Fishing Superstitions

[twise7]

I'm a no fish on the first cast guy as well.

Another one for me is wildlife - if the animals are out and about...deer running in the fields, rabbits running across the road, squirrels are out, birds are active...then the fish are going to bite!! Never heard the cows laying down...will definately look for that next time.

[vetsvet]

Back in the 50's Dad and I would go and he would spit on the worm for luck, Never understood why the worm alway"s died.

[offdtop]

I make a random cast right off the bat and burn it in, and I Like MHALL am a firm believer in the lucky hat theory and I have one thing last year that proved it too me:

We fish alot of 2 or 3 boat competitions as where we don't put up money BUT we do challenge for "lids", (see biker boyz movie), I was challenged and lost my lid on memorial day last year! I had been fishing tourneys and had won 4 of the first 5 tournaments and took second in the other, so I accepted the challenge and lost. After that I couldn't catch a limit to save my life for the next 3 tourneys and the boy who won the hat won 2 of the next 3 and took a second. I firmly believe he took my mojo!!!! Laugh if you will but it's true. I had went on a hunt for another hat and after three months of banging it out I started to catch fish and wound up taking an 3rd, 2nd then winning the final tourney thus winning me angler of the year in our club -

I won't be putting up my hat again!! Mojo is earned my friend and not to be gambled with, although the lid competitions are a blast but it must be the hat your wearing!!!!!

[waterdog101]

to me this is some dumb stuff, but funny to read. what would it mean, if you caught a fish, with dog ticks on it. what would you guys think, if on your first cast, you caught a world record smallmouth. would you still be in for a bad day. I remember once, this guy that I worked with, said he had the chicken pox, and his mother made him lay down. in front of the chicken house door. and let all the chickens run across him, so as to cure him.

[DJD]

Hehe I'm not into this stuff Anymore but I was when I was younger. Very funny to read though

[davidf4]

I can' fish without dipping or chewing...My partner always makes great sandwiches, I will not eat one until we have caught fish...He usually doesn't make it that long...Same thing at the horse track, no food or drink untill I hit a race.....I go hungry quite often..

[basshuntin]

I didnt think I was superstisious at all until I realized I would change hats because I didnt do well wearing my other hat.

[creeker]

to me this is some dumb stuff, but funny to read. what would it mean, if you caught a fish, with dog ticks on it. what would you guys think, if on your first cast, you caught a world record smallmouth. would you still be in for a bad day. I remember once, this guy that I worked with, said he had the chicken pox, and his mother made him lay down. in front of the chicken house door. and let all the chickens run across him, so as to cure him.

If you did catch that smallmouth on the first cast, I bet you wouldn't catch another one like it the rest of the day.

[RoadToad]

The "wind from the east" saying is listed in John Belski's book of weather folklore, and it's rated as True.

[hartmacw]

The "wind from the east" saying is listed in John Belski's book of weather folklore, and it's rated as True.

yeah I think it is true, for us at least. In North America the fronts move from west to east. An east wind would generally indicate a storm or front "wrapping" back around in a counter-clockwise motion, and that generally means a lot of disruption in the atmosphere. Also, I would think (but don't know for sure) that winds from certain directions, like east or north, would predict low or falling pressures, and we all know what that can do for fishing.

People I know who fish the Atlantic on the east coast generally prefer east winds when they get them however. The east wind will typically push baitfish in closer to shore, followed then by the predators of course. I know whenever I see an east wind where I live in VA, there's been a REALLY bad t-storm somewhere close and it looks like an apocolypse. And generally that's when we see that chilly "hail" wind.

Was out on Dale Hollow a few years ago and got caught in a hail storm. Man that sucked.

[RoadToad]

I grew up on the east coast, and yeah I don't think makes nearly as much difference there. We always paid more attention to the tide than the wind. First 3 or 4 hours of the incoming tide is generally the best, but you want it to at least be moving. Slack tide is when it gets dead. But I'm straying off the subject of superstitions, sorry

[waterdog101]

If you did catch that smallmouth on the first cast, I bet you wouldn't catch another one like it the rest of the day.

true, and one reason I wouldn't. would be, that after I got that one in the boat, I would call it a day. and man what a day. and I would be smiling, it would be 5:00 oclock somewhere, and cows would be lying down somewhere, and I did it on the first cast.