Well behaved Bass ?

[HarveysMinnow]

While reading Ken Nance's article on Bass Migration, http://www.kicknbass.com/bass_migration.htm a couple of other questions crossed my mind. You guys may have covered this subject thoroughly in earlier posts, but my limited searches (within this forum) have not turned up anything, so...

I wonder if any fishery biologists have ever done tagging studies on adult bass - to determine their overall behavior within large lakes and/or rivers?

I wonder if certain versions of GPS locators will work underwater? If so, are they small enough to be implanted in a Bass, thereby making it possible to track the fish over its entire range. Maybe that's still science fiction, but it would be interesting to observe how much territory a typical Largemouth covered in any given day.

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[cassidyta]

I will see if I can find it for you, but yes they have done them. I read an article about the fish behavior where they called parts of the lake the bedroom and parts the feeding area. They also discussed how big bass don't move far from either. If I can find it, I will post.

[Jim80]

Originally Posted by cassidyta

I will see if I can find it for you, but yes they have done them. I read an article about the fish behavior where they called parts of the lake the bedroom and parts the feeding area. They also discussed how big bass don't move far from either. If I can find it, I will post.

Cass I read that same article. But i'll be damned if I could find it now



Jim

[screwballl]

Most of the studies show that some bass stay within a few hundred feet of their spawning ground and others roam around freely, sometimes covering a mile or more per day. Everything I read covers them from small 6" bass to large 18"+ bass and no specific size has any specific preference, it is on an individual fish basis.
The only time anything really changes is a major change such as water temperature (like a major cold snap for 2 weeks straight when the water has been 80º and drops to under 60º like in the fall/early winter), heavy rains or floods that flood the water with sediment and/or fertilizers and so on.