Lets Catch And Reel Big Fish

By Scott R Big bass love to try and get their mouths around gigantic creations. Some like to finesse big fish, and outdoors magazines are often filled with "Micro lures for Giant Bass" articles. We are they kidding, big fish like to eat big lures, these articles are just filling space for their advertisers. Sure, big fish will attack small lures if it's the only lure in the water, but they much prefer attempting to maul a meal that will satisfy them instead of grazing on micro minnows. With the internet, has come the ability of specialty bait companies to offer their wicked creations to the public without having to go through huge discount retailers. Specialty pourers have come up with some of the most incredible plastic baits ever seen in fishing history. They have no strict profit margins, they are beholden to no shareholders, and thus they are allowed to be creative. And the common fisherman can actually get their hands on some truly innovative baits. A fisherman can p...

By Scott R The biggest brown trout have always been nocturnal. And eventually a fly fisherman enters his big fish phase, after he exits the catch as many fish as I can phase. For a short time, the fly man will beat the waters in search of his monster during the day, until he realizes that he can not seem to get a fish over the 18 inch mark on any of his creations while the sun is still out. On Western streams, big browns are not exactly hard to come by, but in the more earthly locations that most people are forced to fish, slob browns are very difficult to come by. A fish breaking 20 inches is quite an accomplishment, especially on a fly. So while a wooly bugger on a size 4 hook might land a 20 incher in the west, in most places with poor water quality and tons of fishing pressure, big trout look for considerably bigger meals, and to catch them, you need to beef up your offerings considerably. In small, deep streams that get a decent amount of fishing pressure, night fishing with big f...

By Simon B Rogers Fishing in Devon with colored hooks, yes, you either love them or hate them, or maybe you are ambivalent. There are now a multiplicity of ranges of colored hooks from silver to the latest camouflaged hooks and everything in between, why? As you are all aware, what ever fishing you are doing, whether it be a Devon fishing holiday or not, bait presentation is considered a major part of attracting your fish onto that colored hook and finally out of their watery home. Making the bait culinary delight as attractive as possible, or at the very least what your fish expects to see and thereby, not spooking or scaring it off. So, by the same logic you can use the different colors and match them to your bait, therefore allowing them to blend in with the bait and not appear out of place. http://www.newbarnfarm.org.uk http://www.newbarnfarm.com Some Devon fishing holidays proclaim, Yes! the "scientists" agree that most fish can see colours. Some self catering cottages a...

By Tim F. Richardson One of the most little used baits these days in carp and catfish fishing is paste due to the predominance of commercially produced carp and catfish boilies and pellets and other forms of baits. But the basic point of a bait is to give you an advantageous edge against the suspicions of fish previously caught on your bait so using something different literally has massive fish catching benefits! Pellets and boilies are in many ways limited by their physical characteristics and both are heated and compressed during their formation leading to common features which wiser fish can recognise and therefore easily avoid if such baits are associated with previous danger! The training of goldfish to perform tricks dispels forever the myth of a fish's 3 second memory. But many fisherman know fish have long memories and can avoid baits they have been hooked on in the past. The advantages and use of dough and paste bait are very little known compared to general knowledge of ...

By Rolland Meigs Over the years I spent many a spring in northern Ontario just after the ice has vanished from the many lakes that populate the northern Ontario landscape. This for the most part calls for accurate planning, come too soon and the ice will still be on the lake, come too late and the lake has started to turn. Once the lake is started to turn, the water becomes very murky and is a lot harder to attract fish to your lures. By turning I mean the cold water on the top of the lake settles to the bottom and the warmer water from the bottom comes to the top. Hit it right and you can land a ton of fish, arrive at the wrong time and you may not see a fish all week, even though you are spending lots of hours on the water. Now the fish at this time a year, will be near the surface or along the shoreline. Some of the water that I fish have both Brook trout, and lake trout, which can offer up some awesome brook trout, and lake trout fishing.. There are tons of articles on the net that...

By Trevor Kugler There are few things that people enjoy more than the springtime. The smell in the air, the warming temperatures, the birds happily singing their songs, and of course for those of us who fish, getting out on the water after being "out of commission" for six months or so. In this article I'm going to discuss some spring fishing tips that every angler should keep in mind. These tips will not only help you catch more fish in the spring, some of them will help you catch more fish no matter what season it is. Let's start with your gear. In the spring, many times water conditions are much different than at other times of the year. For example, in many areas of the United States, river and streams are much higher than at other times of the year. This can have to do with rain fall or run-off. When we're dealing with higher water conditions, the best thing to do is use a longer rod. As an example, in the spring I use a six-foot six inch ultra light rod, rat...

By Ronald B. Shannon Here comes March! This is usually the time when I wrap up my ice fishing. It's time to think about getting ready for spring fishing. Do you need new line? Maybe you need a new pole or reel? The sales usually start during this month for all of the gear you need. Maybe you would like to find someplace new. Pick a place you haven't tried yet and plan a weekend trip to check it out. My brothers and friends and I use the winter months to plan on a new trip for spring. This year we are going to devote a few days to brooks for that elusive trout. I found a couple while in the backwoods looking for new deer sign. Can't wait to flip a fly in them and see what is there. See you on the water! Time to Clean out Your Tackle Box Meanwhile we might as well get the old tackle box out and give it a good cleaning. The first thing to do is through away all the junk (old line and candy wrappers). Now let's get serious. What is your primary target this year? I use two t...