Bass fishing

A fish’s survival depends on its ability to feed successfully. Fish exploit instances and situations that give them the very best intake for a given amount of energy output.

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Fish are not smart they are instinctive. Bass anglers need to be smart to grasp that instinct.

Think, imagine, apply sensibly and creatively your own experiences and influences to your own fishing. No two anglers, situations or indeed locations are the same.

What’s different for you is not always similar for me so why waste time refuting generalisations?

Consider too what your fishing might want from you.

A favourite fly

Tying a flatwing – here

Multi feather flatwing tie

Multi-Feather Flatwing from Tightline Productions on Vimeo.

Joe Cordiero ties a Multi-Feather Flatwing pattern that’s a perfect prey imitation. He ties this one on his favorite flat-wing hook, the Eagle Claw L253 in a 2/0 size.

Ask yourself the questions, what am I doing here at this time and what brought me to this place?

If its a simple reason/s there’s no complexity.

The key to catching any fish prone to tidal and weather influences is finding them in the midst of those influences. Sometimes, just sometimes they’re simply not there in any numbers or indeed perhaps not at all. Exceptional fishing happens, good and bad, early and late, big and small, a common part of frequent normality in a wild environment.

Are you casting or are you fishing?