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#4118521 - 11/04/09 05:45 PM your at a new lake fished for 2 days and you blank...whats your next move....
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this should be fun......
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#4118550 - 11/04/09 05:52 PM Re: your at a new lake fished for 2 days and you blank...whats your next move.... [Re: LoneStarCarper]
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depends on whether you plumbed the swim and know it is a good swim. If it is , then stick it out, if not you suck
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#4118593 - 11/04/09 06:08 PM Re: your at a new lake fished for 2 days and you blank...whats your next move.... [Re: ScottEvil]
Dave24 Offline
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Loc: Keller, TX
Change spots...Unless I see signs of fish. Two days should be time to get something if there are fish in the area. This isn't Europe.

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#4118596 - 11/04/09 06:09 PM Re: your at a new lake fished for 2 days and you blank...whats your next move.... [Re: ScottEvil]
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He zach is back great...I normaly spend the first couple of days mooving around alot on a new lake( move every day)
Put my bivy at a strategic point so I can overlook a big part of it..and look 24/7 for signs of feeding carp..like fish jumping
Then I bait up small amounts in 4-5 passibel swims and just roam them of until one swim jumps out
Then I just fish that swim and dont give up until I find a better option...but that can take weeks or even months and not 2 days
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#4118640 - 11/04/09 06:21 PM Re: your at a new lake fished for 2 days and you blank...whats your next move.... [Re: dutch leo]
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Leave White Rock and go home. rolfmao
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#4118652 - 11/04/09 06:24 PM Re: your at a new lake fished for 2 days and you blank...whats your next move.... [Re: Dave24]
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Originally Posted By: Dave24
Change spots...Unless I see signs of fish. Two days should be time to get something if there are fish in the area. This isn't Europe.


There are some lakes around here that you won't catch a fish most of the time, but when you do it will be 30#+
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#4118710 - 11/04/09 06:42 PM Re: your at a new lake fished for 2 days and you blank...whats your next move.... [Re: ScottEvil]
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stick it out another day or 2. it is called fishing
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#4118750 - 11/04/09 06:54 PM Re: your at a new lake fished for 2 days and you blank...whats your next move.... [Re: ScottEvil]
Dave24 Offline
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Originally Posted By: ScottEvil
Originally Posted By: Dave24
Change spots...Unless I see signs of fish. Two days should be time to get something if there are fish in the area. This isn't Europe.


There are some lakes around here that you won't catch a fish most of the time, but when you do it will be 30#+


I guess it depends on the situation. If the lake, or a certain spot, is proven by others to have fish in it then I go about it differently than if it is a new lake all together that I know nothing about. I'm more patient if I know fish have been caught there before.

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#4118767 - 11/04/09 06:58 PM Re: your at a new lake fished for 2 days and you blank...whats your next move.... [Re: Crago Jr Fights the big Fish]
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Originally Posted By: Crago Jr Fights the big Fish
it is called fishing


And NOT catching thumb
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#4118785 - 11/04/09 07:06 PM Re: your at a new lake fished for 2 days and you blank...whats your next move.... [Re: Dave24]
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Originally Posted By: Dave24
Originally Posted By: ScottEvil
Originally Posted By: Dave24
Change spots...Unless I see signs of fish. Two days should be time to get something if there are fish in the area. This isn't Europe.


There are some lakes around here that you won't catch a fish most of the time, but when you do it will be 30#+


I guess it depends on the situation. If the lake, or a certain spot, is proven by others to have fish in it then I go about it differently than if it is a new lake all together that I know nothing about. I'm more patient if I know fish have been caught there before.


that is part of exploring. Take the lake in Mexico where those guys fished it for days and blanked only to get a 40 on the next trip
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#4119451 - 11/04/09 10:22 PM Re: your at a new lake fished for 2 days and you blank...whats your next move.... [Re: ScottEvil]
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I dunno; never fished a lake for two days!
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#4119580 - 11/04/09 11:15 PM Re: your at a new lake fished for 2 days and you blank...whats your next move.... [Re: fiSherwood]
dutch leo Online   happy
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Registered: 06/09/09
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Loc: dutch river/lake
Please note that zach is
A actualy been fishing now outside in the fresh air
B Been blanking for 2 days on a new lake..great zach
Maybe its time for a staderd hair rig without those fancy rings..it improves catches you know lol
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#4119763 - 11/05/09 04:48 AM Re: your at a new lake fished for 2 days and you blank...whats your next move.... [Re: dutch leo]
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After 2 Days of blanking, the only option would be to add a little more Captain to your Coke.

