five mind hacks i wish i knew was a beginner fisherman starting now i'm not a mumbo jumbo type
of guy so i'm not gonna try to doctor fill you here but my mom might start watching my channel if
i do but there are some ways to position yourself mentally for success these are all mind hacks i've
used over the years when i climbed kilimanjaro three times walked 374 days across the united
states cycled across the united states twice ran 100 marathons in 100 days across the us completed
an iron man play him 50.6 nonstop miles across lake michigan and thru hike the appalachian trail
i've got the mental game locked in and i want to share with you the tricks i've used over the years
as it relates to fishing and if you follow them you'll be in a much better mental space to catch
more fish in numbers and in size i'm gonna skip over begging you for likes and subs you know how
youtube works so we're gonna hop right in to mind hack number five compare yourself only to the you
of yesterday if you don't follow this one it can [ __ ] you what we do all the time
is we look up to other fishermen and we compare there then with our now and it's not an apples to
apples comparison it never will be leveling up your fishing can only be compared to the
you of yesterday i like to refer to this as the one percent rule and no one wants to be
patient anymore i want to be the best fisherman there is right now i do not want to put into work
i want overnight success unfortunately that's not how it works you're not gonna be able to
hop on youtube and watch one video and figure it all out you're gonna need to watch hundreds
and hundreds and then get out on the water and test out those strategies everybody's looking for
the home runs and guys girls you gotta put in the base hits that's where the one percent rule comes
in the mind hack here is not to compare yourself with others but rather be one percent better than
the last time you went fishing and with that mentality you will grow as a fisherman much
faster than you ever have yes it'll take some work it'll take some patience but here in six months
in a year you will be surprised with how much growth you see in your fishing game one percent
better than last time all right mine hack number four develop your analytical mind i have heard it
said over and over again that anglers who have an analytical mind are much more successful in
fishing all right this is what i want you to do think about the best fisherman you know seriously
i'm flattered but think of someone other than me and i asked you the question are they lacks a
days ago when their approach the fishing hey what are you fishing for oh you know whatever's biting
or are they very analytical and strategic to their approach don't assume that your buddy who keeps
on posting photos of monsters are catching those things by accident great fishermen they're always
taking in a plethora of information around them the season the time of day the lord the lure color
the temperature the water temperature the wind the retrieval speed barometric pressure lure size and
more the fisherman who is able to distill down all this information into an actionable strategy
will be able to replicate the success in future scenarios i was curious and actually looked up
on google what is the opposite of analytical and this is what they had to say irrational
messy unmethodical unmethodical unmethodical i'm not that i'm just gonna skip that one
confused haphazard nonsensical disorganized i'm running out of fingers here undisciplined
flawed unplanned darren we get the point well good because all those styles and approaches
of fishing will get you a stringer full of nothing all right before we move on to the next one i want
to hear from you what's the best piece of fishing advice you've ever received please let me know in
the comments below i actually look really forward to reading these all right mind hack number three
measured expectations well here's the thing i'm a realist so this is pretty easy for me and this
one's really simple to understand if you're going to the lake where you know you absolutely kill it
this time of year with a certain lure and then by all means ratchet up your expectations but if
you're going out to a new body of water trying out new lures to a place you've never been before well
maybe in your best interest to ratchet it down a bit by mentally keeping your expectations measured
you won't let frustration get the best of you and you'll be able to stay more positively focused
and land more fish mind hack number two if fishing was easy everybody would be doing it and videos
like this wouldn't be in existence so another way to increase your advantage out in the water is a
positive mental attitude instead of losing it after you're not catching anything and giving
up and quitting for the day another way to look at it is that you're systematically figuring out what
the fish want by the process of elimination and there's a big difference between the two one is a
positive motivated focus and the other one is just just getting frustrated if this video is bringing
you value please help me out hit that like button and moving on to the final mind hack here
it is we're reading an article recently from the minnesota dnr and they were interviewing a bunch
of fishing parties and they said that the number one answer to this question what are you fishing
for is whatever's biting with that laissez-faire attitude we usually land you a bunch of nothing
and unfortunately you have to answer the question hey what did you catch and your answer will sound
something like this oh you know i just love being with water oh it's just so beautiful the sun rises
stop lying to yourself guys if you just wanted to be out on the water you wouldn't have brought
your fishing pole deep down we want either fishing numbers or the biggest freaking fish we have ever
seen you haven't thought through or put together a game plan on the species the type of fish you're
trying to catch the lures the season the colors the bait and a ton of other variables i want to
thank you for leaving more fish for me and being mentally prepared is how you're going to get there
i heard a quote recently said a goal without a plan is just a wish so if your goal is to catch a
big fish and you have no plan on how to do it guys you ain't fishing you just wish and that game plan
actually takes place before you even pick up that fishing pole mentally have a plan you'd be much
more happier with the time you invest i've got good news for you i got four more mind
hacks for you but they're in another video four psychological tips to catch more fish right there