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<blockquote data-quote="Iglow" data-source="post: 5648752" data-attributes="member: 22496"><p>I was thumbing through Tony Bean's smallmouth book yesterday and he wrote about a situation where you have a young smallmouth hanging out on a ledge and a wobbling rattling thing comes by and he nails it. That wobbly thing sticks the fish in the mouth and won't let go so he panics and jumps out of the water to shake it loose and does then he heads to deep water to hide and sulk. A couple of months later a wobbly rattling thing comes by and he grabs it again but this time he is hauled to the surface and before he can jump something grabs him and pulls the rattly thing out of his mouth and looks at him then puts him back in the water and he takes off for deep water to hide.</p><p>The next spring he's back on the ledge and a rattly wobbly thing comes by and he turns away and gets away from it.</p><p>Point being that the baits that give off the fewest clues catch the biggest fish because they don't do things that the fish remember that lead to trouble, baits like hair jigs, grubs,tubes, ned rigs etc. He said there are always exceptions and old fish will hit most any bait but the chances go down with tipoff baits. It sounds sensible but I'm not a smallmouth, what y'all think?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Iglow, post: 5648752, member: 22496"] I was thumbing through Tony Bean's smallmouth book yesterday and he wrote about a situation where you have a young smallmouth hanging out on a ledge and a wobbling rattling thing comes by and he nails it. That wobbly thing sticks the fish in the mouth and won't let go so he panics and jumps out of the water to shake it loose and does then he heads to deep water to hide and sulk. A couple of months later a wobbly rattling thing comes by and he grabs it again but this time he is hauled to the surface and before he can jump something grabs him and pulls the rattly thing out of his mouth and looks at him then puts him back in the water and he takes off for deep water to hide. The next spring he's back on the ledge and a rattly wobbly thing comes by and he turns away and gets away from it. Point being that the baits that give off the fewest clues catch the biggest fish because they don't do things that the fish remember that lead to trouble, baits like hair jigs, grubs,tubes, ned rigs etc. He said there are always exceptions and old fish will hit most any bait but the chances go down with tipoff baits. It sounds sensible but I'm not a smallmouth, what y'all think? [/QUOTE]
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