The hardest part about bass fishing is......... 2024
Keri reply :
Please share your thoughts. 
NewAngler reply :
"one more cast"
Grey Wolf reply :
Applying the correct techniques at the correct time to maximize your catch. JMHO
casterus60 reply :
My wife !!!! ;D
Adam
basser89 reply :
The hardest part right now is keeping the guides from freezing up! 
Dan: reply :
finding fish in different conditions.
K_Mac reply :
The hardest part for me is time management on the water. Sometimes good can get in the way of best. Knowing when to try a different spot or technique when what I'm doing is working, but maybe not quite producing the quality fish I'm looking for. That, and staying on the boat. : That seems to be more of a challenge than it once was.
brushhoggin reply :
dealin with losing a big un'. :'(
jaymc reply :
Trying to focus on work, or your spouse's honey-do list, when your mind is on a bass blowing up on a topwater.
topwater.va reply :
The wait between fishing trips. and the bait monkey...
0119 reply :
Watching it get so commercialized and realizing no one is realizing the dangers of that.
Catt reply :
The anticipation of it all 
Wayne P. reply :
Getting from my residence to the body of water.
senko_77 reply :
cold hands. completely destroys my concentration
roadwarrior reply :
"Catching bass is easy, the challenge is finding them."
http://www.azbw.com/past_issues/november07/f4_patterningbass.php
8-)
Goose52 reply :
QuoteApplying the correct techniques at the correct time to maximize your catch. JMHO
Right on. When I first fished for bass in the late '50s, it was grab your one rod, with a couple of lures, and go to where you had luck before (although you didn't know why you had luck there), or to an area that looked "fishy" ... and you fished. We didn't know what we didn't know! Now, it's all very scientific with lots of baits for different conditions ... and different rods for each technique. The new technology improves the likelihood of catching fish for sure but also makes it complicated. I'm just now starting to learn this new stuff after a 40 year hiatus from bass fishing...
QuoteThe hardest part right now is keeping the guides from freezing up!
Same here - most of my water is frozen over right now but when I find an open patch of water, the guides ice up right away
Tokyo Tony reply :
The hardest part for me is consistently hooking up with bigger fish. Further, it's difficult for me to continue trying to catch bigger fish when I'm not having luck, instead of going to guaranteed dink spots to get my fix.
This is all assuming you're on the water. Overall, the toughest part is getting everything else taken care of so you can spend a good bit of time on the water.
tholmes reply :
For me, the hardest thing is finding a balance between exploring a technique to it's full potential and hanging on to it a bit (or a lot) too long.
When a certain bait and presentation has worked in the same conditions before, it's sometimes tough for me to admit to myself that it ain't working today.
Tom
Mottfia reply :
confidence. Going out there believing that you can catch fish in adverse conditions. believing that your spot or pattern holds them even though it doesn't produce or believing that you're able to make the correct adjustment if it fails. Confidence is definately the hardest part in my opinion
Mottfia
jaymc reply :
QuoteWatching it get so commercialized and realizing no one is realizing the dangers of that.
What is the danger?
5bass reply :
QuoteThe hardest part about bass fishing is.........
...finding the time to go.
Tin reply :
Dealing with senko-drowning trolling motor happy guys muddying up the shallows.
WRB reply :
QuoteQuoteThe hardest part about bass fishing is............finding the time to go.
+1 and the older you get the faster the time goes bye.
WRB
Randall reply :
dealing with the days you don't catch them and figuring out what you could do better or different next time to try to keep it from happening again.
Hookem reply :
Heading home at the end of a day.
angler1 reply :
For me, I would say the hardest part is picking the correct lure for that moment that I am fishing. I tend to always go for my "go to" lure instead of trying something that might make better sense and catch more fish.
salmicropterus reply :
Finding the fish.
SirSnookalot reply :
Quote"Catching bass is easy, the challenge is finding them."http://www.azbw.com/past_issues/november07/f4_patterningbass.php
8-)
When I see people posting of outings where they have caught 10-20 or even 50 bass, I say how hard can it really be?
Bass are abundant, hit on almost anything and are aggressive.....one of the easier fish to catch.
The challenge is finding and catching larger bass, but that goes for any species.
Bass_Akwards reply :
Im a firm believer that once you FIND the fish, pretty much anyone who's halfway descent at bass fishin' can catch them. Especially once they throw enough at them.
For guys like me it's not the fishing part that's difficult, it's understanding the fish's behavior(thus where they are located) based on time of year, water clarity, water temps, the thermocline, barometric pressure, structure, cover, food source and every other thing that makes them behave they way they do.
I hear pro anglers all the time talking about what the shad do when a certain lake starts getting more current at a specific spot, or what the females do when the water hits a certain tempurature, or where the spawning routes and other routes are and how the fish use them to spawn and move around a lake to hunt. That knowlege is invaluable and I don't seem to have it yet.
I think for the pro angler, the hardest thing about bass fishing is different than what guys like me think of.
