04-22-2007, 06:57 PM
hey everyone. first off i want to say hello to the mods and everyone who keeps this place running--the forum is everything i've been searching for and the site is great.
i've fished occasionally all my life but it's always using other people's equipment and i'm not really learning much. i went out and bought my own shakespeare ugly stick and got an old tackle box from my cousin with some weights and a lot of good hooks. anyways, i finally got out with a friend to fish some ponds that we knew were hot. i had some friends go out there about 30 minutes before we got there and they had caught about 10 blue gill and 4 bass before we arrived. they caught them off rooster tails, so we decided to use the same. after that is where i could use help. once i cast, what do i do? let it sit and hit the bottom? constantly reel in a little bit? when i get a bite, do i try and yank and hook it real quickly? this sounds really dumb but i really want to be successful and at least know i'm doing the right thing even when they don't bite
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i've fished occasionally all my life but it's always using other people's equipment and i'm not really learning much. i went out and bought my own shakespeare ugly stick and got an old tackle box from my cousin with some weights and a lot of good hooks. anyways, i finally got out with a friend to fish some ponds that we knew were hot. i had some friends go out there about 30 minutes before we got there and they had caught about 10 blue gill and 4 bass before we arrived. they caught them off rooster tails, so we decided to use the same. after that is where i could use help. once i cast, what do i do? let it sit and hit the bottom? constantly reel in a little bit? when i get a bite, do i try and yank and hook it real quickly? this sounds really dumb but i really want to be successful and at least know i'm doing the right thing even when they don't bite
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