Those painful pet peeves!

[king fisher]

     When I make a perfect cast, with a brand new, expensive lure I bought for that exact location, temp, wind, time of year, and moon cycle, and a bass doesn't show enough decent courtesy to even follow. Then my friend makes the same cast with his same old Chinese knock off lure he has had since high school, tied to 40 year old mono, on an old zebco 33 combo, and hooks the biggest bass in the lake.

     Even worse is when he asks if I want to borrow his rod, asks me if my expensive gear is just for show, or volunteers to give me fishing lessons.  I tell him I already learned a lesson, and it is the same one I should have learned years ago, and that is not to take him fishing.

     Besides that my only other gripe, is an old one too.  Santa bringing me clothes instead of fishing tackle every year.  He could at least meet me half way and make the clothes camouflage  

[Columbia Craw]

11 hours ago, Chris Catignani said:

When the guy in the back of the boat:

1. Keeps casting over your line.

2. Keeps casting (in opposite direction were moving) and getting hung up.

3. Keeps casting into the trees.

 

 

I’m sorry. Why didn’t you just say something?

[Columbia Craw]

I only have one. The period from June 18 to September 4th.

[Bluebasser86]

Youtubers-COPS called while fishing!! Well yeah, you were trespassing ?‍♂️ and really any clickbait title.

 

"Caught him off that structure right there!" Points at a brush pile. 

 

People who have no concept of personal space on the water. 2 weeks ago I had a boat pull in a long cast in front of me on the bank I was fishing down in my kayak. Basically positioned in a way to try and block me from getting down the bank. I could hear the disgust when I glided around the back of his motor and on down the bank and "Blew up his brushpile". Don't want it done to you, don't do it to other people. 

 

People throwing trash on the ground but that's anywhere, not just while I'm fishing. 

[Columbia Craw]

When I’m casting and my rod is struck by lighting.  Ticks me off.

[islandbass]

16 hours ago, NYWayfarer said:

In the YouTube world I get annoyed at anglers that set the hook on a fish and immediately start saying “Biggun” on every fish or claim they got a 10 pounder over and over while reeling in a Bass that weighs 3 to 4:pounds at most.

 

Apparently, you are not familiar with bass fishing “hawg” theorem. Think back to middle  school math class. You know, like the Pythagorean theorem. 
 

The Bass Fishing Theorem, discovered by yours truly, is as follows:

 

”Once hooked, the weight and size of a bass diminishes the closer it gets to an angler.”

 

So you see, they probably were at least 8lb. pigs when they got hooked, but they started shrinking in size and weight the closer they get to you. 
 

I am sure this has happened to everyone here. ??

My pet peeve? Seeing people tying a palomar knot by creating the loop first and then trying to insert the loop into the hook eye — particularly irksome when the hook eye is small to begin with like with finesse and UL hooks. Don’t make me slap you. I will catch 5 fish before you ever insert 6# fc line through eye of a size 2 DS hook by way of the loop. ????? lol. 

[Catt]

Fluorocarbon: ticks me off to no end! 

 

People who believe monofilament's stretch causes you not to be able to feel bites.

 

People who complain about Googan Squad but continue to watch their videos.

 

People who believe a bass morphs into a new creature when the sun sets.

[scaleface]

Leaving your life jacket at home sucks . What to do now . Launch without it . Go back home .  Find a place to purchase a new one . I bought the new one option .

[A-Jay]

4 hours ago, islandbass said:

 

The Bass Fishing Theorem, discovered by yours truly, is as follows:

 

”Once hooked, the weight and size of a bass diminishes the closer it gets to an angler.”

 

And it does seem that many Hawgs

mysteriously lose quite a bit of weight

right before being placed on an accurate scale.

 

The bent rod pattern.

Jet skis

Most pontoon boats

Wildly inaccurate weather forecasts

A-Jay

[MacJig]

10 hours ago, king fisher said:

     When I make a perfect cast, with a brand new, expensive lure I bought for that exact location, temp, wind, time of year, and moon cycle, and a bass doesn't show enough decent courtesy to even follow. Then my friend makes the same cast with his same old Chinese knock off lure he has had since high school, tied to 40 year old mono, on an old zebco 33 combo, and hooks the biggest bass in the lake.

     Even worse is when he asks if I want to borrow his rod, asks me if my expensive gear is just for show, or volunteers to give me fishing lessons.  I tell him I already learned a lesson, and it is the same one I should have learned years ago, and that is not to take him fishing.

     Besides that my only other gripe, is an old one too.  Santa bringing me clothes instead of fishing tackle every year.  He could at least meet me half way and make the clothes camouflage  

Ain't it the truth. Bottom line: you can catch a fish with a broomstick and string if you had to. I just prefer my loomis!

4 hours ago, islandbass said:

Apparently, you are not familiar with bass fishing “hawg” theorem. Think back to middle  school math class. You know, like the Pythagorean theorem. 
 

