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I honestly don't know any wise tells other than big female bass come up to spawn on the full and new moon phases... It seems my best largemouth days are the nastiest weather or approaching thunder storms, my best smallmouth days I have no idea. Seems to me wind is always good.
That is a very good point and an interesting look into human behavior. When someone performs poorly the explanations are considered "excuses" but an explanation to a superior performance is considered a "reason" rather than an excuse. However interesting; not helpful in solving the puzzle.
I have a tendency to be a very "structured" thinker. It's how I'm wired and it is very helpful to me in many facets of my life but it is a huge hindrance when it comes to fishing. There are days when I believe I have the situation wired for success. About half the time I'm wrong.
I end up feeling like Dennis Green when he was with the AZ Cardinals after the loss to the Bears and that famous post game interview where he rants, "They were who we thought they were....and we let them off the hook"
Jake "The Snake" Anderson said:
Yes, plenty of deep nearby. I could see not tourney winning fish, but I saw a slug of 4lbers cruising around. I saw 2nd place fish... :-)
You know what is sort of funny... People get all riled up about excuses and how ridiculous they are. Yet if someone catches em, then a big bag somehow makes their reasons for success valid.
When I do rope the piss out of em, i have no more understanding for why I could do no wrong, than when i struggle. People hate those who guess why they failed, yet dont mind if someone tosses up a hail mary as to why they caught 5 good ones.
Don did open my eyes with this statement...
"Bass seem to have a negative reaction to certain wind directions on certain sections of a lake or river. In other words a north wind on this section is bad, but on another is good. I noticed that mostly with north and east winds. I helps to know what a prevailing wind is during that season on that part of the water."
...guess I need to be paying more attention to the wind direction on the high percentage areas I fish!
Half? Really?
Josh Potter said:
That is a very good point and an interesting look into human behavior. When someone performs poorly the explanations are considered "excuses" but an explanation to a superior performance is considered a "reason" rather than an excuse. However interesting; not helpful in solving the puzzle.
I have a tendency to be a very "structured" thinker. It's how I'm wired and it is very helpful to me in many facets of my life but it is a huge hindrance when it comes to fishing. There are days when I believe I have the situation wired for success. About half the time I'm wrong.
I end up feeling like Dennis Green when he was with the AZ Cardinals after the loss to the Bears and that famous post game interview where he rants, "They were who we thought they were....and we let them off the hook"
Jake "The Snake" Anderson said:Yes, plenty of deep nearby. I could see not tourney winning fish, but I saw a slug of 4lbers cruising around. I saw 2nd place fish... :-)
You know what is sort of funny... People get all riled up about excuses and how ridiculous they are. Yet if someone catches em, then a big bag somehow makes their reasons for success valid.
When I do rope the piss out of em, i have no more understanding for why I could do no wrong, than when i struggle. People hate those who guess why they failed, yet dont mind if someone tosses up a hail mary as to why they caught 5 good ones.
I do agree that Florida Strain bass act differently than northern strain. I also believe that weather conditions affect each species of bass differently in each region, and in different habitats. I also believe that there are different populations of the same species, within the same body of water (i.e. large smallmouths behave differently to outside conditions than small smallmouths in the same water).
So as Tag was hinting, the "rules" that apply to San Diego lakes will likely not apply to Washington lakes or New York lakes. That isn't to say that there won't be common traits shared between different geographic regions or populations of bass.
The one rule that I do believe is universal is that the best day to go fishing is any day you can.
So all that being said, I do observe everything I can on each day on the water, and I log the information in my fishing log. When I have very little data about a particular lake, I try to review my data on similar lakes and use this data for a starting point. However, if I have a lot of data on a specific lake or river I plan to fish, I only pay attention to the data I have collected for that body of water, and for that season or water or weather conditions. Paying attention to details is almost always useful, though the results are not always predictable.
The point is to keep thinking, which should encourage you to try something different when what you are doing is not working, so that you remain optimistic and therefore capable of potentially solving the daily puzzle.
I do believe there is a "normal" situation on every body of water, but "normal" will be different on every body of water. Once you learn the best conditions and patterns for those conditions on that body of water, success will be more predictable until something changes what "normal" is (like loss of weeds, aging reservoirs, etc.).
It is fun to believe we have figured something out, and maybe we did, but when we quit trying to figure things out you get complacent and likely ineffective. Capito?
I think fish bite better on mon-fri then they do on sat/sun :). I think while there are a lot of good baseline tendencies of bass be it seasonal or conditional I still think that time on the water is the only way to really get that "natural" gut feeling instinct. My best days fishing are the ones where I'm driving down the lake heading to a waypoint and I get a feeling that I should stop and fish a bank or point that just looks "right." Days I struggle are the ones where I get locked in on what I want the fish to do and never change until I've already spun out.
Troy,
I gotta say...I hate the concept of "gut feeling". Always have. If you look and see a bank or point that looks "right" that isn't your gut. That is your brain, eyes, and experience saying that "in these conditions they could be on a spot like that."
Sorry for splitting hairs a bit, but the word "gut feeling" to me is akin to making decisions blindly and without any real rationale. To me it implies some psychic stuff. The only people who talk about "gut" are those who are so experienced they think faster than they explain. They are usually better at thinking than they are explaining how they think.
I go with my gut when it tells to eat a burrito, when it tells me to go to the bathroom, and when it tells me to push my girls head under the covers.
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