Happy Monday, Spacefish!

By the time we reach the dog days of summer, bass fishing in Florida can feel like an endurance test. The sun gets high early, the air feels like you just opened the door to your dryer midway through drying a load of wet towels, and much of the shallow water that looked promising during spring can suddenly seem lifeless. You can still catch fish along the bank, particularly around sunrise, but as the water warms and the day progresses, many bass begin relating to deeper water and offshore vegetation.

That creates an obvious problem for anglers like me who don’t use electronics. Modern bass fishing increasingly teaches us that finding offshore fish requires expensive sonar, detailed mapping, and enough screens to operate a small air-traffic-control tower. Those tools are undeniably effective, but they aren’t the only way to locate bass away from the shoreline.

I opt to prepare before the trip by spending time looking at satellite and contour maps; I like to identify likely areas, and then use vegetation, lure contact, and other visible clues to finish the search once I reach the water. That was my approach during a recent trip to Lake Toho. Rather than beating the visible shoreline all day, I focused on mixed vegetation, subtle depth contours, and offshore areas where hydrilla, lily pads, and other types of cover came together in the NE part of the lake. The key wasn’t finding one magical patch of grass. It was finding the right combination of grass and depth.

Fishing Starts Before I Launch

Although I don’t carry electronics on the water, that doesn’t mean I arrive at the launch spot and start fishing blindly. Before a trip, I use Garmin’s free online marine chart viewer (https://maps.garmin.com/en-US/marine?maps=another-brand&overlay=false&key=9z1fmr1ux877) to study the lake from home. It allows me to look at the general shape of the lake, examine depth contours, and identify offshore areas that might be worth exploring.

On Lake Toho, I’m looking for contours that intersect with visible vegetation. I pay particular attention to points, depressions, turns in the contour lines, and places where a broad shallow flat falls into slightly deeper water. In Florida, that change doesn’t need to be dramatic. A difference of only a foot or two can provide bass with access to slightly cooler water, submerged cover, and an easy route between feeding areas and deeper water.

I’m not trying to identify one precise waypoint from my computer. Instead, I select several promising zones before the trip. I look for areas close enough together that I can move efficiently between them, which is especially important when fishing from a kayak. The online map gives me a general plan. Once I arrive, I use the vegetation to narrow the search.

A map can reveal the shape of the lake, but it cannot tell me where the healthiest grass is growing, where baitfish are active, or which edge the wind is affecting that morning. Pre-planning reduces the amount of empty water I need to cover. Reading the water while I am out there finishes the job.

Cover is Structure

Bass anglers sometimes talk about vegetation as if all grass is essentially the same. Find something green, throw a bait beside it, and hope for the best. But different types of vegetation grow under different conditions. When hydrilla, lily pads, dollar pads, and other aquatic cover overlap, they can reveal more than simply where the grass is located.

They can help identify changes in depth, bottom composition, shade, and available cover. A wide field of identical vegetation may hold fish, but the higher-percentage areas are usually where something changes. Look for an isolated patch of hydrilla outside the main bed, an opening within a field of pads, or a place where one type of vegetation transitions into another. Those transitions create edges, lanes, ambush points, and shade. They also give bass access to different depths without forcing them to travel very far.

During summer, that combination becomes especially important. A bass may move onto a shallow area to feed during low-light conditions before sliding toward an outside edge of that same area as the sun rises. Mixed vegetation allows it to make that adjustment while remaining close to cover and forage. The productive area may not look dramatic above the surface. Sometimes the difference between empty water and a group of fish is a depth change of only a foot or two.

Confirming Depth Without a Screen

The online chart provides a starting point, but once I’m on the lake, I still need to confirm what I studied at home. Without onboard electronics, I gather information through my lure, my paddle, and my eyes; more often than not, my bait becomes my depth finder.
Pay attention to how long it takes your lure to reach the vegetation. Notice whether it ticks the top of the grass, buries into it, or comes back clean. If you can retrieve a bait over submerged hydrilla for several casts and then suddenly stop making contact, you may have crossed the outside edge or reached slightly deeper water. That is the contour you studied at home becoming something you can actually feel.

The vegetation itself can also reveal depth changes. If a pad field suddenly ends along a clean, defined line, deeper water may begin just beyond it. If submerged hydrilla grows near that outside edge, the area becomes even more interesting.

