The whole idea is to 'catch something' ... and all methods have a time & place where they shine. Some look for numbers, some look for size, some look for that "one" wallhanger, and some don't even keep the ones they do catch. Some like to see the "bounce, then slowly bending rod tip" ... others like to see their "float slowly sink into the depths" ... others like to "feel the thump", or just the sudden realization of weight on the end of the line ... and some like to "see the line bounce, move to one side, or suddenly go slack" (when the bait cannot possibly be on bottom), never having felt a thing.

One has to define "exciting", in their own terms ... then translate that to the methods used. Catching fish is exciting, in and of itself. How you do it is secondary to the results you get, from the methods you use. Ain't none of them exciting if you're not catching fish when you're using them banghead But ... put together a pattern of where they are & what method presents your bait to them in the most proficient manner ... and start catching some ... then ANY method being used, at the time, can be exciting.

I'm reminded of a trip to KY Lake, many decades ago, when my partner & I were casting Roadrunners back in a bay pocket. There were 3 guys in a boat anchored right in the middle of that pocket, each using multiple cane poles & floats w/minnows. We circled around their boat, casting & catching Crappie no more than 10ft from their floats ... one fish every few minutes. On the other hand, they'd sit for many minutes not catching a fish .... then all of a sudden two or three of them would be jerking & slinging fish into the boat, two or three fish at a time. They'd pop'em into the livewell, untangle their messes & re-bait, then sit back & wait for the next "firedrill" to occur. Both boats were having a blast, fishing the way they wanted to & catching fish doing so. There was another boat, with two other friends of mine, sitting a little ways off from where my partner & I and the cane polers were .... tightlining minnows in a deeper section of the bay. They, too, were filling their stringers ... fishing the way they wanted to fish. It was all good, for everyone concerned !!


... cp