11-16-2014, 05:32 AM
I've been trying to decide what kind of fisherman I am. I'm very visual and I enjoy trying to figure out exactly what is going on under the water and how the fish are reacting. So I love sight fishing and seeing a fish follow or I once watched a bass stalk my grasshopper popper where he followed then stopped and just watched me twitch it until leaping at it suddenly. I love underwater youtube videos to see how they are reacting so I can imagine that as I am fishing. And almost every body of water I pass I try to visualize where the fish are and imagine where I would like to cast in.
I like trying something different. We we fishing a pond once where they were hitting everything, so I went through my different colored Jakes, castmaster, spinners, rapalas to see which had the best luck for future reference. Even caught a 10" trout on a 6" rapala because they would nip at the hook on the tail. So I will usually try a variety, easy stuff like worms to make sure fish are there, and then try coaxing them to hit other things. Find the lure that works the best and hand it to my wife and then try to get them to hit my most bizarre lure just to see if they will.
Lastly I enjoy the variety, spent most of my teenage years fishing creeks around Tetonia, some lakes, the Snake in a few places. So almost all trout, a few whitefish and a perch. Now I have branched out into bass, bluegill, crappie, more perch, a few catfish, trying for a carp on purpose (from nice clean water) to see how they taste if prepared right, a kokanee. Some I keep, some I decide I'm too lazy to clean so I let them go or don't feel too bad that they spit the hook.
I actually fished a lake in New York the other day. I am here for work and my buddy brought down his poles. I hooked what I would guess was an 18-20" lake trout (my first) on this tiny pole. I left the drag loose so I could wear him down without breaking the line and when I almost had him in the hook came out. So, awesome that I coaxed him to bite, would have been fun to get him out of the water and a pic, but easiest way to release one so I didn't mind.
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I like trying something different. We we fishing a pond once where they were hitting everything, so I went through my different colored Jakes, castmaster, spinners, rapalas to see which had the best luck for future reference. Even caught a 10" trout on a 6" rapala because they would nip at the hook on the tail. So I will usually try a variety, easy stuff like worms to make sure fish are there, and then try coaxing them to hit other things. Find the lure that works the best and hand it to my wife and then try to get them to hit my most bizarre lure just to see if they will.
Lastly I enjoy the variety, spent most of my teenage years fishing creeks around Tetonia, some lakes, the Snake in a few places. So almost all trout, a few whitefish and a perch. Now I have branched out into bass, bluegill, crappie, more perch, a few catfish, trying for a carp on purpose (from nice clean water) to see how they taste if prepared right, a kokanee. Some I keep, some I decide I'm too lazy to clean so I let them go or don't feel too bad that they spit the hook.
I actually fished a lake in New York the other day. I am here for work and my buddy brought down his poles. I hooked what I would guess was an 18-20" lake trout (my first) on this tiny pole. I left the drag loose so I could wear him down without breaking the line and when I almost had him in the hook came out. So, awesome that I coaxed him to bite, would have been fun to get him out of the water and a pic, but easiest way to release one so I didn't mind.
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