Wind can help expose these zones. Floating vegetation, foam, and surface debris often collect along edges or seams. Bait may stack up where the wind pushes water against the grass. Birds, bluegill, and occasional surface activity can provide additional evidence that an area is alive. None of these clues will draw a perfect contour map. Together, however, they can help you form a mental picture of what is happening beneath the surface.

Search First, Then Slow Down

When fishing offshore without electronics, covering water efficiently becomes especially important. I don’t want to spend an hour dissecting a patch of grass simply because it looks good. A speedworm or a paddletail swimbait gives me a good starting point.

Both allow me to cover water while learning about the vegetation below. I can fish them quickly over scattered hydrilla, slow them down beside pad edges, or allow them to sink when I reach slightly deeper water. With the speedworm in particular, I like to have that bobber stopper to peg weight, but I can slide it up the like, cut the hook off and replace a lighter tungsten weight with something heavier and be pretty efficient with this presentation.

The goal isn’t merely to generate a strike, every cast should provide information. If the bait constantly returns covered in grass, I may need to increase my retrieve speed, raise my rod tip, or switch to a lighter presentation. If it never touches anything, I may be fishing too high or have moved beyond the productive vegetation. I’m looking for the middle zone where the lure can travel just above the hydrilla, occasionally making contact without becoming buried in it.

That occasional contact can be important. A bait moving cleanly through open water may go unnoticed, but one that touches the grass and suddenly breaks free resembles vulnerable prey trying to escape.

The speedworm is especially useful because it can be adapted to several situations. I can buzz it over shallow vegetation, swim it through scattered grass, or slow it down when I reach a deeper edge. A weedless swimbait provides a slightly different profile while allowing me to cover the same types of water.

Also, if one bait produces a strike, I can adjust the other to help determine whether the fish are responding to speed, profile, depth, or direction.

Turn a Bite Into a Pattern

Once you catch a fish, don’t treat it as a random event! Look around and ask questions… What type of vegetation was present? How deep was the lure running? Were you fishing the inside edge, outside edge, or an opening between two types of grass? Was the wind pushing into the area? Did the strike come as the bait entered the vegetation, traveled above it, or broke free?

Once I get a bite, I make repeated casts through the same area from several angles before moving. Summer bass frequently group together when they locate the right combination of depth, cover, shade, and forage. It is a mistake to assume that an offshore fish was wandering alone.

Casting from different directions can also reveal a subtle ditch, point, or grass edge that wasn’t immediately obvious. If bites consistently come when the lure crosses one particular stretch, I want to determine what makes that line different.

Sometimes the fish are relating to something so subtle that you can only recognize it through repetition.

Build Your Own Map

You don’t need a glowing screen beside you to map a lake. You can build the map in your head. Start with the vegetation you can see and work outward. Cast toward the pads, parallel to their edge, and then away from them. Change your casting angles until you understand where the submerged grass begins, where it ends, and how the bottom changes around it.

Visible landmarks can help you relocate productive offshore areas. A dock, tree line, light pole, or distant building can provide a reference point. Pay attention to the wind direction and where your kayak drifts after each cast. Over time, disconnected observations begin forming a picture.

The pad field extends farther underwater than it appears. The hydrilla becomes thicker on one side. A narrow lane separates two types of vegetation. The bottom drops slightly beyond the final line of dollar pads. That is offshore structure, even if it never appears on a fish finder.

Let the Lake Teach You

Fishing without electronics requires patience, but it also forces you to become more observant. You begin noticing that not every grass line is equal. You learn how a lure feels when it crosses submerged hydrilla and how the retrieve changes when it reaches deeper water. You stop casting merely toward something that looks “fishy” and start developing a reason for every cast.

That was the biggest lesson from Lake Toho. During the dog days of summer, the shoreline may be the most obvious place to fish, but it isn’t necessarily where the best opportunity exists. Bass can move offshore without disappearing. They still relate to structure, edges, depth, shade, and food. The challenge is learning how to recognize those things without seeing them on a screen.

Study the contours before you leave home. Select several areas where depth and vegetation appear to intersect. Once you reach the lake, find the mixed vegetation, search the transitions, and use moving baits to cover water. Let your lure tell you what is underneath it, and treat every bite as a clue. You may not have a contour map glowing beside you, but if you pay attention long enough, the lake will draw one for you.

