laguna
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Some folk here on Fishing Magic have their favourite species and will actively target them, myself included. Others don't care what they catch as long as they catch something, be it quality or quantity. Some dislike one or two species and that's okay, each to their own. Others.... well, not on here exactly that I am aware of, but I know this guy - who doesn't like catching fish any more. Or at least not too many in a short session.
Too many?
Lets just say, there is a guy I know who on occasion fishes with us who spends an extraordinary amount of time and energy lugging around his kitchen sink, hacking at vegetation, driving in bank sticks and tent pegs with the biggest mallet you ever set your eyes on, putting up this huge 3-man bivvy - all for himself for a days fishing.
No matter what the weather rain, hail or shine up it goes! Then after 2 hours of pratting about starts rooting through his luggage and then finally pulls out an important bit of kit..... he puts the kettle on!
Bearing in mind the rest of us drink from flasks and prioritise, we're usually up and running and fishing within 10 minutes of arriving. This guy, who after 2 hours hasn't even set his rods up never mind wet a line, is sat having a tea break!
And so then onto catching fish?
Sure why not, I mean that's why he's there right? It's the reason we all go fishing... to try and catch a few. Not quite.
After wasting what seems like an eternity setting up his stall, drinking tea and chatting on his phone, he finally gets a couple of his rods out from his holdhall and lays them in position across his bank sticks only.... he doesn't like how they're positioned so naturally he bangs the buggers in some place else more to his liking. But finally, he's in and he's fishing!
Except he isn't. He's just 'testing', 'casting' and 'adjusting', bumping his lead across gravel bars 'feeling'... gradually building up' a picture of the lake bed. Basically procrastinating.
All this messing around costs him, what we would call 'invaluable' fishing time. He tries to explain that 'prep time' is an important part of fishing, which would be true if your there for maybe a weekend or a whole week.... but for a day? I honestly don't know what's going on with him. I suspect he's a one species angler who's sick of catching his quarry... ?
Now I have to say, he wasn't always like this. About 10 years ago when i first introduced him to fishing I remember he was all set up, enthusiastically catching in under an hour. Which by today's standard is damned bloody fast! He certainly liked to 'reel em in' and he's caught plenty too. In fact he's a keen advocate of using our quality natural (as opposed to synthetic flavoured) real-food bait and has contributed somewhat to the development of our rig bits by giving valuable feedback. He really has had some stunning fish.
Now he just sits there fiddling with stuff inside his bivvy, cursing when he catches too many. I think he's lost the plot.
Too many?
Lets just say, there is a guy I know who on occasion fishes with us who spends an extraordinary amount of time and energy lugging around his kitchen sink, hacking at vegetation, driving in bank sticks and tent pegs with the biggest mallet you ever set your eyes on, putting up this huge 3-man bivvy - all for himself for a days fishing.
No matter what the weather rain, hail or shine up it goes! Then after 2 hours of pratting about starts rooting through his luggage and then finally pulls out an important bit of kit..... he puts the kettle on!
Bearing in mind the rest of us drink from flasks and prioritise, we're usually up and running and fishing within 10 minutes of arriving. This guy, who after 2 hours hasn't even set his rods up never mind wet a line, is sat having a tea break!
And so then onto catching fish?
Sure why not, I mean that's why he's there right? It's the reason we all go fishing... to try and catch a few. Not quite.
After wasting what seems like an eternity setting up his stall, drinking tea and chatting on his phone, he finally gets a couple of his rods out from his holdhall and lays them in position across his bank sticks only.... he doesn't like how they're positioned so naturally he bangs the buggers in some place else more to his liking. But finally, he's in and he's fishing!
Except he isn't. He's just 'testing', 'casting' and 'adjusting', bumping his lead across gravel bars 'feeling'... gradually building up' a picture of the lake bed. Basically procrastinating.
All this messing around costs him, what we would call 'invaluable' fishing time. He tries to explain that 'prep time' is an important part of fishing, which would be true if your there for maybe a weekend or a whole week.... but for a day? I honestly don't know what's going on with him. I suspect he's a one species angler who's sick of catching his quarry... ?
Now I have to say, he wasn't always like this. About 10 years ago when i first introduced him to fishing I remember he was all set up, enthusiastically catching in under an hour. Which by today's standard is damned bloody fast! He certainly liked to 'reel em in' and he's caught plenty too. In fact he's a keen advocate of using our quality natural (as opposed to synthetic flavoured) real-food bait and has contributed somewhat to the development of our rig bits by giving valuable feedback. He really has had some stunning fish.
Now he just sits there fiddling with stuff inside his bivvy, cursing when he catches too many. I think he's lost the plot.