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Posted Sunday, May 26th, 2002 to Fishing Stories
I have always been a little sceptical about guys who take a lot of gear fishing. I've always made do with a single rod, or, if I am going out for a wh...
I have always been a little sceptical about guys who take a lot of gear fishing. I've always made do with a single rod, or, if I am going out for a whole day, then maybe I'll take one back up stick. I use the one rod for everything, from throwing worms to crankbaits. Don't get me wrong, I own plenty of rigs. I love nothing better than going into a tackle shop and walking out with new tackle. Its just that I figure that if you have two or three rods along, the boat gets all cluttered (i have a small boat) and you waste time fiddling around with diffrent rigs instead of concentrating on the one you have.
The value of using the right rig was brought home to me this weekend. I took a stroll down to my home pond to throw a few small lures about. I took an ultra light spinning rig with a couple of inline spinners and some small crankbaits.
Its early spring here, and the fish in my pond are still sort of quite. Thay don't seem to be getting ready to breed, and they definitely have not started their spring feeding frenzy. A lot of fish are visible up near the inlet, but they scatter as soon as your lures touches down. This caused a lot of frustration. Eventually I took the grub off one of the spinners, and fished it straight. I also decided to leave the panicky fish near the inlet alone and fish blind in the main dam.
Moral of the story - nine hits, no fish. The ultra light stick just did not have the back bone to punch the hook through the grub and into the fish. Use the right stick - I could never have cast the grub with a bait casting stick, but I could have tossed it with a medium heavy spinning rod, which would have had more than enough oomph to stick a hook into at least some of those bass.
Guess i learnt a valuable lesson - now there are going to be as least three rods in my boat - a heavy worming/jig/spinner bait stick, a medium heavy spinning rod for tossing weightless worms and small crankbaits and the little ultra light stick for those times when the small bass are shoaling in the shallows.
By the way, there was a happy ending to my sad story of missed fish. Just as I was about to strom back up the hill in frustration, I got the hits of all hits, to which I responded as only a guy who has missed nine fish in a row can, with a savage strike. And guess what - it stayed stuck. It was a beaut of around 5 pounds, which for my little pond (Jimmy Houston and the like could probably throw a spiiner bait clear from the wall to the inlet) is just about as good as it gets.
So not only did I learn something useful, but I got a smile from ear to ear into the bargain.
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