Fishing pressure

[Lottabass]

What is the effect of fishing pressure on bass?  I fish small, 60 to 80 acre, private lakes with no boat ramps.  Rarely do I see another fisherman.  I fish each lake once a week.  These are dirty water, soft bottom lakes.  Does my presence and catching these bass affect my catch rate over time?  Is fishing once a week too much, or not?  Thank you for your thoughts!

[gim]

If there isn't much other pressure, and you're only going about once a week, I wouldn't worry about it.

 

If you start seeing a dozen others out there every time you go fishing, then the pressure might exponentially make a difference sooner.

 

Keep that spot to yourself.  Just a suggestion.

[TnRiver46]

The effect of pressure is the bass get harder to catch 

[Pat Brown]

I have seen some really interesting things in my short but expansive time bass fishing. 

 

My brother works at a sturgeon farm near the coast of North Carolina and they have a bunch of retention ponds where they stocked bluegill bass and carp to keep the ponds active and the fish have never been fished for in their entire existence. 

 

I got to cast lures at them for their first time ever one afternoon with my wife and son while visiting this past summer.

 

We caught a bass on every cast for the first 30 minutes or so.  The next 30 minutes it was when we cast to very obvious good areas only. 

 

Then after about an hour and a half, not a single fish would bite any lure we threw. 

 

It doesn't take long for fish to figure out that we are bad news.

 

There are public ponds that I fish and if I see X number of people there fishing when I arrive I usually just leave. 

 

I know the fish will not resume feeding activity or biting things until the pond shows no signs of human activity again when it's like that.

 

There are sections of lakes that are pretty small and public that I fish a lot and I have noticed that I have to kind of rotate the lures I fish in those areas on and off from year to year to give them a rest so that I can catch them again on that lure and sometimes that doesn't even work because other people are fishing that lure. 

 

Pressure is very real and Large mouth bass specifically learn quickly and there are actually a lot of scientific studies to back this up in addition to my anecdotal evidence.

 

In my humble opinion, the antidote to fishing pressure is reaction baits and junk fishing. Keep moving. Try to get reaction bites. Don't make casts to the same area over and over again because if you didn't get bit the first time you're definitely not going to bit the second and third time at a pressured body of water. Just keep moving and keep casting your bait at new junk that looks good as you go -  and eventually you'll get that reaction strike a few times throughout the day.

[Bird]

We have this one particular lake " electric only " that produced many 8lb + bass.

Word got out and the lake started getting pounded.

It's only 117 acres and easily accessible so 20+ boats per day was common and with many night fisherman.

This all started 20 years ago and now the lake is referred to as 1 fish Frederick.

 

The lake your referring to sounds very unpressured, enjoy.

[Mobasser]

I'm lucky because I fish a smaller lake with little fishing pressure. On busy lakes, the obvious spots get hammered a lot, especially on weekends. As a result, bass can become harder to catch.

[DaubsNU1]

Agree 100% with @gimruis, keep that spot to yourself! Don't tell another soul. Don't post pictures anywhere on the internet. Don't take people there.

 

Fishing pressure is a real thing.

 

Brother and I fished the Churchill River system in Canada this summer. To say it's HUGE does not do it justice...boat ride from lodge to our fishing areas was 30+ miles up river....and we saw just two boats in the five days we fished.

 

The walleye were hitting our pike spoons and bucktails. Let me say that again...catching walleye on pike spoons(!)

 

Another story: work buddy discovered large bass sitting beneath a fishing pier on a local pond, right in town. There is a small walking trail around this pond...it's maybe 3-4 acres total, and has two fountains. Does not look like any sizeable bass would be there. Lots of bluegill. Kids love to fish this pond...it's easy, close, and fun.

 

Buddy figured out the large bass were sitting under the pier, snagging bluegill as the kids were releasing them back in to the water. He would catch a few gills, back hook them, and pitch off the pier....BAM, huge bass! I'm talking 23"+.

 

My suggestion: don't tell anyone, don't post pictures, and above all, don't catch those big bass when anyone can see you. 

 

Whelp, he couldn't keep this quiet....and the gig was up shortly.  Sadness.

[Bankc]

Fishing pressure is jut one factor.  We, as anglers, tend to hyper-focus on it because it's one of the more obvious factors to us.  It's one of the few factors that happens above the water where we can easily count the number of boats we see on a lake.  But there are many, many other factors that aren't so obvious that can have just as much of an effect, if not more, on the catchability of the bass in that lake.  Fishing pressure is a bit of a boogeyman. 

