What are your fishing Weaknesses?

[Bass_Akwards]

I asked this a bunch of months back.  But now with lots of new members, as well as old members who might have NEW weaknesses (and/or hopefully fixed their old weaknesses from a year ago) I thought I'd ask again....

What are your bass fishing weakneses?

Some of mine in no particular order are...

1. I stink at reading the electronics I have for my pontoon boat, I could be float over a shell bed or just mud and I couldnt tell the difference.

2.  I'm not good with a spinnerbait, swimbait or Jigs.

3. Stubbornness.  If I feel there's fish on a spot, I won't leave the spot even though I'm not catching anything with lots of different lures in different levels of the water column.  Instead of staying for 30 minutes at a dead spot and then moving to another area,  I might stay for 90 minutes or even more.

4.  Fishing deeper water

5. I stink with a baitcasting reel.  Maybe if I ever buy a nice one, I'll get better.

6. Finding patterns.  Just haven't gotten good at it yet.  It's tougher finding patterns being a shore fisherman 80% of the time.

7.  I'm semi cheap.  I never buy the good stuff when it comes to rods and reels and baits like high quality cranks and swimbaits.  I feel this makes a difference sometimes.  All my gear is so..... Average.

8.  I have more weakness but I'm starting to depress myself

[Grey Wolf]

No patience.

[microman]

1. winter fishing

2. lure selection, i cant pick the right lure

3. worm fishing

4. transportation, i don't have a boat

5. novicness, I'm new to bass fishing

6. and bait casting, cast ,backlash,clear,repeat

[BrianinMD]

1. Lake fishing (grew up on river smallies)

2. Deeper water

3. Determining a pattern if its not what I was expecting. Somewhat tied to #2.

[Gangley]

I do not have electronics so my weaknesses probably wont all be similar to others.  However, my weaknesses include:

1.)  Finding patterns or trying to determine where the fish might be given the current cicumstances.

2.)  Determining what depth to fish at.

3.)  Determining what color lures to use.

3.)  Not being able to knock the bait monkey off my back

[simplejoe]

Slowing down is one of them. The other is to learn when the pattern changes all of a sudden, to recognize  it and adjust with it.

[Shane J]

A couple areas I'm working to improve are:

skipping baits

reading and understanding my electronics

bed fishing

drop shot rig (never used it)

[190sxchamp]

Here are some of my weaknesses:

1. Probably my biggest is reading and understanding my electronics.

2. Being stubborn about trying new methods or new places on the lake. I seem to go to the same lakes, fish the same places that have worked in the pasts and fish the same baits as I've always fished.

[fishfordollars]

Jigging spoon

30' plus water

Drop Shot

[swilly78]

1. River fishing, just cant seem to get the hang of reading the water.

2.  Slowing down

3. I need to get a proper boat.

[Hook Set]

1.I feel like I fish too fast sometimes.

2.I don't trust my own judgement enough.

[farmpond1]

Probably a really good fisherman/woman could spot my weaknesses better than me.  If I knew what or how to do things differently, I would.  Reading electronics would probably stand out, however.

I still stink at flipping/pitching and skipping-which makes things bad as I like to fish docks and under tree limbs, etc.

[zero limit]

1)  being stuck on shore(i need a canoe or boat)

2)   not fishing senkos enough

3)  fishing the same spot

4)  bait monkey ( to many lures, dont use them all)

[EasternPAfisherman]

1. I guess is patience, when I caught my PB last year it was FREEZING cold and very WINDY! but I hung in there.

2. Patterns, I'm a shore fisherman 100% of the time, if the wind is blowing to the one shoreline, I gues there's bass there. Sometimes it's right.

3. Flippin and pitching, I got a new MH 7' so I should start doing that.

Nothing else really, I was good at baitcasting when I started so I think that's all.

[steezy]

Not being able to stop.

I will fish in the dark and in 20 degree weather for hours just to catch a single  2# fish.

[Simp]

Wow Bass_Akwards what are you good at????

In all seriousness my weakness is getting off the bank and locating fish. There are a lot of little things that you have to be good at or at least have a idea at what to do .  I need to get better at all of them so I can make this happen on a consistent basis.

[Bassin_Fin@tic]

Dropshotting.I can't catch a cold. Need a better setup though.

Basically anything more than 15ft of water. I lose all confidence.

Jigs,jigs,jigs! I despise them. I still cannot for the life of me see the allure of the stupid things or how it is more effective than a texas rig.

I move around too much,fish too fast, and change baits way too often MOST of the time.

[.dsaavedra.]

the part about catching fish  :-/

[Chaz Hickcox]

Cypress Trees, soft plastics, not having electronics on my boat, jigs, COLD, muddy water.

I grew up sight fishing with swimbaits, crankbaits or topwater, everything else is pretty foreign to me.

[Casca]

1.locating fish

2.catching fish in cold water

3.force feeding fish(I want to catch fish on a T-rig today)

regards,

Casca

[kms399]

understanding that just because i want to fish a certain way doesn't mean I should. example. I love to fish topwater and i find myself fishing topwater and not catching anything while my buddy will be hammering them on say spinnerbaits.

[Jepu]

Getting stuck on routine techniques on familiar bodies of water because they have worked in the past, and not analyzing the conditions and all the other factors and making an educated decision. This is why I enjoy fishing new bodies of water so much. I love the map study and the homework leading up to the outing, and usually it pays off quite well. I feel that I could greatly enhance my success if I better disciplined myself on familiar bodies of water.

[Blade-Runner]

Changing lures/presentations too often.

The number one thing I can do to increase chances for a hookup is to keep that bait (whatever it is) in the strike zone for the maximum amount of time (where are you at walleye guys?).

Instead I'm always dicking around changing lures and giving the fish way too much credit in terms of discretion and selectivity...Just put it in their face!!!

[ventureboat]

Good topic, thanks for starting it.

1. Absolutely reading electronics

2. Get further off the bank, fish the deeper water

3. When it comes to tournaments, no more live or die by one bait (usually a french fry when it's tough)

[slonezp]

Should I stay or should I go. When tournament fishing I always question catch a limit of small fish or look for the bigguns. Or maybe the bigguns are with the small ones and I should change presentations. Or how long should I stay in a spot that normally holds fish but is not producing. I  guess the answer to the question is Indecisiveness