Question:
How has bass fishing changed over the years?
Answer:
Have to say that bass fishing has definitely changed in lots of ways. Some good some bad. Good changes:
The equipment is better. Better lines, rods, reels, baits. The information is better. The wealth of fishing knowledge available is light years ahead of 30 years ago. Catch & Release is much more prevalent. A bass is a bass and they usually are doing the same things as they did years ago.
The bad: More people, less fish, less water. The belief that the old stuff doesn't catch fish. The knowledge of the fishermen is so much better. Higher, more sophisticated
pressure results in less fish or a educated fish population that can be a lot harder to catch. With the knowledge being what it is, places that normally held bass and they felt safe, are now pounded to oblivion and the bass living there have been caught or moved to where they are not hassled. The result is that we now have to fish for the bass in areas and in ways that "the book" says they cannot or should not be. ie: the fish is no longer living underneath that decaying duck blind, he is out suspended off the break of the main channel
or he is sitting on a rock pile in 30'.
