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00:30This little off-the-cuff visit is going to be ruminating over many years of face studies
00:44about why do face do certain things. Face behavior is fascinating.
00:49You know, we all have our own theories as fishermen, but mine are based on, I want to
00:54qualify this, it's one man's opinion, based on my personal experiences, by observation
01:01over a lifetime, because fish have always fascinated me, what motivation to do certain things.
01:07And then the third would be studies that have been made by biologists and fishery students
01:11who also have been fascinated by fish and want to know more of the answers.
01:15One of the things that really puzzle fishermen is, why do fish hit artificial lures?
01:24Now, we know that there are two different phases of fishing.
01:27One is fishing, and the other is catching.
01:30A lot of fishing is done compared to the catching periods that take place.
01:36If you haven't got patience and this innate curiosity that fishermen who fish a lot have,
01:43then you'll never be a catcherman, because you have to first figure out those things as
01:47a fisherman to be a catcherman.
01:49We're going to talk about the things that might make you a better catcherman.
01:52Now, first, that topic about why do fish hit artificial lures.
01:58We know many reasons why they don't.
02:00But let's talk about the reasons that we are fairly sure we've sort of gone into and delved
02:05into, and theoretically we think these things are the reasons why fish hit lures.
02:10Now, if you know these things, you might want to get a pencil and paper and mark them down
02:14there and take them with you when you go fishing, because to review these as you fish on
02:19those days, when you're doing more fishing than catching, if you try to appeal to each
02:24of these instincts, or whatever motivations make this fish hit an artificial lure, you
02:29might catch more fish with any one of these nine reasons.
02:33Let's begin with the first and logical, basic reason why a fish hits an artificial lure.
02:39Hunger.
02:41When you get hungry, you feed.
02:43When a fish gets hungry, it feeds.
02:45It's easy when this is taking place.
02:49But to explain hunger, you really have to know something about the fish and its habitat.
02:55A bass, of course, is a predator, and likes to ambush its prey from a hiding spot.
03:00So, in any body of water, an active bass will usually be found near some type of available
03:05cover, like a thick weed bed or submerged timber.
03:09Now, these are good ambush points where it can attack smaller fish like minnows and thread-fin
03:14shed, plus other food like frogs and crawdads.
03:17An area with a lot of cover can harbor many bass.
03:23And the brush or cover helps bass in another way, too.
03:27Now, if you look closely at a bass, you'll notice he doesn't have any eyelids.
03:30So, on bright days or in clear water, it uses weeds and brush to shade its eyes from the sun.
03:37Hungry bass in shallow water will usually be in places that provide two things, good ambush points and concealment.
03:54Now, these are places where bass can dart out, grab the food as it comes by, and return to the cover.
04:02Hunger to a fish like a bass, a muskie, a pike, a predator, comes a time when the stomach is empty, it's going to feed.
04:18It doesn't really matter what you thought him, a corncob with hooks on it would probably catch that fish, as well as a beautiful five-dollar artificial lure.
04:27But in between those phases of the hunger and when he has his stomach full, he can be made to strike if you know the other instincts.
04:36Now, the most educational period in my life on fish behavior came during a 14-month period when I worked with Glenn Lau to make a movie called Big Mouth.
04:47It was named after me about largemouth bass.
04:51And largemouth bass, as most of you know, is the most populous sport fish in the world.
04:56Hence, that one picked out for the study because he's typical of most all other predator fish.
05:01And during that 14-month period, I think I was in my, oh, we'll say like I'd been fishing about 45 years then.
05:10A student, remember, I learned more in that 14 months than I had in the previous 45 years of fishing because with every day the sun was shining,
05:19in a river so crystal clear you could see almost forever.
05:23So observation was just unquestionably sharp.
05:26And the camera's eye was sharp.
05:28It did certain things that you'd never see as a fisherman to reveal to you what's taking place below where those fish live.
05:36This was a fascinating period.
05:38Each morning, when the light got bright enough down below to film.
05:43Then we'll go down and get the camera all set for action.
05:46I'm getting the boat position, lures out, and so forth.
05:49He'd come up some mornings and say, well, no use this morning because the fish aren't going to eat.
05:55Or he'd come up and he'd say, they're going to tear it up this morning.
