Re: Here's what you need to catch fish when nothing else works.

Why am I such a terrible fisherman?

CTiger18 · 2024-07-18T16:58:06.110Z

So I am 29 and decided to try and learn fishing this year. Never done it before until now. I've taken my family (wife and three kids) fishing probably a dozen times so far this year and haven't caught a thing. I've bought tons of gear and equipment, read and watched so many tutorials and how to videos... nothing! I usually try and catch catfish with those spring hooks and stinky doughbait, but have tried other set ups to go after trout and crappy with no luck. Since there are no Clemson athletics going on at the moment I thought yall might have some time to share some tips with me. Any suggestions? Thanks. Go Tigers!

catch fish is ripe for failure. What you need to do is learn to fish. They calling fishing and not "catching", ok?

One must study the animals. How do they behave? How do they migrate seasonally? What does their diet consist of? What are their feeding habits? Are they a pelagic lot or no? How may they be effected by weather trends, patterns, and pop up events?

Next you move on to the fishery. Have you thoroughly acquainted yourself with the body of water? Is it fed by river, by creek, by spring, or simply by rainwater? How to depths and widths vary from the upper third to middle third to lower third? What type of cover exists? How about structure? Is current present? If so, how much relative to other times? If not is it because it simply doesn't ever, or just not right now?

Now that you are expertly situated with this knowledge, where are the fish most likely to be? Can you either trick, fool, or goad the fish into eating? Sometimes they eat because hungry, sometimes they eat because they are wild animals with wild animalistic instincts. Ya dig? Can you replicate what you think needs to be happening with your lure, rod, and reel?

Once you have all this sorted out, here's how your fishing day should unfold:
Wake up, bang your wife. Take photos of her tiddies and post them in here.
Leave her and the kids at home. F them, they ain't welcome out fishing.
Enjoy the zen, enjoy the hunt. This is man time, not wimmin and kids time.

The end.

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Here's what you need to catch fish when nothing else works.

Jul 18, 2024, 9:41 PM

1. Not dynamite.
2. Small spinning reel and long fiberglass rod.
3. A full reel of 6# test monofilament or 2# spider wire
4. Pack of 50 Eagle claw #6 hooks.
5. Knowledge of how to tie a hook on a line.
6. A cup of nightcrawlers.
7. A little practice casting your new fishing rod with a very small weight. I recommend 15 minutes casting at a 5 gal bucket from 25 feet away. Let out about 3" of line and gently sling the weight toward the bucket.

8. Patience enough to let the worm and hook drop to the bottom of any body of water other than a swimming pool or bath tub.

9. Ability to lift the rod with the line in your non casting hand and drag the worm across the bottom.

Pro tip: If you hook the worm one time about 1/4" from the tip it won't get snagged on bottom rocks or other objects.

10 Focus enough to let give the fish time to swallow the bait. They say when there's a knock on the door answer it. I say when the fish nibble ask who's there and sit tight. The little ones will peck away at the tail of the worm. The big ones will open their mouths and take the entire thing inside but it takes them a while to swallow, sound familiar?

11. Leave your bail open. If you lift the line carefully and without much pull you can see which way the fish is moving. The little ones will move toward the bank and the big ones will move parallel to the bank or away from it. When you get good at it you can tell when the big ones stop, that's when they swallow the bait and you can then close your bail.

Let the fish put tension on the line by pointing your rod at the fish. When it gets tight jerk your rod up vertical and that will set the hook.

It's 6# test so let the rod and your bail tire the fish; don't try to muscle him in. Don't lift the fish out of the water, reach down and open his mouth, put your thumb inside and clasp his lower jaw.

My son who passed away just a couple months ago caught a 12 lb LM bass using just that equipment and technique. He was 8 years old at the time. It's the only fish I've every mounted. I turn the big ones back and eat only LM which weigh around 2 lbs because they are the best. The big ones can stay on the bed and protect their eggs thus keep the population of LM going best.

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Why am I such a terrible fisherman?

I think this is a question for

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We're going to need some more info here. Can you post some pigs of

Re: We're going to need some more info here. Can you post some pigs of

Be more specific, what you wanna do?

Following for science. My boys just started fishing in the local ponds

I too am following for science. But I think we have different goals.***

See now, fishing a pond is much different from a lake sort of

Almost forgot about this little guy

Very mchelpful***

#3 works perfectly for me

POAST SOME PIGS OF YER ROD

Go to a bait shop and buy a couple dozen minnows. If that doesn't work

^Listen to this guy for bate advice....he's a master

I did watch a lot of Bill Dance Outdoors when I was a teen.***

I can certainly sympathize with your plight, my friend.

My friend! One does not just catch fish. He who sets out to simply

Re: Why am I such a terrible fisherman?

What body of water are you fishing?

I don't know how. Old you are but we use to have rotary phones that you would

Another buddy of mine was catching them left and right while nobody else was

Series answer though my granddad took my family's luck in fishing when he died

Here's what you need to catch fish when nothing else works.

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