I zero out quite often when fishing from shore, but rarely when fishing from
a boat. By zeroing out, I mean keeper fish. When fishing from shore at
lunch, I usually manage a couple babies, but rarely catch any keepers. That
is the problem fishing from shore (limited access to good
water-structure/cover). On a boat, I make no excuses. If I blank out for
the day, no one to blame but me! I know where the fish are, I know how to
get reactionary strikes. Blank, shame on me! Yet, there are always a few
days every year where I couldn't go to the fish market and buy a fish, I
skunk so bad! (Usually in dead still water in the summer. That is the
worst sight in the world for me, to look out at the water and see it is
perfectly calm, no current). Confidence level drains to zero in a heart
beat. Something I need to really work on.

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Craig Baugher