08-14-2006, 05:44 PM
[font "Comic Sans MS"][black][size 3]I really have nothing to report. I was involved with fishing for seven days and only held a rod once while on Jim's boat. The rest of the time I spent running the boat for everyone else or searching out areas for potential areas to fish. I put my GPS to pretty good use.[/size][/black][/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][black][size 3]As for catching, most of the people who were fishing with me were pretty inexperienced and had a very difficult time getting the hook to meat. I spent three days with polokid trying to get him on a fish without success. He got more than his share of hits but just couldn't connect. The same held true with my son-in-laws. Very inexperienced fishermen but I was able to get them several good hits each but, again, the hook up rate was lacking.[/size][/black][/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][black][size 3]Even though the catch rate was nothing to brag about, a lot of other aspects of the trip concerning fishing were a total success. I'm getting the hits so that means a lot of good things are happening. When you're not getting the hits you than need to re-think your strategies. That, fortunately, was not the case. I was able to fish a lot of different areas, a lot of different structures, target single or multiple stack ups of fish using a variety of techniques and consistently get bit. What more can a guy ask for? [/size][/black][/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][black][size 3]The only unfortunate aspect of this is that someone had to have a clue on putting everything together so the fishermen could do just that.... fish. That was me. A guy that tries to do it and fish, is a whole lot handier than me. I can keep extemely focused on mantain boat postion so the guys with the rods have half a chance.[/size][/black][/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][black][size 3]Anyway, I came away with more on this trip than any other. It may have lacked a couple pictures of big fish but I can guarantee you that will happen. The additional knowledge I learned and time to apply a lot of it in different and varing circumstances made it worth it.[/size][/black][/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][black][size 3]As for catching, most of the people who were fishing with me were pretty inexperienced and had a very difficult time getting the hook to meat. I spent three days with polokid trying to get him on a fish without success. He got more than his share of hits but just couldn't connect. The same held true with my son-in-laws. Very inexperienced fishermen but I was able to get them several good hits each but, again, the hook up rate was lacking.[/size][/black][/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][black][size 3]Even though the catch rate was nothing to brag about, a lot of other aspects of the trip concerning fishing were a total success. I'm getting the hits so that means a lot of good things are happening. When you're not getting the hits you than need to re-think your strategies. That, fortunately, was not the case. I was able to fish a lot of different areas, a lot of different structures, target single or multiple stack ups of fish using a variety of techniques and consistently get bit. What more can a guy ask for? [/size][/black][/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][black][size 3]The only unfortunate aspect of this is that someone had to have a clue on putting everything together so the fishermen could do just that.... fish. That was me. A guy that tries to do it and fish, is a whole lot handier than me. I can keep extemely focused on mantain boat postion so the guys with the rods have half a chance.[/size][/black][/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][black][size 3]Anyway, I came away with more on this trip than any other. It may have lacked a couple pictures of big fish but I can guarantee you that will happen. The additional knowledge I learned and time to apply a lot of it in different and varing circumstances made it worth it.[/size][/black][/font]
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