What's your bass fishing superpower?

[Swamp Girl]

What's your bass fishing superpower? It might be reading an FFS screen or casting or skipping or boat control or record keeping or having good hunches or anything else. Only share one:

 

Mine is paddling. I fish some pretty tight quarters where I have to squishedy-squeeze my canoe through the slots and there are rocks and trees that I cannot bump or I'll spook the bass, so I have to paddle like a creeping cat. Plus, I often have to paddle several miles, which requires straight line paddling and efficient strokes. The pics below aren't to share bass I've caught, but where I catch them. For me, good paddling lets me fish places like this:

 

[Catt]

Master of plan B 😉

[Reel]

I have a keen sense of observation.

[Jar11591]

I would say my super power is not letting the skunk in. It’s a very very rare occasion that I can’t put at least one bass in the boat. I’ve been skunked exactly one time in the last 8 years. I don’t fish specifically to not be skunked, it just works out that way. 

[bassmedic46]

Where I bank fish I have to be observant to my surroundings. 

[Swamp Girl]

There are great ones, guys. Thanks!

 

@Catt: "Plan B" made me laugh out loud. It's a heckuva superpower.

 

@Jar11591: One skunk in eight years? Whoa!

 

@Reel and @bassmedic46: It's keen that you guys see so keenly.  

[Rockhopper]

I've always been pretty dang good with casting accuracy 

[padlin]

24 minutes ago, Swamp Girl said:

What's your bass fishing superpower? It might be reading an FFS screen or casting or skipping or boat control or record keeping or having good hunches or anything else. Only share one:

 

Mine is paddling. I fish some pretty tight quarters where I have to squishedy-squeeze my canoe through the slots and there are rocks and trees that I cannot bump or I'll spook the bass, so I have to paddle like a creeping cat. Plus, I often have to paddle several miles, which requires straight line paddling and efficient strokes. The pics below aren't to share bass I've caught, but where I catch them. For me, good paddling lets me fish places like this:

 

I love fishing skinny waters like those.

[PBBrandon]

Catching old lures from the bottom of ponds is a bit of a sidekick superpower but a superpower nevertheless

[A-Jay]

CONFIDENCE.

I Believe in Me.

Also possess some high end boat handling skills.

A-Jay

 

[Catt]

46 minutes ago, Swamp Girl said:

: "Plan B" made me laugh out loud. It's a heckuva superpower

 

The goal is to never have to go beyond "B" 😁

[scaleface]

Not a super power but I guess my biggest strength is bouncing sinking lures off the bottom . Worms, jigs, Rocket Shads, Swim baits, lipless baits... I have a ton of confidence  in that style of fishing.

[DaubsNU1]

24 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

Also possess some high end boat handling skills.

A-Jay

 

I'd say!!

 

I have seen your boat handling youtube videos.

 

Dang!!!

[MinDoFmejiA]

I guess mine would be stealth.

While in Oklahoma I'd fish pressured ponds and rivers that had very clear water. It taught me how to use the curent to my advantage and cast ahead of fish instead of directly on top of them. I also learned a lot about having a soft entry for spinning rods. Several spots I fished, If you made any sort of loud splash the fish would instantly run, but if you could pitch soft enough and get the lure to just land with minimal noise, you were more likely to get bit.

[Mobasser]

Mine is catching fish from gin clear water, and landing them.on 6lb test line.

[Scott F]

Judging exactly when to head back to the dock before we get drenched. 

[Mike L]

Bottom contact presentations. 

I’d say mostly punching mats and sight fishing beds

 

 

 

 

 

Mike 

[F14A-B]

A Texas rig worm, tungsten weight and a proper hook and I’ll catch fish.

 

PS: a rattletrap is plan B 🤣

[volzfan59]

For me, I guess it would be adaptability. That and being able to enjoy myself no matter if they’re really biting, kinda biting or not biting at all.

 

i really do go by the Henry David Thoreau quote, “Many men go fishing  all their lives without knowing that is not the fish they are after.” Don’t get me wrong, I much prefer it when they’re biting, but if they’re not I find beauty in being out in Gods creation.

[Bankbeater]

Fishing pressured water. 

[The Rooster]

I have a couple but in the interest of listing just one I’ll go with the one I think most other people wouldn’t have. I can cast a spinning rod with my right or left hand, either one, with equal accuracy.
 

How that happened was I got started fishing by borrowing a rod from a left handed friend, and I didn’t switch his set up, I just used it how he had it, with the handle on the right. I casted left handed all that spring, and when I bought my own rod I set it up the same way and continued using it “left handed”. Then I got a baitcaster but I casted it right handed. So after a number of years I got good at landing baits accurately using either hand. I still don’t cast a baitcaster left handed very well although I can do it, but with a spinning rod I can switch hit.
 

I guess that keeps me from being completely worn out when fishing, since I cast my spinning rod left handed as a rule, and cast my baitcaster right handed.

[Pumpkin Lizard]

I don’t have one, unless you count getting hung up on unseen snags on the odd chance that one of my casts make contact with the water.

[Swamp Girl]

41 minutes ago, Bankbeater said:

Fishing pressured water. 

 

That separates the men from the boys. 

[GaryH]

Patience and determination. After reading all the signs of a certain lake I will stick with it till it proves me wrong.

 

[detroit1]

Mine would be eliminating productive water.