Chad
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#4120316 - 11/05/09 09:12 AM Re: your at a new lake fished for 2 days and you blank...whats your next move.... [Re: badchade]
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Originally Posted By: badchade
After 2 Days of blanking, the only option would be to add a little more Captain to your Coke.

Chad


+1
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#4120371 - 11/05/09 09:25 AM Re: your at a new lake fished for 2 days and you blank...whats your next move.... [Re: agfisher02]
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Registered: 05/15/09
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Loc: fort worth,tx
Originally Posted By: agfisher02
Originally Posted By: badchade
After 2 Days of blanking, the only option would be to add a little more Captain to your Coke.

Chad


+1


forget the coke.
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#4120489 - 11/05/09 09:55 AM Re: your at a new lake fished for 2 days and you blank...whats your next move.... [Re: Curt0407]
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Originally Posted By: Curt0407
Leave White Rock and go home. rolfmao
Leave White Rock Caney Creek and go home. rolfmao
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#4120861 - 11/05/09 11:44 AM Re: your at a new lake fished for 2 days and you blank...whats your next move.... [Re: Smile-n-Nod]
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I'd stick it out. Find any feature and go with more localized baiting. Or perhaps not bait at all and just go with a method feeder. Might mean very few fish but that could equal some good size. Years ago some twat taught me that when specimen hunting its better to blank than to catch a lot of small fish. Its proven true time and time again. Think Athens mate.

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#4120933 - 11/05/09 12:06 PM Re: your at a new lake fished for 2 days and you blank...whats your next move.... [Re: SSF]
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I'd start throwing dynamite in and see what pops up.....
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#4120981 - 11/05/09 12:17 PM Re: your at a new lake fished for 2 days and you blank...whats your next move.... [Re: Nick220722]
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or maybe make a "phone call" with an old phone ?

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#4122045 - 11/05/09 04:10 PM Re: your at a new lake fished for 2 days and you blank...whats your next move.... [Re: SSF]
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Don't know, its never happened......












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#4122141 - 11/05/09 04:42 PM Re: your at a new lake fished for 2 days and you blank...whats your next move.... [Re: cubfan]
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Loc: garland tx/ray hubbard
More Beer!
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#4123646 - 11/06/09 02:41 AM Re: your at a new lake fished for 2 days and you blank...whats your next move.... [Re: Bubbadass1]
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Day 3: I’d start by finding three or four likely looking swims, bait each one and then visit them in rotation.

I’d be baiting up with a mixture of 4 and 6mm pellets, hemp and 10mm boilles – some chopped, some crumbed and some whole, for the hook I have either boilies or 10mm pellets.
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#4124448 - 11/06/09 10:31 AM Re: your at a new lake fished for 2 days and you blank...whats your next move.... [Re: grassiegetter]
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I am with Bubba... It's all about the beer... The fishing is secondary.
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#4137223 - 11/10/09 11:12 AM Re: your at a new lake fished for 2 days and you blank...whats your next move.... [Re: El Guahpo]
Andym Offline
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Try fishing a lake in france for a whole week paying $500 for the privalige and still blanking

Mind you the fact that i was going though a case of wine every 2 days may have had something to do with it LOL
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#4146029 - 11/12/09 05:57 PM Re: your at a new lake fished for 2 days and you blank...whats your next move.... [Re: Andym]
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if you dont have luck halfway into your second trip, go to your spot where you know you catch!
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