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Persisting through tough conditions
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fishing around them.
I knew the bite was hot – I just needed the anglers to get the tech- nique right with the lighter lures the fish
objective decisions will help keep percentages in your favour.
An angler I know came over, waved and sat there with their elec- tric motor deployed.
Lose it and you’ll only defeat yourself.
I see this sort of be- haviour a lot, and in my opinion, waving doesn’t make being lazy and using someone else to find fish excusable.
preferred on the day. One of the fishers managed to convert with nice reef fish on soft plastics, which was
Remember to keep your baits in the strike zone.
Quite often persis- tence pays off.
Troy’s rst coral trout ate a Zerek Live Shrimp.
If you’re one of these people, please stop it.
a first for him.
The best thing about
I soon left to catch tuna I’d seen on the pre- vious day.
this day was by the time the bite got hot, everyone else had given in, leaving my crew to catch them.
Later, thinking it would get tough and the vessels would all leave, I returned – and sure enough, they had all left, so we hooked a few small tuna and pulled hooks on a big model.
These examples show that success doesn’t al- ways mean big catches, particularly when you take into account how difficult everyone else did it.
While the events made me angry, I didn’t let it cloud my thoughts and realised that having several back-up plans was helpful.
That said, when other vessels come in close around you, keeping your cool and making
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A similar thing oc- curred a day later, only this time we hadn’t yet boated a fish.
The two anglers fish- ing with me asked if it was common to catch nothing, to which I re- plied “No.”
I was confident we would catch something and had a very easy back-up nearby – that I didn’t want to use be- cause of shark numbers there.
The fishers were both greenhorns and strug- gled with depth per- ception, so I gave them heavy lures to bang on the bottom.
Eventually they both hooked fish and landed them.
Nearby boats ventured in, and suddenly three boats were circling.
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