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I've learned to think a lot more about what I'm doing and trying to pick up on what's working and what's not. Mostly it's common sense. I also try to think about my failures and why they've happened. Unfortunately I've lost 3 of the biggest 4 fish I've hooked this year, but each taught a lesson.
I fished teasers for the first time this year during June and july, and I bet it doubled my catch rate but you do get a lot of smaller fish. I had one day with 20+ fish on a teaser, none on the plug). I think in a mixed school the small fish get to the teaser before the big boys can get to the plug.
Drifting danny's way out in a rip can be a lot of fun, and if you get it in the right place you can let the current do the work and you only reel when you feel the plug stop working as it drifts thru the backside.
On a beach I'm trying to keep the fish in front of me fighting it side to side walking the beach, instead of trying to keep my spot in the corwd by fighting it up and down. I'm also fishing a looser drag. Which of course has to be 100% opposite of what's working for me in the canal. Plant feet, Clamp down the drag, and fight em up and down. (Side to side they get ya down into the rocks and if you try and walk em you will fall on your butt.)
When fishing in eddy of which there are many in the canal, where the water goes in opposite directions depending on how far from shore the fish is, you have to be ready for that fish to get in the back eddy and come flying by you going the other way... Lost 2 really good ones 10 feet from shore that way...
I've also come up with a bunch of plug building 'tricks' to keep my hands out of the epoxy, but that's for another forum...
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