It has been my experience that big fish may take a day or two before they will bite a lure again after having been hooked and fought....young fish can be taken many times on the same day. I have experienced a big fish biting the same lure on the same spot for a few days in a row..but this has been rare.

Bass do not have a big brain...but they do have a brain...basically they get conditioned to things that may in their world spell out danger etc....check out the information on this link about the forebrain of a fish....pretty basic actually.

http://www.happy-goldfish.com/blog/f...tomy-function/

Here are my thoughts on prefishing the day before the tournament...if you find fish and catch a good one...cut your hooks or bend your hooks so you cannot hook her and fight her in. Best to prefish two or more days out in my book...but sometimes that is just not possible.