This I believe, that better gear doesn’t lead to better payoff. I realised this one cloudy afternoon two summers ago, me and my brother were fishing off a natural pier twenty or so feet above the water in a brackish canal about eighty feet wide in the intercoastal waterway.We were using mud minnows We were trying to catch pinfish which is a small fish used to catch big fish. Pinfish don’t pull hard if you catch one so I was using a thinner short pole ment to catch small fish like a pinfish. We had been to several different spots to try and get a few and the pier was our last spot. I casted out and looked up across the canal at a boat driving by. I was starting to lose hope then all of a sudden BAM! Something snagged my line and was pulling really hard I started to pull and it pulled back I figured it was either a red drum or a sea bass because they pull a lot harder than pinfish, it was at that moment that I got excited but at the same time terrified my pole was going to snap and I thought about all the things I caught with it all while reeling and tugging. Eventually I got it out the water and it was a drum, it was a good size to, and I measured it at about 18 inches. It was at that moment, the smell of trash and fish going up my nostrils in the slight breeze that I realised, sometimes better gear doesn’t lead to better payoff, I realised this because I caught a good size fish with a pole meant for catching small fish. This has changed the way I view everything, I sometimes feel the need to blame the gear but then i look back on the day and tell myself it’s not about the gear.
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