 

Now, I'm not saying that it's not a real thing.  Because it certainly is.  Most all of us who have been fishing for a long time have seen the effects of it.  But fishing pressure collects more than its fair share of the blame due to its highly visible nature.  If fishing pressure was as big of a threat to catching bass as many of us are led to believe, then most of the world's best fisheries would have collapsed long ago.  But the reality is, the world is filled with high quality bass fisheries that get pounded year after year with boats, and still continue to produce plenty of large and catchable bass.  It's a factor.  But just one of many, many factors.

Either way, a 60 acre pond being fished by one person once a day isn't likely to produce enough pressure to make a significant difference.  Bass aren't geniuses and they don't talk to each other.  If a bass is caught on one bait, it might still be susceptible to another.  And they have no way to tell the other bass to avoid jigs or spinnerbaits or whatever.  They might eventually grow line shy.  In which case, just switch to fluorocarbon.  They might eventually get shy of noises or other signs of humans being near by.  In which case, be stealthier and make longer casts.  Fish, pressured or not, still have to eat.  Pressure makes them harder to catch because it makes them less aggressive.  But it's doesn't make them stop eating. 

 

As an example, I fish a 59 acre pond regularly that almost always has at least a half dozen other anglers on it any time the sun is up.  And there's probably a minimum 30 anglers at a time on it during the weekends, and I don't have problems catching bass there due to pressure.  Now, pollution, algae blooms, excessive heat or cold, wind and other factors can affect how that lake fishes.  Some years it's better than others.  Some days it's better than others.  But since the fishing pressure is always about the same, logically, I have a really hard time blaming the changes in fishability on fishing pressure.  Just yesterday, at around noon, I was fishing that pond and I don't think a five minute span passed by the entire time I was there that someone wasn't reeling in a fish.  And there were probably a dozen of us fishing it at once.  I even got a few myself from the limited access I had from the bank.  And I literally only fish three spots on that pond on a near daily basis, and still catch fish.  Not every day is that good.  Not even most days.  And this year has been particularly bad.  But it's been bad at all of our lakes, which tells me it's something weather related.  And if I were guessing, I'd say it's probably related to the three year long drought we just got out of this summer and record breaking extreme heat we've been seeing the past two years. 

[Pat Brown]

I think fishing pressure makes fisheries better for the fish - worse for the angler who likes catching bass easily. 

 

The more pressure the bigger and fatter and lazier the females are around here.

 

Seems like spots that never get fished are loaded with feisty stupid very skinny 12" bass.

 

I personally LOVE the challenge of catching giant bass on pressured fisheries - it's the pinnacle of the sport in my humble opinion - when you can get an incredibly smart giant fish to buy an artificial lure presentation in next to no gin clear water on a 5 acre pond that gets hammered from dawn til dusk.....but that ain't where it's at for everyone.

I also HAVE absolutely seen cautious individual fish who observe less cautious fish being stupid and then immediately lose all interest in said presentation when less cautious fish is stuck in the face.

 

Tournament anglers with FFS who fish pounded reservoirs like Sam Rayburn and Toledo Bend report the same sorts of things beneath the surface - claiming that you basically catch a fish and then the rest of the fish vacate and shut down on community holes until it's completely settled down etc.  This is why so many resort to targeting individual fish swimming around in open water relating to nothing.  They are less alert. Or doing milk runs of 'spots' trying to pick off a fish here or there through out a day rather than sitting on a spot hoping to catch many fish out of a school - completely unrealistic expectation on most incredibly pressured small reservoirs most days.  The fish that relate to pressured community hole type structure are very aware of lure and boat presence.

 

Yes - adapting to pressure is fun and challenging and I enjoy having success when others struggle but I will say without a doubt that fishing pressure makes *catching* bass *easily* much much harder very quickly.

 

And sometimes I'm reluctant to accept the pressure I put on schools I like to fish and when I FINALLY change my presentation reluctantly to something I know that they'll bite but I don't necessarily feel like fishing with - I catch a fish. 😂 

 

I think it's a boogie man for SURE on some lakes and reservoirs but I think fishing pressure is everything on others (specifically small bodies of water that remain open 365 days a year) and it's important to be aware of at least what everyone is always doing and try to be different and to keep moving and casting at new stuff for the most part.

