What size lure is too big?

[Guest]

This is definitely not a scientific statement in any way, purely an observation.

When I first started strolling I used Excalibur Deep Divers and eventually got bigger and bigger until I was using the biggest deep sea magnum available, the same one I got my PB Wahoo on (23kg). I had a <1kg bass take the Magnum Xrap once! The only problem was that bass tend to throw the ?long? type a lot easier than the ?Fat Rap? style cranks.

One of the guys from Inanda Bass Club once told me that a +5kg bass was found dead in taxi bay with a 1kg tilapia sticking half out of it?s mouth. Imagine casting out and retrieving a 1kg lure for a mornings worth of exercise?

When I was packing up to leave the dam on Friday I found a whole lot of really big earthworms under my tent, probably due to the rain the previous evening. So I took one, about at long as my hand and threw it into the shallows (10cm) next to the reeds, thinking the little bass would all pull it to pieces and eat it bit by bit. No chance, one tiny bass shot out of the weeds half the length of the worm and SUCKED the whole thing into it?s mouth one shot! I tried it several times with even bigger worms, every worm was the same thing. So if I do the math, +4kg bass = +60cm, and if big bass would do half of what little bass do, then we should be using 60/2.54= +23? Yum Dingers!!!!!

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[PDV]

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[Guest]

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Can you believe those bass!?!>@#$ 8O 8O

I've just worked it out, the reason we catch such small bass is because we are targeting them!

[robdog]

Yes, and we are targeting them because we can't imagine a bass eating something that big! 8O

[Shannon]

Fishton, there was a Bass found dead at a dam down the South Coast a few months ago, the fish weighed 7.5kg 8O . It had died because it got a Tilapia of nearly 2kg stuck in it's throat.
They say that a Bass can eat something nearly 2/3 it's own size.....That's a dam big lure we gonna have to find.
I have quite frequently caught fish on jerkbaits that are actually shorter than the lure, one was actually half the size.
You've gotta give it to them, they've got balls 8O

[pomerob]

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Can you believe those bass!?!>@#$ 8O 8O

I've just worked it out, the reason we catch such small bass is because we are targeting them!

A big fish will also eat a small lure, not all small fish will take a large one. I think we are just being safe and saying catching a few medium to small fish is better than throwing a large lure the whole day on the off chance of catching 1 pig.

[Guest]

Fishton, there was a Bass found dead at a dam down the South Coast a few months ago, the fish weighed 7.5kg 8O . It had died because it got a Tilapia of nearly 2kg stuck in it's throat.
They say that a Bass can eat something nearly 2/3 it's own size.....That's a dam big lure we gonna have to find.
I have quite frequently caught fish on jerkbaits that are actually shorter than the lure, one was actually half the size.
You've gotta give it to them, they've got balls 8O

Was the bass a 5.5kg with a 2kg tilapia in it's mouth making it 7.5kg, or was it a 7.5kg bass? 8O

[mumro]

about 3 or 4 years back,3 days before the inanda classic,there was a bass just as big found with a kurper stuck in its mouth,i think it was about the 5 kg mark

[pomerob]

Hehehehe, Thats an idea, keep a couple of 1kg kurper in your livewell. You bag may be a couple of kg's heavier when you get to the weigh station.

[robdog]

Or choked on the kurper 8O

[pomerob]

Have you not heard of assisted feeding?

[robdog]

I have, but what about choking the fish and then you have a dead fish?