Something to think about
If you were a fish and you were in a large body of water the first
two things you would worry about is food and comfort. Now I want you go outside
and look around at the lay of the land, picture all the houses and building
gone and anything man made, also picture it gone and then what do you see. You
going to see what the fish see, some trees some rocks some valleys some hills
and some holes in the ground. Now anything in the water that can’t live of
course would die so that’s going to produce a lot of bare spots which we call
sand, take a hand full of dirt had put it in a strainer and run water through
it and what do you get- sand, that’s why you have sandy area in the water, some
tree and bushes can grow good in the water, and some in salt water and some in
fresh water. Now picture you standing at your fishing spot and picture all the
water gone and you started to walk the empty lake or bay. You going to start
walking the flats then you start to go down a slop or may come to a drop off,
along the way you will see some stumps or bushes that couldn’t live in the
water and are dead and it could take a stump 40-80 years to vanish. This is
what the fish deal with, that’s all they got. Now of course man has put a lot
of man-made thing and objects in the water, like concrete poles, sunken boats,
man made reefs and who knows what else. Now as far as the fish go, there are 350 species of fish that live in the Ocean, some of them swim
into the bay to find food and shelter and some fish enter the bay and reproduce
over and over. And I know you heard some of the pro’s say, you got to think
like a fish to be good at finding and catching them, there is some truth in
that saying if you want to be consistent in catching your limit day after day,
the faster you find fish then the quicker you can figure out how to make them
bite your hook. Now there is a art to working lures, I didn’t believe that
until one day I was buddied up in a bass tournament and we were both using top
water and he was smoking me 4-1 in catching bass, and the end of the day I had
ask him why I couldn’t get that many hits, same bait, same color and almost the
same rod and reel, well he told me something I will never forget, Jim your line
is to heavy and you have not tuned your buzz bait correct, I said what are you
saying, I had mean green 20 pound test and a single prop buzz bait that would
fly through the water, he said I should have had 10-12 pd test so I could cast
longer distance and as far as my buzz bait I needed to tune it to have a loud
squeal when the blade’s were turning,
and you know what my next question was, well just how do I do that. He told me
to hang my buzz bait on my car antenna for 3-4 days while I drive around and
let the wind turn the blades and ware a spot on the wire and I would get my
bait to squeal and he was right it really worked, I dropped down to 12 pound
test and with a buzz bait that squealed I stared to get 3x more strikes, the
squealing noise in the water drives the fish crazy, I think the fish tried to
kill it or maybe they think it’s a rat trying to get away, but that’s what
anglers mean when they say that there is a art to catching lot of fish., I have
learned, just because you buy a new lure does not mean you could open it up and
start casting, I did not know you had to tune you bait and sharpen all the hook
points, yes you can bend the eyelet on the nose of any lure and tune it to run
straight. I have seen lot of pro’s take a red magic marker and make a couple of
marks on the side of their crank bait and said in the water it looks like a
blood line to the fish. There are many ways you can trick you bait up to get
more strikes. So, if you see the land layout like the fish do and you bait is
tuned, you should catch all the fish you want.
I personally use a 2-3 inch gold or silver
spoon to find fish, then I switch up to a
jig head with a gulp shrimp or minnow type bait and slow down my retrieve for
some better quality fish, it all depends on the wind, current and the dept on
my jig head weight.
But really think of it, if I was in that water where would I be
if I needed comfort and food, where you find bait fish you will find large fish
close by.
Now remember when I say bait fish, I not talking about a few pin
fish in the grass, I talking about school’s of bait fish, that’s what you want
to see, especially on top of the water, that means big fish under them.
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