I've fished my entire 30 years on this planet, and in the last 11 years I haven't caught a single one. Help.

So this is actually true... I live in Montana and we generally are fishing for trout in a lake. When I was a kid I would catch fish quite often, but I can't remember catching a fish since the time I was around 19. This isn't a joke, I fish quite a bit because I love to just be outdoors and on or around water, and that's all I chalk up fishing up to for me the past few days. When I say I'm going fishing, all that means in my mind is I'm going to sit in my boat and enjoy the sunshine and put a string in the water for no reason. I've tried every kind of bait, every kind of hook, and advice from hundreds of people who claim to be a expert. Nothing. Trolling, casting, doesn't matter... The fish exist, last weekend I was fishing from shore near a kid who I watched pull 5 or so fish from the lake in about a hour... At one point I yelled over and asked what he was using, he said just a worm on a hook... Me too kid, me too. True story, me and my wife were fishing one day at the river, she had caught a few fish, me nothing... At the end of the night she threw her empty hook in the water to clean it off, and cought another fish.

It has me confused and I would like to end this cycle this year and somehow catch a fish... Maybe someone on here can teach me something I haven't heard before.

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by HiImJustMike