YES, one of those fishing questions that were swimming around in my brain.
Thank you for the info.

Often wondered why tournament anglers didn't fish right there at the weigh in ramp. I figured that most bass just hung around there.

Lake Fork Guide Dennis Canada caught a 15.53 off the bed in Wolf Creek one spring long ago. Dennis named her Missy. John Hope installed a transmitter in her before she was released a couple months later. They tracked Missy for three years.

Missy lived in a brushpile in 12' of water about 50 yards from where she had spawned. She traveled the same path like a cow that wears a path in a field every night to feed. She never traveled more than 400 yards from where she lived during that time she was being tracked. Dennis caught her again. Her movements became very easy to predict. Not to say she was easy to catch but her movements were predictable.

My guess is that she was born on the same stretch of bank where Dennis caught her when she was spawning. I believe like some have said above that most large fish will make their way back to where they were caught. I believe unless they are forced to move due to a drought or some other compelling event they live within a few hundred yards of where they were born.

I wish there was a way to tag and track fish that was available to regular dudes like myself. I'd tag and track 100's of them, just to learn.