[gim]

21 minutes ago, Pat Brown said:

I personally LOVE the challenge of catching giant bass on pressured fisheries - it's the pinnacle of the sport in my humble opinion - when you can get an incredibly smart giant fish to buy an artificial lure presentation in next to no gin clear water on a 5 acre pond that gets hammered from dawn til dusk.....but that ain't where it's at for everyone.

 

 

I can respect that and I have a lot of respect for those that can do it, you included.

 

I can't.  Nor do I want to either.  I am definitely trying to avoid fishing pressure and lakes with a lot of tournaments.  I primarily target smaller to mid size lakes that often have limited parking - since the DNR does not allow tournaments on lakes that can take up more than 50% of the parking, smaller lakes with limited parking don't get hammerd with tournaments because they can't get a permit.

 

Less pressure generally means more willing to bite.  That doesn't mean bigger fish necessarily, but it does often mean I can let it rip with more aggressive, power fishing presentations rather than screwing around with slower, finesse presentations.  Its just how I prefer to fish, and fish that haven't seen as many lures are more cooperative because of it.

 

Targeting lakes with more pressure would probably make me a better angler.  I can't deny that.  But given my limited amount of time to fish, I try to maximize my chances of running into them.

 

[Bankbeater]

Sometimes private lakes aren't so private.  It depends on the owner of the lake and their willingness to let people fish on the property.  I fish a lot of pressured water and the bass will start to recognize certain things that turn them off.  It may be the bait, it may be the presentation, or it may just be the amount of boat traffic on the water.

[Junk Fisherman]

7 hours ago, Pat Brown said:

I personally LOVE the challenge of catching giant bass on pressured fisheries - it's the pinnacle of the sport in my humble opinion - when you can get an incredibly smart giant fish to buy an artificial lure presentation in next to no gin clear water on a 5 acre pond that gets hammered from dawn til dusk.....but that ain't where it's at for everyone.

I like catching big, easy bass.  I get enough of the challenge of fishing for heavily pressured big bass all the time locally.  My best fishing memories are days of catching a dozen 4-6 lb smallmouth up north before everyone knew of the place and locals started keeping those 5 lbers.  The challenge is there now but I liked it better when it was easy.  

 

[king fisher]

One summer I was recovering from a surgery and had about a month to fish every day on a small river in mid summer with very low water.  The river had big smallmouth bass along with many suckers, northern pike minnow, and carp.  I don't know when bass got in to the river, but when I was a kid the river only had the trash fish species.  Even the game department had no idea there were bass in this river.

 

The water was low this time of year, and many places in the river could be crossed by jumping from one rock to the next without even getting my feet wet.  The bass were concentrated in deeper holes, and each hole would have 3-5 large bass between 3 and 5 pounds, along with a few smaller bass.  The water was muddy, and I couldn't see any bass, so numbers are just estimates based on catch rates.

 

Nobody fished this river.  I fished a dozen or so, mile long stretches with each stretch having 3 to 4 fishable holes with big bass.  The first time I would fish a new hole I would catch a large bass on the first cast with an inline spinner.  I would fish each hole in a stretch with the spinner, then go back and fish the holes with some other bait helping me catch a couple more decent size bass.  

 

The next day I would fish a different stretch and was able to rotate through stretches of river never fishing the same stretch twice in the same week.  One day I invited a friend to go along with me and decided to take him to my very best stretch of river where I new there was at least two bass over 5 pounds and maybe more.  The problem was I had fished this stretch of river hard only a couple days prior, and I was worried I hadn't rested it long enough.  My worries were confirmed when we got skunked.  We had enough time to try another section, of river that I hadn't fished for over a week and did well.  

 

This same scenario repeated itself throughout the whole month I was able to fish.  The minimum time to rest a particular hole and still catch one of the big bass living there was 5 days.  Anything less and the fishing was slow to zero.  After 5 days, first cast in to a whole I would hook one of the larger bass and if I was lucky might be able to catch one or two more before having to move on.

 

There was a very small population of bass in this river, and the holes were small and shallow.  The northern pike minnows would hit almost every lure every cast if the bass were not biting.  If there was a willing bass in a hole they would hit first cast.  I'm not saying that all bass fishing waters need to be rested for a week before fishing them.  Obviously this river was a rare situation, but I will say it doesn't take much angling pressure to turn bass off, or at least make them more difficult to catch.

