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[Flysmallie]

5 minutes ago, Ham said:

Which is why I say "To each his own."  There is a lot more to fishing than just catching the fish, but I'll never say that I don't care if I caught any fish or not. Catching fish is central to my fishing.

I agree with that too. And I do care if I catch a fish, that is really why I am there. But I no longer care how many or how big or any of that. I'm actually envious of those that keep tallies and detailed logs. Not envious enough to actually do it though.   Most of my days are spent compiling information and keeping stats on a lot of different parts of our business. So that's probably why I'm not to eager to do that with fishing anymore.

[Mitch f]

I had a buddy who picked up a clicker at Golf discount to count his strokes. The first round after that, we were on the 12th hole or so, and he landed in the sand trap.  He whiffed about 4 times and was clicking with each stroke. My other buddy said "Good thing you've got a clicker!". He picked up the ball and threw it on the green as hard as he could and let out a string of profanities that would make any man proud. I'm pretty sure he never got out the clicker again.

[Ham]

Ahhhh Golf.

[JestersHK]

Lots of good and different viewpoints here.  I use a clicker just for fun.  I'm a data driven kind of guy I guess, and I like to know how many trout I can catch in a season.  My numbers aren't anything to brag about either with some guys on here probably able to top them  with a few good weekends, but for our small group it's a friendly little competition, and let's me look back at the end of the year and see how I've done.  

[Ham]

1 hour ago, JestersHK said:

 I use a clicker just for fun.  I'm a data driven kind of guy I guess, and I like to know how many trout I can catch in a season.  My numbers aren't anything to brag about either with some guys on here probably able to top them  with a few good weekends, but for our small group it's a friendly little competition, and let's me look back at the end of the year and see how I've done.  

Your numbers are probably improving. You can see an improvement based on how many you catch over the course of a year or per trip or per hour fished. 

There's always guys that are going to catch more or bigger or whatever. It's a fool errand to try to out catch a guy fishing 5 days a week.

I'm trying to be completely accurate and honest about what I catch and compare one year of my fishing to the next. 

[Smalliebigs]

Seriously  a clicker for fishing? ??.....they just come so fast and furious  it's  too hard to keep up with the units

[Gavin]

Clicker? No thanks. I don't count or calculate on my free time.

 

[fishinwrench]

I just downloaded a clicker app on my phone.   Not for counting my fish, but to keep track of how many times someone on here claims to catch over 100 fish during a 6-8 hour fishing day this year.  If we get to 25 before Thanksgiving then we'll know that more guys around here need clickers.  

If I had to push a clicker button 100+ times PLUS hit my spool release button.....oh let's say 400-600 times....I'd have carpeltunnel syndrome in my thumb.   Somebody would have to open my beer and light my cigarette for me at the end of the day.  

#thumblivesmatter

Ham, I think you should use 2 clickers so you can count each cast.  Aren't you curious about your cast per catch ratio ?

[fishinwrench]

10 minutes ago, mixermarkb said:

Wrench. 

Go to Bull Shoals for 3 days in a row, sometime before the first of June.

two spinning rods, one casting. 4 to 6 pound flurocarbon on the spinners, 15 pound mono on the caster.

smoke/black flake 4" grub on a 3/16 oz head on one spinner

1/2 green pumpkin or PBJ Strike King zero on one of Dave's 1/16 oz Ned heads on the other spinner.

Spook jr, Sammy, or other walking bait on the casting rod.

mid lake to the dam. flattest nothing looking gravel banks you can find. 

boat in 20-25'

pick up either spinning rod.

cast in the direction of the bank. 

you won't make it, but that's just fine.

swim as slow as you can (grub) or drag/shake while moving as little as possible (ned)

watch for schooling, throw spook at anything that isn't wind, also throw spook over the end of flat gravel points where they drop into the abyss.

take your clicker, and tell us how you do.

That doesn't even remotely sound like fun.   I'm not that guy.

I view casting as an art form.  Throwing baits out into open water all day is less satisfying than scraping gaskets.  

[mjk86]

Solid info there mixermarkb.