07-20-2006, 02:21 PM
TD,
The last paragraph of your post is quite possibly the truest words ever spoken!!
] Skill on my part, and dumb luck otherwise.....
I just started Wiper fishing a few years back, first from the bank and then a little aluminum and had great success. It was so easy that if it wasn't for the fight those little fish put up I would have gone back to chasing trout. But I have had a unfortunate turn of luck in the last few seasons. It has been spotty at best for me. I have been throwing it all at them to no avail. At first I was blaming it on habits, and trends in the fish or the old,"there just not biting today" bit. But on return to the marina after several skunked or low success trips and seeing other anglers with stringers full, and stories about more released I have a new found respect to Wipers, Willard and the people who can put it all together on a semi regular basis. Dumb or beginners luck only lasts so long and then you have to serve your time and figure out what works best for you,fish and the conditions at hand................
Like the posts, keep them coming.........
Bass_turd
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The last paragraph of your post is quite possibly the truest words ever spoken!!![
] Skill on my part, and dumb luck otherwise..... I just started Wiper fishing a few years back, first from the bank and then a little aluminum and had great success. It was so easy that if it wasn't for the fight those little fish put up I would have gone back to chasing trout. But I have had a unfortunate turn of luck in the last few seasons. It has been spotty at best for me. I have been throwing it all at them to no avail. At first I was blaming it on habits, and trends in the fish or the old,"there just not biting today" bit. But on return to the marina after several skunked or low success trips and seeing other anglers with stringers full, and stories about more released I have a new found respect to Wipers, Willard and the people who can put it all together on a semi regular basis. Dumb or beginners luck only lasts so long and then you have to serve your time and figure out what works best for you,fish and the conditions at hand................
Like the posts, keep them coming.........
Bass_turd
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