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VANDAM INCREASES RANKINGS LEAD AFTER 2ND AT DARDANELLE
March 31st, 2009
Following are the BassFan World Rankings as updated after the recent Dardanelle Bassmaster Elite Series. Notable movement:
Kevin VanDam posts a 2nd-place finish at Dardanelle, increases his lead in the Rankings by 5 points and once again seems untouchable. Of his last 15 finishes, eight have been Top 10s, two of which were wins.
Learning Your Fishing Knots
March 31st, 2009
Experienced fishermen know that catching large fish or game fish is harder than it sounds. It takes a seasoned fisherman to do this with relative easy and style. If you are only just starting out you will most likely struggle. Catching large fish is an art that needs to be acquired over time.
The easy part is learning these knots from a mate or a book, but try to do them again next time and suddenly you cannot remember the right moves anymore. The problem with this is that if you are an unseasoned fisher, then you won’t have enough experience to remember. That is when you ned a better system to help you learn.
You need to find out all you can about hese techniques before you venture out onto the open water and get a good grasp on your tying knot technique to allow for more fish to be caught.
A great way to snatch some details on how to tie fishing knots is in your local pub. There you get a crowd of likeminded folk who are happy to help you out. Plus it makes for an entertaining night out.
After you got your fishing moves to catch large fish down pat, you need to pay some attention to kitting yourself out for your first fishing adventure. Follow the tips of the pros. They already know what it takes to catch fish successfully and are keen to help you with their advice.
Your fishing equipment needs to be of good quality and it pays to pay a little more from the start to avoid wasting money. Ask in your tackle shop and they will be happy to guide you along. Pay for good mid-range lines and reels to keep them longer functioning.
Bait and tackle is another much argued term among fishermen. Each fishermen is only to quick to point out why a particular bait and tackle won’t work for you. In the end, these are often hobbies and not a necessary item of your equipment unless you are prepared to get right into the topic.
Except giving you their most successful fishing ground, most fishermen are only too happy to help out a new person to the sport. You will most likely find new friends and manage to catch more fish each and every time you are out on the water.
Fishing is a wondeful sport and relaxing to boost. Just you, the ocean and the sun. What else would you want.
About the Author:
About: Sam Murphy is a keen fisherman for some time. You can get more information on how to catch a large fish from his Fly Fishing website.
Fratels forty not out at Farlows
March 30th, 2009
Over 250 of the UK fly fishing industry’s bigwigs and celebrity patrons recently celebrated the 40 years service of the legendary Brian Fratel, Director of Fishing at the world famous Pall Mall instutution that is Farlows. Fish&Fly Chairman Richard Hewitt was delighted to be among the invited guests and has known Brian in various roles for many years.
We have a slideshow of the evening inside which is a who’s who of UK fly fishing. Fish&Fly would like to add our congratulations to Brian and wish him ‘Tight Lines’ for the future!
Fish Finder - Choosing the Best One For Your Needs
March 29th, 2009
Technology has made fishing a great deal easier. Just think about how difficult it must have been in the past when they had to use the trial and error method to locate fish and determine depth.
Fish finders are handy devices that rely on sonar to locate the fish under the water and therefore increase the fisherman’s opportunities of catching fish. There are many different types of fish finders on the market today, so regardless of the type of fish you are looking to catch, a fish finder can be a great help.
Fish finders have two basic types of screens. The first of these screens is referred to as the Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) and the second is referred to as a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD). CRTs are no longer as popular since the invention of the LCD screens. This is because LCD screens are more capable of displaying high resolutions. If you find a screen labeled as a TFT screen, it is just another version of the LCD screens.
For the recreational fisherman the CRT screen is the best choice. It’s cheaper than an LCD unit, provides very good clarity and is easy to read in direct sunlight.
Another thing you must consider when searching for a fish finder is your budget; you do not want to get your heart set on a piece of equipment that is out of your price range. The most sensible way to approach this is to search for those finders that are within your possible price range and forget about the rest.
Keep in mind when deciding on a budget that a colored screen will be more expensive than a non-colored screen. It is usually the case that a more regular fisherman will spend more on a fish finder than the occasional fisherman.
Another technical consideration of the fish finder is the frequency it employs. Frequency is measured in kilohertz (kHz) and is used in the water to find where the fish are and where the best place to cast a line will be.
The screen on the finder will not be able to indicate the type of fish available, just where groups of fish are located, so it is important to know the depth. The best kHz is between 80 and 125 kHz, because the higher the frequency, the narrower is the signal range cone and the better the detail available to you.
One other important factor to consider is the inclusion of a global positioning system. GPS fish finders are fantastic to use when you are off on a weekend trip and you don’t know the area very well. They allow you to record any position in the system, which means you can locate it again any time you want, without any issues.
Whether you choose a regular fish finder or one with GPS, it will certainly be a fantastic addition to your other fishing equipment. Allow yourself to dream about how many more fish you will be able to catch with a great fish finder and how easily you can get back to that fantastic place if you have to leave for any reason.
