Sitting and waiting. NOT!

[jr231]

Honestly if all.i could do was bobber fish.. or live bait fish.. I'd probably catch bigger fish on average... I'd always be using small sunfish and reeling In those hog mamas.. and still be having just as much fun... 

 

Something about making bass bite artificial tho... Is much more rewarding in my opinion. 

[buzzed bait]

21 hours ago, Team9nine said:

 if you can no longer appreciate or get even a little excited about seeing a small float go running off as it slowly gets pulled out of sight beneath the water, then you've lost a small part of yourself, a part that makes this sport so great. That simple fascination should never grow old.

 

-T9

 

100% on point!!  fishing for bluegill with crickets under slip bobbers is about as much action-packed fun as i've ever had fishing!  a couple little bobs up and down and then watching the bobber waking away is just pure enjoyment for me!

["hamma"]

  The hours of fun my daughters and I spent on the boat bobber fishing with worms are some of our best memories. This was only facilitated by the every other weekend parental visitations. So, time together was kinda tough to find something we all agreed on, I didnt have any sisters, so I didnt have any experience on "little girl" stuff. 

  The outings on the boat contained swimming, fishing, and a nice packed cooler, with lunch and munchies. I would take them to lakes that had decent fishing but good water for swimming as well. And they loved it, but these days they have all graduated to smallies, on either topwaters or jerkbaits. It's become more of a demand from them, than a request,.. lol

  At least they have good taste! Maybe this year I will teach them grub fishing, less hooks, and more of me relaxing other than removing hooks from their smallies, instead of mine.

[NYWayfarer]

23 hours ago, Ratherbfishing said:

 

How many of you would give up (or sharply curtail) your participation in the sport if all you COULD do was cast to a few spots and sit and wait?  I imagine the answer might be different if this were a catfish or crappie forum but since we're talking about bass here...

 

 

 

Casting and waiting is how I fish 99% of the time. Drop shotting, dead sticking Senko's, Live bait on a slip bobber are some of my favorite forms of fishing. Finesse fishing for life!!

[Scott F]

When I first got a boat, I asked my wife if she wanted to come fishing with me. She just said, no thanks, go enjoy yourself. As a kid, her father would take her fishing. He sat on the bank drowning worms. She was supposed to sit quietly and wait. She hated it and thought all fishing was like that.  It was a few years before I got here out and she was amazed that fish would eat artificial baits and there was no just sitting and waiting.  If all I could do was bobber fish, I'd quit. 

[Bluebasser86]

When I'm bass fishing I'm usually moving. That said, I'm a multispecies guy and watching a bobber waiting for it to twitch or watching a tight line on a river bank waiting for my baitfeeder to start clicking is just as exciting. I grew up fishing for food, which often entailed soaking live bait for whatever came along. I still enjoy getting back to my roots.

[Jagg]

I don't sit and wait nearly enough.

[everythingthatswims]

If someone says something about staring at a bobber all day, I don't even try to explain what I do. They are too far gone

[ww2farmer]

57 minutes ago, everythingthatswims said:

If someone says something about staring at a bobber all day, I don't even try to explain what I do. They are too far gone

This ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 

Everyone I know that's NOT a bass fisherman thinks I am just napping in the boat all day, or drinking beer and watching a bobber. I gave up trying to explain it years ago.

[bigfruits]

id give up the sport for the most part. id still fish a few times a year but it would be random outings. probably involving a lot of beer.

[scaleface]

How many of you have used sticks as sinker stops ? Use a two inch long stick throw a few half hitches around it and "walla" .Thats how I was taught and thought everyone did it .

[Bluebasser86]

18 minutes ago, scaleface said:

How many of you have used sticks as sinker stops ? Use a two inch long stick throw a few half hitches around it and "walla" .Thats how I was taught and thought everyone did it .

Not as sinker stops but my grandpa taught me to do the same to use them as bobbers. Wrap it around the end and with the correct amount of weight you could even get a makeshift pole float. 

