Snippet from a Ish Bassmaster Blog Posting: Whenever we talk about bed fishing for bass the ethics question always comes up. Should we do it? Is it the right thing to do? I’ll tell you that I don’t see anything wrong with catching bass off their beds. It doesn’t hurt a thing. At best, we only catch a tiny, tiny percentage of the bass in any body of water this way. A few females one way or the other has no effect on the overall bass population in any given lake or river.
We all like to think that what we do is important. We want to believe that our actions have great impact on something. The truth is that most of what we do doesn’t matter. We’re not as important as we’d like to think we are.
Bedding bass aren’t feeding bass. They don’t eat. If we’re going to catch them we have to make them grab our lures out of frustration or trigger their protective instinct.
I always use big baits. Little baits don’t seem to interest the big females. I look at that like a mother with her little kids at a playground. If another mother comes by with a couple more little kids, she won’t pay any attention to them. They pose no threat.
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