Conclusion

You don’t need the latest electronics to find offshore bass, but having a dependable kayak and the right tackle makes the search much easier. If you’re looking for a fishing kayak; or need help repairing, rigging, or upgrading the one you already own; then stop in at Kayaks By Bo. Their team at KBB understands the needs of Central Florida kayak anglers and can help you build a setup that matches the water you actually fish.

For speedworms, swimbaits, weedless hooks, and the rest of your summer bass-fishing tackle, visit Strike Zone Fishing in Melbourne. Whether you’re preparing for Lake Toho or exploring any of Florida’s vast and numerous freshwater bodies, their selection and local knowledge can help you put together an effective grass-fishing kit without overcomplicating it.

Do a little homework, pack a few versatile moving baits, and let the vegetation guide you. Lake Toho still has plenty to teach anglers willing to look beyond the shallows, and you don’t need a screen to begin learning its lessons.

Stay safe, be happy, and may your lines be ever tight! Until next time!

Take the Spacefish Angler Psychology Test and find out how the way you think might be helping or hurting your fishing.

This week at school, I’m teaching psychology, and we’re getting into one of those topics that probably doesn’t sound particularly exciting to a room full of high school students: research methods.

We’re talking about how psychologists study human behavior. How do you take something messy and complicated, like the way people think, make decisions, react to frustration, or change their behavior, and actually study it? How do you form a hypothesis, identify variables, collect observations, and figure out whether there’s really a pattern there?

Naturally, while preparing to teach all of this, my brain went exactly where any serious academic would go… Fishing.

We spend an awful lot of time trying to get inside the mind of a fish. What are they eating? Where are they holding? Why did that redfish eat yesterday but refuse the same lure today? But the more I thought about research methods and human behavior, the more I started wondering if maybe we’re studying the wrong brain.

Maybe before we try figuring out the psychology of a fish, we ought to spend a little time thinking about the psychology of the person holding the fishing rod. Because put five anglers on the same stretch of the Indian River Lagoon and give them the same miserable two-hour stretch without a bite, and you’ll probably see five completely different reactions.

One guy starts moving, another changes lures, one stubbornly keeps casting at the same shoreline, another starts checking the tide/wind/water temperature, and somebody else puts the rod down for a minute and starts watching mullet.

It’s the same water, the same conditions, and the same lack of fish; but completely different behavior. That’s where my little research-methods rabbit hole started getting interesting. None of those anglers are necessarily wrong. They’re simply revealing something about how they approach fishing: how patient they are, how quickly they adapt, how much they trust their instincts, what information they pay attention to, and how they respond when Plan A isn’t working. Those tendencies can become strengths, but they can also become weaknesses; and understanding which ones you tend to lean on might actually help you catch more fish.

So this week we’re going to try something a little different. We’re going to psychoanalyze Spacefish readers… and don’t worry, teaching high school psychology doesn’t make me qualified to do that either, but when has that ever stopped us?

The Psychology of Fishing

Let’s establish something before we begin…

This isn’t a scientifically validated psychological assessment. Nobody at Spacefish is going to diagnose you with Chronic Topwater Disorder, Acute Tackle Acquisition Syndrome, or an unhealthy emotional attachment to a particular MirrOdine. This is an angler self-assessment.

But there is a serious idea behind it. Every angler develops tendencies that involve risk, patience, confidence, observation, decision-making, and adaptability. Some fishermen want action, some want information, some trust experience, some experiment constantly, and others pay close attention to the natural environment around them.

Those tendencies eventually shape how we fish, and more importantly, they shape the decisions we make when the fishing gets difficult; and that’s where things get interesting. So grab a piece of paper, or your phone, and write down the letter you choose for each question.

Please don’t pick the answer you think makes you sound like a better angler; pick the answer that describes what you actually do.

The Spacefish Angler Psychology Test

1. You’ve fished a normally productive shoreline for 30 minutes without a bite. What happens next?

A. I’m moving. I need to find active fish.
B. I stop and reconsider the tide, wind, depth and pattern.
C. I stay with it. I know fish use this area.
D. I change my lure, color, weight or retrieve.
E. I start looking harder for bait, birds, wakes, current or another clue I’ve missed.

