Failing to understand what structure is, how to truly identify it, interpret it, and then fish it effectively.

Failing to understand what the predominate prey species in your lake and how that species relates to structure with each season...morning, noon, and night.

Failing to understand that next after location is timing; just because you don't get bite does not mean the bass aren't there or you tied on the wrong lure.

Failing to understand that to consistently catch bass is a process of elimination and duplication. Eliminate patterns and waters that are non-productive and duplicate patterns and waters that are productive.

Failing to understand the #1 key to consistently catching bass is between your ears not between the folds of your wallet.

Failing to understand it takes a rare breed of fisherman using simple techniques to perfection to consistently catch bass

Failing to understand if you eliminate your history you've eliminated your experience

Failing to understand anglers often respond to failure and frustration by over-complicating theory and technique. As much as it helps our egos to regard a difficult task as complex, this type of thinking is often the biggest obstacle between you and your fishing success.

Failing to understand that if you do what you've always done, you'll get what you always got 

That's poetry, Catt.   

The phrase "Pearls of wisdom" comes to mind

This is the best advice on bass fishing I have ever gotten.

Failing to understand that "the best" is not always about brand, it 's about type and how you fish it.

Failing to understand that the lure is only a tool and that there 's a bunch of ways to skin a cat and not just one.

Failing to understand that you have to know your lures.

Failing to understand that Bass Resource has some of the best fishing minds in the world.

Profound.  Truly profound.

I don't understand :-? ;D

Thats some good stuff.  I will approach the lake differently next time.  Thanks.

Cliff

If some user didn't already have the user name Captain Obvious I would suggest it to you.  ;D

If some user didn't already have the user name Captain Obvious I would suggest it to you. ;D

Failing to understand that one should generally write and speak at a level that communicates not only to those with knowledge, but also to those with the least understanding in his or her audience.

Sorry, I just had to throw that in there. 

If some user didn't already have the user name Captain Obvious I would suggest it to you. ;D

Failing to understand that one should generally write and speak at a level that communicates not only to those with knowledge, but also to those with the least understanding in his or her audience.

Sorry, I just had to throw that in there.

I'm just sick and in dooooshbag mode.  ;D

Failing to understand the difference between the words dominate and dominant.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Did you come up with that all on your own or did you forget to credit the person who actually said it?

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Did you come up with that all on your own or did you forget to credit the person who actually said it?

Martin H. Fischer  ;)

Thank you CJ, sometimes the fingers are faster than the brain

Or is it just piling up asinine one-liners? 

Thank you CJ, sometimes the fingers are faster than the brain

Really, fingers faster than brain? 

A three hour delay from when you posted that quote and an hour delay from when CJ posted...

Regarding knowledge and wisdom, I heard it put a different way, don't know who said it, and this may be a crude paraphrase, but it goes like this.

Knowledge is the gathering of information.  Wisdom is the appropriate use of knowledge.

Thank you CJ, sometimes the fingers are faster than the brain

Really, fingers faster than brain?

A three hour delay from when you posted that quote and an hour delay from when CJ posted...

4 hours in a doctors office getting MRIs & X-rays and you have a problem with that?

Well, we can only comment on the information presented, now can't we? 

Or is it just piling up asinine one-liners?

HAHAHAHAH. I was thinking it but never would've said it.

But these really are things everyone needs to think about when on the lake.

So, who was Buck Perry anyway?