What's your bass fishing superpower?

[Swamp Girl]

2 hours ago, padlin said:

I love fishing skinny waters like those.

 

We boldly go where no bass boat has gone before. These are the voyages of the Starcanoe Enterprise.

 

 

34 minutes ago, The Rooster said:

I can cast a spinning rod with my right or left hand, either one, with equal accuracy.

 

Cool superpower!

 

50 minutes ago, volzfan59 said:

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.

 

The ultimate superpower.

[Team9nine]

To look at a contour map and depth finder of any kind, even going back to flashers and paper graphs, and “see” the bottom of the lake as it would appear without water.

[Susky River Rat]

avoiding catching fish.

[Jig Man]

Boat control keeping my guest and myself in the correct position.

[Columbia Craw]

I have an uncanny ability to stay focused with my binoculars .

[DogBone_384]

I have dual super powers.  My first super power is my wife that works full time and wants me to stay retired.  My second is that I can still get @Fishing Rhino on his boat, fishing, a few times a year.  I've posted before that Tom's in his 80's and no longer drives and can't operate a boat by himself.  He was generous with his Nitro's back seat when I joined this forum in 2013, so I now put him there with his favorite baits and run his boat.

 

There's going to be a last fishing trip for all of us, and for now, I can keep his off in the distance.

[WRB]

Catching old big fat bass using jigs.

Tom

[gim]

I would say that in the last 4-5 seasons, my dock skipping skills with a plastic has gone from minimal to masterful.  It is very rare nowadays that I miss my spot.  I've actually called a bite several times in recent memory before it happened to my partner.

[AlabamaSpothunter]

I watched Founder last night, a movie about Ray Krok and the founding of McDonald's.

 

He had a quote that summed up my fishing philosophy spot on. 

 

“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful individuals with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”

 

If I had a superpower it would be persistence.    To that end, the more I'm struggling, the more I'm going.    

 

 

[Pat Brown]

Yeah I'd say that my key trait is persistance.  I just know she's gonna bite on that next cast.  🙂

[Jar11591]

44 minutes ago, Pat Brown said:

  I just know she's gonna bite on that next cast.  🙂

This is how I feel when I’m throwing a spinnerbait. Even if I’ve cast 100 times in a row, that 101st cast still feels like it’s gonna be a fish as soon as those blades start thumping. 

[Pat Brown]

16 minutes ago, Jar11591 said:

This is how I feel when I’m throwing a spinnerbait. Even if I’ve cast 100 times in a row, that 101st cast still feels like it’s gonna be a fish as soon as those blades start thumping. 

 

The buzzbait is definitely this bait for me.  It's often a self fulfilling prophecy to be fair!  That bait just seems to work when everything else is tough.  I just go and keep making good casts and it's rare something doesn't happen.

[LrgmouthShad]

20 minutes ago, Jar11591 said:

This is how I feel when I’m throwing a spinnerbait. Even if I’ve cast 100 times in a row, that 101st cast still feels like it’s gonna be a fish as soon as those blades start thumping.

Beat me to it! Yessir!

27 minutes ago, Jar11591 said:

This is how I feel when I’m throwing a spinnerbait. Even if I’ve cast 100 times in a row, that 101st cast still feels like it’s gonna be a fish as soon as those blades start thumping. 

Fish bit a spinnerbait the first cast today and then completely ceased to hit it despite being on the money with my casts

[Bass Rutten]

5 hours ago, Bankbeater said:

Fishing pressured water. 

4 hours ago, Swamp Girl said:

That separates the men from the boys. 

 

Imagine compounding extremely pressured water with fishing from the back deck behind a very good fisherman who gets first crack at everything. That's what I deal with once a month in our club tourneys. My super power is being able to remain focused and disciplined and not get spun out or frustrated in that scenario. There is a simple secret behind it though which is the real superpower, clue... it starts with the letter G and rhymes with attitude :-)

 

 

[king fisher]

My super power is the ability to make a bad day good, by using my  imagination, combined with a willingness to substitute BS for facts at any given moment.  Any mortal can make up a good fishing story, it takes a gifted, story teller with super human powers of persuasion to actually believe their own BS.  I would like to see Super Man, Spider man and Women together try to stretch a 2 pound bass into a bass just a hair short of a DD.  I doubt they could do it, even if they hand the invisible man holding the scale.  I can not only make the two pound bass grow in to a true giant, but I wont even blink an eye while telling the tale.

