Whenever I'm in need of a bite to get my confidence up, I go to my confidence baits. ill downsize from a jig or craw type bait to a senko or finesse worm Texas Rigged (smaller profile). ill slow down my presentation to a slow drag with maybe a few pops here and there. keep trying different things to get your odds up.   A shakey head and drop shotting is another good way to hoax a fish into biting.  But when I am getting skunked I will throw what I am confident in which is a 5 inch senko in watermelon red or junebug (wacky rigged of course) and when that still isn't working I will downsize my hook, line, and rod and put on a 3 inch senko and fish it as slow as the terrain lets me. im not going to say that ive never been skunked because I have, but its not very often.

 

 

So: Be versatile

let the fish tell you what they want

 

change location, colors, baits, try things that you haven't before

 

be confident because if its that tough of a day im sure that its tough on everyone there

Sue the restaurant for not serving me!

Lol not funny, I know.

I just chalk it up as a normal day and cool myself off with my tears.

Keep up the change up, avoid all the hungups, and simmer down on the crank up!

Enjoy Your Time On The Water , If The Bass Have Lock Jaw ,  We Target Perch , Pickerel and/or Pike.

 

Mike 

Don't ever lose hope in the T Rig!!!

Don't ever lose hope in the T Rig!!!

Lately I've only caught fish on the T-rig. Here's the only one I caught today in 3 hours. T-rigged Berkley Chigger Craw.

 

Every once in a while I end up on a body of water that will just shut down.  Not even the bluegill and sunfish bite.  If I'm pondhopping I will go to a new pond.  If I am in a boat I will look for the deepest part of the lake, and hope my luck changes.

If you can't buy a bite, do as *Hootie suggested and 'rent' a bite.

That failing, do as Warren Buffett would do and sell bites 'short'  

 

Roger

In a boat for me its trying to eat a sandwich i get a strike everytime.

I try to eat a p&j quickly.

In a boat for me its trying to eat a sandwich i get a strike everytime.

I try to eat a p&j quickly.

It used to be light a cigarette. That would cause a bite that made you waste the cig. But I quit more than 20 years ago.