Texas Transplant
Well-Known Member
On Saturday night, I got sidetracked off of my 'plan' from the get-go. I never could seem to get back on track, and I let it affect my overall attitude and subsequently my fishing. The storms that we had wound up contributing, but overall, the damage was already done.
Here's the situation.
Originally, I was to be a single boater fishing alone. Accordingly, I planned my evening/night of fishing based upon this. Got all my gear together, and the boat outfitted. Pulled out of the driveway and headed towards the ramp.
About half way there, I got a call from our President. He wanted to make a change to the boating assignments, so that we would maximize the boater/non-boater seating (we score both team and individual in our tourneys). I agreed to take one of our newer members (young guy who has a decent attitude and fishing ability). However, having agreeded to do this, it changed my plan completely.
I had planned to spend the first hour doing nothing but re-tracing my previous Saturday (federation tourney), making sure I knew what areas had brushpiles and blowdowns in them. I wanted to be certain, for those areas would likely hold fish after dark when they came up to feed.
I was going to follow that with a couple of hours drop shotting some deeper structure, waiting for it to get dark.
My partner for the evening, said those immmortal words that we all dread hearing:
'I've got a spot only 10 minutes from here that will put two limits in the boat in 30 minutes, and I haven't fished it for the last 10 days'. He was excited. You can just guess what happened. Not even a bite.
What suggestions might you have for woking on my physche? I just simply seem to 'get off my plan', and then suffer afterward.
What do you do, to help adjust to this type of situation?
Tex
Here's the situation.
Originally, I was to be a single boater fishing alone. Accordingly, I planned my evening/night of fishing based upon this. Got all my gear together, and the boat outfitted. Pulled out of the driveway and headed towards the ramp.
About half way there, I got a call from our President. He wanted to make a change to the boating assignments, so that we would maximize the boater/non-boater seating (we score both team and individual in our tourneys). I agreed to take one of our newer members (young guy who has a decent attitude and fishing ability). However, having agreeded to do this, it changed my plan completely.
I had planned to spend the first hour doing nothing but re-tracing my previous Saturday (federation tourney), making sure I knew what areas had brushpiles and blowdowns in them. I wanted to be certain, for those areas would likely hold fish after dark when they came up to feed.
I was going to follow that with a couple of hours drop shotting some deeper structure, waiting for it to get dark.
My partner for the evening, said those immmortal words that we all dread hearing:
'I've got a spot only 10 minutes from here that will put two limits in the boat in 30 minutes, and I haven't fished it for the last 10 days'. He was excited. You can just guess what happened. Not even a bite.
What suggestions might you have for woking on my physche? I just simply seem to 'get off my plan', and then suffer afterward.
What do you do, to help adjust to this type of situation?
Tex