2. You arrive at the ramp and the wind is much stronger than forecast. What’s your first reaction?

A. Where can I use this wind to cover water?
B. How does this change the pattern I expected?
C. Stick with the plan unless conditions prove I can’t.
D. What lure or presentation works better in this wind?
E. Where is that wind going to push bait and create feeding opportunities?

3. You catch a quality redfish somewhere you didn’t expect it. What do you do next?

A. Keep moving to see if there are more active fish nearby.
B. Try to determine why that fish was there.
C. Make another cast to exactly the same place.
D. Experiment slightly to see what else those fish will eat.
E. Study the depth, grass, current, bait and surrounding habitat.

4. You’re allowed to bring only one lure on tomorrow’s trip. How do you choose?

A. Something versatile that lets me cover a lot of water.
B. Whatever best matches the pattern I expect.
C. My confidence bait. No hesitation.
D. Something I haven’t completely figured out yet.
E. Something that naturally fits the forage and habitat I’m fishing.

5. Another angler catches three fish while you’ve caught none. What are you watching?

A. Where they’re casting and how quickly they’re covering water.
B. Every detail I can identify about their pattern.
C. Nothing changes yet. I trust what I’m doing.
D. Their lure, retrieve, leader and presentation.
E. What environmental feature their fish seem to be relating to.

6. What’s most satisfying about catching a difficult fish?

A. Finding it.
B. Figuring it out.
C. Finally getting rewarded for sticking with it.
D. Discovering a presentation that works.
E. Understanding why the fish was there.

7. You’re exploring completely unfamiliar water. What’s your approach?

A. Cover as much promising water as possible.
B. Study maps, tides and likely patterns before making the first cast.
C. Find something familiar and fish it thoroughly.
D. Cycle through presentations until something produces information.
E. Look for bait, birds, moving water, vegetation and other natural clues.

8. You miss a big topwater strike. What happens?

A. Keep working the area aggressively. There may be more fish around.
B. Think about exactly where and why that strike occurred.
C. Throw right back there until that fish eats again.
D. Change cadence, size or follow-up bait.
E. Look for whatever environmental feature positioned that fish there.

9. Fishing has been terrible for two hours. Which thought sounds most like you?

A. “These fish are somewhere else.”
B. “Something about my pattern is wrong.”
C. “Eventually they’re going to eat.”
D. “I haven’t found the right presentation yet.”
E. “There’s something happening out here that I haven’t noticed.”

10. You find fish feeding aggressively. What do you do?

A. Take advantage of it and keep chasing active fish.
B. Pay attention to the conditions so I can reproduce the pattern later.
C. Stay right there and milk the spot for everything it’s worth.
D. Try a few different presentations while they’re willing to eat.
E. Pay attention to what they’re feeding on and how they’re positioned.

11. Which fishing mistake frustrates you most?

A. Spending too much time where there aren’t fish.
B. Realizing afterward that I misunderstood the pattern.
C. Leaving fish because I didn’t give the spot enough time.
D. Discovering later that another lure would have worked better.
E. Missing an obvious clue that was happening around me.

12. You have four hours to fish. How much of the trip do you want planned beforehand?

A. Very little. I’ll move until I find something.
B. Quite a bit. I want a plan based on conditions.
C. I mostly want to know where I’m fishing. Then I’ll work it.
D. I want several lure and presentation options ready.
E. A rough plan is enough. I’ll let the water tell me what to do.

13. What makes you most confident on the water?

A. Having enough mobility to find fish.
B. Understanding the pattern.
C. Having a bait and location I trust.
D. Having several ways to adjust.
E. Seeing natural signs that tell me fish should be nearby.

14. Your favorite lure isn’t producing. How long does it stay tied on?

A. Not long if I’m also not seeing fish.
B. Until the evidence tells me my original pattern is wrong.
C. Probably longer than it should.
D. I’m already digging through the tackle box.
E. That depends entirely on what I’m seeing in the water.

15. At the end of a fishless trip, what question are you most likely to ask yourself?

A. Where should I have gone instead?
B. What did I misunderstand?
C. Should I have stayed with that spot longer?
D. What should I have thrown differently?
E. What clue did I miss?

Score Your Fishing Brain

Now count how many times you answered each letter.

A = The Hunter
B = The Analyst
C = The Grinder
D = The Tinkerer
E = The Naturalist

Your highest score is your primary fishing personality. Your second-highest score is important too. Think of that as your secondary tendency, the style you tend to fall back on when your normal approach isn’t working. Now, what if two categories tie? Congratulations. You’re a fishing mutt, or maybe you’re a two-sporter like Deion Sanders; either way, that’s probably a good thing.

