slow and steady... fast and hard... ??

[amazinmoose]

Which do you find the big 5+# bass do after eating your bait...  i have yet to ice a biggen, but hear from guys that some run like a salmon others just casually drift off, whats your  say??  -moose

[PondPro]

every bass i caught runned like a salmon

[jibbs]

i fish mainly for bass in the winter months and these are my findings espicially with big bass.  a big bass will have aslow steady turn, but a smaller bass will rip off some line. when i see that steady roll i get excited. usually the perch, pickeral, and again the smaller bass will rip line

[KissMyBassNH]

thats all i go for summer and winter...they run really had and fast ...sometimes one will go slow but they always run somewhere ..u can usually hook them fast because once it sets that flag its already halfway down his throat lol i caught a 22 inch 6 1/2 pounder threw the ice last year ..its in my freezer im getting it mounted

[jibbs]

nice fish! pawtuckaway or onway? do you ever ice fish onway in the winter and by the way i also love setting the hook on the run! others like to wait and see what's going on. not me

[KissMyBassNH]

yeah best time to hook em is on the run...i fish onway summer and winter pawtuckaway ive tried in the summer once or twice got a couple ..never tried pawtuckaway in the winter..but i didnt catch it out of either pond ..

[jibbs]

southern nh? guessing game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[KissMyBassNH]

 

[buckman]

All the big bass we have caught they usually run very slow and steady

[jeepsw1]

this winter i've had my 5.4 lber run slow and steady, yet had a 3.8 spool my line down to my knot.  Depends on the fish.

[johnyp27]

sometimes if there's more than one the run alot more line and fast i have had slow runs from big fish and then had some take all the line off the tip up

[Danderson]

the large ones i got set off the flag, took about 5 feet of line then just sat there. when i let got of the line on my larger one to get the gaff, he peeled line and went straight below the ice for 20 feet (like a salmon) but that wasn't initially when he took the bait, it was after i had set the hook.

[bassranger]

You can usually tell when a bass has taken your bait they swim off in at steady pass some slow some medium speed. If you see the flag go up and it spins and then stops chances are its a pickerel if it just keeps going there's a bass on the other end. I have experimented and found I get better hook ups if I set the hook as its swimming away. I believe if you wait till it stops its to late they have felt the hook and will spit the bait. I use circle hooks so I don't really set the hook I just grab the line to stop the fish and the circle hook does its thing.

[freaknsweet17]

ive only caught smaller and they tear some line off

[scrounger]

have had bass to 4 pounds and none have gone further than 40 yards.  no good fights at all, most came back like a pile of weeds

[icehousepsycho]

Most of my large ice bass (4 lb+) just inhale it and slowly swim off.  The smaller ones run like crazy.  Exceptions to every rule of course, just generally speaking.

[stripernut]

Most of my large ice bass (4 lb+) just inhale it and slowly swim off.  The smaller ones run like crazy.  Exceptions to every rule of course, just generally speaking.

Thats what I have found.
Allan

[BaitWrangler]

I typically associate slow & steady with a big bass. (Assuming your fishing in good enough water depth.)  But like everything in like there are exceptions to every rule. My wife caught a nice 3lber this year that was burning pretty well!