The Bass Fishing Theorem, discovered by yours truly, is as follows:

 

”Once hooked, the weight and size of a bass diminishes the closer it gets to an angler.”

 

So you see, they probably were at least 8lb. pigs when they got hooked, but they started shrinking in size and weight the closer they get to you. 
 

I am sure this has happened to everyone here. ??

My pet peeve? Seeing people tying a palomar knot by creating the loop first and then trying to insert the loop into the hook eye — particularly irksome when the hook eye is small to begin with like with finesse and UL hooks. Don’t make me slap you. I will catch 5 fish before you ever insert 6# fc line through eye of a size 2 DS hook by way of the loop. ????? lol. 

I have a better idea! Just tie a uni knot. ?

[Chris Catignani]

10 hours ago, Columbia Craw said:

I’m sorry. Why didn’t you just say something?

You just like to troll.

[MacJig]

3 hours ago, Catt said:

Fluorocarbon: ticks me off to no end! 

 

People who believe monofilament's stretch causes you not to be able to feel bites.

 

People who complain about Googan Squad but continue to watch their videos.

 

People who believe a bass morphs into a new creature when the sun sets.

Agreed. Most of fishing and the fishing industry is nothing more than a sales job. Every fisherman needs braid. Everybody needs braid to fluoro. Everyone needs this and every angler needs that. I use mono 90% of the time and I never have a problem getting catches!

[LrgmouthShad]

Final exams keeping me from fishing ?

[islandbass]

3 hours ago, A-Jay said:

And it does seem that many Hawgs

mysteriously lose quite a bit of weight

right before being placed on an accurate scale.

 

The bent rod pattern.

Jet skis

Most pontoon boats

Wildly inaccurate weather forecasts

A-Jay

Of course! We can call that the A-Jay Bass Fishing Corollary. ?

[Tennessee Boy]

Sometimes people drive me crazy.  Other times nothing bothers me.  It all depends on my attitude at the time.

[FishinBuck07]

1 hour ago, LrgmouthShad said:

Final exams keeping me from fishing ?

Not worth it in the end!!  ?

[LrgmouthShad]

7 minutes ago, FishinBuck07 said:

Not worth it in the end!!  ?

My situation is a bit different. Otherwise I agree with you. Insert "I'd rather be fishing"

 

Heck there was some other thread we talked on where I felt like a party-pooper. I guess I'm not fun enough for ya'll boys out in OH. I seem to remember you bashing Michigan football too.

 

Hmmmmmmm. 

 

Go blue 

[Bird]

Trash, especially when someone on my boat fills their empty pop can or bottle and sinks it to the bottom of lake, PLEASE DON'T DO THAT ON MY BOAT!!

 

This is a big one.

Cigarette smoke, my fishing buddy of almost 50 years is a heavy smoker and no matter how we position the boat.....I smell smoke.

AND, no smoking in my truck, thankyou. 

[FishinBuck07]

31 minutes ago, LrgmouthShad said:

My situation is a bit different. Otherwise I agree with you. Insert "I'd rather be fishing"

 

Heck there was some other thread we talked on where I felt like a party-pooper. I guess I'm not fun enough for ya'll boys out in OH. I seem to remember you bashing Michigan football too.

 

Hmmmmmmm. 

 

Go blue 

Please my eyes can't handle that garbage!!

[A-Jay]

1 hour ago, islandbass said:

Of course! We can call that the A-Jay Bass Fishing Corollary. ?

You can.

I had to look that one up.

A-Jay

[Jigfishn10]

4 hours ago, A-Jay said:

You can.

I had to look that one up.

A-Jay

I’m with you buddy, that one had thesaurus scratching his head. ?

[CrankFate]

1. People that put a bait on a hook. Cast it out with a heavy sinker. And just wait for fish. But never know why they don’t catch any.

 

2. When the guy doing that tells you the fish will only eat something that stays completely still, because they hate eating things that move.

[MN Fisher]

3 minutes ago, CrankFate said:

1. People that put a bait on a hook. Cast it out with a heavy sinker. And just wait for fish. But never know why they don’t catch any.

 

2. When the guy doing that tells you the fish will only eat something that stays completely still, because they hate eating things that move.

[TnRiver46]

22 minutes ago, CrankFate said:

1. People that put a bait on a hook. Cast it out with a heavy sinker. And just wait for fish. But never know why they don’t catch any.

 

2. When the guy doing that tells you the fish will only eat something that stays completely still, because they hate eating things that move.

I did #1 today 

[Kirtley Howe]

On 12/14/2021 at 1:44 PM, GreenPig said:

Headlights burning on a truck backing down and or sitting at the boat ramp just fires me up when I'm trying to back down before daylight. Who needs headlights while backing their boat down? So I'll gently ask them if we get close enough if they could see ok while backing down with those bright @$$ headlights? 

Worse yet....idiot who backs down the boat ramp and THEN starts getting the boat ready to launch.