 

That was 16 years ago, and as far as I know the bass are still there, and no one fishes most of the river.  A few locals fish a couple easy to access spots, but besides that there are around 30 miles of river with an average of 3-4 holes per mile with one to three smallmouth bass over 3.5 pounds per hole waiting to bite the only spinner they might ever see in their whole life.  Because I do hope to get a chance to walk the banks of that river catching big smallmouth again before I go on to greener pastures, I am not going to give any more details on the location of this small piece of paradise. 

 

A good angler may be able to catch bass out of highly pressured waters, on a consistent basis, but a body of water that gets no pressure can be spectacular for even an average angler such as myself.  If you are able to find and fish a lake pond or river that has quality bass and does not get any pressure, there is only one thing you can do.  KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT.

[JayMac89]

I personally don't worry about "pressure". It's sort of a non factor for me. Now I'm not saying it dosent have an effect. Not what I'm saying at all, I just don't worry about it. I'm also only 3 years in, but in my limited experience, it's not a thing in my world. 

 

There are two lakes in particular. The first was before I got into a yak and the second was after. Both lakes get a ton of pressure. Both those lakes I can go to and an basically guaranteed fish. In certain spots at least with certain techniques. Now maybe that's me figuring them out and doing somthing different so I have success? Not sure. Then there's other lakes where it's not a guarantee. It's a crap shoot.

 

The other thing is a lesson I learned this year. Iv watched other guys fish on multiple lakes. Alot of guys are lazy. They do the same thing over and over. They won't throw a jig into a gnarly laydown. Maybe around the perimeter, but not deep in there. They shy away from grass. Well, are the fish hiding in those spots feeling the pressure of no one is throwing there? Again, I don't know. 

 

So I'm not saying pressure doesn't play a role. I'm just saying I've seen lakes with pressure where it's like stealing candy from a baby. Iv seen other lakes with pressure where I struggle. Too many other factors for me to worry about pressure. Especially with my limited experience. I get cold and hot streaks and hadn't really got it 100% figured out. Probably never will, that's fishing after all. 

 

I just found another lake that is virtually impossible to fish from shore and is a challenge to get a kayak or boat in. Shouldn't be too much pressure. I'm going to try it out soon. Maybe my opinion on pressure will change. 

[Pat Brown]

51 minutes ago, Junk Fisherman said:

I like catching big, easy bass.  I get enough of the challenge of fishing for heavily pressured big bass all the time locally.  My best fishing memories are days of catching a dozen 4-6 lb smallmouth up north before everyone knew of the place and locals started keeping those 5 lbers.  The challenge is there now but I liked it better when it was easy.  

 

 

 

I like having numbers ponds and I like having Trophy ponds where it's all about the hunt and the sport. 

 

There's a time and a place for both in my life, but I completely appreciate people who value one over the other exclusively. 

 

I definitely think that there is value in fishing places where it's easy to catch fish when you're trying to gain confidence and learn new techniques, and I've definitely taken advantage of that in my own fishing.  And there's even more value in places like this when you're trying to get somebody new into fishing!

[Bankc]

20 hours ago, king fisher said:

One summer I was recovering from a surgery and had about a month to fish every day on a small river in mid summer with very low water.  The river had big smallmouth bass along with many suckers, northern pike minnow, and carp.  I don't know when bass got in to the river, but when I was a kid the river only had the trash fish species.  Even the game department had no idea there were bass in this river.

 

The water was low this time of year, and many places in the river could be crossed by jumping from one rock to the next without even getting my feet wet.  The bass were concentrated in deeper holes, and each hole would have 3-5 large bass between 3 and 5 pounds, along with a few smaller bass.  The water was muddy, and I couldn't see any bass, so numbers are just estimates based on catch rates.

 

Nobody fished this river.  I fished a dozen or so, mile long stretches with each stretch having 3 to 4 fishable holes with big bass.  The first time I would fish a new hole I would catch a large bass on the first cast with an inline spinner.  I would fish each hole in a stretch with the spinner, then go back and fish the holes with some other bait helping me catch a couple more decent size bass.  

 

The next day I would fish a different stretch and was able to rotate through stretches of river never fishing the same stretch twice in the same week.  One day I invited a friend to go along with me and decided to take him to my very best stretch of river where I new there was at least two bass over 5 pounds and maybe more.  The problem was I had fished this stretch of river hard only a couple days prior, and I was worried I hadn't rested it long enough.  My worries were confirmed when we got skunked.  We had enough time to try another section, of river that I hadn't fished for over a week and did well.  

