Yesterday was off-clear skies
Partner lost 2 real good fish
Today some better - boated 2, lost 2, one was an awesome fish I missed and came back for- he hit, fought hard - then grass wrapped me.
When you are consistently losing some big fish, that is still a good sign you are playing in the right spot.
And I’m going to add with frog fishing, you’re not going to catch 100%
The percentage of boated fish is smaller, even for the professionals- the reason is multifold - frog hooks point up-so you hook them in the “palate”most of the time. If you give them any slack, the hook falls out. A lot of the times when you get them in the boat, the hook will fall out of their mouth.
Also, the grass….it gives them an advantage to wrap in and create slack-
For the most part, it is almost violent… the hit scares you to death half the time- but occasionally, they will just suck the bait under.
Then, you have to horse the fish out quick as you can- a lot of times there will be so much grass around the fish you cant see it- it’s like hey I just caught a big bowl of turnip greens.
Right now the fish are laying outside the mat or coming out from under it to ambush the bait.
Also an owl got after my frog- death from above - didn’t expect that.
Partner lost 2 real good fish
Today some better - boated 2, lost 2, one was an awesome fish I missed and came back for- he hit, fought hard - then grass wrapped me.
When you are consistently losing some big fish, that is still a good sign you are playing in the right spot.
And I’m going to add with frog fishing, you’re not going to catch 100%
The percentage of boated fish is smaller, even for the professionals- the reason is multifold - frog hooks point up-so you hook them in the “palate”most of the time. If you give them any slack, the hook falls out. A lot of the times when you get them in the boat, the hook will fall out of their mouth.
Also, the grass….it gives them an advantage to wrap in and create slack-
For the most part, it is almost violent… the hit scares you to death half the time- but occasionally, they will just suck the bait under.
Then, you have to horse the fish out quick as you can- a lot of times there will be so much grass around the fish you cant see it- it’s like hey I just caught a big bowl of turnip greens.
Right now the fish are laying outside the mat or coming out from under it to ambush the bait.
Also an owl got after my frog- death from above - didn’t expect that.
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