Grimace Posted September 10, 2011 Report Share Posted September 10, 2011 A fish doesn't give a crap if you have confidence in your lure or not. In certain situations, lures either work or they don't. Silly mind games with yourself are just that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irishfield Posted September 10, 2011 Report Share Posted September 10, 2011 Well Dave.. when I get you up to Temagami and I'm ice fishing that 8" Muskie Tube, with confidence, and you're laughing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimace Posted September 10, 2011 Report Share Posted September 10, 2011 Well Dave.. when I get you up to Temagami and I'm ice fishing that 8" Muskie Tube, with confidence, and you're laughing... There is only one reason that I would ever laugh at that - I would have one upped you by jigging a big ole octupus!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctranter Posted September 10, 2011 Report Share Posted September 10, 2011 I try to look at my tackle box and apply the same indiscriminate values that I apply to my job as a teacher. Sometimes I randomly use lures that I have little confidence in to allow for the opportunity to be surprised. Don't get me wrong, I still use species-specific baits... but I feel that I too often force myself into the same typical model of thinking, that isn't always best. I usually bust out my consistent baits first, but if they fail I won't hesitate to try something new, or something unexpected. If we never experimented, we would never find new baits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike rousseau Posted September 10, 2011 Report Share Posted September 10, 2011 (edited) I don't understand why anybody would buy a lure they have no confidence in... When I buy lures... I'm 95% sure I can catch fish on em... Maybe not pound... But catch something... Edited September 10, 2011 by Musky Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lew Posted September 10, 2011 Report Share Posted September 10, 2011 I used to fish muskies with a couple buds who used Sledges alot and liked them so I went out and bought a couple. I fished them for a season but just never really took a liking to them, didn't have much confidence in them, and gave them away. A couple years later I was fishing with someone else on the Ottawa River and watched him get a 30 pounder on a white Sledge so figured it was time to give them another try. The white Sledge has now become one of my top 3 lures and gets me alot of nice fish every year. Funny how things turn around Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike rousseau Posted September 10, 2011 Report Share Posted September 10, 2011 Well i guess black perch did that this year... Everyone told me it worked... So I bought lures I liked in that color and got musky on em... But I was pretty confident they would work... I trust the people that give me info... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelAngelo Posted September 11, 2011 Report Share Posted September 11, 2011 Anyone ever catch a fish with a lure that you had no confidence in? OMGOSH I saw this post and I must reply! Recent story: Fishing off the dock at my friend's cottage, no luck with mepps, rapala shads, spoons, etc. Got frustrated so I took out this old random lure I didn't even know how to work in the water and... BAM smallmouth as soon as it hit the water. Anyway.... *pats myself on the back* good story Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adolson Posted September 11, 2011 Report Share Posted September 11, 2011 I don't have much confidence in my spinners. I only caught what's in my avatar on one of them, and other that that, nothing. I know they work. I've seen a big pike caught on a Mepps #3! The other no-confidence lures for me are the Moto Minnow (uh...) and the version of the Jitterbug that I own (hooks on back). The former, well, it's a freaking wind-up toy. The latter, I have had a few strikes, but I dunno, there are just two hooks at the back, and so the fish have to hit it a certain way to even have a chance at setting the hook. I only had one on once, and I thought I had set the hook, and suddenly I had confidence in it. Maybe I did it too hard, or maybe it didn't have the hooks in its mouth at all - I don't know, but it got off after 15-20 seconds or so, and away went my confidence. I like the lure, just not the hooks. I want the other version with the Hula Popper-like double hanging trebles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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