What are your fishing weaknesses?

[Jake P]

I would say spinner/buzzbaits. They have never produced anything for me.

[Jake.]

I have never caught a fish on a true Carolina Rig. :'(

I loose patience and focus If I go too long without a bite.

[AKFerzy7]

i tend to fish too small and too slow at first instead of power fishing and finding a good sized school and milking them. but im changing!

[Bass_Akwards]

I think my weakness is not reazizing what my weaknesses are. It drives me insane. I have been fishing about a year. I've used everything from swimbaits, to Senkos. But how can you tell if you have a weakness for a certain bait?

For example, I have used a crank bait about 200 casts. Never caught a d**n thing. I have read posts on this site on how to correctly fish a crank bait. I have made posts asking what the main weakness most people have using crankbaits is , and have tried to avoid those mistakes. Still, not a d**n bass on a crank bait. Do I stink at crankbait fishing? Is it a weakness? I can't tell. I feel like I'm doing most things correctly, but maybe i'm just terrible, ot maybe I'm just not where the fish are when I use my crank.

Same thing with a jig. I read, study, watch, and learn how the pros and lots of guys on this board fish jigs. I've made 150 casts with a jig in various places and not a darn bass to show for it. Do I stink at jig fishing? Is it a weakness? Or do I just not have enough casts under my belt. Tough to say. It's very frustrating though.

[Quinn]

For me, $.  I have learned alot from you all and have wanted to try many different things but don't have alot of cash.  Even if it is driving to a different place.

Another would be experience using just about any bait for bass fishing, I grew up fishing in stock ponds overloaded with bass and it was more like shooting them in a barrel as they say with a meps black fury spinner (mid S. Dakota) nothing too big though.

My failures have led me to success though, weaknesses give us all something to strive to strengthen.

Fish ON

[catchem]

not enough days in the week to fish

[BassmanDan]

Mine would have to be deep cranking and swimbaits. I plan to work on both this summer.

Here's one way I've developed confidence in a new technique. When I get into a mess of schoolers tearing my stuff up I pick up the jig, spinnerbait, or whatever lure I want to get confidence in and chuck it in there quick!! I try to get it right in the schoolers or hot spot as fast as possible...it's a shortcut to getting that first bite and learning what it feels like. Many times a jig or spinnerbait catches the bigger bass that my worm didn't pick up.

[Yakfish]

Cranks and spinnerbaits. I guess I'm the odd man out because I like working a senko or jig slowly. There's something about the quiet being abruptly interrupted by a slight tap or even better a BAM! when it's inhaled that's more exciting than a fast moving bait getting hit. Most of the time a crank getting hit just feels like added pressure and it's like 'Ok, I got one'. Almost anticlimactic. The exception that makes it a rule (for me anyway) is a top water strike. I don't care how fast the bait's moving, getting hit on the surface is a rush!

That's just my .02 and I'm a weirdo so what can I say?

[Bassnbrett101]

yeah and the coffee and full throttles make you wish you had a bigger deck to pace!!!LOL!!!

Thats why all the boat manufacturers make the bigger front decks now! lol

[key chain bass guy]

You name it, it's pretty much a weakness!

[islandbass]

Jigs - I just don't seem to have any luck. My first hook up with jig finally came this past January on a freezing day. Despite wearing gloves and through mitts, my frozen hands couldn't seal the deal and it got off.

Spinnerbaits and Buzzbaits - never caught a fish on either. I make, use and catch fish on inline spinners, but I can't buy a bite on the spinner or buzz baits. Go figure.

One weakness many have I am certain that probably didn't get mentioned is a weakness to succumbing to the baitmonkey. ;D

[Nitro 882]

anything with a lead head and a skirt >

Hey, you know my wife? ;D

[Bassnbrett101]

anything with a lead head and a skirt >

Hey, you know my wife? ;D

.....  :-X  lol

[fatmanslim247]

Deep water fish, crankbaits (I hate them with a passion), then the good ol buzzbait.  Jigs on the other hand i love to fish, and anything plastic

[Maxximus Redneckus]

deep clear water with no visibale structure  and cold water

[Paul Roberts]

1. Mother Nature, when she "acts up". Of course, the bass then have a paralell problem!

2. I just don't know it ALL.