BBIG BASS
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FIELD SERIES · VOLUME XI

Read the water
like a map.

Read three field marks. Search the living school. Identify the exact bass before it slips behind another ripple.

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No specimen is repeated.
Every survey is generated anew.

LIVE OBSERVATION TABLE

Three marks.
One true specimen.

Find the fish matching the clue card: body color, surface pattern, and swimming direction. A wrong identification costs four seconds. The brass lens reveals the target once per station.

STATION1/3
DISCOVERIES0/5
TIME50.0
STREAK×0
SCORE0000
BEST0000

STATION READY

Shoreline shallows.

Five specimens must be identified. The first school is sparse, but every fish is in motion.

FIELD NOTEThe lake is waiting.

IDENTIFICATION METHOD

Observe before
you decide.

  1. Ⅰ

    Tone

    Read the dominant body ink: cranberry, indigo, saffron, or water green.

  2. Ⅱ

    Pattern

    Separate plain scales from spots and vertical field stripes.

  3. Ⅲ

    Direction

    Watch the nose, not the tail. East and west specimens cross constantly.

ARCHIVE NOTE 1937-B

The largest mark
was never catalogued.

For decades, observers reported one bass whose pattern seemed to change with the water. Cranberry at sunrise. Indigo beneath cloud. Only its direction remained constant: always deeper.

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