I was recently looking at the small TW warehouse I’ve collected over the last dozen years trying to pack for a day on my kayak.

 

In an attempt to simplify my tackle and thought of @Swamp Girl’s posts telling of her simple canoe & rigs.

 

I’ve decided to take ONE rod with ONE lure out for the next dozen trips and see what happens.

 

I challenge the membership to do the same and report back here.

 

The lure is up to you. I’m challenging myself and picking one lure that’s either very ‘old school’ or way out of my comfort zone.

I’ll post that lure before my first trip (I’m currently on a cruise ship in Alaska).

 

Thank you and good luck to all who accept my challenge!

I do this when I want to get good with a bait. I’ll go walk the bank with one rod and one lure. And that’s all I’m fishing. Makes ya figure it out and get confident in a hurry. But ya gotta be willing to stick with it. 
 

I may jump on this. And see what I can do. 

Too much to drink on the cruise ship🍸 1 lure “type” eliminates loosing your only lure and done! 
Tom

Hummmmmmm a dozen trips, hummmmmmmm

 

 

 

 

 

bait monkey gonna be pi**’*

Reading Mike Iaconelli’s book, that’s what he did as a kid. Fish one lure for a summer, and another the following summer. Didn’t turn out too bad for him.

crazy talk.

Yeah I did this with a frog this past year it was sweet!

 

I basically enjoy fishing this way in general and do it a lot when I want to learn something inside and out.

1 minute ago, Pat Brown said:

Yeah I did this with a frog this past year it was sweet!

 

I basically enjoy fishing this way in general and do it a lot when I want to learn something inside and out.

The same frog all summer, must have kept in the box or fishing in a swimming pool😎

Tom

I fished with six rods tonight, but I sometimes launch with just two. I do it because it's easy to walk through the woods with just two rods.

26 minutes ago, WRB-2.0 said:

The same frog all summer, must have kept in the box or fishing in a swimming pool😎

Tom

 

 

I'm just not very good at fishing Tom.  😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣

Sounds great.  The first trip I’ll break off the crappie jig and then I can get back to normal.

I thought you’re suppose to let the fish tell you what they want 😂

Done that more than once already….
Magnum UV Speed Worm 

3/16 unpegged. 
20# Sniper

Whatever MH/F rod I grab 

 

@DogBone_384

(All those white dots you see in the 60ft trees on both sides of the boat are Bald Eagles!)

 

 

 

 

 

Mike

I do something similar,  I only fish one lure per cast.  😆

10 hours ago, DogBone_384 said:

I was recently looking at the small TW warehouse I’ve collected over the last dozen years trying to pack for a day on my kayak.

 

In an attempt to simplify my tackle and thought of @Swamp Girl’s posts telling of her simple canoe & rigs.

 

I’ve decided to take ONE rod with ONE lure out for the next dozen trips and see what happens.

 

I challenge the membership to do the same and report back here.

 

The lure is up to you. I’m challenging myself and picking one lure that’s either very ‘old school’ or way out of my comfort zone.

I’ll post that lure before my first trip (I’m currently on a cruise ship in Alaska).

 

Thank you and good luck to all who accept my challenge!

That sounds good out to sea and half pickled.

30 minutes into that first trip,

this view point may start to feel different.

If a lake had only 1 bass, I might consider fishing 1 lure.

A-Jay

 

I often do the opposite of this.  Many times in the past I ended up throwing a Ned Rig for the majority of the day and while I'll catch a lot of fish, I didn't improve in any other technique. I read all these articles, watch all these videos, get all this stuff, and then end up using the same few lures.  This is fine in a tournament when I only want to use confidence baits but if you do this all season long you just won't grow enough as a fisherman IMO.  So what I'll often do to combat this is to set a 2-hour time limit before I can start using my confidence baits.  There's been a few times I never even picked up the Ned Rig since I was catching them on other baits.  This has helped me gain confidence in a Neko rig, free rig, using a drop-shot for shallow water largemouth, scroungers, underspins, and Cover Scats over the last couple years.  

 

But to the OP's post, I have done this with jigs in the past.  Had some great days too.  

When the fish talk, I listen.. 

I never just throw one lure, but there are times when the spinnerbait rod becomes glued to my hand for hours as I huck it over and over. 

Went down a channel bank one day with a DT6. catching a few, but all bit within 2 turns of the reel handle.  Switched to a wake bait and spanked 'em.  I'm not just bringing one lure.  Listen to the fish.

If you want to master one lure this is a good idea, but otherwise, not me.

Mostly, I use a T Rigged Zoom Trick Worm: Green Pumpkin, Watermelon Red and June Bug. That's all I need to catch the Bass.

Good Fishing

If I joined up and said I'm going to do it, I'd be lying.

As soon as the morning bite subsides, my boat deck gets littered with combos.

2 hours ago, Tennessee Boy said:

I do something similar,  I only fish one lure per cast.  😆

 

Now you're on to something.

 

Some points to consider from the point of view of doing this kind of madness: 

 

Around here you can't get bit doing a D+ retrieve with a good lure for the conditions - even at private ponds, let alone public water with actual good size bass in it.

 

Heck you probably gonna struggle most days with a B+ retrieve.

 

But if you can figure out what it truly means to stretch the limits of both what can and should be done - sometimes getting into the lower echelons of A- territory AND doing things that are just different and weird (which you discover in desperation out of necessity!), you might get a couple bites and they might even be really dang great old big ones!

 

If you happen to live somewhere - where you toss your lure at the water next to something that looks good and violently pop your rod tip once and get bit +/- every time - disregard what I'm saying!  Enjoy!

That's no fun

5 minutes ago, LrgmouthShad said:

That's no fun

 

In the end - I completely agree with my friend here.

 

It's not fun.  It's dirt time.  It's work.

 

But it IS rewarding (eventually).

3 hours ago, Junk Fisherman said:

  There's been a few times I never even picked up the Ned Rig

Come fish for bass in Mexico, if that doesn't get you off the Ned Rig addiction, nothing will.