What is your fish per cast ratio?

[Redtail]

I asked this question last year, but didn't word it properly.

Counting only large mouth and small mouth bass caught that were keepers (say 12" or better).

If you divided the number of casts you took by the number of keepers caught, what do you think it would be?  I know some days are better than others, but if you were able to count every cast you took all year and divided by all the keepers, what do you think it would be.

I'm guessing maybe 1 in every 150 casts.

Just curious what you guys think.

[bassbob08]

I think you would realy have to keep track of your cast and your fish,i think ill invent a cast counter it would be easier.But now you have put it in my head and ill have to do it. one two three,im on my way ill be back.

[Low_Budget_Hooker]

This one would just take too much data analysis.  Too much counting and you'd have to do it for a decent amount of time to get a real idea.

I bet the pros have an idea how they do but for the every day angler, I don't think very many keep track.

[Catt]

Of all the things to do while fishing counting cast aint one of em   :-/

[Guest avid]

guessing is guessing.

I wanna know who on this site actually keeps records on this sort of thing.  

[senile1]

On another note, I'm very concerned about my fish per turn of the reel handle ratio.  

[pondhopper]

guessing is guessing.

I wanna know who on this site actually keeps records on this sort of thing.  

LOL, I don't know about casts, but so far this year, I have been hauling them in at 2.158 fish/hour (12"+ fish, and rounded to the nearest .25 hour).

"Lies. damned lies, and statistics ..."

[grimlin]

I never keep track of cast per catch...I wouldn't know where to began ;D

[Tucson]

Astronomers use references such as parsec and lightyear to describe huge distances.  I'd have to do something similar, say a "basscast" or something that represents oh, maybe 10,000 casts.  Then I could quantify my fishing better.  ie: "Catch ratio approximating 2.38 Basscasts, all systems nominal."

[Lucky Craft Man]

That would be an extremely difficult thing to keep track of (unless you are the featured guest on "Day on the Lake"). Also, If you drift a drop shot rig over large flats, then one cast could be 25 minutes long. Therefore, your catch per cast would be very large. Though, this year I have been keeping track of one thing. My cousin posed the question to me last year as to how many fish I catch an hour on lures (he is strickly a live bait man). I had no idea, so this year I counted the fish I caught and divided it out by the number of hours I fished, which obvously gave me fish per hour. As it stands this year, on a good day I average 3 fish per hour and on bad days I would average around 0.6 fish per hour. I figure this is a good measurment as to how well I progress as a fisherman and is easy to keep track of (as opposed to counting each cast).

[Redtail]

It would obviously be an estimate, of course no one counts casts.  An estimate.

Hey Senile - You're a Funny Guy.

[armesjr]

1 to 4. i am that freaking good

[Jig Man]

I will have to do some assuming here but let's see.  If I am actually fishing 7 hours on an 8 hour trip that is 7X60= 420 minutes.  Over all with various baits taking from 45 seconds to 5 minutes, I'd guess 2 minutes per cast.  That gives an average of 210 casts.  My average last year was 9.43 bass per trip so I guess I caught a bass every 22.269353 casts.  Of course they were all keepers 'cause I don't mess with dinks. ;D ;D

[roadwarrior]

Well, to start off the year:

http://www.bassresource.com/bass_fishing_forums/YaBB.pl?num=1167673438

[Cajun1977]

unless your catching zero fish  or catching fish on every cast  ,,it dont matter

[Cephkiller]

When I'm throwing treble hook baits, I average two per cast.  I only usually mange one per cast when throwing single hooks.  I throw mostly single hook lures, so I'll guess I catch approximately 1.3 bass per cast.........approximately

[Jimzee]

You guys are making my head hurt with all this thinking process I'm trying to do. :-/    I came up with 38.17 casts per fish.  That seems a little low for the way its been lately.   Lately it would probably be more like 90 casts per fish. :-[

[abelfisher]

Ceph, you either misunderstood the question, calculated incorrectly, OR you are one helluva fisherman!   ;D

[abelfisher]

THis really is a good question and if you know your own ratio for the type of fishing you do, it would give you a yardstick to measure your progress with.  Obviously, if you crank, your ratio will be different than if you use soft plastics.  

(Cast per hour) X (# of hours fishing per trip)  / (# of fish) = fish per cast ratio.  Pretty simple.  (You would have to assume time for boat travel, lunch pee breaks, snags etc.  

It is a very good measurement for yoursel.

IMHO anyway!

[Maxximus Redneckus]

Im takin a wild guess and a lifetime of bassfishing for me but id say for me 1 out of 25 over 12 inches  8-)

[JayW]

I really have no idea. I do remember one time that I caught 6 Bass starting on my very first cast and they were all back to back! I'm sure they were schooling. I ended up catching 16 that evening total, so they slowed down eventually.

[Cephkiller]

Ceph, you either misunderstood the question, calculated incorrectly, OR you are one helluva fisherman! ;D

Oops!  I forgot to include this:   ;D

I was trying to be funny.  I guess I failed.

[Bass Smacker]

YOU all don't count your cast!!!!! OMG!!!! I have done this for about never

But a good estamat for me would be 300 cast per fish. I have been out  4 times in the last month and came up 0 every time. >  

[TENNESSEE NEWSOME]

Definitely better than 1/150, and you probably do better than that too.  It depends on what kind of bait I'm using.

I do better with plastics or jigs than I do crank baits.  With plastic, I'd say 1/35 at least.

[Guest avid]

It is a very good measurement for yourself.

I haven't worried about that since I was 12 years old