For the pro, I guarentee the toughest thing for them is all the time they have to spend away from family and friends, being on the road. All the travel, and driving the boat across country back and forth, and then to find time for their sponsers on top of all that has GOT to be a gigantic pain in the butt. Spending half the time on the water, and the other half at bass Pro Shops, boat shows, lectures, designing lures etc. etc. is a monster grind I just don't know if i could handle.
Bobby Uhrig reply :
The hardest thing about bass fishing is hopping on one leg while having your foot come out of your shoe when stepping in all of the BS that these guys talk when bass fishing. >
avid reply :
Getting my butt outa bed at 4am.
Big Bass Chaser reply :
Finding the fish. Once you know where they are, you probably have a good idea of how to target them.
fishfordollars reply :
Convincing the wife that the dozen Lucky Craft lures you bought were 3.00 apiece, keeping a straight face, and convincing her that the bank made a mistake when processing your debit card.
Gatorbassman reply :
Quotedealing with the days you don't catch them and figuring out what you could do better or different next time to try to keep it from happening again.
I couldn't have said it better.
Stasher1 reply :
Getting home in time to get your BPS/Ebay/*** package off the front steps before the wife sees it.
quanjig reply :
I would have to say making good decisions on the water. "have I been here too long, do I need to look deeper, wonder if this is the right bait". In otherwords, so many questions, so very little time. I need my decisions to lead me to better quality fish, that my friends is what I think is Harrrrrrrd!!
nubasser reply :
saying no to the baitmonkey. ;D
TimJ reply :
finding fish and trying to figure out where they'll go when they move...that and having to leave fish when they're biting.
TJ
simplejoe reply :
QuoteConvincing the wife that the dozen Lucky Craft lures you bought were 3.00 apiece, keeping a straight face, and convincing her that the bank made a mistake when processing your debit card.
I've done that before.
The hardest part for me is when I put a pattern together and it fails.
Or when I find the fish and the pattern changes all of a sudden and I didn't put a strategy together fast enough to find the fish again before weight in time.
RoLo reply :
Quote"Catching bass is easy, the challenge is finding them."http://www.azbw.com/past_issues/november07/f4_patterningbass.php
8-)
This article is a good read and well worth your time.
Let's suppose you're planning to fish a new lake that you've never seen before,
and you've obtained a detailed tutorial written by a local expert.
You absorb every word that entails "WHEN", and every word that entails "WHERE".
If you find yourself disrespectively skipping over everything that entails "HOW",
you have the correct mindset, and you're a giant step ahead of the crowd.
As the article above stresses, "a bass is a bass" no matter where it lives.
Carolina rigs work in Oregon, Florida rigs work in Canada and swimbaits work in Rhode Island.
The hard part is to establish a "pattern" (Location + Timing).
Roger
DINK WHISPERER reply :
Finding time to actually go!
RoLo reply :
QuoteFinding time to actually go!
Did I leave the door open? ;D
Blue Streak reply :
Locating bass, once located you can usually get them to hit something.
santacruz reply :
having time to really devote to fishing.If it was up to me i'd be on the water from dawn to dawn lol.But on a serious note I think the hardest part of bass fishing is heavy fishing pressure lakes and cold front conditions.
lure junkie reply :
remembering that i should always enjoy the experience and never take it for granted
farmpond1 reply :
Boat control on a windy day. Everything else is a piece of cake by comparison.
Brine reply :
having the time
Frog Turds reply :
having to wait out the looooooooooong @ss winters in minnesota til opener >
JacobK reply :
Quotehaving to wait out the looooooooooong @ss winters in minnesota til opener >
truth cept' i'm in michigan. >
bassfisherjk reply :
Making time to get out.Once I'm headed to the lake,no troubles.
firefightn15 reply :
Staying focused when the bite is ice cold. I give in too easily. If I don't find them within an hour or two, I will start casting for musky or toying with the pan fish.
I wish my will were stronger. :-[
BassmanDan reply :
...being at work on a gorgeous day in March.
brushhoggin reply :
....being at work on a cloudy, 0 precipitation, with a 3-5 mph chop on the water day
opie reply :
...falling asleep the night before.
Opie
90x reply :
knowing when to stop
Paul Roberts reply :
Quote"Catching bass is easy, the challenge is finding them."http://www.azbw.com/past_issues/november07/f4_patterningbass.php 8-)
"Some anglers pay more attention and get more mileage out of a year than another guy will get out of a lifetime. Pay attention to your fishing and pretty soon you will find yourself establishing a pattern automatically." -Rick Clunn
WoolleyBass reply :
Quote"one more cast"
Yea that is by far the hardest part. Roby
Bassin_Fin@tic reply :
The heat in summer
Post frontal bluebird sky crap.It's a mother around here and most of the time I lose all motivation to even fish.
little_stephen reply :
having changed my schedule at work to increase my productivity but knowing it cuts two hours out of my evening fishing every night (once it warms up)
on the bright side i can wake up earlier and go sunrise fishing. but i am NOT a morning person
justtrying reply :
hey, some of these replys are pretty good ....sadly, for me, the hardest part right now is trying to work a jerkbait w/arthrithis in my shoulder.
some of you "younger" ones will understand later on
ronnie
fishermantony reply :
It is so mental, it requires so much thought and preparation to get better and compete at any level. I refer to it as the ultimate thinking mans sport.
