Im BEST at buying more lures than I could ever use in 3 lifetimes!?

On 10/8/2022 at 10:38 PM, volzfan59 said:

Like @Kirt Howe said, I'm best at loving my beautiful wife.

Let us pray that @Cbump is near a bucket.

Nah I won’t really puke. Just jealous. 

I can sum it up quickly.  Patience and concentration are my best strengths.  I am a slow fisherman, and will pick apart cover, and structure in a methodical approach.  I look for difficult targets and work them extra slow.  I often catch bass on tough days, when others come back skunked.  
 

Also if it’s really tough for a long time, I make the fishing into a game of darts.  I look for really tough places to hit and throw to the long nearly impossible places  It becomes a game of placement and the goal is to make that cast.  I stop thinking about catching and rather testing my casting ability.  This often produces an occasional bite, even if getting them to the boat is near impossible even with 65 lb braid.  To me it’s just fun!

what i am best at?  2 things:

 

i can tell a good story. maybe i went out one day and caught a single 10" bass.  but what i'll tell you, is how beautiful and perfect the day was,  and when i threw that lure in the exact place i knew an epic fish was, i proved to be right.  i'll tell you all about how hard it struck my lure, and fought like mike tyson. i'll tell it to you in living color. all without directly saying it's size, or that it took me 3 hours to find it. ?

 

the other thing i'm good at (all kidding aside) is going fishing, without caring if i catch a fish or not.  sometimes i just feel like throwing a lure and cranking it back in. i like being outside, in a quiet place, just not thinking about every day cares, or caring about much at all, for that matter.  the fishing part just gives me something to do while i don't think about anything.

I'm good at dodging flying lures. Sometimes I'll fish a single hook bait even though a trebled hook bait would be ideal. All for the one goal which is... I haven't hooked myself or anyone else for 20+ years.

6 hours ago, Triptych said:

I'm good at dodging flying lures. Sometimes I'll fish a single hook bait even though a trebled hook bait would be ideal. All for the one goal which is... I haven't hooked myself or anyone else for 20+ years.

45 years of bass fishing and I never hooked myself on anyone , then did it three years in a row .

Fishing reeds and focus, even when carrying on a conversation, are what I do best.

 

The focus I didn't realize until the father in law was shocked I didn't miss a fish on a day when it was an hour plus between bites and nerves of steel when I didn't choke when a trophy musky was following my topwater, unfortunately it got off due to undersized gear. Even when the mind wanders I am still focused on the lure and what it is doing. Now if I could just fix the sometimes accuracy issue that gets worse the longer time between bites;)

9 hours ago, cheezyridr said:

what i am best at?  2 things:

 

i can tell a good story. maybe i went out one day and caught a single 10" bass.  but what i'll tell you, is how beautiful and perfect the day was,  and when i threw that lure in the exact place i knew an epic fish was, i proved to be right.  i'll tell you all about how hard it struck my lure, and fought like mike tyson. i'll tell it to you in living color. all without directly saying it's size, or that it took me 3 hours to find it. ?

 

the other thing i'm good at (all kidding aside) is going fishing, without caring if i catch a fish or not.  sometimes i just feel like throwing a lure and cranking it back in. i like being outside, in a quiet place, just not thinking about every day cares, or caring about much at all, for that matter.  the fishing part just gives me something to do while i don't think about anything.

^I like this one.^

 

I also like the act of casting.

 

Twice this summer, I could only catch three fish and when I told someone this, they said, "Oh, that's too bad."

 

"No, it wasn't bad at all. It was wonderful."

 

And it was. I can remember where I fished and what I saw and how I felt. I remember the loon song and light shifting and the islands and reeds. And I'm still grateful for all of that. 

 

Fishing?

 

I am a pretty good trash talker.  with friends.  I can always seem to dunk on them verbally.  hahahah.

 

sucks when they out fish me tho.  grrr.

9 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

^I like this one.^

 

I also like the act of casting.

 

Twice this summer, I could only catch three fish and when I told someone this, they said, "Oh, that's too bad."

 

"No, it wasn't bad at all. It was wonderful."

 

And it was. I can remember where I fished and what I saw and how I felt. I remember the loon song and light shifting and the islands and reeds. And I'm still grateful for all of that. 

 

 

yes!!!  you totally get it. 

Whatever it is that I’m best at, fishing ain’t it!

I'm pretty good at baiting.  you could call me a "Master ba...".

 

ahhh..too easy

Catching sticks