I hate the word luck I mean I hate it!!!!! I believe that fishing has absolutely no luck in it once so ever..... I believe we work hard for every bass we catch.  So naturally it makes me made when someone says that fishing is no skill it is all luck.  I would love to go one on one with them and show the what "luck" or lack there of is there in fishing.

 

Sorry for the ranting but my question is what do you guys think, luck or SKILL

It takes skill for sure but there is a bit of luck involved also. There's no way around that part.

I agree with Rippin-Lips. Skill is the main factor to success, but there is definitely luck involved. 

The harder I fish the luckier I get.

There is no such thing as luck, well maybe to the irish

We would like to think we're that good

You need skill to put yourself in the position to be lucky.

The kid that catches a 12 pound LM on a Roostertail while throwing a spinner for planter trout is lucky, someone that consistently catches fish has some skill. At least that's what I keep telling myself after seeing that little kid double the size of my PB.

I think it's a combo of both.

Like when you make a cast and you catch a fish that's skill but when you catch a double digit then that's luck... Unless you take that trip to lake Barracac lol

Finding fish - that takes skill....

 

Catching fish takes plenty of luck to go along with it.

I dunno, but I'm either really lucky or really skilled....

There is definitely an element of luck. Increasing your skill set helps you get lucky more often.

Skill is when luck becomes a habit

There is a difference between skill and luck. I'll use another sport for an analogy. It takes skill to get 3,000 hits its luck to make number 3,000 a home run.

I think I have heard that one before.

 

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

The only luck in fishing is that god chose you to be the one blessed enough to experience it .

What you do with it is all skill , fish just don't hook themselves .

There are two types of luck one is good.

Tom

I must have bad luck, or no skill. Haven't figured out which yet. 

 For Me, Fishing is all about Luck ~

 

 I feel Lucky that I'm healthy enough to go ~

 

I feel lucky that I have good friends to go with ~

 

& I felt especially lucky when the bait fell from my PB's mouth in the net . . . . . . .

 

 

A-Jay

A properly placed bait trumps all. Call it skill, call it luck, call it divine intervention. I don't care. The results are the same. Skill allows me to identify the places to throw the correct bait under certain conditions. Luck is the gamble that a fish is at that spot under those conditions. Divine intervention is...well...only God knows.

Understanding a bass and how it acts based on its environment at any specific time takes skill. Then utilizing that experience or intellect to put your self in the location of where bass should be also takes skill.

Casting, positioning a lure to the sweet spot, and working a lure propperly in order to elicite a bass to bite is also skill.

Unfortunately the most important factor in compitition angling is the part that greaty relies on luck...the size of the fish on the end of the line. you can use your skill to get you in an area loaded with fish, but you never know what size fish is gonna bite at any given moment.

I'd rather be lucky than good any time.  Skill is learning how to use your equipment.  Luck is being in the right place at the right, it's a game of inches and timing.  Perfectly placed casts often yield no results, and off target casts can catch some great fish, that's luck. Having a 10# fish get to the lure faster than a 2 pounder, that's luck.  Catching a hot day when 50 fish are landed with any lure thrown, not skill just a lucky day.  By contrast being fairly proficient with your equipment, knowing your water and you have a lousy day, that's luck too.................bad luck.  Being on a great body of water doesn't take skill or luck to catch fish it just takes being there and putting your time in.  However being on that great body of water that yields 10# fish and you are only catching smaller fish using all techniques, multiple rods, every lure know to man,hi speed boats and electronics are you unskillful or unlucky.  When a person on the bank with 1 rod and 1 lure catches more or bigger fish, is he/she more skillful or just luckier?

 

In the end the fish makes the decision whether to strike or not, yeh I'd rather be lucky.

Any time you feel all that "skill" swelling your head...take a kid fishing!

Success is all luck. Just ask anyone who is unsuccessful.

Hootie

Luck is when your fighting that good un and there's no line grabbing structure with mussels on it between fish and the boat