hominamad

Thanks! Read through this and going to try next time I'm out. Will post back and let you know how it goes.

Hi there - this is my first post here - hoping some people can give me some good tips. As probably obvious from my title, I'm new to this sport. I recently bought a 14' jon boat which I'm keeping on a local reservoir here in New York. My son *** is really into fishing, and we were very excited to get out on the boat and start catching some fish. I was told that bass are what is mainly to be found here. Well, so far we went out twice, for several hours, and didn't even get a bite. Didn't even see a single sign of life anywhere in the water. I'm trying to figure out what we're doing wrong so I can make some adjustments for next time, and learning as much as I can along the way. The way I look at it, these are the possible options for what we're doing wrong: - Fishing the wrong part of the water - Not fishing at a good time of day (one time was right at midday, the other time we were fishing until sunset) - Using the wrong tackle, or using incorrectly - No fish in the water!? We tried all different areas of the water - mostly near the shorelines, but also tried fishing points, and at the edges of the weeds. There are quite a lot of weeds in some parts - and looks like quite a lot of algae near the shorelines. We tried several different swimbait, chatterbait, as well as a bunch of plastics - Texas rig, wacky rig, etc. I just ordered some small spinners and a few other types, which we haven't tried yet. Can anyone advise me on how they would approach a brand new body of water like this? I know a lot of the "regulars" on the reservoirs here use fish finders for temps and depths, but I have to imagine it's possible to be successful without that? The reservoir is quite big - there is almost 60 miles of shoreline. I was told that the area where we keep our boat is the best fishing in the area, but we haven't gotten a bite yet. Any advice would be much appreciated!