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Oh boy I am glad I was workin and had my laptop. The notes I took!!! better than my whole bag full of junk. This is all from memory and things I have been thinkin about for a while.
Open your eyes to what is around you.
Take note of every detail when you are fishing.
Water - current, direction, seas, rising, falling, slack, chop, calm, temp..
Weather - rain, sleet, sun, cloud cover, fog, barometer, cold front, warm front, tropical depression..
Bait - on your hook, in the water, in the belly of the fish you catch, jumping, swimming, dead.
Birds - where, how many, what kind, what are they doing
Gear - Line, lure, rod, leader, terminal tackle
Lure - color, size, shape, float, sink, suspend, depth, rattle, scent, tied on? clip? glitter... Popper, Danny, Darter, Chub, needle, modifications needed? proportions of the lure? color scheme? hooks (treble? single? mustad? lazer? anodized red?)
Location-structure type? rip? bottom- sand?stony?vegetation?
Moon phase - waxing crescent? Waning Crescent? Full? First quarter?
Time?
Date?
Noise - hear anything? birds? wales? boats? mast slap? buoy bell?
Here's some I bet you wouldnt think of:
Dinner- pizza grease on the lure?
Smoke- you or your buddy smoking?
Gas- some fool breakwind on your surfbag?
Fuel - spilling oil or clean burning?
mung- how much and for how long?
motion - how long you been sittin still waiting for your vibrations to dampen?
new boots? repaired waders? stinky glue? stinky feet?
Put it all together.
Find the pattern.
Find the fish.
Some points that I had seen and learned watching predators... were reinforced hearing it again.
The hawk does not go after the crows that bother it.
Too much of a waste of energy. They sit back and wait for the sure thing. Figure out where the sure thing should be and the fish will be there waiting for it.
That frenzy in the topwater is like a food processor. Chopping up the food so that the big fat momma hoover can be down below slurping it up. After they move over and take the spot jumpers with them you go and target those monsters below.
That is after all what his secret is. He is not fishing. He is hunting. Widen your view to get the pattern and then narrow your scope to improve your chances.
IT worked for me to get my first keepers last year.
I am sure it will work for me again if I can keep focused.
You saw my BBQ. I take notes on how I cook it.
Photos of the process. And I tell and re-tell people how I cook.
No secrets. IT is easy when you know how to react.
Just like I see many of the people on this board.
They know how to react. They know what color to use when the sun tips behind the cloud of a retreating warm front.
I could ramble on and on.
What I really need is to pay attention to what works.
I love fishing.
I love Catching a bit more however.
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