Posted 7/14/2008 8:25 PM (#326412 - in reply to #326403) Subject: RE: VIDEO: i stink!
Location: The Yahara Chain
Well as long as you take it as a lesson and learn from the mistakes, it's not a bad thing.
I would say that lesson one was just fight the fish and let the net man worry about his headlamp.
Lesson two, I think everybody has been there.... the old hair trigger on the big fish up top. I've done that more than once. I still occasionally dream about a fish on eagle that I f'd up in a very similar situation. Keeping a level head is sometimes difficult when you have all of that adrenaline rushing through your body.
I think a lot of guys would like to suck as much as you did last week.
Posted 7/14/2008 9:48 PM (#326423 - in reply to #326412) Subject: RE: VIDEO: i stink!
Posts: 4266
That second one is textbook. I'm sure that we all have done that more times than we care to admit. One guy told me that the best top-water fisherman in the world would be a blind man. No chance of premature hookset. It's hard to fight that instinctive reaction to the sight of a strike, but easy to say "Wait until you feel the fish." It's hard to do, especially with a Weagle type bait because you are twitching the lure in a rhythm, and anything that you can see, triggers your instinct to set the hook but you stop retrieving the lure at that point. A lure like a Top-Raider, you just need to keep reeling until you feel the weight or a headshake, and all the time you are still reeling the lure in, so you don't have to worry about a cadence.
Top-waters are just a low hooking percentage lure regardless of the type. I think it has to do with the way that the fish tries to eat the lure and the way that we try to take it away from them. Some times it seems so easy, when things go right. But some times it just doesn't seem to matter what you do. Some days you have the horseshoe in your pocket, and some times you're wearing that black cat for a hat.
Yeah, you stink Lambo. You stink like the slime off of a 54" fish!
Beav
Posted 7/14/2008 10:35 PM (#326432 - in reply to #326403) Subject: Re: VIDEO: i stink!
Posts: 720
Is this the same guy who I just saw a picture of holding a 54" fish? Mr. Winther you have got to be kidding us.
Edited by Hunter4 7/14/2008 10:36 PM
lambeau
Posted 7/14/2008 10:40 PM (#326434 - in reply to #326432) Subject: Re: VIDEO: i stink!
Is this the same guy who I just saw a picture of holding a 54" fish? Mr. Winther you have got to be kidding us. :)
tongue firmly in cheek...just my way of laughing at myself.
sometimes video is a bit _too_ honest and you can't blame the fish.
it's the misses that make the successes more sweet.
Posted 7/14/2008 11:22 PM (#326439 - in reply to #326434) Subject: Re: VIDEO: i stink!
Posts: 433
Location: Cedarburg, Wisconsin
I say if you miss fish at least you were in the right spot and that's 90% of the game! It wouldn't be as much of a thrill catching a musky if you knew you were going to catch every fish that hit. Besides that, when could we use our fishing vocabulary if it weren't for those situations?
Kidding aside, I always welcome action because it validates the decision process of choosing spots and lures. The more information you can store up the easier it is to come up with a good plan on other outings. It also makes for good stories and laughs, "the ones that got away".
Posted 7/15/2008 11:12 AM (#326504 - in reply to #326503) Subject: Re: VIDEO: i stink!
Posts: 4266
Sometimes even when you feel the fish you don't get a hook in them. And it's been known to happen more than once a day, right Steve? I still can't believe it.
Beav
Posted 7/20/2008 3:11 PM (#327349 - in reply to #326403) Subject: RE: VIDEO: i stink!
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Cool shots, Mike. Tough to not set the hook for lots of folks. Maybe we should all close our eyes and wait to feel the fish on the the throwback. 'Course you would know better than I.
This is a long shot guess, but is that NW Cass Lake?
Posted 7/21/2008 12:00 AM (#327417 - in reply to #326403) Subject: RE: VIDEO: i stink!
Posts: 95
Location: LOTW every chance I get
I don't usually have a problem with topwaters, I am blessed with a poor reaction time, though my wife does say I am quick on the trigger:o My miss tends to be on the boatside strikes. I agree with the other posters though, it helps to know that you are throwing the right bait at the right time in the right place.
VIDEO: i stink!