[gim]

I used to do quite a bit of walleye fishing with slip bobbers before I got into bass fishing via the traditional casting method.  We usually anchored up on a rock pile or sand bar in the choppy waves with a slip bobber and live bait when we saw fish on the sonar.  It was effective.  I often did it at night too with a lighted bobber.  The walleye if king around here and most people target them with the intent of harvesting them so allowing them to engulf live bait which often results in higher mortality is not an issue.  Bobber/still fishing can and does get boring at times, but in general, society doesn't have much patience anymore anyways.  Virtually all deer hunters do it for long periods of time so it can certainly be effective allowing the quarry to come to you instead of trying to find and chase it.  If I only was able to sit there and bobber fish, I probably wouldn't do it near as often. Drinking beer certainly helps pass the time when your watching a cork.

[scaleface]

When Im tight-lining I'm doing it in good places . There usually isnt much waiting .

[gim]

Sitting and waiting is what ice anglers do all the time.  They may move after they drill a new hole and they have a portable house but after that they sit and wait again.

[Bluebasser86]

1 hour ago, scaleface said:

When Im tight-lining I'm doing it in good places . There usually isnt much waiting .

Exactly. If I don't get a bite in 30 minutes or so, I'm moving, unless I'm after flatheads or there's no other good spots nearby.

[slonezp]

On 1/19/2017 at 2:24 PM, Ratherbfishing said:

 He said it looked boring-just sitting still staring at a bobber or waiting for the line to move.  But as I think about it, I would probably get pretty bored too, if that is all I did.  But I am constantly moving and casting and trying different things.  Unless the fishing is stellar or I believe things will change, I will not stay in one spot very long.

 

 

Fisherman definition: A jerk on one end of the line waiting for a jerk on the other

 

I spent the first 25 years of my life as a bank fisherman. Since I've had a boat, I've probably fished from shore 1/2 dozen times. I'm not sure it's an option for me anymore. As far as fishing with live bait, I do it all the time because, not everybody likes to bass fish. If I'm going to, or introduce someone to the sport or take the wife fishing or fish with my dad or niece and nephew, then worms it is. I actually got burned out on live bait fishing last year. Think I was more bored than anything, not to mention soooooooo sick of cleaning panfish. Sometime you got to do what you got to do though.

[Ratherbfishing]

1 hour ago, gimruis said:

Sitting and waiting is what ice anglers do all the time.  They may move after they drill a new hole and they have a portable house but after that they sit and wait again.

 

Actually, it isn't. Not the way I ice fish, anyway.  I use a flasher and if I find fish immediately, I will "work" those fish as best I can.  If they don't bite or the hole "dries up", I will move.  I don't give a spot more than about 10 minutes tops if it doesn't produce and less time still, if I don't mark likely cover and/or fish.  On some days, I drill a LOT of holes.

[scaleface]

July , August , and September at Mark Twain Lake is catfish time as long as the water is in decent condition . I find the channel cats and sometimes blues cats with a depth finder on large main lake flats . They are easy to spot . They can be caught by the dozens .

[RB 77]

You know, quite a few people have different ideas of what different things mean to them in life. For some, all fishing is is bait n' wait with a cooler full of beers. A neighbor who I used to surf with asked me if I brought a book with me when I went fishing. I tried explaining all the nuances and intricacies of different types of sport-fishing and it fell upon deaf ears. The bait n' wait game is not for me, but to each their own...

[Oregon Native]

Would rather sit and watch a bobber than watch mindless TV for hours!!  Being outside is AWESOME.  Love all forms of fishing.

[Sittin there reelin em in]

On 1/25/2017 at 1:11 PM, scaleface said:

When Im tight-lining I'm doing it in good places . There usually isnt much waiting

I agree with you one day while I was on the river, we waited til there was about an hour left of day light and threw out our lines and brought back 52 fish one by one. We got lucky that day. The next day we went and didn't catch any fish. That's why they call it fishing not catching.

[Yudo1]

Unfortunately, soaking a worm on a bobber is what most people think of when you mention the word fishing.  This is exactly how I got introduced to fishing and also the reason why I only did it once in awhile.  It wasn't until a friend introduced me to the world of bass fishing with lures that I became obsessed.  The techniques, strategy and the feel of actively hunting for the fish really struck a chord in me.  I'll bet your friend will see fishing in a new light too.

[BassnChris]

On January 19, 2017 at 2:24 PM, Ratherbfishing said:

  After determining that he wasn't actually dangerous, 

 

This was my favorite part of the post ?

 

 

[iiTzChunky]

Sitting and waiting is exactly why I don't cat fish