What's Your Nemesis?

[ohboyitsrobby]

Wind and recreational boaters who love to go flying in between you and the bank your casting at. There's a whole lake behind me use it !!!!

[ClackerBuzz]

3 hours ago, SummertimeCarl said:

Treble hooks.  I've almost eliminated them from my go-to-tackle bag because I either lose crankbaits within 20 casts or cast in areas I don't even suspect to hold fish out of fear of losing them if I fish any structure.  

this is when i knew it was time for me to get off the bank and buy a kayak

 

 

[tcbass]

6 hours ago, Catt said:

Absolutely wind!

 

I fish a lot of offshore structure, anything above 15 mph gets irritating!

 

Even when ya can stay put it throws your sense of feel off. Everyone suggests "goto a heavier weight", which is fine & dandy as long as the bass want a fast rate of fall.

 

 

 

+10. 

 

 

I hate the wind. 

[Dorado]

Boaters who get too dangerously close to my kayak. I don't get it

[Mike L]

7 hours ago, Catt said:

Absolutely wind!

 

I fish a lot of offshore structure, anything above 15 mph gets irritating!

 

Even when ya can stay put it throws your sense of feel off. Everyone suggests "goto a heavier weight", which is fine & dandy as long as the bass want a fast rate of fall.

 

Ditto

 

 

 

Mike

[GrumpyOlPhartte]

Too much coffee before launching my sit-in kayak!!!!

[Munkin]

2 hours ago, ohboyitsrobby said:

Wind and recreational boaters who love to go flying in between you and the bank your casting at. There's a whole lake behind me use it !!!

Isn't just recreational boats either other fishermen are just as bad. Bass fishermen that cut you off because they are ina tournament.  Crappie boats that gdt 2' from you because it's their brush pile. Favorite has to be the trout fishermen who do not know what a boat ramp is for?  Show up to launch and they don't want to move the 6 rods and lawn chairs since they were there first. 

 

Allen 

 

 

 

[islandbass]

Nemesis #1 - Spinnerbaits.  I couldn't catch a fish of any species with them.  Shocking but true.  Over 10 years of fishing under my belt, and not even a strike. Inline spinners? Certainly.  If my next dinner were dependent of catching a fish on a spinnerbait, I am going to starve.

 

Nemesis #2 - Jig with the traditional rubber trailer, not one largemouth and only one smallie in that same time.  Jig with a plastic body has been alright.

 

Nemesis #3 - Myself.  Not all the time, but sometimes I get in my own way, in thought - sometimes too little = act first, think later leads to some regrettable situations  OR  sometimes too much = information constipation, analysis paralysis, thinking too much and not acting.

[KDW96]

3 hours ago, ohboyitsrobby said:

Wind and recreational boaters who love to go flying in between you and the bank your casting at. There's a whole lake behind me use it !!!!

 

Couldnt agree more with you. And when they intentionally coming to close. I got a special rod rigged up for the next one that does it. With a 2oz weight ready to go. 

[BuzzHudson19c]

1 hour ago, GrumpyOlPhartte said:

Too much coffee before launching my sit-in kayak!!!!

 

I get the large coffee at the convenience store and the empty cup becomes the kayak bathroom.

 

 

 

[thinkingredneck]

As listed already, boaters/ jet skiers blowing by my kayak, and treble hooks, plus curious gators, angry water moccasins, and mosquitos.  Oh yeah, and brain eating amoeba in the rez.

[MassYak85]

6 hours ago, J Francho said:

pickerel

This

 

Unless it's a giant actually worth catching I stop fighting them once I realize what it is and hope they throw the hook (which they do about half the time). Unfortunately they love Keitech's more than the bass sometimes and it gets really annoying when you go through 10 dollars of trailers in a day of catching the non-target species. 

[fishwizzard]

1 hour ago, GrumpyOlPhartte said:

Too much coffee before launching my sit-in kayak!!!!

Gotta pack a wide-mouth gatorade bottle.  

