The answer lies in their enhanced knowledge and experience.
Experience takes time, sometimes years and comes only with more fishing trips.
However, enhancing your fishing knowledge is something you can improve upon today, if you take the time. Books, fishing articles, instructional fishing seminars, and tips from the old timers all help increase an angler s knowledge. One important tool in this knowledge building is the keeping of a fishing log. By far, I am no expert angler, but I have managed to increase my skills and catch fish more consistently by taking the time to write the details down in a fishing log. I started my log ten years ago, and now have a volume of information about each season to use as a reference in understanding the fishing patterns of the Sandy Hook -Shrewsbury River areas.