My objection could be termed "Bass Eugenics":
Quote:
"Those bass most protective of their young are removed." 
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(It's the
males that guard the nest btw—
you can't tell? 
).
Sometimes, I've had as many as three bass nests along my shore: For the last two years, there have been no nests at all. Previously, a nest was made, a bass hovering over it—then a few days later, the nest "mysteriously" becomes silted-in.
As a "Yankee kid" on Winnipesaukee, I fished a bed just
one time—and I recall it was a Sunfish nest.
How many "fry" are lost from a bass nest in this manner? I've always thought "fishing the beds" was a Southern practice.