 

This same scenario repeated itself throughout the whole month I was able to fish.  The minimum time to rest a particular hole and still catch one of the big bass living there was 5 days.  Anything less and the fishing was slow to zero.  After 5 days, first cast in to a whole I would hook one of the larger bass and if I was lucky might be able to catch one or two more before having to move on.

 

There was a very small population of bass in this river, and the holes were small and shallow.  The northern pike minnows would hit almost every lure every cast if the bass were not biting.  If there was a willing bass in a hole they would hit first cast.  I'm not saying that all bass fishing waters need to be rested for a week before fishing them.  Obviously this river was a rare situation, but I will say it doesn't take much angling pressure to turn bass off, or at least make them more difficult to catch.

 

That was 16 years ago, and as far as I know the bass are still there, and no one fishes most of the river.  A few locals fish a couple easy to access spots, but besides that there are around 30 miles of river with an average of 3-4 holes per mile with one to three smallmouth bass over 3.5 pounds per hole waiting to bite the only spinner they might ever see in their whole life.  Because I do hope to get a chance to walk the banks of that river catching big smallmouth again before I go on to greener pastures, I am not going to give any more details on the location of this small piece of paradise. 

 

A good angler may be able to catch bass out of highly pressured waters, on a consistent basis, but a body of water that gets no pressure can be spectacular for even an average angler such as myself.  If you are able to find and fish a lake pond or river that has quality bass and does not get any pressure, there is only one thing you can do.  KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT.

I believe you! 

 

I think fishing pressure, kind of like water depth or clarity, can be relative.  Like if a body of water never sees any anglers, and then one pops up, it'll have more of an affect than if it's fished everyday. 

 

Kind of like my dogs and their barking.  When our new neighbor first moved in with his dogs, any time they barked, my dogs would bark.  Even inside the house.  After a few weeks, they finally calmed down.  Now they only bark when both our dogs and the neighbor's dogs are outside.  And even then, not every time.  Animals, and people, can become desensitized to threats with repeated exposure. 

[Susky River Rat]

What’s un pressured water? I live in PA there is no public waterway here that you don’t rub shoulders on with others. 
 

Do quick fast trips every once a while. Do not beat it up over and over again. That area should be good to you for a long time. 

[Pat Brown]

14 hours ago, Bankc said:

I believe you! 

 

I think fishing pressure, kind of like water depth or clarity, can be relative.  Like if a body of water never sees any anglers, and then one pops up, it'll have more of an affect than if it's fished everyday. 

 

Kind of like my dogs and their barking.  When our new neighbor first moved in with his dogs, any time they barked, my dogs would bark.  Even inside the house.  After a few weeks, they finally calmed down.  Now they only bark when both our dogs and the neighbor's dogs are outside.  And even then, not every time.  Animals, and people, can become desensitized to threats with repeated exposure. 

 

 

That's an interesting theory for sure. 

 

I fish a pond on a college campus that's next to a whole bunch of apartments.  @FishTax fishes it also.

 

When the kids come back after summer break, you'll see 1-10 people fishing it almost every day rain or shine til next summer break.  It becomes much much more difficult to catch fish at this pond during the school year and I really like to fish this particular pond during the winter time because there are less kids from the school fishing it while it is cold.

 

When the kids go home at the end of the summer, if you wait about 3 weeks, maybe 4 weeks and then show up really early in the morning you can have a pretty gangbusters time. 

 

Of course, if you go once a week during the Summer and fish the same bait every time you go they figure out what's going on.

 

It seems like a few weeks of rest if it's real rest and the fish are really seeing nobody else while they're resting can make a huge difference.

 

I think you're right that fish become desensitized to people fishing and doing stuff but that doesn't mean that they become stupid and bite lures when they've been pressured heavily.  There's also a marked difference between how quickly you're going to spook or alert a big old fish versus a young and aggressive fish. 

 

And every year there's new young and aggressive fish.

