Love this! To tag on to what you’re saying and evidenced in your video, if you get one fish’s attention, you can get the attention of other fish further away because they saw the one bass that noticed the bait which further expands the reach of your lure. Some of those fish seemed to react to the body language of the two bass that noticed the lure directly.
You're the best channel out here Steve. Always great content. I remember when I first started fishing decades ago in a neighborhood pond. We'd throw plastic worms a lot and the best technique was always to cast it and let it sit for a while. Oftentimes longer than a minute, then raise up the rod tip slowly. They'd hit it right then or they'd hit it while it wasn't even moving.
Hey Steve, I have a question about a bass's "Near" or Far-Field" prey detection. The waters I fish in are mainly concrete lined irrigation canals with very little structure that the bass can relate to. I'm wondering if the bass's lateral line will incorrectly pick up or sense the movement of prey in dirty water because the vibrations emitted by their prey or our lures are being reflected by the concrete walls of the canals that I'm fishing in? For example, a bass is holding in a shady spot a couple of feet away from the concrete canal wall with its right-side lateral line closest to the wall. My lure happens to swim by about three feet to its left side lateral line. If the water were dirty enough that the bass's senses were restricted to its lateral line detection only, could the vibrations of my lure reflect off of that concrete canal wall so that the bass's right-side lateral line pick up on it more acutely than the bass's left-side lateral line so that it ends up fooling the bass into thinking that my lure is swimming by on the opposite side that it's actually on? I hope that makes sense. I'm just trying to find out just how sensitive the bass's senses really are.
That is an excellent question. From what I have read, I would have to speculate that they still would pick up the lure on the correct side because of the pressure movement created by moving water, but that would be a very interesting situation to test out. Thank you for sharing this!
