On 8/9/2017 at 7:50 AM, GrumpyOlPhartte said:

I'm guessing 90% of anglers exaggerate how many fish they caught and most of the remaining 10% exaggerate the size. So what? For me it does not matter which percentage I'm in - if I catch a few bass I'm good with my ranking!

I totally agree. I could care less about a percentage. My catch rate has actually gone up though. Makes me happy. That's what I care about and having fun being at the lake or pond. Catching bass makes it even better!

Some people like catching but not fishing , which is ok . So they dont work hard at it give up and go do something more productive  . They are  normal   . Us bass addicts are the weird ones . 

From where I live when it comes to bass fishing there isn't many anglers targeting bass and many have the mentality that bass are garbage fish. Most of these people are the elitist stillwater trout flyfisher. I  usually see one or two anglers on average targeting bass on the lakes I fish so it's hard to get read how others are doing in regards to size and numbers caught.

 

I have done alot of flyfishing for four different species of Pacific Salmon for over 30 years. Alot of times there is a concentration of anglers in a small area and from what I seen most of the time 10% of the flyfishers do catch 90% of the fish.

I'll have my 1 to 3 fish days, and I'll have my 20+ fish days, but 90% of the time it seems like I sit at around 10, a few dinks, a few decent ones, a few good ones. Hardly seems to change. Other people fishing at the same time could be getting nothing, or they could be catching them cast after cast, but I always sit right there in a never changing mark. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's frustrating.