Interesting study: Bass Patterns

[a6hux]

Please delete if already posted!

[local16]

That’s a good watch and confirms a lot of my findings. Not saying I’ve got it figured out, but it’s How I fish.. thanks for posting

[MichAngler]

watch this and see smallmouth cover east end of Erie and one moves a hundred plus miles

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[MakingWaves]

This study by Todd Driscoe (interviewed by Ken Smith) consisted of 6 YouTube videos that I saved to one of my YouTube folders. Should be able to find them all on YouTube if interested. Very cool info

[pantherdad]

Enjoyed that video. Thanks for sharing

[RangrSkipr]

Sorry. Duplicated what Waves posted about the Ken Smith series. Deleted

[jlperkins]

[Steven H]

I watched the Ken Smith videos too and one thing missed here that Todd Driscoll mentioned was the fish being on " do nothing, featureless flats" like 40% of the time too I think I recall that no one would consider fishing. Thought about that a lot and talk about needle in a haystack fishing, just throwing on a 40 acre flat hoping the lure gets in front of one!

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[188Musky]

I watched the Ken Smith videos too and one thing missed here that Todd Driscoll mentioned was the fish being on " do nothing, featureless flats" like 40% of the time too I think I recall that no one would consider fishing. Thought about that a lot and talk about needle in a haystack fishing, just throwing on a 40 acre flat hoping the lure gets in front of one!

When he says “featureless flat” he is referring to the way it looks on a map, not what it looks like in actuality, or that it is actually featureless.

[Real L]

One thing that was mentionned but often goes under the radar is the time spent travelling. Bass that are moving are very difficult to catch.

[Quillback]

You have to take it all with a grain of salt, the study was done on Toledo Bend using a very, very, small sample size. Saying that it changes "everything we know about bass" is just not true. And come on, is it a revelation that bass will hang out on isolated pieces of structure like a stump?

[Mcjenson]

I watched the Ken Smith videos too and one thing missed here that Todd Driscoll mentioned was the fish being on " do nothing, featureless flats" like 40% of the time too I think I recall that no one would consider fishing. Thought about that a lot and talk about needle in a haystack fishing, just throwing on a 40 acre flat hoping the lure gets in front of one!

FFS has made a huge difference in fishing flats, being able to quickly scan 100+ feet while moving can really help efficiency. Like others have said here though, often they aren't on a "do nothing flat". They find the one little hard patch, or a laydown, or be somewhere relatively close to the ledges on the flats.

[188Musky]

You have to take it all with a grain of salt, the study was done on Toledo Bend using a very, very, small sample size. Saying that it changes "everything we know about bass" is just not true. And come on, is it a revelation that bass will hang out on isolated pieces of structure like a stump?

Maybe, the host of that video was just that bad of a fisherman?

[Ranchhand02]

Interesting. Thank you for sharing.

[Dixie-Raven]

Someone better send this to Jacob Wheeler so he isn't misinformed about these myths he speaks of.

[RangrSkipr]

I wonder if this YT'er spun this off of Ken and Todd's series (which is excellent by the way) or actually assisted in the research? He says several times in the video "I need to do some more research."

[250bassFL]

My bad, I reposted this when I seen it on YouTube. Hadn't viewed this thread.