Sharpie Secrets - Real secrets? Or plain common sense? - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

JohnR · 08-03-2005, 07:27 AM

Sharpie Secrets - Real secrets? Or plain common sense?

I mull over this several times a year and I was really thinking about this for the past few weeks. If you have had the chance to fish with people you rate as really good to damn good, what little things did you see them do that when you saw it you slapped yourself in the forehead because it was so simple? Was it truly a secret or advanced method? Or just an hinestly good common sense practice?

I've fished with a fair amount of people and a few that I would regard as damn good, especially if having spent some real time fishing with them.

A couple things I've noticed:

#A The lure or bait spends significant amount of time in the water - BS'ing is kept to a minimum and that even occurs only when the presentation is happening in the water...

#B Organized - things are ready to go which allows for more of # A (see above)

That's just two for starters, and they are common sense things.... Got some more?

Clammer · 08-03-2005, 07:34 AM

Well failed in [[A]] i just don,t care //

50/50 in [[B} i,m not quite organzied [sp] But I,m always ready to gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Karl F · 08-03-2005, 07:42 AM

The ability to read water, senses are fine tuned... can see, smell, and understand what will work, and what won't... without running through the plug bag first. Can tell what fish are there, bait,etc., what to throw, right off. If nothing, moves on quick. Often can tell where to go next, from reading the first stop.
A. and B. yep.

Saltheart · 08-03-2005, 07:48 AM

Head in the game all the time. No plug in the water and mind lost in space.

likwid · 08-03-2005, 07:49 AM

luck.

RIJIMMY · 08-03-2005, 08:02 AM

Keeping it simple, you don't need 1000 plugs in your bag.
Also, if what you're using is not producing, change lures. I consider my Dad a sharpie and he's told me of dozens of times he would be nailing fish, guys next to him would be pluggin harder and faster and getting nothing. Thye never changed their lure. Common sense and oberservation

piemma · 08-03-2005, 08:17 AM

I don't consider myself a "sharpie" I do consider myself a good surf fisherman and I catch a lot of fish. There are no secrets that I can share but there are a couple of things that I do that have helped me.

I know the water I fish. I have studied the places I go and I know exactly what tide and wind I need to be successful at any given spot so I don't go to a low tide SW wind spot when the tide is on the way up and the wind is NE.

I sharpen all my hooks all the time.

I do little things like after I tie an Improved Clinch knot, I always throw an overhand knot on just in case...

I always strip back about 10 yards of line everytime I fish. There are always nicks.

I fish plugs, eels, rigged and live, sloooooowly. I read someone said that they do a 10 count for every revolution of the reel handle. I do also. Try it sometime. You will not believe how slow it really is.

Lastly and most important if you fish rocky places, always pick where you will land a fish before you start fishing. More good fish are lost because guys don't have a place to land a fish. All IMO