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Location: Michigan | This is a weird question, but read a saying about figure 8ing fish and how it related to picking up chicks and was wondering if anyone could help me figure out what it was. It was on a figure 8 thread awhile back and went something like, 'figure 8ing fish is like picking up chicks. At first you have no confidence in it and don't get any action but then one finally goes for it, your confidence grows, and you start pulling tail all the time after that.' |
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Location: madison wisconsin | Like! |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | WOW! We really need to see open water soon ,don't we..... Or find a Good Woman.
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Location: Grand Rapids, MI | What's on your mind, Jason? Are we going out fishing soon or clubbing downtown?  |
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Location: Marshfield, WI | They have seals downtown?? |
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Location: north metro, MN | HA! this is great, I agree with H20.. we really need to see some open water, the woman thing I will try and stay away from for at least a few more years. |
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| k-bob - 2/15/2012 8:46 PM
They have seals downtown??
BWAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!! LMAO!! Champion post, right there...
Reminds me of an old joke about tupperware and walruses... |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | seals?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO9A4p1Qsvk
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Location: Kodiak, AK | This one? I thought it was clever, but didn't think anyone actually read it-
esoxfly - 10/10/2010 7:05 PM
Fig 8 fish are kinda like picking up chicks...before you've done it, it seems hard and you get nervous and say stupid things and mess it up. Then when one says yes, you're the man and it just seems to happen from there on out. |
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Location: McFarland | Bwahahahahaha!!!! |
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Location: Michigan | esoxfly - 2/16/2012 8:17 AM
This one? I thought it was clever, but didn't think anyone actually read it-
esoxfly - 10/10/2010 7:05 PM
Fig 8 fish are kinda like picking up chicks...before you've done it, it seems hard and you get nervous and say stupid things and mess it up. Then when one says yes, you're the man and it just seems to happen from there on out.
That's the one! I might change it up a little bit and add some of my own lines to it now lol. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | From a presentation I did as MC at the 1986 MI International Awards Banquet:
Getting into muskie angling is alot like being a young teenager again, and exploring the world of the opposite sex. One believes one knows what to do, but is, of course, not sure. One is also not sure when the opportunity arises if one will recognize the opportunity for what it is, or miss it entirely (mess it up, in other words). Usually, when it does happen for the first time, the panic and disarray causes such an emotional stir, memory of the event is fogged as a result. It also happens much more quickly than one believes it should, and the shock it happened at all is difficult to deal with. Once it DOES happen, one spends one's entire existence trying to make it happen....again, and when one grows to be too old, sits around reminiscing about each and every one with other old farts.
Women are hard wired much better for this experience, as they are genetically inclined to expect disappointment.
Patty Slack took the Women's division. She bit me on my arm in front of hundreds of people for my comments when I handed her the trophy.
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Location: New Hope MN | sworrall - 2/16/2012 1:09 PM
Women are hard wired much better for this experience, as they are genetically inclined to expect disappointment.
Couldn't have said it better myself! |
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Location: Minnesota | sworrall - 2/16/2012 1:09 PM
Patty Slack took the Women's division. She bit me on my arm in front of hundreds of people for my comments when I handed her the trophy.
Hard.
So you're saying you got her to bite? |
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| I think proper figure 8 technique is something that can only be learned by trial and error. You can read about it, talk about it, have someone show you how to do it, and even watch someone do it. But the real learning takes place when you encounter a fish, and blow it, and then (hopefully) learn from what you did wrong. It's those missed fish that leave you better equipped each and every time, until you finally start catching fish on figure 8's. From there it's just a matter of learning to react to what the fish do in response to what you do. Someone once told me that you have to "learn to read the fish", which didn't make a lot of sense at the time. But it's exactly what you have to do. Some of them are coming to eat no matter what you do, and you will catch them unless you completely stop the lure (done that) or take the lure out of the water. (done that too) Others are coming to look and aren't going to eat no matter what you do. Those make for some fun experimentation, but in the end, if they wanted to eat the lure, they'd have done it already. It's the ones in between where you have the chance to convert. And you've heard it all - keep the lure in front of the fish, speed up going into the turns, changes in depth, nice wide turns. But that does you little good in the few seconds you have to actually catch that fish. The only way to learn is a lot of practice, with a fish behind your lure.
About the best advice I ever heard was quite simply: Be ready for a fish to show up, and don't panic.
I'm certainly no expert, but learning to expect that there is going to be a fish there, even after hours and hours of not seeing one has been the biggest key to success at boatside.
Now when it comes to women? Luck. Certainly not anything I've ever done or said. I think the key to finding a good woman is just being in the right place at the right time.
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Location: Grand Rapids, MI | On kind of the same note... My wife is always amazed at how our lures portray sex in either name or shape. Spanky, Vibrax, Savage Gear 4-play, Depthraider, Plow, 10" Jake, Stalker, Husky Jerk, Krave, Lunge Deep, Deep Invader, Jimmy, Jerko, Squirko, Mojo, Super Humper, Bonga Jerk, Tally Wacker, One-eyed Willy, Rough Runner, Giant Chubby???!!! And, "Holy Cow", she says "Just look at this thing!" While she's holding up a Weagle or Wabull.  ;) And c'mon... we are always talking about how we like to Jerk or Crank something...! LOL. |
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| I thougt it was only my girlfriend! I had to explain that the "Grinder" spinnerbait refers to a technique of fishing weeds. I had to explain that a Depth Raider is a deep diving crankbait, whick refers to the depth of the water and how you fish it, and not all the other things she tought. I had to explain that WTD surface lures are shaped the way they are NOT because of what they look like, but because they wouldn't WORK if they were shaped like anything else. I had to explain jerkbaits and crankbaits had nothing to do with jerking your crank. I had her convinced it was just her imagination until we went to the muskie show, and she saw things like the nut buster, big nasty, and those giant Red October tubes. Oh well.. at least I know why she likes muskie fishing! |
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