Any fishermen superstitious?

Wherever the red-winged blackbirds are the fish are.

Spit on your shiner first and you'll catch a big one.

These are the ones I hear most from my Aunt and Grandmaw, but they have hundreds. Wish I could think of them all.

I unplug my trailer lights everytime I back my boat in.

never catch one on the first cast.

Normally when its easy to catch bait, we do crummy fishing, if we have to work for them we usually do well.

My Grandpa use to make us wave at the birds for good luck when we were kids.

I tried that on mine when they were young and they just gave me a WTF look.

No eating until you catch a keeper. And I have to wear the same hat.

Several “superstitions” here that are actually based on some degree of scientific truth:


winds out of the east fish bite the least

the activity of the wildlife around the lake to determine how the fishing will be

Spit on your shiner first and you'll catch a big one

Red sky at night, sailors delight
red sky at morn, sailors be warn

unplug my trailer lights everytime I back my boat in

once I catch my first fish, then I've got "the smell" (TWSS) on my hands

I always fish a top water lure at the very end of an afternoon of fishing for bass

dogwood blooming....crappie biting



Mine has no real basis but I have to have my lucky hat and when I was much younger I used to pick the 3 lures (towater, worm, crank) that were going to catch the big one that year on New Years eve. Usually I was right but when you have confidence in a bait you fish it more so….