There appears to be very little interest in this type of information on this board. This takes lots of time to post all the calendar periods and with no interest, why continue the effort.
Tom
Tom
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Old School, you post any dan thing you want to.oldschool said:
Even when I don't post a response, I learn at least a little bit. My confidence lures in pre-spawn are jerkbaits, from hard to soft as the water warms. Jigs are for the frequent cold fronts in early spring, and spinnerbaits are best around wood on the warmer days. I am planning to try my lobina lure swimbait in the same areas as the spinner this spring, and the drop shot on days where the jerkbait bite is slow.
Old School, you keep postin' this stuff becaus there are a bunch of folks like me who are trying to absorb as much info as possible because we're rookies !!
I've hopped all over the internet, belonging to at least 20 fishing forums this year alone, looking for folks who want to discuss fishing technically. Mostly what I found was about 99% idle chit chat, people just bored and wanting to talk to someone about anything. Their cat is constipated. The truck is using too much oil. Many find their local buds online and they sit and talk all night. Many are in a race to see who hits 20,000 posts first, each post a one-liner saying something like "Bump", the topic the latest NFL brawl. "He's just a thug." That counts as one post.
What I'm very certain of is there are mostly 5 types of forum members. The first group is the "talkers", about anything under the sun, who might be willing to say something once a day about fishing. They are too involved in too many sports to devote much effort to fish talk. They fish occasionally, but if you check the times and dates of posts, they fish rarely.
The next are the "lurkers", the majority of membership not knowing enough about fishing to write about it, but learning what they've needed daily. The main thing is they are there, gobling up all the knowledge they can find. Most of them have never once posted anything. You can check the membership pages and see that. Zero posts.
Another is the "teachers" who know enough to write articles about fishing, who have a ton of fishing experience. Those might fill 3% of the membership. They don't hesitate to teach and answer questions. It's that way in any organization. In churches 20% of the people are involved, 10% doing the work of the opther 90%. BUT, they have a "calling" to do the work without regret or disappointment. They just keep plugging. Of that group maybe 90% wait to answer or contribute when opportunity arises. The other 10% of this group actually initiate activity, stimulating the activities.
One group, in the great minority, are those who are actively improving their fishing and willing to actually post a question. We really love seeing those posts, as they will learn something, and those who answer are bound to solidify what they know by collecting their thoughts. Many times I've been fishing and thinkling about a tip I posted, then use it and begin catching. If I had not written about it lately I might not have remembered it.
Then there are those, the least in number, knowing enough they shouldn't have to be a member anywhere, but wanting to just keep up with trends, making sure bass fishing knowledge is going forth, what people think, mostly the staff folks doing a lot of work behind the scenes, keeping the e-machinery going, finding ways to pay the forum bills, finding sponsors, being diplomats, moderating, with no time to be directly involved.
Tom and I found on our last forum in common people that do ask questions ask the same ones asked 50 times already. They get answered and we begin directing them to the search tool, only to lose everything and start over. At least here it's still here, and we have a pleasant forum sponsor that is easy to live with, who responds personally. There is no offensive stuff going on unfit for children. And we are only a few months old.
I just post as though the whole world is eager to read it and have quit worrying about responses. I know people are absorbing what I was privilege to learn and enjoy over the past 4 1/2 decades. I don't have a son or daughters carrying on my sport, so I'm determined to pass it on to those taking time to visit here.
Lastly, I'm in the habit that if a topic is covered, I pass on to the next. Tom is presenting excellent knowledge and I find it difficult to add to that knowledge base. I'm gonna tell off on Tom. Fortunately for me he sometimes doesn't address the actual question That allows me the chance to answer it, AND enjoy the lessons he types out. So if I don't add in it's because he's handling it.
Here's the way I've always looked at learning. If I learn all you know and you don't know all I know, that makes me smarter than you. Sounds a little selfish, yes. Unselfishness is to divulge YOUR stuff to even us all out. When first taking college calculus I never asked questions. Bad mistake. I THOUGHT or HOPED I was understanding. So I ended up flunking the course and having to repeat it. Why didn't I ask questions the first time thorough? Obviously I didn't know enough to ask a question. That fits a number of readers here. But eventually it will all click and they'll begin to add in.
Jim
What I'm very certain of is there are mostly 5 types of forum members. The first group is the "talkers", about anything under the sun, who might be willing to say something once a day about fishing. They are too involved in too many sports to devote much effort to fish talk. They fish occasionally, but if you check the times and dates of posts, they fish rarely.
The next are the "lurkers", the majority of membership not knowing enough about fishing to write about it, but learning what they've needed daily. The main thing is they are there, gobling up all the knowledge they can find. Most of them have never once posted anything. You can check the membership pages and see that. Zero posts.
Another is the "teachers" who know enough to write articles about fishing, who have a ton of fishing experience. Those might fill 3% of the membership. They don't hesitate to teach and answer questions. It's that way in any organization. In churches 20% of the people are involved, 10% doing the work of the opther 90%. BUT, they have a "calling" to do the work without regret or disappointment. They just keep plugging. Of that group maybe 90% wait to answer or contribute when opportunity arises. The other 10% of this group actually initiate activity, stimulating the activities.
One group, in the great minority, are those who are actively improving their fishing and willing to actually post a question. We really love seeing those posts, as they will learn something, and those who answer are bound to solidify what they know by collecting their thoughts. Many times I've been fishing and thinkling about a tip I posted, then use it and begin catching. If I had not written about it lately I might not have remembered it.
Then there are those, the least in number, knowing enough they shouldn't have to be a member anywhere, but wanting to just keep up with trends, making sure bass fishing knowledge is going forth, what people think, mostly the staff folks doing a lot of work behind the scenes, keeping the e-machinery going, finding ways to pay the forum bills, finding sponsors, being diplomats, moderating, with no time to be directly involved.
Tom and I found on our last forum in common people that do ask questions ask the same ones asked 50 times already. They get answered and we begin directing them to the search tool, only to lose everything and start over. At least here it's still here, and we have a pleasant forum sponsor that is easy to live with, who responds personally. There is no offensive stuff going on unfit for children. And we are only a few months old.
I just post as though the whole world is eager to read it and have quit worrying about responses. I know people are absorbing what I was privilege to learn and enjoy over the past 4 1/2 decades. I don't have a son or daughters carrying on my sport, so I'm determined to pass it on to those taking time to visit here.
Lastly, I'm in the habit that if a topic is covered, I pass on to the next. Tom is presenting excellent knowledge and I find it difficult to add to that knowledge base. I'm gonna tell off on Tom. Fortunately for me he sometimes doesn't address the actual question
That allows me the chance to answer it, AND enjoy the lessons he types out. So if I don't add in it's because he's handling it. Here's the way I've always looked at learning. If I learn all you know and you don't know all I know, that makes me smarter than you. Sounds a little selfish, yes. Unselfishness is to divulge YOUR stuff to even us all out. When first taking college calculus I never asked questions. Bad mistake. I THOUGHT or HOPED I was understanding. So I ended up flunking the course and having to repeat it. Why didn't I ask questions the first time thorough? Obviously I didn't know enough to ask a question. That fits a number of readers here. But eventually it will all click and they'll begin to add in.
Jim
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