The bad parts of where you fish

[Swamp Girl]

What is a bad aspect of where you fish? For example, @Zcoker enjoys incredible fishing in the Everglades, but the swamp can move like the magical maze in Harry Potter. @Susky River Rat uses a fuel-sucking, slow, and hard-to-control jet motor to fish the shallow Susky.

 

For me, it would be rocks. Maine is a rocky state, which is why farmers largely abandoned it for the Ohio River Valley way back when. We have rocks everywhere, including our ponds and bogs. So, I'll be paddling along and suddenly scrape and stick on a boulder just below the surface. If I had a motor, it could be calamity. This might be why I see so few motorboats on the water I fish. I'll have fished a body of water twenty times and think I know every rock just under the water and then I go and find a new one. From time to time, I think a stable boat with a motor would be nice and then I go, "Nahhh."

 

[LrgmouthShad]

Water level fluctuations. My local lake rose 14ft. 10ft in one day. 

[Swamp Girl]

10 minutes ago, LrgmouthShad said:

Water level fluctuations. My local lake rose 14ft. 10ft in one day. 

 

Whoa! That's biblical. Bill Murray should have added it to his list:

 

 

[LrgmouthShad]

1 minute ago, ol'crickety said:

 

Whoa! That's biblical. Bill Murray should have added it to his list:

 

 

@thediscochef is feeling the same pains. Worse for him actually, since he bank fishes 

[12poundbass]

Most of the lakes I fish are shaped like soup bowls, muck bottoms, and hardly any wood.

 

Plus side, plenty of pads which I love to fish.

[Dwight Hottle]

In Florida it's fishing pressure.

[Jar11591]

Crowds. 

[Tennessee Boy]

Drunk pleasure boaters.

[Mike L]

Okeechobee is notorious for ever changing. 
Floating mat’s, water releases, water quality, weed control, wind direction etc etc. 

When you have a body of water that can generate its own weather depending on the time of year it’s takes years to learn.

Sometimes you can see it change from morning to evening then back the next morning and you’d think you were on a different lake. 
 

 

Mike

[Catt]

Toledo Bend is just so massive it leaves most anglers awe struck. 185/190,000 acres & every area fishes differently.

 

I bank fish quite a bit & the most difficult part is access to the water. This picture is Lacassine Wildlife Refuge & the shoreline grass ain't topped out yet. Add the presents of Water Moccasins & Alligators.

 

[Mobasser]

Like Catt, I bank fish two or three times a week. The worst part for me is weeds and moss.

16 minutes ago, Catt said:

Toledo Bend is just so massive it leaves most anglers awe struck. 185/190,000 acres & every area fishes differently.

 

I bank fish quite a bit & the most difficult part is access to the water. This picture is Lacassine Wildlife Refuge & the shoreline grass ain't topped out yet. Add the presents of Water Moccasins & Alligators.

 

Catt, I see snakes quite a bit when I'm walking the banks, but luckily for me, no water moccasins. We have a water snake that looks similar, but is non venomous.  We're too far north for true water moccasins.

[Team9nine]

Another vote for “people.” Fishing through the winter, mostly just on weekdays, and focusing on smaller community reservoirs helped. But now that we’re moving into summer, and with schools about to be out, I expect things will get much worse.

[A-Jay]

The bad parts of where you fish 

 

You're kidding right ?

The highest rewards almost always come with a good bit of suffering & sacrifice.

Makes success that much sweeter.

When I'm not willing to take the rough road,

the other one is always a dead end.

Fish Hard

A-Jay

 

Success is not final.

Failure is not fatal.

Continued success is stumbling from failure to failure

with little to no loss of enthusiasm. 

 

 

 

 

[DennyB]

Eel grass! I hate eel grass. Give me rocks, logs, and brush piles all day long.

[MIbassyaker]

Hmm.  I don't have a lot of complaints. Other than hard water in the winter, and shortened growing season, there isn't a lot that's really bad.  And I'm too busy over the winter to fish anyway.

 

Every other drawback I can think of is widely shared, and often worse, in other places.  For instance, the best waters here are usually crowded and pressured, unless some effort and time are required to access them, but that's true everywhere. 

[airshot]

I fish Lake Erie and the wind is one of my biggest problems.  Direction and strength makes a big difference !!  How the fish know the wind direction is beyond me, but it does make a difference !!

[MN Fisher]

Pleasure boaters - with four yacht clubs, a classic boat club, and several charter cruise businesses... with boats ranging from a classic 3-deck stern paddlewheel to a 70' luxury cruiser....it's very busy on the lake all week, with the weekends becoming a madhouse.

[gim]

I don't usually encounter a ton of fishing pressure because I try to avoid lakes like that.

 

Wake boats have to be number 1 enemy for this guy right now.  Disrespectful and loud.

[Woody B]

People.   I completely understand, and accept the fact that they have just as much right to be on the water as I do.....but a crowded lake is still a crowded lake.   I'm usually off the lake by 10 during the Summer.   

[Catt]

1 hour ago, A-Jay said:

Success is not final.

Failure is not fatal.

Continued success is stumbling from failure to failure

with little to no loss of enthusiasm. 

 

"Success is on the same road as failure; success is just a little further down the road."

Jack Hyles

[FishinBuck07]

Too many boats on our tiny lakes and the DNR couldn't care less about the bass population.   Always stocking toothy critters, acting like we live in Minnesota or Canada. 

[J._Bricker]

I can’t really complain about the “people” when out fishing. When you live in the most populous state in the Union it comes with the territory and how can ya begrudge others trying to enjoy the outdoors.

Naw, when it comes to the bad parts I’m conflicted between the state’s destruction of bass habitat by indiscriminate use of herbicides, the increase of sea lion preditation of bass year round which becomes really bad during the spawn (I’d rather they stay on the docks of Pier 39 with the other 1000 sea lions eating anchovies thrown to them by tourists) as the sea lions are getting really good at feeding on bed fish or water diversions that reverse tidal flows and allow saltwater intrusion.

 

But in the big picture I’m blessed to able to fish 1200 miles of one of the best bass fisheries in the country.

[OkobojiEagle]

WIND!!!

[MN Fisher]

Just now, OkobojiEagle said:

WIND!!!

That's what you get for living in a state who's topography resembles a table-top.

[crypt]

jet skiers......