Best And Worst Piece Of Fishing Advice You Ever Got 2025

riskkid 2 reply :

Mine was:

Best - Don't over think it!

Worst - Don't worry about the hook! (given while being taught how to pitch, right before I buried the hook in my hand)

00 mod reply :

Best: hook sets are free

Worst: stick to the tried and true baits. If I would have listened, I probably would have given up fishing but instead I branched out.

Jeff

Jig Man reply :

Best KEEP UM BAIT IN WATER!!!!!!!!!!!!!

quanjig reply :

Best: when fishing shallow water "it's always a little deeper than you think."

Dwight Hottle reply :

The good-Slow down when jig fishing.

The bad-Le'ts leave these fish to find some bigger ones in another spot.

aavery2 reply :

Buy a Boat

Big-O reply :

Best: Fish the most where others fish the least... Learn those areas in detail and you'll probably find fish that have never seen a hook. Keep your area quiet and you'll have it to yourself for years to come.

Worst: This isn't a good day to Fish

Big O

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zip pow reply :

Best : The more you fish the more big fish you'll catch

Worst: line doesn't matter i had this spooled up for three years

A-Jay reply :

- Learn to fish at night -

This was Best And Worst piece of Fishing Advice I Ever received - thanks Dad.

A-Jay

Crankenstein Crony reply :

Best - Don't be content with the knowledge you have. Never stop learning.

Worst - (On day of tournament) Hey I fished here yesterday and caught 18 pounds.... Needless to say, we caught nothing out of that spot and sat on it all day long.

HookSetDon reply :

you wont catch fish if your line isnt in the water

Megastink reply :

Best: Throw what you are confident in.

Worst: "That guy" doesn't know what he is talking about...

Bassn Blvd reply :

Worst- Fish don't bite on a full moon.

Best- Don't give up fishing for a girl.

Mich. St8 Spartan reply :

Best: If you think you can you will, if you think you can't your right!

Raider Nation Fisher reply :

Best: Invest some money in your baits and equipment.

Worst: Invest some money in your baits and equipment.

2nd best: When you feel the tap, cross its eyes.

Elk River reply :

Best-Pay attention to everything. Worst-Keep what u catch.

flippin and pitchin reply :

Best: Where there's little fish, there's big fish.

Worst: Where there's little fish, there's big fish.

You have to know the guy that gave it.

BassinSoldier reply :

BIG-O says: "Worst: This isn't a good day to Fish"...reminds me of a certain day back in May of 2010 on a certain Pickwick Lake. Hahaha!

JT_NCbassman reply :

Best - 55 degree Water? Grab your spinnerbait, don't take your foot off the trolling motor, look for light spots. - Dad Also, 90% of the fish are in 10% of the water. AND - Turtles on the logs? fish shallow.

Worst - " If you keep hitting that Female with your white Lizard, she will leave the bed." ( Next time I bumped her, she inhaled that white Lizard) Also -- " These fish won't strike a topwater when the suns gets bright and the wind lays down" ( Filled my limit of spots on Lake Norman on a Sammy 65... then I gave the boater a Sammy 65) tehehe.

Wild Bill [NY] reply :

The Best:: [Taught by my Dad back in 1960, when I was just six years old.]

"Fish that Jitterbug at night with a slow steady retreive".

52 years later , it still gets BIG fish for me..

Thank you , Dad !!

WdyCrankbait reply :

Best piece of advice: Join a bass club

Worst piece of advice: from myself, The Flying Lure looks like it will work.

roadwarrior reply :

Worst: Granddaddy around 1959: "What's ya doin' with that rubber worm?

We got plenty of worms and minnows".

Best: Sports show in the winter of '98: "You need to give this a try, it's called a Senko".

Gangley reply :

Best: Quit changing baits so often, to catch a fish your hooks gotta be wet

Worst: Fish don't bite on bluebird days

Gatorbassman reply :

Best- When you can't seem to figure them out stop and eat a sandwich.

Worst - After you feel the bite, reel your slack in slowly, count to three and set the hook...... That's Hogwash.

retiredbosn reply :

Worst: Rubber worms won't catch fish!!!! Keep spawning females, the roe is great with scrambled eggs!!!!

Best: Confidence is key to catching fish. Keep learning, but never forget the classic standards. (this one thing has helped me catch fish when I thought nothing would work, still keep white inline mepps spinners in the box)

bigbill reply :

Before my older brother passed away he always said keep going and sooner or later the fish will turn on. We fished from shore mainly and he was right. I seen him find a honey hole in saltwater for stripers and came home with two 60'' stripers from shore. He never told anyone but i knew where he was fishing.

One eveninmg while bass fishing with a crowd of fisherman all around me I was catching bass after bass when no one else caught nothing. I looked up and said to him to stop it these people are going to throw me in the water..... its true.

Don't under estimate a mepps inline with a front approaching. And if your having success with a #3 mepps and thye bite slows down up size to a number #4 or #5. The bigger fish will come in to see what the smaller fish are up to but won't hit the smaller sized baits.

My tackle boxes have the older go-to proven baits as well as the newer baits too.

SmokeRise1 reply :

Best- "Check out Bassresource.com. You'll learn everything you need to know about fishing from that site"

Worst- "You'll learn everything you need to learn about fishing from that site"

I learn a little about fishing everytime I go fishing. Sometimes you just have to figure out stuff for yourself to make it stick.

**On second thought, I probably read that on this site too.

Ratherbfishing reply :

Worst advice: "Don't worry. That storm is going to miss us."

Best advice: "Can't catch fish with your lure out of the water."

Fontana Finesse Man reply :

Best piece of advice: Don't listen to dock talk!

