How To Catch 100 Fish

It's so simple.

Imagine you wanted to catch 100 fish. How would you do it? Take a moment to think about that and then I’ll give you my bag of tricks.

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Okay, so here is the thing. There are billions of people who will never catch 100 fish in their entire lives. So from that point of view, catching 100 fish is a rare thing, right? Sure, but rare doesn’t have to be difficult or complicated.

If you wanted to catch 100 fish here is what you could do…

First, go fishing. Just grab a fishing pole, tackle, and go fishing. If you don’t go fishing, you won’t catch fish. So it starts with going fishing.

Maybe on your first time fishing you catch one or two fish, or maybe zero, or maybe all 100. It probably won’t be all 100, so let’s assume it was fewer than 10 fish caught.

Second, go fishing again. But on your second time, pick a simple rig that works. If you read yesterday’s email about bobber fishing, you know that you could use a bobber, worm, weight, and a hook as your rig and that will catch fish.

Let’s assume this time your bobber rig (or whatever you decided on) works better than the random thing you did the first time out. Now you caught 5-10 fish and your total is maybe 10+ fish over two outings. Great job, you’re getting it!

Third, go fishing again. But before you go, ask around or do some research to find out where the fish are biting. Maybe there are other lakes nearby with more fish. So with that information in hand, you go to a better lake and catch more fish.

Good news, you caught more fish at this new hotspot and it was over 10 fish this time. Your grand total is 25+ fish. Wow, that’s really fun.

Fourth, go fishing again. But this time try to go earlier in the morning or later in the day. Often fish or more active at those times. So, maybe you wake up at dawn and get out on the lake early.

That adds even more fish to the total. Not a ton more than last time, but some of them were much bigger and more fun to reel in. The total looks like 40+ fish now.

From here, you just keep going fishing over and over again. Eventually your total will be well over 100 fish. You might even get luck and catch dozens of fish on the same day. It does happen.

Every person who has ever caught 100+ fish has done a variation of the above pattern. There are nearly infinite variations on the pattern. Different lakes, different rigs, different bait, different fishing styles, different types of fish. Heck, maybe you just got a giant net, went to the ocean and caught over 100 fish at once. I don’t know.

But the pattern remains the same.

You have to go fishing. You have to make little improvements along the way. And then you go fishing s’more. Over and over again.

That is how to catch a lot of fish.

-Brian