05:59Boy, are they in the mood.
06:00I'd say, how do you know?
06:01By the attitude.
06:03Those mornings when those bass were going to feed, he said, they're in an attack position.
06:08They're alert.
06:08They're moving.
06:09They're looking like a predator, looking for something to prey on.
06:14Those mornings would never fail to catch fish, big fish, and got all that beautiful action.
06:18Other mornings, when he said, no go, they'd be not as much an evidence for one thing, but the ones that were there would not be in any kind of an attitude of caring or looking or feeding or searching, just cruising around.
06:33And he was right.
06:33Those mornings, we caught no fish.
06:35Now, when it comes to interpreting why to face hit lures and hunger as a primary instinct, they reflect hunger, as he pointed out, when they're hungry.
06:46When they aren't hungry, they reflect that also.
06:49So the trick of being a fisherman is, when they're not hungry, you use the other instincts we're talking about, we're going to talk about, to catch those fish.
06:59Other instincts like, for instance, anger.
07:01However, we believe, we figured out, that fish will hit from anger because you know where a big fish has his lair, where he's hanging out.
07:13He'll patrol this area and keep other smaller fish out.
07:16Now, a bigger fish might replace him, but there's always going to be a fish around that old stump, and that cut and the leaf pads are off of the point.
07:24These are places where fish take over.
07:26That's their territory.
07:27Now, they're protective about it because it's a good feeding area, a place where they can ambush prey.
07:34When a bass occupies a place like this, it waits for food to come to him.
07:39Most of the time, it just grabs a minnow as it swims by.
07:42But a bass can also be made to strike even when its belly is full.
07:51You know there's a fish there.
07:53You can cast various types of lures to him.
07:56It may take several dozen casts, but you can irritate, anger that fish until he'll finally hit a lure.
08:03Now, it takes an experienced fisherman with some imagination and patience again to do this.
08:09The ordinary fisherman goes by one of these places, makes two or three casts, and figures nothing's there, or they aren't feeding, and moves on.
08:16Remember, if you know a fish is in a certain place, casts again and again and again until your patience wears out.
08:23You can't anger him into taking a lure.
08:24Then, you know, when fish are together, like human beings, like athletics, competition.
08:34If there is something that a mass of whatever creatures want, there's going to be competition among the fittest to get it.
08:43That's the way it is with fish on many occasions.
08:45If a lure comes through, a school of fish, because there is competition for whatever that is,
08:52some might be hungry, some might have other instincts than hunger.
08:56If one fish goes for that lure, you may see the whole pack take off,
09:02and the fastest one will beat that first fish that moved to that lure.
09:06That, I think, would sort of justify competition.
09:12All fish, the game fish especially, are predators.
09:16And the predator, because he kills to eat, has innately a killer instinct.
09:23Now, we saw this in these underwater observations I mentioned to you.
09:26For instance, when a fish would take a lure like this, like a minnow,
09:32that swims by, that he eats normally, no question about it,
09:37he would swim up behind that lure and attack it and grab it and crush it and eat it.
09:41You see him pick up a worm, a plastic worm like this.
09:45He sucks this in, interestingly.
09:47Glenn had one picture of a bass lying here.
09:50The worm came down here.
09:52Now, a movie camera moves film through that camera at 24 frames a second.
09:57Now, think about this a moment.
09:59The bass is here with his head just stuck out of the weeds.
10:02This worm comes down over here that I had cast.
10:04This frame, you see this.
10:06The next frame, the worm is gone.
10:08It's inside that bass's mouth.
10:10One twenty-fourth of a second, he opened his mouth, flared his gills,
10:15and sucked that worm into his mouth.
10:17Now, you as a fisherman, when he's feeding, that worm's in his mouth.
10:21When you feel that, if you saw this film, you'd know from the moment you felt that,
10:26your time was running out.
10:28So, if you face a plastic worm, remember, when you feel the pickup,
10:32the bass is sucking in his mouth.
10:34Hit him as fast as you can.
10:35Now, when he eats the worm, he will chomp on it.
10:40He has crusher, muscles in his throat.
10:43He's going to swallow that worm.
10:45This, the picture showed, the salamander, the killer instinct was why he took this.
10:54This was hunger.
