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What am I doing wrong?


I fished this for a couple hours and got nothing despite seeing fish just feet away from where i cast. this is connected to a large lake in my town.

I am using a silver jig with a worm and a round bobber about a foot from the jig.

Fished from 6-8pm. so trough the sunset and into the early dark.

I am brand new to fishing. Should I just cast in the middle and let it float for a long time? Cast and retrieve? Use a different setup?

Posted by RodneySackball

4 Comments

  1. Klutzy-Engineer2693 on

    Predatory fish like bass are attracted to movement and sound. So a worm dangling in the middle of the water might not be very enticing. You could try a worm on a hook rigged texas style so it won’t catch weeds. Cast it out, let the worm sink. Pop your reel up… do it over and over. They can’t resist.

    Bottom feeders like catfish prefer smelly stinky baits that lurk around the bottom. You could get an octopus hook and some dough bait… might rig a sinker a foot away from the hook.

    It depends on what’s there to catch and what your rigging is like. When I got back into fishing I didn’t catch anything for 3 days. Stay with it!

    There’s also pond conditions to think about… sometimes they spawn in one area and hang out and feed in others. Is it fished heavily so they are tired of biting worms and getting yanked out of the water lol.

  2. AlienSpaceBeast on

    You’re not doing anything wrong. Just try some different tactics or bait.

    I was fishing a slough known to be filled with drum, bullhead, gar, sunfish, bass and channel cats. Bottom fished with two Carolina rigs and threw a top water frog and a rattle trap. Caught a drum and three bowfin on the rattle trap. Oh I also had two dock demons set for panfish with worms. Just depends on the day.

    The bowfin and far were constantly surfacing. Had honestly forgotten about the drum until my girlfriend pulled one in on the rattle trap.

    Then I gave the rattle trap a whirl and boom, one after another.

    …until I forgot to retie and threw my lure into god knows where…

  4. Username_Redacted-0 on

    I always tell people that sometimes its not about catching something, sometimes its just about getting out there and getting the line wet…

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