My wife thinks I'm a nut for watching fishing shows on espn etc.
Actually what I am doing is watching to see how they rig the plastics, what lures they have tied on, are they using beads etc.
Trying to match what they have that works with what I have in my tackle box.
My first success with stripers came last week (as you can see by the posts I have made). However it was not by words but by following a fellow out and watching him work his gear.
- His selection of bait and why.
- How the bait was cut - the thickness of the mackerel chunk.
- Where the hook was placed - into the skin near the top and out through the skin on the other side of the fish side-to-side not front to back.
- That the hook was simply tied on and no special leaders or floats or swivels or weight etc were used.
- How he retrieved - slow steady with an occasional twitch every few cranks.
- How he set the hook - a slow pull and then a firm yank to complete the set.
I am very visual and hands on.
What I really am looking for is someone that I can follow and fish with. Watching what they do that works and then trying to emulate it in hope that their success will also pass on to me.
People here really hold info tight to their chest and for the most part I can understand that and will respect their decision. Especially when they are making their living by beating someone else to the fish.
I would like to expand my repertoir to lures as well as bait so that I have more chance to fish when my commute from hell brings me ever so slowly across the merimack, shawsheen, ipswich, mystic, charles, neponsit, fore, back, or north rivers.
enough chitchat.
time for sleep now.
dream of big fish.
-miket
The more I know, the more I know what I don't know.