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Bass on...anchovies?
Oct 29^th, 2009 at 11:23am

Was wondering if anyone has ever accidentally hit a bass while soaking cut fish baits? I was fishing last night for bass with a couple lines in the water soaking anchovies and mackerel for cats, and a decent sized 17 inch smallmouth picked my anchovy up and hooked himself while I was working my lures. I was absolutely astounded. I'd been told by people before that a bass won't pick up soaking baits, except worms and such, especially a piece of anchovy that has been thawed and refrozen for multiple trips and has become stinkier and less fresh every time.

Anyone had an experience like that before?

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Delta Rose Gold Member Offline Posts: 619 Winters, CA Gender:	Re: Bass on...anchovies? Reply #1 - Oct 29^th, 2009 at 12:45pm Back in college years ago, I worked on a project where we set up a trot line on a small creek- we caught a 14" smallmouth on a piece of chicken liver....
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budnad Full Member Offline I Love The Fish Sniffer! Posts: 218 El Dorado Hills Gender:	Re: Bass on...anchovies? Reply #2 - Oct 29^th, 2009 at 1:04pm Why not! I catch everything on a bass lure, sooooo, why not. I think that a bass will bite almost anything, especially if it is moving.
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408fishermen YaBB Newbies Offline I Love fishsniffer.com Posts: 3	Re: Bass on...anchovies? Reply #3 - Oct 29^th, 2009 at 4:20pm A buddy of mine landed a 5 1/2 pounder, bait fishing with some corn, he was fishing for Carp but, landed that beauty.
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EarlyFish Junior Member Offline Just Bite Me! Posts: 92 Sacramento, CA Gender:	Re: Bass on...anchovies? Reply #4 - Oct 29^th, 2009 at 4:34pm And here I am, thinking that I was the only person who had done the same as you did. Yes, I landed a 2 lbs largemouth bass while fishing for catfish in the river somewhere in July this year. I was using crawdad meat and I never thought a bass would be in such fast moving water. No lies.
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redworms YaBB Newbies Offline I Love The Fish Sniffer! Posts: 26 Gender:	Re: Bass on...anchovies? Reply #5 - Oct 29^th, 2009 at 5:37pm years ago we would catch bass on clams in the sutter bypass ,and the feather river usely reeling in .they would hit
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shadbuster Gold Member Offline FISH ON!!!!! Posts: 617 Modesto Gender:	Re: Bass on...anchovies? Reply #6 - Oct 29^th, 2009 at 6:06pm I had a spot hit some dead grass shrimp I was soaking, not to long ago.
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James Vang Full Member Offline I Love The Fish Sniffer! Posts: 119 Stockton, CA Gender:	Re: Bass on...anchovies? Reply #7 - Oct 29^th, 2009 at 6:46pm Yes brother. On 2 separate occasions while soaking anchovies for stripers I have caught 2 LMB. Both around 15 inches.
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FouLH00ked Gold Member Offline Fishin all day... Lol Literally Posts: 759 San Jose, California Gender:	Re: Bass on...anchovies? Reply #8 - Oct 29^th, 2009 at 6:58pm I got a bunch of LMB soaking dines as well as a 5.5lb LMB soaking Sardines. no joke
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Re: Bass on...anchovies?
Reply #9 - Oct 29^th, 2009 at 8:03pm

I had a buddy catch at 2lb LMB while dragging in his carp rigged shredded wheat bait ball, weird ain't it. Then a month ago my other buddy in stockton casted out a frozen full anchovie in the river and caught a 6lber. I was like, what the fudge. I'd like to think that LMB like fresh bait and not 3 month old rottening stink bait. But yeah, it happens.

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Re: Bass on...anchovies?
Reply #10 - Oct 30^th, 2009 at 4:09pm

My guess is, everyone who caught a LMB off dead bait caught it either right after they cast or when the bait was in some current, making the bait move around. There's no way a LMB will pick up a piece of corn off the bottom but could be fooled if the corn was moving on the end of a tippet.

If it turns out I'm wron, I guess I'll be soaking salmon eggs at the pond the next time I'm looking for ye old bigmouth. Tongue

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BerryessaCatKilla YaBB Newbies Offline Catfish and BEER! Posts: 29 Napa, CA Gender:	Re: Bass on...anchovies? Reply #11 - Oct 30^th, 2009 at 6:22pm I think this just illustrates that for all the well-established patterns we have for catching specific fish, you still never know what you're gonna hook. Fishing is badass.
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B_RAN Full Member Offline Limit! Posts: 107 Galt, Ca. Gender:	Re: Bass on...anchovies? Reply #12 - Oct 30^th, 2009 at 10:54pm haha damn.. i thought i was the only one to.. i hooked a lil 2lbr. soaking chovies out in the delta fishin for stripers. ive also caught a 4.45 LMB at CL soaking nightcrawlers for catfish lol
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Re: Bass on...anchovies?
Reply #13 - Nov 4^th, 2009 at 2:41pm

Legalbeagle wrote on Oct 30^th, 2009 at 4:09pm:

My guess is, everyone who caught a LMB off dead bait caught it either right after they cast or when the bait was in some current, making the bait move around. There's no way a LMB will pick up a piece of corn off the bottom but could be fooled if the corn was moving on the end of a tippet.

If it turns out I'm wron, I guess I'll be soaking salmon eggs at the pond the next time I'm looking for ye old bigmouth. Tongue

I caught a 3 lb LMB on pink powerbait when I was a kid. Had it sitting on the bottom of camp far west hoping SOMETHING would bite. guess it worked.

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fool4fish Junior Member Offline we are a dying breed. Posts: 77 antelope Gender:	Re: Bass on...anchovies? Reply #14 - Nov 4^th, 2009 at 9:48pm Fishing Berreyessa Sat i caught a real nice smallie on a silver kastmaster! Thats the first time that i have ever caught a bass on a Kastmaster. Does that count??
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