Jim, I love the honesty in your posts...feels like I'm kicking back in the lawn chair beside you!...Looking forward to those late fall excursions you took us on last season.
I appreciate the fact that you always tell us the brutal truth about the ups and downs of this sport. “It’s just a grind, It’s a nasty grind” lol. I almost feel guilty being entertained by your detailed narrations of your trials and tribulations; but I’m always wishing you the best.
I like your videos and watch all of them. Did see there was several blanks in the standing and figured they got locked out. Hope you get over that cough. My wife had the same thing and still hacking. 😎✌️
Jim, I had Covid about a month ago and still have a ticklish cough like you. Your description of the sore throat was dead on. Three mostly sleepless nights. Felt like I was swallowing a mouthful of Razor blades. Yuck!
Chances are Jim, you might have 'put yourself' right down on top of the potential winning bags of bass of the tournament, and still not have 'the tools in the toolbox' to benefit. Why? Unless one is prepared to put frog and spook rods in one's hands for extended lengths of time and throw that, and nothing else. It's a tool one doesn't have. Here is what I would do, and it may not seem like much. But this is a perennial problem in almost every species, and for every individual angler. How to incorporate new and strange tools in to the angler's toolbox, whilst not having opportunity to do so. The ruthless thing to do, is to simply divide one's available time between fishing on actual water, and fishing in one's back yard. Simply doing casting practice, as opposed to fishing practice. I don't know any other way. The problem with being on actual water and fishing too much, I know the problem with that, is that one won't generally spend enough time with other methods. To be able to use them, when one has to. Instead, one tends to gravitate back towards 'tried and trusted'. And then when presented with a task to do top water fishing, one simply does not have that skill available.
There's a recent chat between Michigan guides Alex Lafkas and Russ Madden, in which they debate and discuss it. Folks show up to fish somewhere for the one week in a year, expecting it to work. All of the skills to be there, and they aren't. The point about practice fishing 'dry land', as a means by which to practice methods in which one does not have the opportunity to use. Is that it takes little time, and at least the tackle is familiar. It's not something covered in cobwebs (like a lot of my stuff has become), that I try to take out once a year. And a cold day in middle of winter, one can still take out a rod and find a space in which to cast. And just do that. It doesn't seem like much of a suggestion, but it can matter. Notice what happened at La Crosse, it was easier just to go back to what one knew. Guys in that top ten arrived home minus a dozen or two frogs or spook baits, following the event. And had to chalk that down to the cost of doing business. The point is they'd amassed enough confidence in methods that perhaps weren't very mainstream. And that's probably the Jim Moynagh issue. One has to take a frog into one's back yard in winter even when lakes are frozen over, and start throwing it. Along with lot's of other things one has not picked up with regularity. Or is unlikely to do, in the every day. One doesn't have to be 'on the water' to still put in practice time. Football players don't spend all their time playing matches.
Don’t you think that if EVERYONE knows it was won last year in pool 7, that it had been hammered all year long since then?! You should have fished any pool EXCEPT pool 7. It’s not rocket surgery!
I thought about that, but was surprised at the low numbers of competitors practicing in 7. Not only that, the LaCrosse legend himself, Tom Monsoor, was locking up to 7 on the first day of competition. So it couldn't have been that bad of an idea.
Thanks for taking us along for the ride. Makes me realize how tough this profession really is.
You bet
Jim, I love the honesty in your posts...feels like I'm kicking back in the lawn chair beside you!...Looking forward to those late fall excursions you took us on last season.
Glad you enjoy!
I appreciate the fact that you always tell us the brutal truth about the ups and downs of this sport. “It’s just a grind, It’s a nasty grind” lol. I almost feel guilty being entertained by your detailed narrations of your trials and tribulations; but I’m always wishing you the best.
Thanks for watching!
Sorry you had covid Jim. Love your videos they are detailed, honest, good or bad I'll be pulling for you
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for the update, looking forward to seeing the next video!
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Thumbs up thanks
Thank you too
Tell it like it is brother! Get grinding 👍
Will do!!
Good video Jim, you sick buddy, you might do really good job with the next one, take care ole brother and go catch em’’. Thanks for everything
Thanks 👍
I like your videos and watch all of them. Did see there was several blanks in the standing and figured they got locked out. Hope you get over that cough. My wife had the same thing and still hacking. 😎✌️
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I wouldn't worry about the bear...you probably scare him! 😃
He better be scared because it would not enjoy the helicopter spin I learned from watching Dino Bravo back in the AWA Wrestling days.
@@moynaghbassfishes3818 i thought you may go for "The Claw" !
Jim, I had Covid about a month ago and still have a ticklish cough like you. Your description of the sore throat was dead on. Three mostly sleepless nights. Felt like I was swallowing a mouthful of Razor blades. Yuck!
Good way to describe it.
Chances are Jim, you might have 'put yourself' right down on top of the potential winning bags of bass of the tournament, and still not have 'the tools in the toolbox' to benefit. Why? Unless one is prepared to put frog and spook rods in one's hands for extended lengths of time and throw that, and nothing else. It's a tool one doesn't have. Here is what I would do, and it may not seem like much. But this is a perennial problem in almost every species, and for every individual angler. How to incorporate new and strange tools in to the angler's toolbox, whilst not having opportunity to do so. The ruthless thing to do, is to simply divide one's available time between fishing on actual water, and fishing in one's back yard. Simply doing casting practice, as opposed to fishing practice. I don't know any other way. The problem with being on actual water and fishing too much, I know the problem with that, is that one won't generally spend enough time with other methods. To be able to use them, when one has to. Instead, one tends to gravitate back towards 'tried and trusted'. And then when presented with a task to do top water fishing, one simply does not have that skill available.
There's a recent chat between Michigan guides Alex Lafkas and Russ Madden, in which they debate and discuss it. Folks show up to fish somewhere for the one week in a year, expecting it to work. All of the skills to be there, and they aren't. The point about practice fishing 'dry land', as a means by which to practice methods in which one does not have the opportunity to use. Is that it takes little time, and at least the tackle is familiar. It's not something covered in cobwebs (like a lot of my stuff has become), that I try to take out once a year. And a cold day in middle of winter, one can still take out a rod and find a space in which to cast. And just do that. It doesn't seem like much of a suggestion, but it can matter. Notice what happened at La Crosse, it was easier just to go back to what one knew. Guys in that top ten arrived home minus a dozen or two frogs or spook baits, following the event. And had to chalk that down to the cost of doing business. The point is they'd amassed enough confidence in methods that perhaps weren't very mainstream. And that's probably the Jim Moynagh issue. One has to take a frog into one's back yard in winter even when lakes are frozen over, and start throwing it. Along with lot's of other things one has not picked up with regularity. Or is unlikely to do, in the every day. One doesn't have to be 'on the water' to still put in practice time. Football players don't spend all their time playing matches.
Thanks for watching!
Don’t you think that if EVERYONE knows it was won last year in pool 7, that it had been hammered all year long since then?! You should have fished any pool EXCEPT pool 7. It’s not rocket surgery!
I thought about that, but was surprised at the low numbers of competitors practicing in 7. Not only that, the LaCrosse legend himself, Tom Monsoor, was locking up to 7 on the first day of competition. So it couldn't have been that bad of an idea.