What Makes Fish Bite?

[Spoonminnow]

One final note (I promise) - (Thank God! you're thinking), I have a pond in my backyard that has bass, sunfish and perch I stocked. Two doz. sunfish have been trained to come towards me from all directions when they see me standing on a small dock. The reason: little balls of bread I roll and throw to them that I started doing a few years ago. Fish go crazy competing for the bread, slamming into one another at the surface. They even come close just beneath me waiting for those starch tidbits. Kind of reminds me of feeding gold fish in a bowl, sprinkling who-knows-what the fish eat daily with gusto. Lures made with so many different materials, in so many colors qualify as a big question mark as far as fish are concerned. If it is edible, eat it; if it's just annoying - KILL IT!!! - (temper, temper, temper!)

[DockShootinJack]

Nice bait

[Spoonminnow]

These two sentences in Micanopy's reply crack me up every time I read them! Both used to apply to me once upon a time having spent thousands of dollars searching for that perfect lure or lures that do it all.

The solution can be easily deduced if you take the square root of stupid and divide by fickle.

My guess is that fish are so dumb that our application of logic and reason cannot stoop low enough to be of any significant value.

If I only knew then what I know now:


...as well as similar no-action-tail shapes.


It's as simple as cutting off the tail of a curl tail grub and working it with a combination of rod tip twitches and slight reel handle turns. EVERYTHING strikes it!!! Please try it. You will be pleasantly surprised.