THE BASS COLLEGE

This is from Manabu's Blog. I just got this info today at 5:00 Pm Eastern time 2/17/10.

About the age of the world record bass, I have been questioned many times up to now.

And I didn't talk about it because I thought that there is no person of interesting in it...

However these days, I heared from American friends that various people were talking by the guess on various sites about it.

So, I thought that I should make it public.

I sent the BASSMASTER its scale, and they were examined.

As a result, the age of the 22.311lb bass seems to be about from 14 to 17 years old.

I put a Bluegill on the stuffing of the bass.It is almost the same size when I used to fish that bass.How cool!!I think that power increased it!!

If you want to see more pictures just click on GALLERY at the top of the site.

Just like we thought 14 to 17 yrs old.:D The fish looks GREAT MANABU

Those are the scale samples of the bass. It is about 15 years old.

hmm.... shocker not 6

This is very good to know...I think fish are as individual as we are as a species. Some fat, some skinny. Some live old, some dont. Some have growth hormone issues & get huge. Some get fat..Some have big head & long full bodies. Some are skinny. It just depends on how successfull the bigger ones are. So in nature, it does seem to be true that size does matter...

And people don't think big swim baits work look at the size of that blue gill the thing is huge he wasn't lying when he said he like to fish with large live bait I don't  think there is a swim bait  on the market that big. As for the age of bass people in the northeast have an advantage on catch old bass maybe not a record because of our water temps a finishes metabolism slows down for a good part of the year in the winter there fore fish in the northeast typically live longer than say Florida.  So don't think there cant be that 10lb lurking in you waters.

No there is! I guarantee you that there is a 10 pound bass in almost every decent Eutrophic pond or lake in the Northeast and some bigger than that. There is more to swimbait fishing than you think. i will talk more about it in the videos this spring, but if you look here and read this you will see what i mean. It is not just casting normal size swimbaits to targets, it is much more involved with trophy class bass.

Professional anglers not only have the time during practice to do the work – they're also supremely talented at focusing their efforts on high-percentage, limit-producing areas. In effect, their overriding objective is to put a bait in front of a bass. In fact, this is precisely what we've all been told to do since day one.

This is why the bar has been set so low. This is why a 30-pound limit makes tournament headlines. Even in lakes brimming with 6- and 8-pounders, we accept this as the outer limits of angling performance. Why? Because anglers are trained to take the lure to the fish. Specifically, to that small, special place called "the strike zone."

Obviously, this "go to the fish" mentality isn't that consistent for bigger bass, or the results would reflect it. The best in the business at placing lures in strike zones haven't been able to up the ante – to produce big limits – with any regularity. No matter how you slice it, big bass just don't respond to these methods. What are these anglers missing?

With big bass, going to the strike zone doesn't generate consistent results. The object is to move the strike zone. In other words, make a bass move to the lure and bring its strike zone along. Once a big bass has made this commitment, it's game-on. No longer are you dealing with tiny strike zones, but often huge "commitment zones." Whether it's a reactive mood, feeding instinct, triggered aggression or mere curiosity, large bass are drawn to bigbaits.

Of course, conditions always change. Sometimes casts to targets of opportunity pay off. But the real advantage in using larger swimbaits is the ability to cover wide tracts of water – effectively - and never intersect a single bass' strike zone. If you get them to move – get them to respond – then you've got them thinking they're accomplishing their goals. This is why bigbaits are more consistent at producing big limits.

If you find yourself with several targets between you and your swimbait, consider it a bonus. But don't think you have to bump that stump to trigger a strike. With bigbaits, you'll discover that even in target situations, the strike zone is moving – either to intercept the lure before it reaches the target or to stalk the bait as it passes by.

The only real exception to this process is in some heavy-cover or sharp-structure situations where the calling power of bigbaits is diminished by the simple physics at work. Then you need to place the lure closer to a target – not necessarily to intersect the strike zone, but improve upon the drawing force of the bait.