[Darren.]

Fishing from a kayak...or not...wind can be a pain.

Yes, I've learned to "use the wind" but too often the

wind is against where my spots are...!

[JustinJ]

WIND IN A KAYAK!!!!!

 

[MichaelCopeland]

2 things trees and tree branches under water that can't be seen. I fish from the bank only right now, so my lure usually ends up in a tree at some point. Fortunately I've been able to get it out the majority of the time fairly easily. Other times not so much. As for the tree branches that can't be seen under water, here lately it never fails. I'll be fan casting an area and  make my cast out towards the middle and I always find that tree branch. Doesn't matter what part of the pond I'm fishing if it's out there my lure finds it. Lots of times I'm able to get my lure back with some serious effort. Occasionally I do lose one though. Those branches have also cost me a few bass. Oh well guess that's just part of bass fishing some times...lol.

[Bruce424]

Overthinking. Definitely over think scenarios(what baits to tie on, what rods to take, which part of lake am I fishing) instead of just going fishing.

[scaleface]

2 hours ago, islandbass said:

Nemesis #2 - Jig with the traditional rubber trailer, not one largemouth and only one smallie in that same time.  Jig with a plastic body has been alright.

This is confusing to me , 

[Mike L]

9 minutes ago, Bruce424 said:

Overthinking. Definitely over think scenarios(what baits to tie on, what rods to take, which part of lake am I fishing) instead of just going fishing.

 

You're right!

I think we all find ourselves doing the same thing from time to time. 

When you have to resort to junk fishing because you're at a loss of what to do, where, how, and with what to do it with, it just makes you want to pack it in. 

 

At least it does to me. 

 

 

 

 

Mike

[islandbass]

5 minutes ago, scaleface said:

This is confusing to me , 

Me too. I see local posts with bass caught on black and blue, green pumpkin and every other skirt color combo conceivable and I ask myself, "Why me?"

 

it it makes me wonder if the bass talk amongst themselves saying, "Oh boy. It's islandbass again. Remember, do not take his lure if it's a jig and skirt. We have a reputation to uphold, lol"

[Raul]

Buzzbaits.

[Bluebasser86]

Dropshot

 

lipped crankbaits

[A-Jay]

Umbrella Rigs

 

A-Jay

[BigAngus752]

My boat.  Without a doubt.  I have been a shore fisherman all my life.  We just bought a boat so now we do all our fishing from our boat, but I do very little fishing on the boat.  I can't drive it worth $#^!.  When we are on the water I am trying to learn to use electronics, trying to learn to use a foot-operated trolling motor, trying to learn how not to run us aground (I've done it already), trying to remember to put the plug in (I've forgotten that once already).  Since we are shore fishermen we were most excited about being able to approach points and cover from the water side using the boat but I spend all my time trying not to drift (or get pushed by pleasure boats) into the rip rap or downed tree that we are trying to fish.  All this on top of learning new fishing techniques that we never bothered to try from shore.  But my wife gets to fish a lot while I crash the boat!

 

We have only been out five times in the boat but I have to admit this last time I was much more relaxed and more comfortable in the boat.  I caught two bass, a LM and a striper (first time I've caught bass with the boat).  My wife hung a spinner on a downed tree we were fishing and I used the foot TM to back her into the brush so she could pull the lure.  I was proud of that maneuver. I sat behind the passenger console to eat a sandwich and gave her the bow seat and TM.  I then watched her fish and troll her way into a huge brush pile up against shore.  It was hilarious.  No scratches on the boat either and I felt much better.  

 

Practice, practice, practice!  I'll get the hang of it.  In the meantime it's a very, very entertaining comedy to watch me try to get this shiny, new, bright red Ranger back on the trailer.  3 tries minimum and that's if it's not windy.  LOL  I like to come in sideways.  

[mattkenzer]

Shore Lines .... Study offshore structure but like a magnet, i am throwing in 2' to 10' within the first hour.