Worst piece of advice: Sure we can make it back there, just don't let out of it!

Wild Bill [NY] reply :

On 2/29/2012 at 10:26 PM, flukemaster said:
Best- When you can't seem to figure them out stop and eat a sandwich

My brothers and I use to have a saying for when things got slow while fishing....

It related to slowing down the way we worked baits , and that often when we stopped working a bait, and just let it soak, to either have a sandwich or to take a leak...and it almost never failed that we would then get bit as it sat still.

We called it the Di-k in hand or sandwich in hand bite...

Har, har, har !!!

Nitrofreak reply :

Best = From Dad...Son it's not just about the fishing out here on the water, it's time invested in yourself and the time you invest and give to others so that they may enjoy the same thing you do, learn as much as you can and give as much as you can.

Worst = From Dad...Just marry the girl...fishing will just be an added bonus.

Bass Dude reply :

Best: My best friend when I was ten years old "Go fishing with me, you'll love it!"

Worst: After a couple decades of fishing and lots cash spent....My best friend when I was ten years old "Go fishing with me, you'll love it!"

I thank him everyday for giving the gift of fishing. I don't know how my life would be without fishing and I don't want to find out.

tholmes reply :

Best (from my Grandpa) : "If you start keepin' track of who caught how many, you've changed the sport of fishing into just a game."

Worst: "You'll never catch anything on those stupid rubber worms."

Tom

tugsandpulls reply :

best advice fish can be caught in any weather worst advice you cant catch fish in this weather

redboat reply :

Worst advice I ever GAVE, to my wife, "Quit working that Senko so fast, you'll never get a bite!" Given less than 10 seconds before she hooked a 10-6 largemouth on that wacky rigged Senko she was buring across the surface.

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g200/pscarbor/JoysBass.jpg

IneedAnewScreenName-972354 reply :

Best: "Jimmy Houston"-- Every cast you make increases your odds of catching a fish.

Worst: I wouldn't go fishing, it's suppose to rain.

The last is more of an opinion of some people but if I had to wait for the "perfect" day to go fishing I wouldn't get to go very often.

Here is my advice. Go fishing every chance you get!

A-Jay reply :

On 3/1/2012 at 10:09 AM, redboat said:

Worst advice I ever GAVE, to my wife, "Quit working that Senko so fast, you'll never get a bite!" Given less than 10 seconds before she hooked a 10-6 largemouth on that wacky rigged Senko she was buring across the surface.

http://i56.photobuck...or/JoysBass.jpg

That's Classic - you'll be hearing about that one for a while.

AJay

Georgia Jeff reply :

Best: Try a baitcaster/braided line/black trick worm and you'll never go back.

Worst: It's too windy to fish (with only a 10 mph wind blowing).

ROCbass reply :

On 2/29/2012 at 4:52 PM, JT_NCbassman said:

Worst - " If you keep hitting that Female with your white Lizard, she will leave the bed." ( Next time I bumped her, she inhaled that white Lizard)

In my experience when you're told to stop hitting a female with your white lizard, its best to listen. Otherwise, you'll be the one leaving the bed.

StinkyBass reply :

Best: Match the hatch

Worst: if the weather sucks, dont go fishing...

Mdevo9 reply :

Best- know what it feels like when you don't have a fish on the line, anything different, set the hook.

Raider Nation Fisher reply :

On 3/3/2012 at 1:06 AM, ROCbass said:

In my experience when you're told to stop hitting a female with your white lizard, its best to listen. Otherwise, you'll be the one leaving the bed.

ROFLMAO

Thank you so much, I just laughed water out of my nose and all over my phone.

WdyCrankbait reply :

On 3/4/2012 at 8:05 AM, Mdevo9 said:

Best- know what it feels like when you don't have a fish on the line, anything different, set the hook.

Nice, and so very true!!!

JoePhish reply :

Best: Finish your retrieve all the way to the boat/shore.

My personal best was caught about a foot from shore.

Worst: Pending

JoePhish reply :

On 2/29/2012 at 4:52 PM, JT_NCbassman said:
Turtles on the logs? fish shallow.

Thought of this post after I saw that the turtles were sunbathing today.

Caught a She-hog in about 8 inches of water in a spot I wouldn't normally cast to. Thanks.

JT_NCbassman reply :

On 3/3/2012 at 1:06 AM, ROCbass said:

In my experience when you're told to stop hitting a female with your white lizard, its best to listen. Otherwise, you'll be the one leaving the bed.

Hahaha. You gotta just eeeeease it in there.

deep reply :

Best: Have faith in big baits

Worst: Too many to mention..

matallman09 reply :

Best- Be patient

Worst- Don't cast there you'll lose your lure.

LVLDVL reply :

Worse: "What the hell are you gonna catch with that big *** lure [1/2oz spinnerbait]?!"

(note: I'm from Minnesota, go figure. Once in Wisconsin, I freaked out a fisherman as I walked past him with a 6" senko, it wasn't even my 7" senko. It's like he's never seen anything bigger than 3 inches. )

Best: [a concensus among the bass angling culture] "Spinnerbaits will catch bass, in 30 degree or 90 degree weather, spring, summer or fall, clear water or muddy water, in California, Texas or Minnesota."

Edit: Didn't mean to leave out the eastern guys. I just don't have much exposure to the east so I don't know what is the mecca of East coast bass fishing.

Handy reply :

The best has always been "lets go fishin!" The worst is when the pros say "let the fish tell you what they want". Some days the fish are very quite in my parts.

Paul

loodkop reply :

Best. Its not raining/blowing under the water. Worst. Buy this reel. Its got more bearings than that Shimano in your hand.

10644

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