Same here...only with Trick worms.

Mid-Tenn Classic 2002 on Center Hill Lake, Moe Conway and I were paired up
on day 2. The first day, I found fish by fishing black and blue tubes. Day
2, I was out of tubes... but Moe promised me that we could pick them off
fishing Trick Worms very slowly. That was going to be difficult with the
wind, but we did ok. Ok, he did all right. I stood there on the front off
the boat watching him pluck fish out of the water like he personally put
them there for later. He caught so many fish that he quit culling them. I
stood there fishless.

"Charles" he would say, "you gotta wait until you feel them turn their head
before you set the hook."

Ok, patience is the key. So there I'd stand like a moron while these fish
would take my bait, turn their heads, take a nap, pick their little fish
babies up from school... whatever, and STILL not latch on to one. Moe even
got up on the front deck with me, almost placing the bait in the water and
setting the hook... trying to teach me what he was doing and I wasn't.

Point is... sometimes you've got it... sometimes you don't. That was one of
my "sometimes I don't" days.

BTW: Moe's weight alone gave us a 2nd place fishing on day two. Too bad I
couldn't have helped out.


"Bob La Londe" wrote in message
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Ok... I thought I was a decent senko fisherman, but yesterday I got
schooled seriously.

Lannes Brock invited me to fish Yuma Bassmasters with him. His regular
partner was busy with something else. Anyway. Lannes pretty much fished
a t-rigged senko all day long with a brief respite while he fished a
fluke.

We ran through an area and the wind was whipping down along with us for
hours. He was feeling fish constantly and putting a fish in the boat
regularly while I stood there and watched. I'm sure I was getting bites,
but I was oblivious to it. Basically Lannes was dead sticking a senkos
and then very slowly dragging it. Every once in a while he would say,
"I'm getting a bite." Then he would let the fish swim around a bit and
set the hook.

When I finally focused I caught a coupel also. Wow. I'm a line wather
mostly, but if you had seen me yesterday you would have thought I totally
forgot how to fish by feel. I used to be pretty good at fishing by feel.
In fact back when I bait fished I would read a book and fish totally by
feel with the line lace between my fingers, and I always caught more fish
that way than anybody else bait fishing. Maybe I should take a couple
days sitting ont he bank to get my touch back.


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Bob La Londe
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