Bedfish

[Matt_Magnone]

Ok I just have to jump in again. For crying out loud for a fish that is in just about every puddle of water some make a LMB out to be a totally wimpy fish that can't sustain their population yet they are everywhere?!?!?

Call me confused?

No wonder why some make fun of LMB guys, lol.

It has nothing to do with the fact that a Largemouth may or may not be wimpy; It's the fact that if you ask 10 guys in the tackle shop what there favorite time of year to fish bass, 9 of them will tell you the Spring when the fish are on their beds. The majority of anglers just can't help themselves to the easy pickings. It's one of those double edged swords. I can also play the devils advocate on this one as well.

Since the beginning when an angler was first given a rod and reel years and years ago, I could guarantee the angler saw a bass relating to a specific spot on the shoreline. Without a doubt that angler found a way to coax it into biting. Years and years later, anglers have been programmed to use this as a viable way to catch fish this time of year. If it were a true detriment to the fishery, why hasn't there been rules put in place to limit it? I completely understand.

In this day and age, there are more fisherman on these lakes than there has ever been. Boats, electronics, the internet and new age tackle is making it easier and easier for the average angler to walk out to the lake and catch a bass. Being that there are that amount of anglers today, based upon what books, television and the internet tell them to do in the Spring, you can't tell me that these fish, which are EXTREMELY easy to catch on the bed, aren't getting the crap beat out of them for a short lived thrill for the angler. It's just a fact not an assumption.

If the roles were reversed and lets say a striped bass were a bedding creature, how many anglers do you think would fish their beds? The shot at a 30# fish no deeper than 20' basically with no choice but to stick around. I'd guarantee that same 9 out of 10 anglers would be STOKED! As a result, the future of that same fishery would be left to question and I'd be fighting for the cause as well.

The whole thing about what I've written is about the preservation of what we have currently. There are those that fight, and those that just let the pieces fall into place and are okay with whatever the outcome may be. Lake Perris these last few days has been an eye opener. Boat after boat hour after hour working the same early bed fish. The bed crazy attitude is wrong.

But I agree with you man, we do come off pretty cracked out at times haha!