10:56This is the killer instinct.
10:58He took that salamander, which we assume is an egg eater, into his mouth.
11:03He crushed it and blew it out.
11:05So, knowing these things, you're thinking more like that face is thinking when you're
11:11facing the artificial lures.
11:14In addition to the killer instinct, we've delved into curiosity.
11:22Why would a face be curious?
11:23We don't know, really, but we know he's curious because you cast a lure out,
11:28and you see that face follow it in.
11:30And right with the boat, he'll turn and go back.
11:32He may do this several times.
11:34Then a fisherman's mind says, what can I do to turn curiosity into catching that fish?
11:41One thing you can do, if your lure is very bright, is try a dull lure.
11:46Another thing you can do is, when he's following, crank it very fast and then stop it.
11:52He'll run into it, and sometimes another instinct will make him grab the lure.
11:57Surprise, whatever.
11:59So, curiosity definitely is one of the traits.
12:04And then predators, like all creatures that there's a mama and a papa, have a protective instinct
12:29for the brood, for the eggs, for whatever.
12:33If they're on the nest, unquestionably, the protective instinct is very strong.
12:39Now, if you've observed fish on the nest, anything that intrudes, they're going to chase it away.
12:45Small fish will run.
12:46But a lure can't run, of course.
12:49So, instead of the usual attack to kill, it's more of a take and carry out of the nest.
12:57They're dumping on the outside.
12:59So, if you do find fish, and some fishermen don't believe in this, in catching fish off the nest.
13:05But the protective instinct will make that fish take anything that you throw in there.
13:09Not always the first time.
13:10Again, it may take a number of calves to make this instinct come to the fore.
13:16Predators also, with a similar instinct, but not exactly the same, have a territorial protection instinct.
13:24Like I told you about the big fish, they'll have a stump, a little cut back in the pads, underhanging rocks.
13:31That is his lair.
13:33Like a lion has a den, or a bear has a big cave someplace.
13:37They'll protect that area.
13:39So, if a lure comes through there, it's an intruder.
13:43He's going to attack it and drive it out.
13:46In so doing, you catch that fish.
13:49This instinct is foremost in all predators.
13:51Once you know a fish hangs out in a certain spot, return to that spot.
13:57The more of these spots that you know where fish have established the territory, when that fish is caught, another one moves in.
14:04It's like home to a fish.
14:07Also, another one of the instincts we know that make fish hit artificial lures is reflex action.
14:14Let me say that you're a ball player, and you have your back to me, and I'll pick up any object.
14:19Like a baseball.
14:21I'll say, hey, Pete, you turn, and I'll throw this to you.
14:24You'll catch it without even thinking.
14:25You reach up and grab it.
14:27This is reflexive action, an uncontrollable urge or instinct that you have.
14:32Now, how do you make a fish hit from this reflexive action?
14:38One way fishermen do it is to crank a lure extremely fast.
14:43Let's say a fish, like the old bass feeding in the grass, has his body back in, his head just sticking out here,
14:48watching cliff eggs going by.
14:50He's fed.
14:51He's full.
14:52He's not hungry.
14:53All of a sudden, a lure goes by so fast that it just triggers a response to grab it.
14:59This is a reflexive reaction of a fish.
15:02So fast crawling or fast cranking can trigger that.
15:05If you've ever watched schooling fish feed, you'll see what they call a feeding frenzy taking place.
15:13You can hear it as far as you can see it almost sometimes.
15:17White bass, lake trout are particularly subject to doing this sort of thing.
15:23Now, what they're doing, there's a school of fish, and they find a school of minnows.
15:28And once they start this feeding frenzy, once one attacks, they all attack.
15:36Bluefish in saltwater are notorious for this.
15:39In this feeding frenzy, they glut themselves with minnows, whatever they're feeding on,
15:46until the stomach becomes so distended, they regurgitate, blow them out,
15:50and you'll see the gulls and the other birds diving to feed on this regurgitated mass.
15:55They keep this up.
15:56So gluttony, unquestionably, is one of the traits.
15:59Now, when the fisherman sees this, you know you're going to catch a lot of fish.
16:04Now, just because they're in a feeding frenzy doesn't mean you're going to catch them easy every cast.