The Hunter

“They’re somewhere. Let’s go find them.”

Hunters believe one of the biggest mistakes in fishing is spending time casting where there aren’t fish. You probably like covering water, making casts, and generating opportunities. You’re comfortable abandoning a spot and trusting yourself to find another.

That’s an enormous advantage when fish are scattered or actively feeding, but the problem comes when mobility becomes impatience. Sometimes you didn’t fail to find fish, you simply didn’t give the fish you found enough time to bite.

Your Strength
Efficiency and decisiveness. You don’t need 45 minutes to admit something isn’t working.

Your Blind Spot
Impatience. Movement feels productive even when it isn’t.

Your Challenge
Next time you’re ready to leave a promising area, give yourself ten more deliberate casts while changing something about your angle, depth, or retrieve. Learn when to temporarily become The Grinder.

The Analyst

“There has to be a reason.”

The Analyst wants fishing to make sense. Wind direction, tides, water temperatures, moon phase, depth, seasonality, barometric pressure, and historical patterns. You’re trying to solve a puzzle. That mindset can make you an exceptionally consistent angler because you’re not merely remembering where you caught fish. You’re trying to understand why you caught them.

But fishing doesn’t always cooperate with our theories. Sometimes the danger is spending so much time trying to construct the perfect pattern that you stop gathering the most important information available… Actual casts in the here and now.

Your Strength
Pattern recognition. You’re building knowledge that can transfer from one fishing trip to another.

Your Blind Spot
Analysis paralysis. Fish occasionally do things that make absolutely no sense.

Your Challenge
Give yourself permission to occasionally stop explaining and start exploring. Borrow something from The Hunter.

The Grinder

“They’re here. Make another cast.”

The Grinder possesses something that can’t be purchased at a tackle shop: confidence. You’ve probably developed a handful of places, techniques and lures that you trust deeply, and when fishing gets difficult, you don’t panic.

That’s powerful. Some of the biggest fish caught every year come from anglers willing to make one more cast when everyone else has given up. But confidence and stubbornness are two sides of the same sword; they are cousins. Eventually, there’s a point where persistence stops being discipline and becomes refusal to acknowledge evidence.

Your Strength
Patience and confidence. You give good water enough time to produce.

Your Blind Spot
Stubbornness. Yesterday’s pattern doesn’t owe you anything today.

Your Challenge
Create a predetermined trigger before the trip. No bait activity after 45 minutes? Water completely different than expected? Permit yourself to move, sometimes you need to become The Hunter.

The Tinkerer

“Let me try something.”

If you’re a Tinkerer, your tackle bag probably weighs considerably more than it needs to. You love experimentation: different colors, different jigheads, different retrieves, different leader sizes, and different profiles.

When something isn’t working, your instinct isn’t necessarily to move; it’s to change the equation. That adaptability can be incredibly valuable because fish don’t read fishing blogs and watch YouTube videos; they aren’t obligated to behave the way we think they’re supposed to.

Tinkerers discover things. Unfortunately, Tinkerers also occasionally change the lure that would have caught fish five minutes later.

Your Strength
Adaptability. You’re willing to abandon assumptions.

Your Blind Spot
Lack of commitment. You can change variables so frequently that you never learn anything from the experiment.

Your Challenge
Change one variable at a time. Don’t change location, lure, color, depth, and retrieve simultaneously. Otherwise you won’t know what actually mattered. Borrow some confidence from The Grinder.

The Naturalist

“What is the water telling me?”

The Naturalist probably understands the central idea behind “Reading the Water” better than anyone. You’re watching birds, you’re noticing nervous mullet, you’re feeling the current, you’re looking at grass lines, water clarity, windblown shorelines, depth changes, and wakes. You understand that fish don’t randomly distribute themselves throughout a body of water; they’re responding to an environment that’s always changing. For kayak anglers especially, this mindset can be extremely powerful because we’re moving slowly enough to notice things other anglers blow past.

But there’s a danger here too; sometimes we romanticize instinct. Technology, maps, weather data, and electronics are simply additional sources of information. Ignoring useful information doesn’t make anyone a more pure angler.

