything like that
Great watch ! Love it!
Thanks for watching Eric Miniard!
BassResource - Bass Fishing Information thanks for posting!
Some fishery biologists believe that they can remember for 6 months and can identify different members in their school of fish by smell
The same could be said about some humans too! LOL
Bob I'm in California seen em all.. have you gone out at night?
Anybody have any tips on fishing a 3-4 acre lake that hasn't been touched in years.
Zachary Bogert just go throw whatever in there. They're ready for it.
No people for 3 or 4 years is basically too good to be true. Somebody slips on it.
Kyle Jacobs
I'm sure a couple people have slipped across it, but due to logging the access has been virtually cut off. Can't wait to try it out in a couple days.
Something that small your choices are fairly wide open. Granted it's bigger than many ponds, it still falls into that easy water category compared to large bodies or water such as impoundments, reservoirs, and river systems. Why most people think record fish caught from them should have an asterisk mark next to their listing lol.
Say what you want but bass are smarter than what youâre making them to be.