16:11One trick is to take the first fish you catch when you're cast into a moving school of fish.
16:16Examine the stomach content.
16:18Notice what he's feeding on.
16:20Sometimes it's a very small minnow, maybe like this, not a big one at all.
16:24The closer you can come to imitating or copying that small minnow,
16:27the better your chance to catch that fish.
16:30Here's another trick.
16:31When those fish are feeding on the surface,
16:34they're usually the average size, pound and a half, two pound fish.
16:39Down below are the smarter giants many times.
16:43What they're doing is picking off the dead fish
16:45that the smaller fish above have killed and are drifting down to them.
16:49The trick is to get a heavier lure on, maybe one like a lead jig,
16:53that'll get down quickly and fish for those bigger fish.
16:56That's the way to get perhaps a bigger average size fish out of the schools.
16:59Now, schooling fish also have another trait.
17:04As they move, when you move with them, don't get too close.
17:09They can spook and sound and disappear and come up way across the lake,
17:12and you can chase fish all day.
17:14Be very cautious in your approach.
17:16Just get a long cast away and work ahead of the school.
17:20Don't use the motor anymore when you have to.
17:21Try to let the wind work for you.
17:23Get ahead of that school and cast across in front of it
17:26and work your lure down through it.
17:28Many times, casting in the middle of the school,
17:30the fish you catch might throw off some lactic acid or urine
17:33and spook the other fish.
17:35They'll take off and disappear.
17:37So use caution when you're fishing for school of the fish.
17:40It's one of the traits of a good fisherman.
17:41Now, before we wrap up these feeding habits,
17:45I want you to meet Al Lindner and Rick Clung.
17:48We're going to show you a different technique, dock fishing.
17:51In lakes lacking shore cover,
17:53these docks can provide some of the best spots for finding and catching bass.
17:58Yes, you can get some old pilings underneath the new ones, looks like.
18:01Let me come in with that trolling motor in, ain't it?
18:04Backs like this, these older ones,
18:06seem to produce a lot better to fish related to them longer.
18:09I don't like to fish new docks.
18:11No, I'm kind of the same way.
18:14Also, a lot of times, you've got a lot more debris and stuff
18:17that's over the years accumulated under the dock.
18:19Stuff drifts under there.
18:19People put brush under it.
18:22Old buckets.
18:23It's amazing what you'll find under one of those docks.
18:26The more pilings you can get under, like you said,
18:27some of those that are big and way underneath
18:31will hold a lot more fish.
18:33I think a lot of people,
18:35the problem when they fish docks is they stay too far off the dock.
18:38Now, if you're fishing,
18:40you won that tournament a couple years ago,
18:44fishing brush off the docks.
18:46Yeah, they had crappy piles out in front of it.
18:49So then, you know,
18:51it'd be a good time to hold off the dock.
18:53A lot of times, certain areas,
18:55for some reason, you'll find areas that's very common.
18:58There's one.
18:59Oh, man!
19:00That fish was trucking with that thing.
19:06I don't know if that was a bluegill or a bear.
19:07He was moving too fast for a bluegill.
19:08Let me find that for you.
19:11I always let them know the dinner bell's ringing.
19:14Where did I put them worms?
19:16Oh, there they are.
19:17Now, do you have any favorite baits?
19:22I know I do when it comes to fishing docks.
19:26My probably all-around favorite is a worm.
19:29A small worm.
19:31And the only other option,
19:33I'll occasionally throw a jig on it
19:34if it's a real deep clear lake
19:37around a floating dock,
19:39something like that.
19:39But these stationary docks like this,
19:42I'd rather fish a worm around them.
19:44I think I fish.
19:46If I fish a dog,
19:46the majority of the time I fish one lure,
19:48and I fish a little four-inch worm
19:49with that Charlie Brewer slider head.
19:52Oh, there you go.
19:53You got him under there?
19:54Yeah.
19:54Oh, a little guy.
19:56Yeah, we got him.
19:57With a fish.
19:57Yeah.
20:01That's probably what I had here before.
20:02It's got that little old flat head on it,
20:03and you can just fire it
20:04right at the base of the dock,
20:05and it hit and skip like a flat rock
20:07way back up under the dock.
