How Often Does A Big Bass Eat?

[vikingbear8]

There is a world of difference between a bass eating a 7" herring and a 2lb trout......

[chefchris]

There is a world of difference between a bass eating a 7" herring and a 2lb trout......

 

100% agreed, i was just stating that I think a big bass will eat as much as possible when the chance presents itself

[R8R]

There is a world of difference between a bass eating a 7" herring and a 2lb trout......

That is true but you also have to think what size bass are eating what size forage. Chris example is perfect 4-6 lb bass are eating those forage, now translate that to trout 1-2 lbs a 10lbs bass and up can probably eat multiple trout in one session depending of size of bass eating those trout. That's probably why you see bass are so fat that has a smaller frame for its size because it keeps eating. Bass instinct to survive is to eat, when they are feasting on a school of forage it will not stop until it's satiesfied. My 2 cents

[marc626]

Nailed it with how the Bass eat multiple trout in one session. How often they eat I think depends on digestion/metabolism, water temperature.

[cypressranger]

I know people in my area (Arkansas) who have caught winter fish and when they clean them their metablism is so low the 8" shad they had previously eaten was rotting inside them.

[Beaumb]

I caught this fish today and it still had the tail of the last meal sticking out.

[jcolo4sho]

There is a world of difference between a bass eating a 7" herring and a 2lb trout......

There is also a big difference between a 3# Bass and an 8+

[vikingbear8]

There is a world of difference between a bass eating a 7" herring and a 2lb trout......

There is also a big difference between a 3# Bass and an 8+

Yeah you are right...........a 8lb bass eating a 2lb trout is a quarter of its body weight a 3 pound bass eating a little herring is well under 10% of its body weight, it's still not even in the same ballpark.

 

Also catching a fish in no way proves it was "hungry", bass hit lures for plenty of other reasons. Which is a good thing for OP, because that fish is probably still very catchable

[colbypearson]

 

Also catching a fish in no way proves it was "hungry", bass hit lures for plenty of other reasons. Which is a good thing for OP, because that fish is probably still very catchable

 

 

I think there's a huge gray area in this 'swimbait gig' where people just completely avoid reaction tactics, for whatever reason, and thats got not a whole lot to do with wether a baits hard or soft. More an approach thing.

[R8R]

 

Also catching a fish in no way proves it was "hungry", bass hit lures for plenty of other reasons. Which is a good thing for OP, because that fish is probably still very catchable

 

 

I think there's a huge gray area in this 'swimbait gig' where people just completely avoid reaction tactics, for whatever reason, and thats got not a whole lot to do with wether a baits hard or soft. More an approach thing.

there is probably some truth to these 2 statements but you can also think it as an opportunity thing, then posibility of a competition thing. What I mean by it a bass does not know when it is going to catch a prey again via trout or forage. A bass or more than one bass in a structure and a trout passes through a kill zone and eats it, or a bait passes through and you catch that fish because that's how that fish always eat when forage passes by. That was an opportunity thing, then throw in that there is that competition of more than one bass is in the area. Even though a bass may not be hungry since another bass has an opportunity to eat a trout that is passing by those bass are competitive about eating it's next meal that they become very catchable. That's why the one cast approach or right angle is key sometimes.