The discussion on what it means to be the "best" made me think about this whole experience thing. I think I was at my best on Potholes the first year or two I fished it. It seems like I get worse with each year of added experience there. In fact my best days there are usually with a lure I have never used before, on a section of the lake I have never fished. Hardly the benefit of any experience. That's just one example.
Now I don't discount time on the water as being important or even the most important thing in becoming a better fisherman. But I've watched the very best, with the most experience on any given body of water struggle there - not just for a day or two, but for whole seasons or for the last 5 years.. Did they get worse? If experience is the key, why aren't those who have been fishing the longest dominating? How does somebody who has been fishing only a few years, do well on bodies of water they don't have much experience on? I've seen it here on the Columbia, at Banks Lake, Potholes, Moses Lake, Oregon, Florida and Alabama.
Of course, I expect some of you to say that some people just get stuck in their ways and that is where experience hurts them. But isn't that the whole point of time on the water, to learn those ways? Are we supposed to learn stuff and then at some magical point dissregard it?
I have my theories, but I'll hold off and poke holes in some of yours first.
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Jake,
You start out making it simple and then spend the rest of your thread qualifying it. At the end, I'm left thinking that you too believe that experience is meaningless unless a person has some sort of intagible set of abilities - again the "X" factor.
Jake "The Snake" Anderson said:
I have a simple answer for such a complex question.
I believe that most fisherman are creatures of habit. Spot fishermen, instead of fishing the fish they fish "spots" Instead of fishing the fish they fish there favorite lures. One day tournaments are famous for this type of fisherman, thus alot of guys in Washington state are this way. The guy that has been fishing the longest has more "spots" to fish. Thus the guys that have been around longer seem to do better or the guys that have spent the most time on the water. Some guys that spend too much time on the water could be hurting themselves because they can not process that much info. in their brain, I am not calling them dumb, but rather too much info can hurt especially if you can't decipher what the fish are telling you. I think if we had more multi day tournaments it would teach guys to fish patterns more oftem then fishing spots.
I think the best fisherman are the ones most in tune with their surroundings, Some it comes naturally others have to learn it. Lets face it some guys have to work harder than others at having that 6th sense.
I agree. It is difficult though, to NOT go back to "spots" that have been productive.....
Ronald Hobbs, Jr. said:I have a simple answer for such a complex question.
I believe that most fisherman are creatures of habit. Spot fishermen, instead of fishing the fish they fish "spots" Instead of fishing the fish they fish there favorite lures. One day tournaments are famous for this type of fisherman, thus alot of guys in Washington state are this way. The guy that has been fishing the longest has more "spots" to fish. Thus the guys that have been around longer seem to do better or the guys that have spent the most time on the water. Some guys that spend too much time on the water could be hurting themselves because they can not process that much info. in their brain, I am not calling them dumb, but rather too much info can hurt especially if you can't decipher what the fish are telling you. I think if we had more multi day tournaments it would teach guys to fish patterns more oftem then fishing spots.
I think the best fisherman are the ones most in tune with their surroundings, Some it comes naturally others have to learn it. Lets face it some guys have to work harder than others at having that 6th sense.
I have a simple answer for such a complex question.
I believe that most fisherman are creatures of habit. Spot fishermen, instead of fishing the fish they fish "spots" Instead of fishing the fish they fish there favorite lures. One day tournaments are famous for this type of fisherman, thus alot of guys in Washington state are this way. The guy that has been fishing the longest has more "spots" to fish. Thus the guys that have been around longer seem to do better or the guys that have spent the most time on the water. Some guys that spend too much time on the water could be hurting themselves because they can not process that much info. in their brain, I am not calling them dumb, but rather too much info can hurt especially if you can't decipher what the fish are telling you. I think if we had more multi day tournaments it would teach guys to fish patterns more oftem then fishing spots.
I think the best fisherman are the ones most in tune with their surroundings, Some it comes naturally others have to learn it. Lets face it some guys have to work harder than others at having that 6th sense.
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