not sitting there thinking "i should change to something but i have no idea what.. "
back in my prime.. (fresh water about 13 years old) i was very confident while fishing. i knew almost everything that went on in my holes.. the when where why and what the fish were doing. but that came from fishing them every day from 5am till 8 pm. i had a routine every day.. of what plug to toss at what cover at what time of day etc etc. i could tell the difference between when a lure wasnt working due to it's type/size or because of its color..
then i found out i could lay into stripers by my house and switched over for a few years.. used the SAME EXACT routines..
between then and now i slacked off for many years.. and didn't do much fishing..
i have since lost all of that confidence and pretty much forgot my routines. and lost all confidence in most lures and baits. i fully plan on changing that this year.
i still have full confidence in one lure.. just cant find it ANYWHERE!!
over the summer we had some pretty high confidence levels on locating fish... but come august something changed.. (mostly our spot filled up with sun bathers that complained during prime fishing hours)
and we couldn't locate a fish for the life of us. from then till mid november we were running all over the south shore of mass. that a good example of not fishing with confidence.. we were constantly switching baits and plugs. spot after spot. nothing..
i am feeling very confident about locating fish from may/april till august.. come august if we cant access our spots again and slowly move with the fish we might have the same problem we did this past season.. who knows though.. the boats might fix that. hopefully we figure something out by then though. i still havent figured out what happened. i'm thinking it had something to do with all the large blues that moved in seemingly all at once. and once they disappeared it was doggy central. couldn't get into bass anywhere. just blues and dogs one after the other.. built up some confidence in pencil poppers.. but couldn't keep the blues off of them.
this year all will change!!
