Staying with only one type of lure to get better with it

[Catt]

Some people are disciplined enough to fish one lure all dayothers are not

If you fall under the are not category you may want to stick with one lure for an hour or two at a time twice a day.

[Wayne P.]

If you lure you chose matches the prevalent pattern, then it is a good idea to stick with it. If the lure you chose does not, then you will gain nothing other than casting practice.

[twitchfish]

The "casting practice" statement is the most important of this entire thread in my opinion.

Don't forget, after your forced learning time, to go back and put into use what you learned.  i.e: I spent all postspawn "learning" to fish a jig. I learned how to CAST a jig really well, not necessarily fish one. Went with a pro who put us on fish and then and only then did I learn how, where and why to fish that jig.  Working on the Shakey Head now and doing it in places I know where fish are, why they are there and am really learning how to fish it.

Twitch

[frogflogger]

I suffer from a serious frog addiction - many days that's all I use. I've thrown them exclusively all day in tournaments - it has cost me money but last year won one in the last fifteen minutes - big fish baits like frogs and swim baits require discipline or madness to throw them for 8 or nine hrs - but man are the strikes awesome.

and you do get to learn a lure that way.

[NorCalFishinguru]

I fished a couple ponds last week and only took a pack of roboworms, dropshot hooks, dropshot weights, and a dropshot rod specifically to practice the technique. Im sure i could have caught fish on other techniques because one of the lakes looked like chocalate milk, but i learned alot more about how to identify different objects like rocks, wood, slime, and rooted vegetation, and strikes among other things with a dropshot rig. I also missed a few strikes at first because i tried to set the hook like normal instead of that nice fluid sweep. Of course now im ALOT better because of the practice and full concentration on one technique. Sometimes its good to leave the box at home

[RoLo]

Can't say that I've ever forced myself to stick with any one lure after I've lost my focus.

I believe that forcing yourself to stick with any one lure is a good way to end up hating that lure.

On the other hand, I might fish one lure all day long, but only a lure I'm intimately familiar with

and one I feel confident is the best choice that day. But I'm rarely that confident in any one lure.

To me, trying different lures is half the fun, and intentionally I'll rarely fish the same lure my wife is using.

Maybe that's my problem ;D

Roger