"Craig Baugher" wrote in message
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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


Interesting. Dead calm heat of summer doesn't bother me. I guess exactly
becasue I spent so many years fishing from the bank. The fish are in the
shade. Then its just a matter of figuring out what they will bite.

I don't know how many people over the years have told me there aren't any
fish in the local main canals. I laugh when I hear it. Fish locks and
bridges with minnows and you are guaranteed a few. Rubber worms are a close
second with tiny inline spinners and spoons working on other days. My best
time to fish for many years was in the afternoon on a hot calm summer day.
The fish may have been more active at other times of day, they in the heat
of late afternoon they are concentrated in small patches of shade.

Figuring out how to translate to fishing the river and lakes from a boat has
proven difficult for me, but I have confidence that I will. On other hand,
I did have a coupel summer tournaments where my only keepers were late in
the day by throwing topwater stick baits up under docks or dock ramps. I
just need to figure out where they are the rest of the day.

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Bob La Londe
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