Interesting observations

Somewhere I read or somebody once said that the average angler only fees
about 30% of all bites. Anyone know if there is any truth to this?
"RG" wrote in message
.. .
I live on an 8 acre, clear water lake in the corporate limits of Houston,
TX
( hard to believe, but true ). I watch bass, all of the time, take in all
sorts of lures and spit them out faster than my 64 year old reflexes could
begin to think about striking! We do NOT feel nor are we aware of many
bites every day we fish. RichG

For me 30% might be about right, I hardly ever feel a senko bite, I
rely on high vis line to see the bites..My "feel" bites are with
crankbaits and spinnerbaits..





I fish therefore I lie

alwaysfishking wrote:
Somewhere I read or somebody once said that the average angler only fees
about 30% of all bites. Anyone know if there is any truth to this?

Yes, that's right. I'm Average Angler, and a guy with a government grant
in his pocket once asked me what percentage of fish bites I felt
compared to the actual number of bites that I knew nothing about. I
didn't want to appear ignorant, so I told him it was 30%. He seemed
happy with the answer.

Average Angler wrote:
alwaysfishking wrote:

Somewhere I read or somebody once said that the average angler only fees
about 30% of all bites. Anyone know if there is any truth to this?


Yes, that's right. I'm Average Angler, and a guy with a government grant
in his pocket once asked me what percentage of fish bites I felt
compared to the actual number of bites that I knew nothing about. I
didn't want to appear ignorant, so I told him it was 30%. He seemed
happy with the answer.


I can see how you might set up an underwater camera to try to test this,
but I think to test it for a wide variety of conditions with a wide
variety of tackle with a wide variety of anglers would be a large task.
I'm guessing that many somebodies have said this, but they were just
guessing.

Henry wrote:
I'm guessing that many somebodies have said this, but they were just
guessing.

I'm guessing that your guessing about their guessing is a good guess.

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