aarogb Posted April 19, 2009 Posted April 19, 2009 So what is the best fishing decision you have ever made? For me it would have to be a Saturday last year when me, my buddy, and his dad where fishing a electric motor only lake. We where not getting anything at our "best spot" so I made the decision to go fish some docks since we were not hitting on much there. All I can say is that it was the best fishing decision of my life! First pitch to the dock and I land a 4 pounder (my PB). About 5 minutes later my buddies dad lands a 6 pounder, after that my buddy lands about a 3 pounder. In all we caught about 10 fish in about 20 minutes. Needless to say my buddy and his dad loved me for mentioning that we should go and fish the docks. Quote
Super User Catt Posted April 19, 2009 Super User Posted April 19, 2009 1974: Joined two bass clubs in Hemphill, Texas whose members included John Torian, John Hall, John Dean, Villis P "Bo" Dowden SR, Harold Allen, Larry Nixon, Tommy Martin, & Zell Roland 1976: Attended a 4 day seminar in Houston Texas that totally changed my outlook on bass fishing. The man putting on that seminar was Elwood L. " Buck" Perry, not only did I buy his books but I became a devout student of his teachings. Still paying off Quote
FishingPirate Posted April 19, 2009 Posted April 19, 2009 Going to the Bark Camp Brawl Dinkmasters tournament ;D Seriously, I met some great local fisherman. Quote
Low_Budget_Hooker Posted April 19, 2009 Posted April 19, 2009 Change all the lines from 250lb test to 180 lb test (costs about $200 to do 4 reels) Caught 4 fish in 5 days. Smallest fish paid $3k+ Quote
Muad Dib Posted April 19, 2009 Posted April 19, 2009 id say my best fishing decision would be more of a general decisiion. "Learn As Much as i CAN about bass fishing" - listen to all advice, suggestions ,tips ,tricks ,best spots ,where to fish ,how to fish etc.etc. THANK YOU BASS RESOURCE Quote
Super User South FLA Posted April 19, 2009 Super User Posted April 19, 2009 Buying a jon boat when I was young (10), it opened up a whole new world, for Snook and Bass! Quote
Super User Sam Posted April 19, 2009 Super User Posted April 19, 2009 Had a club tournament on Lake Gaston and viewed the weather reports and saw that there was going to be very high winds that day but the tournament director would not cancel the event. Best Decision #1 - Leave boat home. Best Decision #2 - Boater and I hauedl fannies back to Popular Creek as the winds started to pick up, beating the high winds on the main lake. Four boats damaged, one seriously. Some decisions have nothing to do with the art of fishing. Quote
mpspeer Posted April 19, 2009 Posted April 19, 2009 Taking advantage of all my connections to people who own boats hah.. me =ShoreFishRMan :-\ Quote
DINK WHISPERER Posted April 20, 2009 Posted April 20, 2009 Buying a truck so i could haul my boat(that i bought before i even had a truck), LOL!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D Quote
zaraspook_dylan2 Posted April 20, 2009 Posted April 20, 2009 So what is the best fishing decision you have ever made? For me it would have to be a Saturday last year when me, my buddy, and his dad where fishing a electric motor only lake. We where not getting anything at our "best spot" so I made the decision to go fish some docks since we were not hitting on much there. All I can say is that it was the best fishing decision of my life! First pitch to the dock and I land a 4 pounder (my PB). About 5 minutes later my buddies dad lands a 6 pounder, after that my buddy lands about a 3 pounder. In all we caught about 10 fish in about 20 minutes. Needless to say my buddy and his dad loved me for mentioning that we should go and fish the docks. the best decision in fishing is when i made the move from fishing only spin-cast rods to bait cast. 8-) Quote
skillet Posted April 20, 2009 Posted April 20, 2009 Joining Bass Resource and paying close attention to other members ... skillet Quote
the zone Posted April 20, 2009 Posted April 20, 2009 buying my first rod/reel/license/a couple spinners and bank fishing at 17. it's been a pretty good click and I doubt I know more now than I did then... but it's been good. Quote
I.rar Posted April 20, 2009 Posted April 20, 2009 Joining Bass Resource and paying close attention to other members ... skillet this. Quote
justinrose40 Posted April 20, 2009 Posted April 20, 2009 Joining Bass Fishing Resource of Course. A more specific ocasion, I was fishing a night tournament on my home lake and was catching fish good on a brown jig with a brown trailor up until about midnight. Then took a 4 hour dry spell, finally around 4 am I took the time to think about what had changed. Then it hit me, duh, the moon had sat around midnight, and the bass must not be able to see my brown/brown jig good enough. I took the brown trailer off and replaced it with a charlie one and caught a throwback on the first cast, 5 cast later caught a 5lber and was able to finish up our limit before daylight and ended up finishing 4th in a tournament that it looked like we had no chance of finishing in the money in. This was probably an easy decision to have made, but for some reason it took me 4 hours to think of it, but when I did it payed off big time. Quote
T-2000 Posted April 20, 2009 Posted April 20, 2009 I'll second buying a canoe. For a while I'd been looking at Craigslist and stuff trying to find something, and then finally one day that summer I just committed and got a canoe at Dick's Sporting Goods. In hindsight it probably wasn't the best canoe for my needs, but it felt so good to get in the water! I caught my first largemouth about five minutes after launching on the maiden voyage. Quote
Mattlures Posted April 20, 2009 Posted April 20, 2009 I started taking pictures of my fish. Its realy cool to look back through my photo albums and remember all the fish I have forgotten about. Quote
Super User BrianinMD Posted April 20, 2009 Super User Posted April 20, 2009 Switched to baitcasters Close second, trying jigs again. First time didn't go so well but now they are working out great for me. Quote
Super User Bankbeater Posted April 20, 2009 Super User Posted April 20, 2009 Fishing plastics after reading about them here on Bass Resource. Before that I threw crankbaits all of the time, no matter what. Quote
Skunked in DR Posted April 20, 2009 Posted April 20, 2009 6 years ago when I started to fish again. My wife and wallet might not agree. Quote
SDoolittle Posted April 20, 2009 Posted April 20, 2009 Moving back to Cali ;-) Fish I know what you mean. My best decision was volunteering for duty in Texas. Quote
Brute Posted April 20, 2009 Posted April 20, 2009 My best ( smartest ) decision ever was cutting my line loose from the 8 foot gator I hooked in the tail this last Saturday. He was not happy at all and I was upset because I lost my favorite crankbait. Brute Quote
SenkoShawn Posted April 20, 2009 Posted April 20, 2009 Buying a jon boat when I was young (10), it opened up a whole new world, for Snook and Bass! DAMMMM STR8888 Quote
Super User WRB Posted April 20, 2009 Super User Posted April 20, 2009 Deciding to keep my day job after fishing the 3rd All American tournament and target trophy bass. WRB Quote
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