[Captain Phil]

Here in Florida, fishing pressure is something we deal with on a daily basis.  I live on the Harris Chain where the fishing pressure is relentless.   There are numerous club tournaments every weekend.  It's getting where you can't find a ramp parking spot on a Saturday or Sunday. Add a 200 boat tournament or two into this mix and you have some tough fishing.   From my experience, this has the effect of shrinking the strike zone.  It also makes the fish more aware of the sounds of boats and fishermen.  If you can find active fish in open water, traditional methods can be effective.  Unfortunately, with 50,000 acres of water, the fish have a nasty habit of relocating.  There are always some fish in shallow water.  When they are pressured, they go deep in cover, go almost totally inactive and the strike zone shrinks to almost nothing.  This makes flipping the only real option outside of live bait.  Stealth becomes important as well as sounds and shadows on the water.  It's not an enjoyable way to fish for most people, but it works.  Years ago you could run to some place where the fishing pressure was light.  Those days are gone.

 

If I am going to fish for fun, I prefer smaller waters like private lakes and golf course ponds. This is the same type of fishing I did as a boy and it's still the same as it was back then.

[Catt]

Sam Rayburn Reservoir is maintained by Texas Parks & Wildlife as a tournament lake. It gets more tournament pressure than any lake in the nation.

 

If one were to look at the tournament results they would find the quality & quantity are as high as ever.

 

You can take what you from that research but the results speak for themselves. 

[Swamp Girl]

This is the best thread. There are aggregate centuries of observation and wisdom in this thread.

 

I fish less fished water, aka ponds without ramps and bogs so weedy that they'll deter many anglers because your motor's prop will foul within seconds. I also fish a pond where I have to drag my canoe across a field and through the woods. I've never seen anyone else fish that pond because most people don't want to work that hard to fish. So, I'm casting to less-fished fish, pretty much the opposite of the great @Pat Brown's angling life. I feel kindred with anglers with anglers like @T-Billy, who fishes all night, and @AlabamaSpothunter, who fishes and fishes and fishes and taps the wisdom of our Japanese angling kin. All three of the just mentioned anglers score because they don't shirk the work. There are others too who push through, like @Alex from GA, who keeps fishing, and @pdxfisher, who fishes windy gorges through a health challenge. Of course, my little list of the BR men I admire is incomplete. 

 

When I started fishing, I could throw big, noisy Whopper Ploppers and catch bass willy-nilly, but I was warned that those giddy days would end and they did. I still cast Whopper Ploppers some trips, but only here and there and I only catch bass with them here and there. So, I keep trying to add new lures here and there so the bass I catch will keep seeing something new. 

 

However, they do seem less able to ignore underspins with Crush City Mayors and I don't blame them. That lure has flash and wiggle, I can and do change its color again and again, and I can cast it everywhere. 

 

Anyway, even though I'm fishing less fished water, I still use new lures because my half century of angling has also taught me that bass do adapt, so we must also adapt and this is why the Bait Monkey is the size of King Kong.

 

 

[A-Jay]

On 9/12/2024 at 8:24 AM, Lottabass said:

What is the effect of fishing pressure on bass?   

Does my presence and catching these bass affect my catch rate over time? 

Is fishing once a week too much, or not? 

Thank you for your thoughts!

 

I believe as with any wildlife, including fish,

for every action by me there is at least some type of reaction by them.

After all we are intruding on 'their' world and they know it a whole lot better than I ever will.

What that reaction maybe or how significant regarding fish catches is,

probably changes over time.

But I can not say for sure one way or the other.

Either way, I seem to have more success on 'less pressured waters', regardless of size.

Might be just me, but I'm not a fan of crowds and am super fortune

to live & fish in a part of the country where, if I am willing to put in some effort,

I am for the most part able to avoid them.

So best case scenario for me is when I am the fishing pressure. 

A-Jay

 

[Catt]

1 hour ago, A-Jay said:

So best case scenario for me is when I am the fishing pressure. 

 

Just because there's a large number of anglers on the water doesn't mean they know what they're doing. 

 

I would rather fish behind 10 weekend warriors than 1 @A-Jay!

[MN Fisher]

40 minutes ago, Catt said:

I would rather fish behind 10 weekend warriors than 1 @A-Jay!

I'd rather fish WITH one @A-Jay.

[A-Jay]

1 hour ago, MN Fisher said:

I'd rather fish WITH one @A-Jay.

 

2 hours ago, Catt said:

 

Just because there's a large number of anglers on the water doesn't mean they know what they're doing. 

 

I would rather fish behind 10 weekend warriors than 1 @A-Jay!

Thanks for the kind words I appreciate it.

But you don't need to worry about fishing behind me @Catt

because if I ever did see you on thee water,

I'll be going the other way . . . . .

#takemetoschool

😎

A-Jay