20:09I tell you,
20:10when I fish dogs,
20:10I used to use light line,
20:12and it's just,
20:12no matter what size they are,
20:13they're a whole lot of fun to catch.
20:16It wasn't ready.
20:17Yeah.
20:19Let me get around
20:20where we can slide
20:21these back ends here a little bit.
20:23That's something else.
20:23I know that you do that.
20:25People, you should go all,
20:26work all the way around the dock.
20:29These back corners like this
20:30is where I've had some of my best fish.
20:32Right in that little cut.
20:35Usually you'll see a drop
20:37if one of those pilings is at a drop.
20:40You know, you can pat,
20:40I've had them where I can patter on them.
20:42Certain times,
20:42it depends on the shade,
20:43of course,
20:44that's one of the natural things,
20:45but you can pat them
20:46and say,
20:46the fish are going to be
20:47in the first cut
20:48or a little,
20:50first irregularity
20:52in the dock itself.
20:54It could be,
20:54sometimes we'll find them
20:55on the far left
20:56outside point.
20:58That's a nice fish.
21:06That's a horse, man.
21:08Let me get you out of that.
21:09Oh, jeez.
21:13That is a beauty.
21:15Look at that.
21:16Oh, whoo.
21:20I love that.
21:21Oh, beautiful.
21:23That's pretty.
21:25Ain't too many sides
21:26any prettier than that.
21:27Oh, nice fish.
21:34Real nice fish.
21:35You know,
21:35a lot of people think
21:36when you're fishing docks like this,
21:37you're not going to do nothing
21:38but catch small fish.
21:40Everyone wants to know
21:41this is going to happen to you.
21:42This dock might hold
21:43a couple fish like that.
21:44It's a good size one.
21:47Wake up.
21:48See,
21:48you want to use that front
21:49or back of Iowa?
21:50No, man.
21:51Use her back there.
21:52You kind of like
22:01those little irregular spots
22:03in the dock
22:03like I do, don't you?
22:04Those back ends,
22:05I've taken a lot of fish
22:06out of those back edges
22:07where they,
22:08as long as there's
22:08a little depth
22:09or a little drop,
22:10a little break
22:11where that piling lays
22:13in there,
22:13sometimes they'll slide right up
22:14and they're also
22:15the best shaded side.
22:17There's a hit.
22:18Oh, I got him.
22:20Don't need that?
22:21I don't.
22:22I don't know.
22:22I got him out of there.
22:24Oh, get off of that piling.
22:27Nice fish.
22:29You want me to get
22:29on the tow motor for you?
22:30I can hold her here.
22:31You can't?
22:34And hold into that wind.
22:39I think he got you
22:40around there.
22:40Uh-oh.
22:43I saw him take you
22:44around that piling.
22:44I was afraid
22:45he was going to cut that line.
22:46Well, that's what happens.
22:49Get back in there.
22:50I tell you,
22:52you've got to use,
22:53I think you've got to use
22:54a spinning reel
22:55to fish this
22:56or you really can't
22:57shoot that worm
22:58up under that dock.
22:59Of course,
22:59you know,
23:00I like to use
23:00light lining.
23:01That's just the price
23:01you pay sometimes
23:02when it's a good fish.
23:03to get you around
23:04one of the five.
23:04I had him out of there
23:05out of that first piling
23:07and he got me
23:07in the next one.
23:08I've had a guy say,
23:09why don't you throw
23:09a casting reel
23:09to use heavy line?
23:10You can't skip a lure
23:11up under there
23:12like you can
23:13with a spinning reel.
23:14And I normally use
23:16casting reels
23:16because you're the opposite.
23:20You know,
23:21I really,
23:21we got a little bit
23:22too much overcast today
23:23normally
23:23because you can't
23:25complain when you're
23:25catching fish.
23:26But I really normally
23:27prefer a lot of sunlight
23:28when I'm fishing in the docks.
23:30What are you going
23:31to be using Al?
23:31Don't keep throwing
23:32a fire tail.
23:35I didn't get in there
23:36right.
23:36See that shaded corner
23:38in there
23:38where them thicker
23:38pilings are?
23:41Right there.
23:43A lot of bluegill
23:43working.
23:44There's a fish.
23:46Them bluegill
23:47are a sure saying
23:48of some bass
23:50in an area
23:50when they're up like that.
