This question is asked a lot around the tackle shops, marinas, local
watering holes, and any place fisherman meet.

One of the local guides here is highly respected for his "expertise" on
the water.....so a lot of the answers you hear are, "Well, Pete says
slow rolling a spinner with a #3 willow blade is the bait of choice
right now!".

So I'm out at the marina doing some work, and talking to the guys as
they come in...."How'd you do?", "Got a couple pretty good ones!", "What
was ya throwing?", "Oh, a spinner with a #3 willow blade mostly!".

Got me to thinking....most of the fish were being caught with slow
rolling a spinner bait with a #3 willow blade.....Duh, that's all
everyone was fishing, cause Pete said it was the bait of choice right
now!

I reckon the old saying..."You dance with who brung ya!" is true in bass
fishing too.

But it makes me wonder if sometimes we don't create a percieved reality
rather than what may be real, by limiting our thinking when it comes to
"what's working"?

Years ago I had a favorite bait for bass (based on personal success with
it), they don't make em anymore, I don't use em anymore, and it's been
years since I heard the, "The Otay Special", as being the answer to
"What's working?". No one ever fishes it anymore...that's why!

The bass didn't stop eating it...the fisherman stopped throwing it!

I wonder how many good baits have went by the wayside because of a
"percieved reality"?

It's a cold rainy day, and I didn't have much else to do but think about
stuff like this grin.

JK