Im thinking the 3in are late hatch from last year it takes the bass a while to grow 3" and if they were late last year they would have missed out on some of the warmer moths and had to grow throughout the colder months mabey that why there only 3" my .02
Hey let that Bass go I wanna catch her some day http://www.calfishing.com/gallery/v/members/tmcustoms/