I find great joy in cracking the daily code.

[Darth-Baiter]

 Bass fishing is a puzzle.  One day this works, the next day or even in the next few hours it changes.  I love changing a technique or a bait offering and getting that first bite.,,,luck?   No, there’s a second bite.  Coincidence?   Mmmmm.  Let me try again.  THIRD BITE!  
 

I love figuring out the pattern.  It’s what getting that first “at least I’m not going to skunk” fish in the kayak means to me. 
 

they were hard fighting today.  One fish was I undetectable. I just sat still and I heard my line playing against the tule like a fiddle.  The line was moving!  Moving slow.  Set hook and out popped a 2.85. Netted and fist pumped the sky!  
 

the third fish:  I saw it swipe at something on the surface. I pitched in my bait.  HARD TICK!   Wham. He dragged me, my lure, my kayak into the tule. Haha.  2.70. 
 

‘’then my wife called,  dinner time.  
 

‘no skunk people!  No skunk.  Just a quick 1.5 hour trip after a tough day at the office. 
 

fish #2 and #3

 

 

 

[813basstard]

Yeah! Someone gets it. 
Not catching one isn’t on the realm of possibility. If I got to chase one up on the bank knee deep in Florida water I’m getting one..you got me ready to go and I got to work in the am 

[GreenPig]

Nice. It's medicinal. 

[PhishLI]

On 5/13/2021 at 10:05 PM, Darth-Baiter said:

Bass fishing is a puzzle.

My wife loves crossword puzzles. She's never really grasped what it is that drives me to bass fish regardless of how I've tried to explain it, up until recently that is. This day I told her that I was going to jet up for an hour, then she gave me a dumfounded look. I call it her "whatever" face. Not quite an eye-roll, but almost. Normally I'd just fly at that point and not think of it again, but this time I took the time to take another shot at getting through. I pointed to the crossword puzzle she was working on, then I said "This is my crossword puzzle, my Rubic's Cube. This is less about catching a fish, and more about solving a puzzle that's constantly shifting shapes". This particular explanation seemed to make an impression, finally, but I know better, so I'm already working on a newer version for the next time around. Something with props and diagrams???