[bowhunter63]

Worm fishing

 

[F14A-B]

7 hours ago, Pumpkin Lizard said:

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.

Oh come on now, you know you’re catching trees and hitting the water sometimes 😂🤣😂🥂🥂

[GreenPig]

Choosing a starting point. My first spot to catch ratio is pretty good.

[Crow Horse]

Listening.....and awareness.

Listening to signs and clues to where fish will be holding up. Not the obvious signs and disturbances, but the subtle signs that usually go by unnoticed by most folks. Listen to the wind and it will tell you things if you listen close enough. Listen to your internal radar that's always sweeping, that gut feeling that tells you if you're in the right spot or not. Watching animal behavior and being able to discern whether they're giving you clues or just passing through without any information that will help. Sometimes a scent will be in the wind that will offer up more clues. There's a lot more but in short, saturate your senses and be able to interpret the messages. It's very much like melting into Creation instead of being apart from it. This is what I constantly strive for. As far as excelling in it, I would rate myself as an eternal student, constantly learning every trip out.

 

On a more mudane level, I hold close to my heart the 6P's. Prior Planning Prevents Pi55  Poor Performance.

[KSanford33]

Enjoying myself. That’s my superpower. I used to be the one who went out there and if I didn’t catch a limit or a big fish, it was a wasted day. Now I realize I should enjoy anything I’m voluntarily doing. 
 

Like I tell my golf buddies: We paid money to be out here; let’s enjoy it. 

[Swamp Girl]

9 hours ago, Crow Horse said:

Listen to your internal radar that's always sweeping, that gut feeling that tells you if you're in the right spot or not.

 

Oh, I know that feeling. I fish with my head on swivel, always looking, even when I'm retrieving a lure. I'm sweeping for a ping, that certain, unnameable something that tells me where to cast next. Of course, sometimes you can even see the ping, a slight swirl off yonder and sometimes you're in the middle of a PING, where the bass surround you, like happened to @AlabamaSpothunter yesterday.

 

 

[Functional]

My ability to find the loudest dock or pontoon and hit it with a jig at 630am.

 

 

 

That and making areas work that other people dont bother with. I hate competing for water and wondering if my lure, presentation or timing is wrong or if its just been beat to death by 5 anglers before me in the last hour. 

[Swamp Girl]

14 minutes ago, Functional said:

its just been beat to death by 5 anglers before me in the last hour. 

 

Is it really that busy where you fish? I would not enjoy waiting in a de facto queue to cast. 

[Functional]

4 minutes ago, Swamp Girl said:

 

Is it really that busy where you fish? I would not enjoy waiting in a de facto queue to cast. 

depends on the lake, time of year and day I can get out. In months warm enough to go in the water you get pleasure boaters, recreational fisherman and tournaments. It can absolutely get slim pickins. Some pleasure boaters will park it in a narrow cove so you cant fish any of it unless you get in their personal bubble, some decide right by the stretch of shoreline or a small finger is where they are going to wakeboard/ski all day, then you have the camps with pods of 10-15 kayaks who have no problem going right over your line between you and shore. Not blaming all of them, just some things are part of sharing the lake. If I'm hitting a busy lake on a weekend day I'll either hit early mornings or evenings when they get drunk or go in for dinner.  

[Swamp Girl]

41 minutes ago, Functional said:

If I'm hitting a busy lake on a weekend day I'll either hit early mornings or evenings when they get drunk or go in for dinner.  

 

Thank goodness they get thirsty and hungry! 

 

Reading about your challenges makes me even happier that I have local water without ramps.