Your Strength
Environmental awareness. You’re learning to understand the ecosystem instead of simply memorizing fishing spots.

Your Blind Spot
Overreliance on observation and intuition. Not everything happening underwater announces itself on the surface.

Your Challenge

Use data to confirm what you’re seeing, rather than treating technology and natural observation as opposites. Borrow a little from The Analyst.

Your Secondary Score Might Matter More Than You Think

Here’s where this gets interesting. Very few experienced anglers are purely one type, you might be a Naturalist-Analyst. You notice what the environment is doing and then try to understand why, maybe you’re a Hunter-Tinkerer.

You cover water aggressively while constantly adjusting presentations; you could be a Grinder-Naturalist who could locate a subtle environmental feature and then patiently work it because he trusts what he’s seeing.

A Hunter-Grinder might sound contradictory, but could actually be dangerous: move aggressively until you find something you believe in, then slow down and pick it apart.

Your combination tells a better story than your primary result alone. But there’s another number worth examining. How close were your scores? If one category dominates your results, you probably have a strongly defined fishing style; that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Confidence is valuable, but it also means your blind spot may be larger. If your scores are relatively balanced, you may already be comfortable switching approaches based on conditions. And ultimately, that’s where I think we should all be trying to get.

Five Anglers, One Terrible Morning

Imagine five anglers fish the Indian River Lagoon for two hours without catching anything.

The Hunter thinks: They’re somewhere else.
The Analyst thinks: Something about my pattern is wrong.
The Grinder thinks: Eventually they’re going to eat.
The Tinkerer thinks: I haven’t found the right presentation yet.
The Naturalist thinks: I’m missing something the water is telling me.

But here is the potential problem… Every single one of them could be right. That’s why becoming a better fisherman isn’t necessarily about eliminating your tendencies; it’s about recognizing them. Your greatest strength can become your greatest weakness if/when you don’t know when to turn it off.

The Hunter has to know when to stop running; the Grinder has to know when to leave; the Analyst has to know when to quit thinking; the Tinkerer has to know when to stop changing; and the Naturalist has to know when observation needs some help from information.

Becoming the Complete Angler

I don’t think the best fisherman is a Hunter, or an Analyst, or a Grinder, Tinkerer, or even a Naturalist. I think the best anglers eventually learn how to become all five.

Start as the Naturalist… Before making the first cast, look around. Where is the bait? What is the wind doing? Where is the moving water? What habitat is available?

Then become the Analyst… Ask why those things matter, develop a hypothesis about where the fish should be and what they should be doing.

Then become the Hunter… Go test it; cover water and gather information.

When you find something promising, become the Grinder… Slow down, and trust what you’ve learned. Give good water the opportunity to produce.

When the evidence tells you something isn’t working? Become the Tinkerer. Change something.

Then start the process again. Observe. Think. Search. Commit. Adapt. That’s fishing, and maybe that’s the real psychology lesson here… The fish don’t know whether you’re stubborn, impatient, analytical, experimental or observant. They don’t care how much your kayak costs. They definitely don’t care how many tackle trays you brought. They’re simply responding to the world around them, and our job is to figure that world out. Sometimes the biggest thing standing between us and figuring out the fish isn’t the lure tied to the end of our line; maybe it’s the angler holding the rod.

Conclusion

If this little exercise taught you anything about your fishing personality, maybe the next step is making sure your gear actually fits the way you fish.

If you’re a Hunter who wants to cover water, a Naturalist who likes slipping quietly through shallow grass, or a Grinder who needs a platform comfortable enough to stay out there all day, stop by Kayaks By Bo and talk with the crew about finding a kayak and setup that matches your style instead of simply buying whatever happens to be popular.

And if you’re a Tinkerer, Analyst, or just someone who enjoys having the right lure for the situation, Strike Zone Fishing in Melbourne is always worth a visit. Whether you’re restocking confidence baits or experimenting with something new, they’ve got everything you need to put your fishing brain to work.

Because at the end of the day, the best kayak, lure, rod or piece of tackle is the one that helps you fish the way you fish best. Know your strengths. Work on your blind spots.

I hope you enjoyed this piece, if you felt like I missed out on something, reach out or comment and let me know. Part of my motivation for doing this was to build a test and have my psychology students critique it as part of our studies on research methods. I would love to have our readership do the same.

Stay safe, be happy, and catch lots of fish! Until next time!