I get dressed the sameway everytime before i go fishing. I have to have my poloarized glasses and my favorite hat too. If i do it the sameway everytime this means wether i have a good day of fishing or not. Without my glasses and hat the trip is over before i start. How about you guys and gals???

I still say its skill not luck in fishing. Thank God i can never leave my skills at home or forget to bring them with me.

As you can see it's 3:AM AM and I've been up for a while and I'll be leaving to fish soon. First thing I do is check the weather, winds, and tide direction and change, now I know what I'm going to wear and even more important what my target is for this outing, my destination may not be selected until I'm in the car. My gear selection has everything to do with, target species and the kind of bait that has been in the area.

We have a west wind and calm water this morning, that's barracuda time, only negative is an outgoing tide, not incoming. I'll start of before sunrise fishing some seawalls looking for snook, then hit the beach at sunrise with top water lure for cuda or a tube off the jettie. Then I'll do some bass fishing for a few hours after that.

I still say its skill not luck in fishing.

We've had a number of skill vs. luck discussions over the years. While there is absolutely no doubt that over time the more skillful anglers will do better than less skilled ones, the is no doubt in my mind that there is more luck associated with fishing that any other sport I can think of. There are just too many things that happen (or don't happen) that can't be attributed to anything other than luck.

But, to repeat, lest I be misinterpreted, skill is of the utmost importance, it's just that luck plays a considerably bigger role than in other sports.