Hey guys, I've recently started to develop quite a passion for fishing, but i almost never manage to catch anything. I always fish from a canoe with my dad(who is also inexperienced). I do so much research on what to use and how to fish, and i learn so much but it hasn't helped yet. For example, two weeks ago me and my dad went out to rice lake in the afternoon/evening to attempt to catch some bass and to our knowledge we did not get a single bite!
I'm going to explain what we did, and hopefully you guys can give some feedback/tips. We launched the canoe in Bewdley and decided to first try fishing some of the shorelines, so we paddled over to the southeastern bewdley shoreline . We fished this shoreline for a while constantly looking for cover, and fallen logs,etc. On the shoreline we were both using Texas rigged Berkley Worms(darker coloured with the curly tail at the end) and my technique was to: cast the worm, let it sink to the ground,wait a second or two, then slowly hop it along the ground a few times, and then reel it back in. We tried this for quite awhile, going up and down the shoreline(I also tried a topwater jitterbug along the shore). Since we got no bites, we figured maybe the water was a bit too shallow along that shoreline and decided to try a different spot. We then moved towards the centre of the lake, where the water was quite a bit deeper and my dad was still using the texas rigged worm. I tried something different because i wasnt sure if the texas rigged worm was good for that depth. There were way too many weeds to use a crankbait(sometimes the weeds reached all the way up to the surface), i figured i would just get snagged every single cast. So i tried a dark plastic skirt jig and a spinnerbait. My technique for the jig was very similar to my technique with the texas rigged worm (i.e let it fall and hop it on the bottom). For the spinnerbait, i would just cast out, wait a second or two, and just reel it back in at a medium speed. Tried these two for a few hours, no bites at all.
Ok guys, what am I doing wrong? I saw these two other guys in a canoe that same day, and they had like 3 Bass with them. I'm trying really hard to learn how to fish, but i just need some advice. Also, I'm going out fishing again with my dad this weekend and we want to try another lake for bass fishing in our canoe. We're near Toronto and willing go even farther than rice lake if its worth it, any suggestions on some good lakes(I understand if you don't want to post about a good lake, but i would really appreciate some general lake advice maybe in a PM). Thanks in advance for any advice.
I'm going to explain what we did, and hopefully you guys can give some feedback/tips. We launched the canoe in Bewdley and decided to first try fishing some of the shorelines, so we paddled over to the southeastern bewdley shoreline . We fished this shoreline for a while constantly looking for cover, and fallen logs,etc. On the shoreline we were both using Texas rigged Berkley Worms(darker coloured with the curly tail at the end) and my technique was to: cast the worm, let it sink to the ground,wait a second or two, then slowly hop it along the ground a few times, and then reel it back in. We tried this for quite awhile, going up and down the shoreline(I also tried a topwater jitterbug along the shore). Since we got no bites, we figured maybe the water was a bit too shallow along that shoreline and decided to try a different spot. We then moved towards the centre of the lake, where the water was quite a bit deeper and my dad was still using the texas rigged worm. I tried something different because i wasnt sure if the texas rigged worm was good for that depth. There were way too many weeds to use a crankbait(sometimes the weeds reached all the way up to the surface), i figured i would just get snagged every single cast. So i tried a dark plastic skirt jig and a spinnerbait. My technique for the jig was very similar to my technique with the texas rigged worm (i.e let it fall and hop it on the bottom). For the spinnerbait, i would just cast out, wait a second or two, and just reel it back in at a medium speed. Tried these two for a few hours, no bites at all.
Ok guys, what am I doing wrong? I saw these two other guys in a canoe that same day, and they had like 3 Bass with them. I'm trying really hard to learn how to fish, but i just need some advice. Also, I'm going out fishing again with my dad this weekend and we want to try another lake for bass fishing in our canoe. We're near Toronto and willing go even farther than rice lake if its worth it, any suggestions on some good lakes(I understand if you don't want to post about a good lake, but i would really appreciate some general lake advice maybe in a PM). Thanks in advance for any advice.