Hammer 4 reply :
Having the Biggest Bass you ever hooked.............come unbuttoned...... :'(
fishermantony reply :
QuoteConvincing the wife that the dozen Lucky Craft lures you bought were 3.00 apiece, keeping a straight face, and convincing her that the bank made a mistake when processing your debit card.
Ha Ha Ha, I once told my wife I only spent $50 at Cabela's........then she found the $200 receipt!
Hammer 4 reply :
Always...keep the reciepts Hidden in your garage, or car...
VABassin'14 reply :
Making myself slow down.
SWMIBASSER reply :
QuoteWatching it get so commercialized and realizing no one is realizing the dangers of that.
I'm surprised I don't hear more of this.....And I'm with you 1,000%
ESPN "advanced" bass fishing, but it has also created poorer fishing.......I have to believe in more areas than just mine.
Bass fishing in the last 10 years or so has increased in popularity by magnitudes I would have never thought possible.
With all of that said, it's important to get in on the hot new techniques, so that you are utilizing something new, for as long as you can before everyone and his brother catches onto it too.
And finally with all that said, that's one of the hardest parts for me. Adapting to new, weird, unusual or unorthadox ways of catching bass, WAY to late.
By the time I bought a dedicated shakey head rod/reel combo, shakey heads were pretty played out around here....Still catch fish, but not like they did one or two years before that.
FWIW I think the location I'm in causes alot of this too. Good populations of large and smallmouth bass, but LOTS of lakes....Usually an access site to a new lake is no more than 10 minutes away, no matter where you live.
On top of that, lakes are small. The lake I'm on is one of the biggest around at a hair under 900 acres with most being 400 acres or less.
I gotta drive to the great lakes or north a good 4 hours before I hit anything over a couple thousand acres.
SlateTundra reply :
Coming home. ;D
Bass_Fanatic reply :
going to work when I know I could be fishing!!
diver_sniper reply :
Quotehaving to wait out the looooooooooong @ss winters in minnesota til opener >
I'm with ya brother!
Other than that I think the hardest thing is trying to still learn something when you spend a full day trying literally everything that you know and a bunch of things that you made up out of desperation and never got a single bite from any of it.
slonezp reply :
1.Justifying to myself how much money I spend on this wonderful habit.
2. Walking out of BPS or Cabelas with ONLY what I went there for.(Why did I buy more soft plastics when I already have 3 tackleboxes full of them?)
3. Dealing with cabin fever as there is 10" of ice on all the lakes here.
4. Knowing what to do when everything that always works, isn't working.(changing baits, locations, presentations)
Dwight Hottle reply :
The hardest part about bass fishing is keeping up your enthusiasm for day two after getting your butt kicked the day before. Then figuring out a new strategy that works.
Dock Master reply :
Definitely for me it has got to be staying focused. Another thing I have trouble with is not staying in one spot long... If I could stay in one spot for more than thirty minutes I'm sure I would catch more bass.
NasTMcfingas reply :
Having to go home when the "bite" is outstanding.
K.Fox reply :
Concentrating for every minute in a tournament....
Zel... reply :
Realizing, come each spring, that you're just not as good as you thought you were the preceding winter when you spent untold hours sorting, cleaning, organizing, and consolidating your lures and tackle and of course ordering the new stuff you just gotta have in order to be successful.
bmadd reply :
filling up the boat
Bankbeater reply :
Sitting at work when its in the 40's and 50's all week and then on the weekend a cold front comes through with the high temps in the 20's.
bt fisherman reply :
to make the perfect cast
Sfritr reply :
Convincing your wife that it is actually a form of meditation to relieve the the stress built up by the hard work you do all week
bassinbob54 reply :
Not being able to go because your boats in the ### shop! :'(
Matt Kremers reply :
not immediately setting the hook when a lunker explodes on your topwater, especially when the fishing has been slow and it scares the ***** out of you!
fishing in TN reply :
finding the time...work is always getting in the way
NBR reply :
I'm with Road Warrior on this one. Our local lake is very clear and very deep. Lots of smallies but most people fish for lake trout, landlocked salmon and rainbows.
Fifty fish morning are possible until about mid July and then 5 fish days become rare. Besides crawdads main forage is one or more kinds of smelt. I have looked for baitfish on the sounder and fished those balls but still with no luck. I'll find them someday unless like most years I get discouraged and change lakes.
Eternal Angler reply :
locating the fish!
fishermantony reply :
Hearing, "How much is that gonna cost?" and "Where are you gonna get the money?" every time I bring up fishing any tournament. Also hearing, "You want it, you don't need it." every time I mention purchasing tackle. So I guess pursuing tournament bass fishing while dealing with criticism at home is hard.
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