What is it?
While science and technology can play a role, “fit” is more about feeling than calculating or reasoning. The ultimate predator understands the prey in ways they often cannot describe. Hunters may “become one” with their prey, knowing where to find it and how the prey will react in a hunting situation. Some pride themselves in targeting mature animals which are more difficult to approach or deceive in hunting situations. These hunters also tend to close in for clean kills at short range. Many folks describe those with exceptional abilities as great “instinctive” hunters. They seem to know how to locate prey and pattern exceptional animals in almost any situation.
How can anglers use it?
The adaptive concept of “fit” applies directly to those who choose to hunt fish. Some anglers fit seamlessly into the fishing environment, they exhibit a “feel” for locating fish, choosing lures and presentations that seem to exactly match the functional requirements to elicit a strike. Advanced anglers understand the role of precision over accuracy, in shaping finely honed, pinpoint presentations. They understand how small apparent differences can produce huge dividends in fishing. Adaptive anglers tend to become masters of efficiency; quickly evaluating local potential and moving on to better opportunities.
While the upper levels of “fit” or becoming one with the fishes is a wonder to behold, fit, like most other parameters in the science of fishing, is distributed across a continuum. Fit starts to emerge with early, fish-catching notions or feelings that paid-off in a strike. From there the concept gradually acquires fish-catching momentum, to finally arrive at the upper levels of what could be considered as intuitive angling. In between, are lodged thousands of hours of practice and feedback, much of which did not result in any hopeful, initial contacts with fish, in the earliest stages.
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