January catfish
New Jersey Fishing
Jan 10, 2023 11:01:45 #
So you’re not revealing your top secret. Dont share your fishing experience if you’re not going to the tell people where it is. It’s a big tease
Jan 10, 2023 12:09:29 #
bapabear
Loc: Blaine, Washington
NJ219bands wrote:
Spot jumpers make it impossible to catch fish. The best fishing is where there are no people. Crowded fishing is not good. It’s a miracle that nobody took over my spot yet. After I am forced out of my spot by intruders, I usually stop catching fish. Some modern fishermen have no respect for other fishermen.
You might reconsider blaming the problem on modern fishermen. I have run into that problem back into the early 60'. Even when fishing is bad, people move in next to you when the whole lake available. Humans have as strong of herd instinct as sheep. Some of us are misfits that did not get that herd gene. Life is what it is.
Jan 10, 2023 12:16:59 #
We call that "Spot Burning " Bands. Or how to turn a good spot, into an overfished, barren spot.
Jan 10, 2023 12:35:50 #
bapabear
Loc: Blaine, Washington
Davidsherman wrote:
So you’re not revealing your top secret. Dont share your fishing experience if you’re not going to the tell people where it is. It’s a big tease
He was very generous in sharing his effective set up, bait and general location. Great post with good information. Do you want him to also bait your hook? Get out and fish. Trial and error will get you on the right spot. It is the search and challenge that makes fishing fun. He gave you exact 2 out of three parts to the puzzle. If you live in Central Jersey and that doesn't get you out exploring different fishing spots, you are probably perusing the wrong sport. Please, do not take offense to this response. It is no way an attack, just an attempt to clarify the situation as I see it.
Jan 10, 2023 12:36:01 #
Davidsherman wrote:
So you’re not revealing your top secret. Dont share your fishing experience if you’re not going to the tell people where it is. It’s a big tease
I bank fish, I will tell you what lake, what bait, what setup, what time, and thats it. Just call me tease.
Jan 10, 2023 12:37:34 #
bapabear wrote:
He was very generous in sharing his effective set ... (show quote)
Thanks bapabear, said it better than I could.
Jan 10, 2023 12:38:01 #
Fredfish wrote:
We call that "Spot Burning " Bands. Or how to turn a good spot, into an overfished, barren spot.
Jan 10, 2023 12:43:37 #
bapabear wrote:
You might reconsider blaming the problem on modern fishermen. I have run into that problem back into the early 60'. Even when fishing is bad, people move in next to you when the whole lake available. Humans have as strong of herd instinct as sheep. Some of us are misfits that did not get that herd gene. Life is what it is.
I am like you, I can enjoy my own company. Here is what drives me nuts I have just a small piece of bank to fish on and here comes the bass fishermen in his fancy boat and fishes almost on top of me. But I get even when they ask me what I am fishing for and I say Carp, and they laugh and ask if I eat them and I tell no I only eat bass.
Jan 10, 2023 13:04:55 #
Jan 10, 2023 13:11:51 #
Many of my posts listed locations but I may not reveal location again. I don’t enjoy crowds when I go fishing and usually catch nothing in a crowd.
Jan 10, 2023 13:16:33 #
ranger632 wrote:
I am like you, I can enjoy my own company. Here is what drives me nuts I have just a small piece of bank to fish on and here comes the bass fishermen in his fancy boat and fishes almost on top of me. But I get even when they ask me what I am fishing for and I say Carp, and they laugh and ask if I eat them and I tell no I only eat bass.
In the most densely populated state of NJ, I’ve actually had party boats stop and start fishing right in front of me in inlets where I was catching bluefish. Party boat fishermen caught my line and my bluefish escaped. Night fishing is the best.
Jan 10, 2023 13:55:16 #
Jan 10, 2023 13:55:32 #
NJ219bands wrote:
Many of my posts listed locations but I may not reveal location again. I don’t enjoy crowds when I go fishing and usually catch nothing in a crowd.
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Jan 10, 2023 13:56:35 #
NJ219bands wrote:
In the most densely populated state of NJ, I’ve actually had party boats stop and start fishing right in front of me in inlets where I was catching bluefish. Party boat fishermen caught my line and my bluefish escaped. Night fishing is the best.
I feel your pain brother
Jan 10, 2023 14:35:06 #
bapabear
Loc: Blaine, Washington
True story: I fished an area visible to the road, about 100 yards from 6 or 8 people on a river bank. I caught a red salmon. Within 10 minute all the fishermen in sight had slowly moved in and crowded me. Twice, my line was crossed and snagged with other lines. I packed up my fish and moved to the exact location (now barren of fishermen) that the others had moved from. Within a few minutes, I caught another salmon. ten minute to complete the same scenario. I again packed up and went back to my original spot. History repeated itself until my last move, when I packed up my limit of five and headed to the truck. By the time I left, the fishing crowd had doubled. The cap on the story is that I drove about two miles down river. I hiked in about 1/4 mile to the same river. With no one in sight, I caught a half dozen rainbows and dollys, 2 bigger than the reds, while releasing another limit of reds.. All the rainbows were released. This was back in the late 70's
Bottom line: most people had, have, and always will have a herd mentality.
Bottom line: most people had, have, and always will have a herd mentality.
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