The legendary fisherman Murphy used to claim that many of these California lakes had large bass that had just become smart and almost uncatchable without using live bait techniques or light line and stealth presentations.
Spicelane, Another influence is the rate of consumption by large bass. They consume more infrequently than smaller LMB which have higher rates of growth. In the presence of large consumable prey like RBT which are very energy dense, a Large LMB need only eat once every 3 or 4 days to grow at <25% per annum (a 25% growth rate is very, very high for >10 lb LMB). If a LMB is only eating every 3 or 4 days and if it is pretty easy to consume prey ... most of the time they are couch potatoes and not interested in eating anything.
