How many bass can be in one spot?

Question

I have always been under the impression only one bass will be in a certain area and was just wondering if this was true. Went fishing the other day and am wondering if I missed some from moving from my spots too soon.

I was fishing a creek and hitting stumps, cliff walls and fallen trees.

Answer 1

A standard rule of thumb to follow goes like this:
Given a degree of certainty, x volume of water will hold y pounds of fish.
Your degree of certainty can be oxygen, forage, cover, distance to safety, any number of factors that you can establish. The better your read of the water, the higher your degree of certainty.
Let me give you an example. Same creek, water temp is 80 at surface, and it is high noon. Where do you think you will find fish?
If your guess is like mine, you are looking for deep pools. Choose ones that do not have contributing factors such as forage and cover, and you will find fish, they will just be smaller. Larger fish defend the better spots, and force smaller ones to indignant positions in the food chain.
Your question should be, how many pounds of bass can be found in one spot? If you caught two at one place and they were one pound apiece, then moved to the next one and caught one two pounder, you pretty well caught the fish that WERE GOING AFTER YOUR OFFERING. If your degree of certainty matched what the feeding fish were eating, you did well.
Also remember that a larger fishes eyesight improves as it gets bigger, as his eyes get bigger. His instincts immediately tell him the speed and size of his natural prey; no different from his smaller cousins, but the prey may be different. If you catching a lot of smaller fish in one area, change up to a slower, larger bait on a different rig, just to see if the larger fish have clued in on something else.

Answer 2

If you define "a certain area" as like one square foot then yes, more than likely only one fish will be located there. But if you define "a certain area" as say 30 square feet (i.e. a brush pile or rock pile, etc.) then there is the possibility of multiple fish (and multiple species of fish even) both big and small that can and will inhabit that same area. With the larger more dominant (and more than likely female) fish taking the prime spots of that spot and the lesser (and more than likely male and/or younger) bass will have to settle for what's left. Also, if you can buy or rent a video series called "Bigmouth Forever" and it will explain the difference of the two types of bass (and I don't mean species...there are 3 species with a few sub-species). What I mean in two types is that there are sedintary and schooling bass. The sedintary (meaning solitairy and ambush oriented...waiting for food to come to them) are usually the bigger/older and genetically stronger of the two, with the schooling type (traveling/roaming and following/looking for food) made up of younger bass, male bass and genetically inferior. And there are also a number of other possible scenarios I could list here as well.

Answer 3

When bass get to the LUNKER class, like 10 pounds on up, they tend to stay in certain areas. Yes, if they see a small 3inch bass come their way, it is just as good as gone. They school in a certain size, expecially when they start to run or mating season.

Answer 4

bass live and feed in shallow water. i have catch 2+pounders 3 feet off the shoreline. usually there are two in one spot. i alway fish for them and if you catch one, another one is 1 or 2 feet away from that spot.

stick to that spot, casting your line all direction twice, if nothing bite, move down the shoreline and later come back. good luck..

Answer 5

there's usually a school of them in one area,10 to 15 feet deep in shady areas of the water,or on a river where the currents are not flowing fast.

Answer 6

fish do like to wander.