Bass prey

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MarvelousMark

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Naruto I'm no expert, but anything that moves and that they can fit in there mouths.

Snakes, rats, mice, fish, insects, frogs, birds, lizards...
 
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VaalieBassman

Senior Member
I South-African waters mostly small fish and crabs! If you keep them in a live well you will see them spitting their last meal, and 90% of the time you will se crab spares!
 
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MarvelousMark

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Naruto if you looking for a sise of bass vs sise of bait fish ratio then i dont know, but like i said before if it can fit it into its mouth it will eat it..!
 
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alwayscatchfish

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Howdy
Ive cuaght bass smaller that the lure I was using....
I found a dead 2.5Kg Bass at Alberts with a 1Kg Kurper in its mouth - That should give you an idea....;)
 
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KleinVis

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Hey!
If you use crabs or fish heads etc. do you spin it or just leave it in the water? Were is the best place to cast?
Oh and if you use live bait, what kind of fish? (reading from your comment I suppose it doesn't matter?) And how does one put live bait on? I've seen people the hook through the mouth, is this the right way?
Thanks
 
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Frogstar

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sustan wrote:
do you get fresh water shrimp??

iv seen what looked like fresh water shrimp in a bass mouth
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absolutely. I think that there are freshwater glass shrimp in just about every water way in SA - i presume. But they dont grow very big a centimeter or 3. Will definitely be on the diet of young bass that's for sure.
 
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Frogstar

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KleinVis wrote:
Hey!
If you use crabs or fish heads etc. do you spin it or just leave it in the water? Were is the best place to cast?
Oh and if you use live bait, what kind of fish? (reading from your comment I suppose it doesn't matter?) And how does one put live bait on? I've seen people the hook through the mouth, is this the right way?
Thanks
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If you really really have to use live bait then whatever baitfish are present in a particular dam. Simply hook the fish through the top by the dorsal fin.

But seriously livebait fishing for bass is like shooting fish in a barrel. Not much skill involved  :fbash
 
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ChrisOvens

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With regards to the shrimp they are found in most of our fresh water systems they grow about 3-4cm and are mostly found in rocky areas.
I heard that you will get arrested for using live bait in Gauteng area so watch out.

I have done a few waterstudies up here in Limpopo and I am sure all the invertabrates that you find in the water systems will fall part of a bass's diet. For young fish small insects such as nymphs and back swimmers would form the main part of the diet moving up to crabs and shrimp and then fish species.
A friend of mine caught a 3kg bass with a 1kg bass in its mouth and another small bass was found in that ones gut.
 
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