Quote Originally Posted by Jbyrd View Post
So because it didn't have eggs in it you concluded it had spawned... As cold as the water was in March maybe they hadn't developed yet ,or as we BOTH have agreed mabye the fish was so old it was sterile and wouldn't have laid any eggs this year anyway.

Oh well who knows or really cares just making a point that a fish can have a bloody tail and not be on the bed....

I didn't say the fish was on a bed, I said it had already deposited it's eggss and it's tail was beginning to heal up.

I really don't understand what you are trying to say. Do you think I am a liar???? I said that I have caught 10 pound plus bass in March and the majority have already shown signs of spawning, flat belly and either a bloody tail or a healed up tail. Not al but more show the signs of a spawn that do not.

Just for sake of argument I caught an 8-4 last Friday out of Kentucky Lake and it showed no signs of having spawned and it't belly was massive. I didn't clean this one so I can't guarantee 100% that this fish hadn't spawned yet but from the evidence at the scene it appeared that it was still carrying it's eggs. MAYBE, it had just eaten a 3 pound crappie was the reason it's belly was so huge, I don't know.

And it's bottom tail lobe was fully intact.