Your biggest weakness

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Permalink Reply by Joe Boyd on July 28, 2010 at 9:10pm

I tend to run and gun too much. I'm learning to slow down. According to previous posts, I also have trouble measuring the length of my fish.

Permalink Reply by Brian Walters on July 28, 2010 at 9:28pm

Last year I finally put my head down and tied one on and just threw it. I spent 11 days at banks and that is always a good place to catch fish so i figured why not here. But after that I really started to enjoy fishing it and actually did quite well. I felt confident enough to fish them in some tournaments so that was a huge step. I think that is a big key, just make your self do it for a day or two specially at a place you can catch some fish.

Joel Grafe said:

i'm with you on the lipless.. i think until last year the only thing i ever hooked one was a carp..
but then again i don't throw it..
i have yet to throw swimbaits too.. that is my goal for next year.

Brian Bassguy Walters said:

Chater bait and lipless. The lipless is getting better for me but would love to be better at everything

Permalink Reply by P.J. Koshi on July 28, 2010 at 10:07pm

Me too and sometime I forget to put my shirt on which is not a good combo

Mike Bess said:

I sometimes forget to put sun screen on.

Permalink Reply by David Parnicky on July 28, 2010 at 10:47pm

I really struggle with having the confidence to stick with a technique that I feel might work after it doesn't produce right away. Whether it is a technique that worked in the past or something brand new that I am trying out, I have to really work hard to force myself to keep working at it. This really affects my success and how much I get out of each day that I spend on the water sometimes. To try and remedy this, I really focus on constantly trying to learn something while I am out on the water fun fishing. I try to focus more on learning than how many fish I catch. A great angler once told me that to grow as an angler, you cannot be afraid of spending a day trying new things and getting skunked. I could really learn a lot from that!

Permalink Reply by Adam Hokenson on July 29, 2010 at 9:05am

everything exept for tubes craws and texas rigged worm

Permalink Reply by Josh Potter on July 29, 2010 at 10:55am

Sometimes you have a weakness and don't even know it. Prior to marrying a red head I would have never guessed it a weakness.

Russ Baker said:

Redheads!! Swim baits - I just need to put down everything else and focus on these for awhile.

Brian Bassguy Walters said:

Chater bait and lipless. The lipless is getting better for me but would love to be better at everything

Permalink Reply by Josh Potter on July 29, 2010 at 11:16am

I have not really gotten hung up on any one technique and I have had good days on all of them at some point. However I have and do get stuck on one or two techniques when I am convinced they are going to be caught a certain way that particular day. I have a tendancy to stick with the girl I brought to the dance way too long. Once in a blue moon I recognize it early enough in the day to adjust but not often enough to be very succesful.

I also wonder sometimes if I am even around any fish.

Permalink Reply by Larrick on February 4, 2011 at 8:45am

Thought this was an interesting topic and I would like to play. My weakness is catching decent size fish (meaning over 3lbs LM and over 2lbs. SM). I think it comes down to two things for me. Experience and mindset. I just don't have alot of experience yet but that will come with time. As far as mindset. Up until I joined this website I was under the impression that Washington only had smaller size bass. So as a result most of my previous gear reflected that in that I used really light line and small baits. Funny cuz I had nothing longer that 4 inch A.C. plug which I never used. I have since upgraded (the wife is just thrilled I bought MORE fish gear). I have caught plenty of fish on crankbaits and spinnerbaits but when it comes to anything you have to work slowly it's been a big donut. All of this will change.

Permalink Reply by John Mark Minica on February 5, 2011 at 2:16pm

Jerkbaits, swimbaits, and tubes. Seems I catch everything but bass on jerkbaits. Never put much time into swimbaits, just dont feel confident with them, although I sometimes use a swimbait on a jig, or a weighted swimbait as a dropshot weight in the fall and winter. And I never throw tubes....I have a box full of tubes...just have not taken the time explore tubes, so I have 0 confidence in them. One of my goals for this year is to do some tubin'.

Permalink Reply by Larrick on February 5, 2011 at 3:18pm

I thought I was the only one with a box full of tubes and have yet to throw even one.

John Mark Minica said:

Jerkbaits, swimbaits, and tubes. Seems I catch everything but bass on jerkbaits. Never put much time into swimbaits, just dont feel confident with them, although I sometimes use a swimbait on a jig, or a weighted swimbait as a dropshot weight in the fall and winter. And I never throw tubes....I have a box full of tubes...just have not taken the time explore tubes, so I have 0 confidence in them. One of my goals for this year is to do some tubin'.

Permalink Reply by Ronald Hobbs, Jr. on February 5, 2011 at 7:00pm

I have trouble fishing no feel baits, baits that don't have any feel obviously, stuff like i-motion, weightless senkos over deep water, float and flies without the float in open water, baits that to me just aimlessly go through the water column. Fishing for fish away from everything not relating to any structure suspended usually, I have a hard time with.

 

I also have a hard time leaving a jerkbait in my hand all day, I dont think I have fished one all day before. Even though I have caught a lot of fish on them I still don't have the confidence to fish them all day.  The other thing that is my weekness is when fishing gets tough I have a tendency to go smaller an more finesse (largies) but should actually go the other way when it is tough to throw the fast moving baits and make hundreds of casts especially when I know where the fish are.  Sometimes the only thing to do is get the fish to use its reactions not its eating behaviors.

Permalink Reply by Pat on February 5, 2011 at 9:06pm

i was waiting for you to say kryptonite.

Ronald Hobbs, Jr. said:

I have trouble fishing no feel baits, baits that don't have any feel obviously, stuff like i-motion, weightless senkos over deep water, float and flies without the float in open water, baits that to me just aimlessly go through the water column. Fishing for fish away from everything not relating to any structure suspended usually, I have a hard time with.

 

I also have a hard time leaving a jerkbait in my hand all day, I dont think I have fished one all day before. Even though I have caught a lot of fish on them I still don't have the confidence to fish them all day.  The other thing that is my weekness is when fishing gets tough I have a tendency to go smaller an more finesse (largies) but should actually go the other way when it is tough to throw the fast moving baits and make hundreds of casts especially when I know where the fish are.  Sometimes the only thing to do is get the fish to use its reactions not its eating behaviors.

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