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Capt. Brooks and Fishing on a Winter’s Day
March 29th, 2009
The first evening trip of the week and I finally had some clients to take out for some windy winter fishing. They weren’t much at casting when they first arrived, but we worked with them a bit and they got good enough to hit the practice targets.
A bunch of sea grass got uprooted from the strong southeast winds that started up around 7pm with the front that was approaching. The wads of floating, dead sea grass was making it harder to retrieve baits without snagging and it was altering the bait’s movement. There were good places that redfish and a few speckled trout were hunkered down under the dead grass, but we couldn’t get either one to hit on the retrieves, they sensed something wasn?t right! Cast after cast, the clients kept trying for a strike that seemed non-existent even though we could see the fish chasing the lures.
Eventually we had to leave the area, which was sand and grass beds around 18-30′ deep. We headed off to areas more protected from the wind. We found some areas with the same bottom structure and depth, but had scattered oyster shell and not as much floating grass. There weren?t as many redfish here, but the size was better overall.
Rigged with a Pink Hologram Devil Eye on a 1/16 oz. TruLoc jighead, we wanted to work the baits slowly with a slight up and down action to start with. I felt that the water was too clear to throw the darker color schemes. Within just a few casts we had redfish striking at the bait. My clients saw the reds pushing water and following the bait, but kept pulling the lure away from the fish. They couldn’t stand it so I had to stop and explain to them what was going on. I told them to relax, and present the bait in front of the fish. No matter what you see, you have to wait until you feel the strike and ONLY then set the hook. They saw the results shortly, as the redfish started sucking their fishing lures down like they were starving to death.
Five got creel limits of redfish in the two to two and a half foot range, that were hooked so good there was no way they could’ve gotten away!
So then we decided to try for speckled trout in another area, since we had done so well with the redfish. A channel near the flats with sand and mixed grass beds provided cover and we tried the same action except the color was sandier here. One client rigged with a Rootbeer Devil Eye and the other with a Strawberry one, were getting all the hits, and there were trout to 21″ and plenty of them.
The holes on the flats held the largest trout, but there weren’t as many of them as there were smaller, keeper fish that were holding on the drop off to the channel but were still some nice looking fish. In less than 4 hours, they had a lot of action counting the ones they released and they kept 14 of the speckled trout!
I like the new TruLoc jigheads, the hooks are good quality and sharp!!! We never lost any fishing lures because of the hooks, and only lost the tails on two lures because of redfish sucking them into their crunchers. You just can’t help that, no worm is exempt from that kind of smashing.
About the Author:
Captain Robert Brooks is a licensed fishing guide who specializes in wadefishing for big speckled trout and redfish on the Gulf Coast using discount fishing tackle. Robert recommends that you try out some fishing hooks from Brown Lures for your next fishing trip.
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March 29th, 2009
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Critical Concepts: Catfish Location: Finding Catfish in Lakes, Rivers, & Reservoirs (Critical Concepts (In-Fisherman)) (Paperback) recently tagged "fishing"
March 28th, 2009
Critical Concepts: Catfish Location: Finding Catfish in Lakes, Rivers, & Reservoirs (Critical Concepts (In-Fisherman)) (Paperback)
By In-Fisherman
Night Time Fishing For Trout
March 28th, 2009
One of the coolest things I picked up when I was a kid was night angling. And regarding night angling, we always went for trout. Let’s take a look at best ways to have a great time fishing at night.
I like to use bait, and when I do, I would use floaters and worms. The best thing was to use a worm and floated it through the rapids and along beside overhanging banks. Sometimes you need to add a split shot or two if the water is flowing too fast, since having the bait floating at or very near the bottom is the key to success.
Also there is another great way to catch brown trout in the middle of the night, it doesn’t require any crazy tricks. There are some other methods you can use to get you great results as well. Some of these tips I learned from a very experienced person years ago.
The first thing you need to do is scope out potential hot spots. The first thing you would look for is a stream that passed under the road through a culvert. The best ones, were ones that on each side of the road the streams would be choked with bushes so that the fisherman could not travel along the stream. This meant that there wasn’t much fishing pressure of the trout stream.
And then at night we would come back, and the brown trout would come out from the bushy section of the stream and go into the culverts to feed. So what we would do is cast our worms up underneath the culvert, and leave them set there. Every once in awhile we would pick our fishing rod and tighten the line. Now browns will take the bait and just sit there with the worm in his mouth. So as soon we felt some resistance on the end of the line, we would leave it there a few more minutes than set the hook.
The great part about this is we could just stand around chat, or even sit in our vehicles and be comfortable. If I remember right we solved a lot of the world’s problems while we waited. Then every once in awhile we would get out of vehicles and go check our fishing rods. Like I said earlier the benefits was a comfortable and dry night of fishing, no huge animals sneaking up on me out in the woods. Now I know that there really wasn’t anything sneaking up on me other than my fear while I was walking through the cedar swamps in the middle of the night.
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