07-09-2011, 01:42 PM
haha that sounds a lot like me and my brother-in-law. I had never really fished and He fished as a boy and we went once together and we both got "hooked". [sly]
the best advice people could give us is just get out there. don't buy a crap load of gear you have no idea how to use. and JUST GET OUT THERE! We had this particular bad streak where neither of us caught fish for maybe 14 trips. and the thing is, is that before each trip we would run over to sportsmans warehouse, look at the white board(we had NO idea what we were reading) found what they were being caught on and buy hundreds of dollars worth of lures we never fished with or knew how. All 14 trips we thought that it was the dumb lures that were not catching us fish. (how could they do that to us[:p]). We then made a rule that we could not judge a lake by if people were catching fish there or not and we could not look at the white board. We just started learning for ourselves. I started over completely. I had one of those really small blue tackle boxes that could almost fit in your pocket. I had one lure that I knew I could fish with. fished with it a lot and eventually started trying knew things and mastering them. I apologise if that sounds like I am taking a crack at you because I am not what so ever. I can match your post almost excatly with mine 3 years ago.
I hope you have a fantastic time fishing and just know it gets better. (cause there will definatly be times where you want to quit)
Hope this helps
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the best advice people could give us is just get out there. don't buy a crap load of gear you have no idea how to use. and JUST GET OUT THERE! We had this particular bad streak where neither of us caught fish for maybe 14 trips. and the thing is, is that before each trip we would run over to sportsmans warehouse, look at the white board(we had NO idea what we were reading) found what they were being caught on and buy hundreds of dollars worth of lures we never fished with or knew how. All 14 trips we thought that it was the dumb lures that were not catching us fish. (how could they do that to us[:p]). We then made a rule that we could not judge a lake by if people were catching fish there or not and we could not look at the white board. We just started learning for ourselves. I started over completely. I had one of those really small blue tackle boxes that could almost fit in your pocket. I had one lure that I knew I could fish with. fished with it a lot and eventually started trying knew things and mastering them. I apologise if that sounds like I am taking a crack at you because I am not what so ever. I can match your post almost excatly with mine 3 years ago.
I hope you have a fantastic time fishing and just know it gets better. (cause there will definatly be times where you want to quit)
Hope this helps
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