07-09-2009, 07:45 PM
[quote TubeDude][#0000ff]I think some of us would rather convince ourselves that we were fishing in fishless water than to know there were fish down there but we couldn't catch them.[/#0000ff][/quote]
You got that right! I find it better to think they're somewhere else. But the truth is that, most times, they're just ignoring me. I was reminded of that fact when playing "hide-n-seek" last week with some bass embedded in weed patches. I snuck up to or slightly into the collection of surface weeds and tossed a light swimbait, jiggling it across the top and letting it die into openings. You often can see a bass follow it and, disappointingly, turn away without biting. I use attractants and sometimes it helps. And I read somewhere online how to fish a point so as to collect a school of bass and entice them into biting. I just figured none are there, but the writer says they're just lurking and need the proper herding and coaxing. Of course, I'm not so sure that works on the only point in each of my little Virginia lakes that aren't much bigger than a Texas-size farm pond.
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You got that right! I find it better to think they're somewhere else. But the truth is that, most times, they're just ignoring me. I was reminded of that fact when playing "hide-n-seek" last week with some bass embedded in weed patches. I snuck up to or slightly into the collection of surface weeds and tossed a light swimbait, jiggling it across the top and letting it die into openings. You often can see a bass follow it and, disappointingly, turn away without biting. I use attractants and sometimes it helps. And I read somewhere online how to fish a point so as to collect a school of bass and entice them into biting. I just figured none are there, but the writer says they're just lurking and need the proper herding and coaxing. Of course, I'm not so sure that works on the only point in each of my little Virginia lakes that aren't much bigger than a Texas-size farm pond.
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