23:52It's a good fish.
23:54She's over three,
23:55three and a half,
23:55maybe four.
23:56Four pounds, yeah.
23:57I got her.
23:58I got her.
23:58No, that's all right.
23:59I got her.
24:01She's better.
24:03Oh, that's fast.
24:05Oh.
24:10Oh, nice fish.
24:13Oh.
24:17Oh.
24:20Very good.
24:21Very good.
24:21Nice fish.
24:22Things are chunky body.
24:24Look at that.
24:24That hook wasn't even,
24:25I didn't even have
24:25the bar buried.
24:26It was just hanging loose.
24:28If she got any slack line,
24:29she'd have been a goner.
24:30Sure would have hated that.
24:33Let's put her back.
24:44I got a little,
24:45wait, wait.
24:46That ain't that
24:47little of a fish, man.
24:49Oh, that wasn't what
24:50I was fixing to talk about.
24:51Let me get,
24:52I need to loosen this up
24:53so I can get back.
24:54Let me get out of that boat,
24:54just clear of it.
24:57That's a nice fish, man.
25:03Hold it.
25:04Let me get you.
25:06Oh, I tell you.
25:07You got her clear?
25:07If I'd known we were
25:09going to get in this kind
25:10of fish,
25:10I think I'd put in
25:11a little bit heavier line,
25:12especially with this cloud
25:13cover the way it is.
25:14She's clear.
25:15Yeah.
25:15Yeah, it's real good
25:17right now.
25:18Take time.
25:21It's a hard thing
25:22for me to do
25:22when I switch
25:23from casting to spinning
25:24to just take the time
25:25because usually I'm so used
25:26to...
25:26That's a good fish, man.
25:28That's a darn nice fish.
25:32I'd much rather
25:32back up on a reel
25:33than use that drag.
25:34You can control it
25:36a whole lot easier.
25:37What about this land
25:37you're throwing in there?
25:38Huh?
25:39What do you got for me?
25:39You need a net?
25:40I got ten.
25:40Put a net on that thing?
25:41Huh?
25:42No, I...
25:43Well, I'm not sure yet.
25:50I'm starting to wonder
25:51if that's the best.
26:02Oh, geez.
26:03What a horse.
26:05Oh, come on, baby.
26:06What a horse.
26:08Come on, girl.
26:12I got her, man.
26:14Oh, gosh.
26:18Holy smokes.
26:20Oh, my God.
26:21You look at the size of that.
26:26Where do you think
26:26that baby goes?
26:30Go ahead and tell me it.
26:31Go ahead.
26:31Go ahead and say ten.
26:33It looks ten,
26:34but I've never called it ten,
26:35so I don't know for sure.
26:37What a horse.
26:38Hey.
26:39Hey.
26:40Are you...
26:40God!
26:41Oh, no.
26:46Oh, no.
26:46Oh, jeez.
26:50Oh, no.
26:53Well, as you can see,
26:55Rick really puts everything
26:56he's got into fishing,
26:58including himself.
26:59I've heard of people
27:22doing things like that.
27:23me in.
27:25We're going to have to cut that.
27:26That's all I've got to say.
27:30I'm ready to go in.
27:33I'll go along with it.
27:34Now let's recap.
27:35Remember these reasons
27:37why fish
27:37hit artificial lures.
27:40Primarily,
27:40hunger.
27:41Then,
27:42anger.
27:43Competition.
27:45The killer instinct.
27:47Curiosity.
27:48The protective instinct.
27:50Territorial instinct.
27:52Reflexive action.
27:53And then,
27:54gluttony.
27:55And feeding in schools.
27:57But let me close
27:58by reminding you
27:59of one thing
27:59about fishing.
28:01Even experts
28:02get skunked
28:03on occasion.
28:05Only two kinds of people
28:06never get skunked
28:07fishing.
28:08Those who don't fish
28:09and those who lie about it.
28:11I also think,
28:12I believe this,
28:13the good Lord
28:14meant that men should fish
28:15and men should catch fish.
28:17But not always.
28:18Because it's the days
28:20you get your eye wiped
28:21that you get skunked
28:22that make the good days
28:24seem all the sweeter.
28:25Thank you.