Being more fish wouldn't there be less "conditioned" fish on larger bodies of water?
Not necessarily, take Lake of the Ozarks for instance, I have heard that 60% of the bass in the lake reside within 5 miles of where most of the tournaments release their fish near one particular bridge, the lake is 90 miles long, there are tournaments there almost every day during the summer. Also keep in mind that the primary forage base in large lakes is more shad oriented rather than sunfish oriented. The bigger bass tend to follow the shad in open water and suspend more, suspended fish can be tough to catch. IMO the big bass you need catch to win tournaments on large reservoirs are tougher to locate than they are on much smaller bodies of water. Throwing a 3/4" oz. jig-n-pig in 20-30 ft. of water is not a typical pattern for a smaller lakes with sunfish as the primary forage, this pattern does work well on large reservoirs with shad as the primary forage though.
