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Wed 2 Jul, 2003 01:41 pm
Two summers ago at Lac Dore I fed and touched the wild lake bass all summer.What eventually happened was that I trained them to understand, that If they wanted a scrap a meat ,I had to touch them first.
So, I returned this spring 10 days after the ice breakup on the lake and was touching and petting them within 3 minutes after offering them some frozen niblets corn. Either they remebered me or this is a very special place.
I dare you to go to the Amazon and try that with the Pirrana.
Or maybe some of those nice alligators in Florida. They're very touchy feely critters.
Cool Algis. Im a fisherman but I mostly catch and release, hoping that my hook will brighten the catch so it wont be snookered again. Bass are rather a proto intelligent being. I find them pretty cagy sometimes.
I think these are the bass with the spikey dorsal fin. Seems they are quite at ease with contact with me. There were also 2 trout.About a foot long. They at the beginning kept their distance. They would wait till a scrap of meat was in my hand then charge 2 yards making a sudden splash as they grabbed scaring the daylight out of me the first couple of times. Funny thing was they after a few weeks realized a change in the game. In order to get at the meat they must be touched first. They started to allow this which was even more amazing. Lac Dore will always be a special place for this reason.
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