MicroSalm Posted March 23, 2007 Report Share Posted March 23, 2007 Hi everyone, I posted this thread to ask, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delw Posted March 24, 2007 Report Share Posted March 24, 2007 use only pink baits and catch fish throw one back and say you been culling all day even if you haven't the night before send pictures over to the guys your wanting to mess with about the good prefishing you had all week Good thread Delw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alsworms Posted March 24, 2007 Report Share Posted March 24, 2007 The ever-so-popular line......"I've got 5 small ones". I know a couple guys who could have 40 pound bags and still say "I've got 5 small ones". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nova Posted March 24, 2007 Report Share Posted March 24, 2007 Show up at the launch with your rods all pre-rigged the nite before and wrap them in tinfoil. The tinfoil is used because it is shiny and it attracts fishermen like crazy; if you use wraps no one pays attention. I don't do this all the time; just every once and a while. Gets them to wundering what's under the foil. www.novalures.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MicroSalm Posted March 25, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2007 I've done something similar but I let everyone see what I have tied on. If the lake is a notorious jig or worm lake I have top water tied on and speak just loud enough to lead on that I found a top water bite. I have done vice versa when the top water bite is going on. This really works great when you load up on fish and they think you have something really going. My rods are in the locker with the real lures. Sometimes you wake up in that kind of mood or just good coffee! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lure--Prof Posted March 25, 2007 Report Share Posted March 25, 2007 Consistently catch fish and say very little. Catch fish behind other anglers. When other anglers try to get you involved in their manipulative discourse, tell them flatly, "All the bulls**t stops at the weigh-in." Works better than anything else I've tried. If you implement this plan, carry binoculars in the boat. Look right back at them when they are trying to spy on you with their binoculars. Dean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nova Posted March 25, 2007 Report Share Posted March 25, 2007 Actually Dean, I was in a tourny in another guy's boat some years ago when he whipped out a pair of binos, layed down on the deck and spied on another boat. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. www.novalures.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skullcrusher Posted March 26, 2007 Report Share Posted March 26, 2007 I know a few way to do that myself, not from fishing tourneys, but for other competitions that I have been in. The first one is never follow the group, no matter what. The other is if you catch someone watching, just smile, wave and get back to business. That drive some folks crazy that you jsut played it off like that and kinda makes them double think themselves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delw Posted March 28, 2007 Report Share Posted March 28, 2007 The internet is a great thing, if people know your on fish, they will look for hints in fishing reports and pretty much anyone that knows you they will talk to. Mind games are easily played on the internet, especially when you tell the truth. My fishing partner wont even tell me anymore what he has been catching them on while prefishing, cause I dont lie about things, and I get a ton of calls as to whats biting were in our local tournys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palmetto Balsa Posted April 6, 2007 Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 Hello non-boaters, Ever been back seated when the boater is working down a shore line. Just step down to the bottom deck to retie and turn the wheel in the direction away from shore (think about it). You will have plenty of area to cast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smirkplug Posted April 6, 2007 Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 I FISH STRIPERS MOSTLY IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LAKES THAT HAVE HUGE LARGEMOUTH BASS ALSO. THERES ABOUT 20 OF US LOCALS THAT FISH AROUND TROUT PLANTS AND FEW DAYS AFTER. ALOT OF TIME WE BUMP INTO BASS TOURNEYS (CASTIAC IS A ZOO) FISHING POINTS WITH BIG HOMEADE PLUGS, AND ONCE IN A WHILE WE GET A BIG LARGEMOUTH AND YELL TO FRIENDS ACROSS THE LAKE 'DARN ANOTHER LARGEMOUTH, WHERE ARE THE REAL FISH IN THIS LAKE?) WE DON'T REALLY MEAN THAT, BUT IT GETS ALOT OF ATTENTION FROM THE BASS BOAT TOURNEY GUYS. AND WHEN YOU HOLD UP A 10+ TO THROW BACK YOUR FRIEND YELLS BACK ' YA, I ALWAYS JUST JERK IT AWAY FROM THOSE LITTLE ONES.... I KNOW ITS CHEAP FUN... BUT... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vodkaman Posted April 10, 2007 Report Share Posted April 10, 2007 For the spies, I would hold up my painted, foam model of a 12lb large mouth. It folds to the size of a pack of cards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
empire247 Posted April 17, 2007 Report Share Posted April 17, 2007 personally i never let anyone psych me out for the simple reason that 99.9% of the time if a person is runnning thier mouth before a tournament its usally bullcrap anyway (the louder a person talks the more crap he is talking). being calm and quiet is usally enough intimidation in itself exspecially if you have made a name for yourself on your local tournament scene as being competitive and knocked out a few wins for the year. and if you do talk to someone talk about anything EXCEPT fishing, it makes the people around you think that you are not worried about the tournament. but the one that kills people the most is ALWAYS weigh-in with BLACK weigh-in bag so no one can see ur fish while your standing in line to weigh. it really amazes me also how rumors get started on tournaments, most of the people who claim thier "on fish" before the tournament never come in with thier limits and very rarely win if ever which either mean thier fish moved or they were trying to psyche everyone out to begin with. about 5 years ago me and my partner were fishing a circut that averaged about 70 boats per tournament. the day of the 2nd tournament the lake we were soposed to fish had 9 different tournaments going out (all at 6am) so the tournament director changed the tournament to another lake about 15 min away. i hadnt been one the new lake in about 10 years and my partner had never been on it at all. so we decided to start fishing in the bay we took off from. we managed to get only 3 bites all day but landed all 3 fish (2- 14 inchers and 1- 3 pounder). at the end of the day we decided to just to dump the fish and go home thinking there was no way to get in the money with 3 fish, just as i opened the livewell to get the fish the guy in the next boat told me that only 1 boat so far had weighed more than 1 fish. we weighed the fish and wound up taking big bass and 1st place and splitting a 1500$ check. i give credit for that win to 100% luck and being at the right place at the right time. about 3 months later i was talking to a guy after a tournament on that circut and he had brought up how bad of a tournament that was. then he told me that he heard the 2 guys that won it that day had pre-fished the lake all week prior and one of them actually lived on the lake and knew it like the back of his hand.(the lake is almost 2 hours away from either me or my partners house lol). i asked him how they knew the tournament was going to be changed and he said they had inside info. i just replied to him "wow". lol ....rumors Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
