Thread: Back to the basics-- I forgot how much fun it is.

excellent post!!!! love the single pole!!

Thank You!!

I like the thump as much as any of us do. But I also like learning new things and catching lots of fish. I pulled cranks in TN when everyone else was chasing bedding fish......And wearing them out! I was hitting them staging and leaving the bedding areas. Point is I just like catching fish. I change techniques from time to time, just to keep it interesting. Given one way to fish I suppose it would be tossing a jig with a good rod, as long as I could shoot the next dock with it.

Good with me. Catch on!

IF I went back to "basics" (MY beginnings) ... it would be with a couple of med action fiberglass rods and spincast reels, 8lb test mono, sinker/hook with a minner hooked thru the back ... just below the dorsal fin. And I'd be in a boat tied up to a tree trunk, "still fishing" (commonly called "tightline" today) ... waiting for hours on end for the fish to come to me.

I'd also be daydreaming about how it would be to cast a white marabou jig and catch them ... just like the brother of my Grandparents best friends did. Once I did experience doing it that way, and my Grandparents followed suit, it opened up a whole new experience for me. And since those days, 50 some years ago, I've kept adding new techniques and the equipment needed to facilitate using them. It's an ongoing process, but you never forget or give up on the "basics" of your first experience ... and that's why I still carry a minner bucket in my boat at all times.

I'm teaching my 4yr old how to fish and I went back to the ultimate basics, cane pole with a single hook and bobber. Fishing at a small pond that has bream, small crappie and bass. I think I had more fun than him.....he said I kept hogging the pole.

I have sold all equipment except single pole . I enjoy all of it as long as with friends. I finally came to the realization that fly fishing and ultra-lite casting for bream if fishing alone was more fun to me . I really enjoy a change every once in a while so I catch a trip with c.c friends. I thought it was the fishing but turned out to be fishing pals that make the sport most fun . To each his own I guess .

Have always been a tight line single pole guy while my partner is a slip bobber dude. Both work tho I have consistantly caught lot more than he has but did start doing some trolling last year and will try spider rigging and pushing cranks this year. BUT live for the thump and you just can't get that with anything but the tight line! it's all good guys and mostly about having fun with good friends and family