What do you do best?

[ScottW]

2 minutes ago, king fisher said:

I'm best at locating snags.  If there is a way to hang a lure, I will find it.  I am also good at replacing tackle I lost, with way more tackle than I loose.

And here I thought I had that skill all to my own! I pulled up a limb today that had snagged my favorite chatter bait with a grappling hook I got from Amazon. Darn thing had been ‘eating’ my lures the past few days and I thought it was a sunken tree until it moved a little. ? It won’t snag any more lures now. Heheheh!

[RB 77]

Drag worms

[Swamp Girl]

1 hour ago, T-Billy said:

This is an important skill to have.

I will never forget hailing a boat in northern Minnesota on a foul November day and there we were, bouncing side by side, and he says, "Wanna see my catch?"

 

"Sure," I say.

 

And he opens his live well to reveal two huge walleyes.

 

And then he volunteers, "Everyone thinks I have some secret to land the big girls, but my only secret is to keep fishing long after everyone else has fled inside."

[Columbia Craw]

Cover water. At the end of the day my back hurts from bending over to pick up a different combo and eliminate a lure, technique or spot/area/depth/cover type.  I guess what I do best is fish a process.

[J._Bricker]

After noticing a nick in my line, continuing to fish the longest stretches without having to retie 

[Mobasser]

I'm best at light line fishing, because I do so much of it.

[Fishlegs]

2 hours ago, roadwarrior said:

I REALLY like putting my friends on fish and I am REALLY good with a net!

I'd say you're REALLY good at putting your friends on fish, and we're very grateful for that.

 

You're also REALLY good at catching smallies. I've netted some for you that would make @A-Jay proud.

 

As for my special skills, I think I'm pretty good at recovering after losing a good fish, not getting discouraged after a tough day on the water, and backing the trailer down the ramp by the 4th try. ?

 

[soflabasser]

2 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

What do you do best? 

 

For me, since I fish from a canoe, it's boat control. I can fish in the wind. I can fish current. I can sidle up to bass and they don't know I'm coming. I can follow the contours of a weed bed and or track straight and true across a lake. I've even managed some boat control when I've a rod with a fish at the far end in one hand and a paddle in the other. 

 

How 'bout you?

I feel that my best ability in fishing is having the ability to adapt to different bodies of water. This is a skill that took me decades to earn and I am still learning.

[The Bassman]

Fooling people I know into thinking that I'm a highly skilled angler while understanding that I'm still very much a work in progress. This forum and its members have brought me a good ways along, though.

[PaulVE64]

Popping a little black maribou jig

[Way north bass guy]

I’d say I’m pretty good at figuring out a new technique. Over the years I’ve grabbed a couple of colours/sizes of the latest lure or tactic, and basically just used that and that alone ( under the conditions where it should work best), until I figure it out, and usually get pretty decent at it. Sometimes it stays in the rotation, or becomes a new favourite, other times it might only get drug out of the box once a year, or even less. 

It was a while before I finally got a drop shot tied onto a rod, but once I figured it out, it’s been one of my best producers for a few years, at least for smallmouths. 
 

[steve carpenter]

Keep it simple with lures I have confidence in. Plastics, jigs, spinner baits , occasional top water and chatterbait.

[Derek1]

There is no doubt in my mind, that I am the absolute best in the world. At loosing a jackhammer within 20 minutes of taking  it out of the package. Every time. 

[5/0]

Standing on the back of the boat watching the boater hook fish, then netting said fish. Other than that, decent with shaky head and my new favorite, the jika rig.

[Mike L]

Sight fishing and reading shallow water to pick apart heavy cover using the best plastics and weights as needed 

 

 

 

 

Mike

[Skunkmaster-k]

I’m really good at repairing broken rod tips. 

[Hook2Jaw]

I'm pretty good at tying an FG knot and catching fish on really pressured water.  Your fish have seen a hundred squarebills, mine can replicate every single rattle.

[LrgmouthShad]

As @TnRiver46 mentioned, fishin a lot. Unfortunately can’t do it as much right now, and part of the reason includes…. Fishin too much earlier this summer. 
 

And… just gimme a spinnerbait! Good at casting one of these quietly and accurately and tweaking around with spinnerbaits to make em work for me. Good knowledge of the how, when, where of spinnerbaits. 

[soflabasser]

19 minutes ago, Mike L said:

Sight fishing and reading shallow water to pick apart heavy cover using the best plastics and weights as needed 

 

 

 

 

Mike

These skills are extremely important for anyone that bass fishes in South Florida. A lot of big bass get caught during the Summer this way and other times.

[PondProwler9000]

Although It bothers me, cyclopings bass. Somehow I seem to stick a hook thru an eye way more often than I would like.

[GreenPig]

Catch fish on a Fluke. The boys I fish with joke I can catchem on a Fluke in a rain filled ditch. 

[N Florida Mike]

4 hours ago, crypt said:

soft plastics.........not much else.......

Same here. I have also learned to skip certain soft plastics well also…

[ironbjorn]

Spending more money on fishing than I can reasonably spend.

[billmac]

I like to keep moving, so I cover a lot of water.  I also bring a lot of enthusiasm with me.  I don't always catch fish, but I always expect to, right down to the last cast.  I've often come home wishing I'd caught fish, but I never come home wishing I hadn't gone fishing.

[papajoe222]

Introducing kids to the sport. I'll set them up with one of two combos I keep just for this.  If they show interest, afterward I'll take them to a store and get them a combo and a small tacklebox that we'll add some terminal tackle to.  

I started doing this when my wife and I started baby sitting over 20yrs. ago and still get a charge out of the excitement the kids display when they catch a fish.