Quote Originally Posted by Dave Stewart View Post
Sorry if my post came across like a smart alec...was not meant to be taken like that. I always tell my clients that want to learn is that one of the biggest mistakes that bass anglers make is that we try to out think a creature that does not have the brain capacity to "think" in the first place....meaning we are constantly over complicating our approach to catching bass. The bass only does 3 things during it's life..that is they have babies once a year, they rest and they eat. They are just trying to survive and they learn to do what they need to do to survive through repetition and conditioning. I could type a number of pages on this subject but it all comes back to the same 3 things they do during their life and we have taken those 3 basic things and built a multi billion dollar industry by over complicating something that is so basic.

Dave
It's never crossed my mind until you said this but it would have to cause you a lot of aggravation when clients of yours expect you to have the newest and greatest of everything on your boat. My Dad used to go out on the lakes when they were muddy in early spring and catch monster bass with nothing but a jon boat, paddle, heavy duty cane pole, a length of 50lb mono, a few 4/0 hooks and a bucket of nightcrawlers. He'd wad several nightcrawlers on the hook so they were all squiggly and quietly scull the boat around anything that would be cover and gently dipped the crawlers down into the thickest part of the cover that he could see. The trick is detecting the bite and quickly lifting the fish out of the cover before it realized it was hooked. Any hesitation on his part and it was over. Now we are led to believe that we can't catch anything without $10000.00 worth of electronics and gear in the boat.