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one other thing.....this may sound strange...but I often just get a 'feeling' about certain areas for fish. Sometimes when an area is quiet, something just changes and you can feel it...I dont know how to explain...but fish often bite then for me.
A subliminal response to a set of circumstances that provoke animals into hunting and feeding. As humans and fish are animals it stands to reason that these triggers would have a similar affect on both.
Providing that enough of the triggers coincide the human predator would be capable of picking up on them (even though our predatory urge has been somewhat dulled by lifestyle recently)
Yes, yes, yes, now we are gettin the gist of provoking our minds to think.
Steve B, You are onto it. It is called blending with nature, the same as what every animal and barra does- they blend with nature because they are nature- so too are we.
Dick Pasfield has it in one. Some of our human instincts are being lost in lifestyles where we no longer require them, so we become less tuned to our environments.
Steve, Nath, that feeling you describe has answers for you. Maybe you could write down your experience on a note pad and recall what changed or what occured for you to think it was 'fishy time'!
I too had those experiences 8 yrs ago where I was with friends on Awoonga driving along and I stopped the boat and said "over there,,,,,we must be over there". They asked why?,,I said i don't know, but we just have to be there because everything looks right. But what looks right, they asked? I said "I don't know, but we must fish." We did and we hooked lots of hungry barra.
The point is that you/anyone as an angler notice plenty of things that occur during any day. They may not mean a lot until you ask yourself 50 dumb questions about that topic. If you answer them to yourself you give yourself thousands more ideas and clues to work with over time.
That day that I noticed something about that piece of water was the way that it moved, the shape of the waves, the formation of the bubble/wind lanes on the surface. At the time I never knew about currents. It was the opener for me.
It is the same when you 'feel' like a barra is going to bite or when conditions change or you think you know when it is going to happen. Maybe it is simple as taking off your jumper or noticing a 'look' or a inner gut feeling about something you have experienced before but never expanded upon why,,,,,,,,until now that is!! Why do you take your jumper off, why do you put one on? What is happening to the environment at that same time you do that?
I fished with a man yesterday, smart angler who catches lots of Awoonga barra. We'd fished for 30 mins. Nature threw in a trigger and I expected a barra within two minutes. It happened. I asked this man at the end of the day if he noticed when that fish bit. He said no. I bet he is still thinking about it now. That's all I want anglers to do more of, is start taking more notice of their environment and of course monitoring individual angler's actions. Take notes, compare results. Check your clock.
Later in the same day another trigger came into play. I said "a barra in 4 casts". I was wrong, it took about 10 casts. More barra hook ups followed in the next ten minutes. As mentioned in a post of mine yesterday, the weather governs when and why barra feed. Dairy keeping is golden. They paint a far out picture that will blow your mind.
Areas to expand on include- when, where, why, how? Go and take a peek at that list of variables once again if you want questions or topics to ask yourself. Bore yourself to death now with 50 million silly questions that will give you 50 million silly answers that you can call upon to sift through to build yourself a bigger picture. But only if you want to. Silly questions are the best ones.
Johnny
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Originally Posted by Roo
While its fine to talk about gut feelings ( a place looks fishy) instincts or to talk about the weather .................................................. .................................................. ......But what are we looking for in a landlocked impoundment ? ....... Why is it that you can flog a piece of water to foam ..... then make a lure change or alter a retrieve style & catch fish ? ...... to me this just leads to more questions
