07-09-2009, 11:45 PM
[cool][#0000ff]The point to be made here is that wherever there are fish, some of them are catchable if you use the right stuff the right way. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I have experienced many situations in which very few people on a body of water were catching fish, but those people were catching lots of fish. The ones who weren't catching fish were blaming the moon, the barometer, the water conditions, the fish and game department or maybe even the current president. In short, they were blaming everything and everybody but themselves. If they knew more about the water they fished and the species they were after they would have been trying other options.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I can't believe how many people fish the same water, the same way, 12 months of the year and expect to catch fish on every trip. A good example is the bass fisherman who throws spinner baits along shallow shorelines all year. He catches fish about twice a year...spring and fall...when the fish are in that zone. The rest of the year he is just "washing lures" in fishless water...but always with some excuse why he is not catching anything.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]But, getting back to what started this. Fishing quietly and thoroughly in a tube or toon will often allow you to get a better feel for the real conditions and to suggest other ways to fish if your first choice is not working. Take a good assortment of lures and baits on every trip and then work through them systematically until you find a pattern. But, don't always expect that pattern to be a killer because on your next trip you might be back to the drawing board again.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I have experienced many situations in which very few people on a body of water were catching fish, but those people were catching lots of fish. The ones who weren't catching fish were blaming the moon, the barometer, the water conditions, the fish and game department or maybe even the current president. In short, they were blaming everything and everybody but themselves. If they knew more about the water they fished and the species they were after they would have been trying other options.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I can't believe how many people fish the same water, the same way, 12 months of the year and expect to catch fish on every trip. A good example is the bass fisherman who throws spinner baits along shallow shorelines all year. He catches fish about twice a year...spring and fall...when the fish are in that zone. The rest of the year he is just "washing lures" in fishless water...but always with some excuse why he is not catching anything.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]But, getting back to what started this. Fishing quietly and thoroughly in a tube or toon will often allow you to get a better feel for the real conditions and to suggest other ways to fish if your first choice is not working. Take a good assortment of lures and baits on every trip and then work through them systematically until you find a pattern. But, don't always expect that pattern to be a killer because on your next trip you might be back to the drawing board again.[/#0000ff]
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