Any Recreational Pseudo Fishermen?

[DanielG]

So as a kid, maybe 60 yrs ago I'd go out to the dock and cast for an hour with my jc higgins reel from Sears. I'd cast in a fan from left to right. No fish today. So I'd keep casting because I liked to cast. As an adult of 68 I go out on the exact same dock with my Curado and Dobyns and do the same thing.

 

1. I go out in the boat and troll because I like to. there's a little inlet that is such a nice place and looks like a fish hangout. Last time I caught a fish there was about twelve years ago. I still stop and cast for awhile.

 

2. After I've casted awhile with no luck there because there aren't any fish in that area I cast just one more time. I do that fifty times.

 

3. I make hard bates from scratch, like the one below.  I make the ones that look good to me but maybe not the fish. I take them out and throw them knowing that it may not be the bait of the day for the fish I want, but it looks so good in the water and boy does this one have a great action. I do #2 above, twice.

 

4. Whoa! once and awhile a fish will hit on a bait, probably just because it's mad, and I'll pull one up. So exciting as I'm never expecting it and it doesn't happen that much really. When I get back home I tell the wife "I caught a fish today". She looks at me like I'm lying and says "prove it". I can't but it doesn't matter, I don't really care.

 

Sometimes I feel like Jack O'neill in the TV show Stargate. He has a small pond in his back yard at the cabin and sits on the dock with a pole knowing that the lake has absolutely no fish in it.

[bigbassin']

That lure looks great, I’d definitely have it tied on.

 

Although personally I’d probably fish it where there are fish ?.

[cheezyridr]

i don't make lures, but everything else in the original post, i can TOTALLY relate

[GRiver]

Yep, I totally understand where your coming from. 

[flyfisher]

My dad is similar as he enjoys the fishing more or as much as the catching.  I prefer the catching myself   That bait looks great too by the way