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Go fish and have fun. To every post in here there is a solid anti-thesis. For example one guy says noise spooks yet I'm sure we can all remember nailing them one after another right after drilling! The key to this is the one thing humans are terrible at. Change. Change your spots, change lakes, change tactics, change everything. Sometimes the only identifiable pattern in fishing is the way we actually fish!
Philosophically speaking, you can also try some other intangibles like: hope and prayer....wishing works well at times. A little luck is nice too ! There's some solid advice here. Even with the solid antitheses....
Firm believer in positive thinking helping me catch fish. It helps me with life in general, but I'll spare the mumbo jumbo I spew on my friends when I'm fishing. Try this the next time you're fishing: When you visually scan your tipups. Are you checking your tipups to make sure all the flags are down? A lot of my friends do. I check my tipups to see which one's have a flag standing. Stop walking on the ice planning to get skunked as always. Try something different like everyone has said and try it with confidence knowing that you're NOT going to have worse luck than you've already had. I better stop before the granola crunching comments start.