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FRESHWATER FISHING TIPS & TECHNIQUES – Paperback

FRESHWATER FISHING TIPS & TECHNIQUES - Paperback

FRESHWATER FISHING TIPS & TECHNIQUES is a 222 page book designed to teach everything from Ice fishing to fly fishing. There is an excellent knot tying section along with facts about various game fish species. Expert angler Gene Kugach offers hundreds of tips and techniques for catching all types of freshwater fish based on his years of onstream experience. Filled with easy-to-understand illustrations, and geared for both the novice and the more experienced angler, Freshwater Fishing Tips and Techniques covers every aspect of freshwater fishing! 300 drawings throughout the book.

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Father’s Day Freshwater Fishing

Wow – it seems its been a long time since I was able to go fishing. Too many things going on lately and just too much rain! I can’t remember the last time 24 hours passed without some type of precipitation!

So on my time at home yesterday, and since it was Father’s Day, the boys and I decided to go fishing! With all the rain, it was very easy to find worms. Two minutes and the worm box was full of large squiggling worms …. let’s go!

We went to the local creek since the last time we went to one of the lakes nearby. It was lightly drizzling and the tide was high and starting to go out. The water was murky from all the rain. So I advised my sons that lure selection should be on the bright side. My younger son kept getting snagged and tangled and I spent more time helping him than fishing. So we switched him back to bait and using the worms. My older son changed to worms as well.

Soon after, they started catching sun fish or sunnies as we call them. A couple of pumpkinseed sunnies and a few bluegills. We didn’t catch any bass, pickerel or other game fish. But we had a nice time getting out and finally casting the lines again! Since it was raining, I didn’t take any pictures of the boy’s conquests, much to my younger son’s chagrin! (He likes to brag to Mom!)

Hopefully the rain will stop at some point in the future and we’ll get out again – it’s summer after all! So enough with the April showers already!

On another note, I just read that the In-Fisherman has created a new website – they have lots of good information and I thought you all might like to check it out. So here’s a link for you. Let me know what you think of their new site?

http://www.In-Fisherman.com

Catch you later.

-Mark

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Freshwater Fishing Tips – Topwater Lures

I saw this video on you tube about the proper way to fish freshwater fishing topwater lures and thought you all might like to check it out! So here it is:

So what do you think? Are you fishing your topwater lures too slowly?

I’m starting to get back into the swing of things and getting the fishing equipment ready. I’ll share some more news with you tomorrow.

Catch you later!

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The Eleventh Day Of Christmas – Freshwater Fishing Style

On the eleventh day of Christmas my true love gave to me eleven snap swivels, ten spinners spinning, nine jigs a jigging, eight bobbers bobbing, seven sinkers sinking, six kits for rigging, … five purple worms … four rebel lures, three weedless hooks, two spools of line and a fishing pole complete with a reel.

In this day and age, when everything is green, snap swivels are a perfect fit! You know that monofilament fishing line stays around forever and creates quite a bad litter problem. So rather than constantly cutting the line and re-tying a knot every time you change your lure/hook – use a snap swivel instead!

I’m your typical fisherman. I enjoy taking it easy and spending as much time fishing as possible. And having to cut the line and re-tie a knot just takes up too much time and keeps my lures out of the water too long! 🙂 So I almost always use snap swivels when fishing. Just push the latch open, pull off your old lure and put on a new one, push the snap closed and away you go. Very easy!

You can get snap swivels in all sizes to suit your fishing needs too! I use the heavy ones for salt water fishing (on the rare occasion that I do that!) and the smaller ones for freshwater fishing. I like ultra-lite fishing, so I usually use the smallest ones I can find. That way, they don’t weigh down the lure I’m using and the additional flash or reflection that they provide helps attract more fish. It’s a win – win situation!

Never tried sanp swivels? They’re cheap and available just about every fishing store you go to. Look at this – even amazon has some available!

So do yourself and the environment a favor and get some snap swivels today!

Catch you later.

-Mark

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The Sixth Day Of Christmas

On the sixth day of Christmas my true love gave to me six kits for rigging, … five purple worms … four rebel lures, three weedless hooks, two spools of line and a fishing pole complete with a reel.

Have you bought any of those “bass fishing kits? You know like this:

I’ve bought a few of these and they usually are a good deal! I look for the kits that have good colored worms in them. As I’ve posted previously, I don’t really use the weights that come in these kits. I rig the worms my own special way. But if I find a kit that has weedless hooks and has good colored worms, I’ll buy it in a heartbeat!

Playing with your rubber worm bassing kit will help you experiment and try different ways to rig your worms. It will also keep your mind off the winter and the snow that we sometimes get this time of year! I can hardly wait for the warmer weather and catching some more good bass!

Catch you later.

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Columbus Day Fishing – How to Find Worms

I had Columbus Day off from work and the boys wanted to go fishing. So I asked them where they’d like to go and off we headed to our local creek. It was a warm sunny day and the tide was high so I figured on a good day for fishing. I always use lures when fishing – I guess because I like the challenge associated with them as opposed to putting bait on a hook and waiting for a fish to come eat.

So on our way to go fresh water fishing, I asked my older son to get some worms for his brother and him. It turns out that we hadn’t had much rain lately and the worms were hard to find. Where he would normally find lots of worms (lifting old logs and looking under leaves) he found only 2 little scrawny worms. Not good for fishing bait! So he and my younger son tried their hands at lure fishing.

We had some hits, but no catches. Frustration for my 5 yeqr old was very high!  😉  So I asked my older son again to try and find some worms – to which he replied, “Dad, there aren’t any worms around here.” So I had to go get them myself!  He taunted me with “You’re wasting your time Dad.”  But within 3 minutes I had a container full of very large worms!  Of course my older son wanted to know how I did it. After telling him that old age usually means more wisdom ;-), I explained how to find worms when they weren’t in the obvious places.

Want to know what I did? OK – here goes. When I was younger, much younger, I remember from some of the different magazines I used to read that a company sold 2 electric prods that you stuck into the ground and the low current between the prods caused the earth worms to come out of the ground. My friend had bought one of these contraptions and swore by it. So I figured that a little elbow grease could do the same thing. Just poke a larger stick in the ground a few times and shake it. The vibrations cause the worms to come right out of the ground. It works very well!  Just ask my sons! Of course you wouldn’t try this in sand where there are obviously no worms around, but do this in the places where worms would normally be found. You’ll be pleasantly pleased with the results.

Here’s a picture of the first fish my older son caught after they started using the worms we found.

Oh … and the rest of the trip was very successful. We caught some largemouth bass, sunnies, as well as some roaches. Overall a fun afternoon for all.

Catch you later.

-Mark

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Bass Today!

I took some time off from work today and decided we’d take a break from the usual fishing routine.

Our local lake had some northern pickerel introduced into it a few years back and now it seems to be all that I catch in there. I’m of the opinion that the pickerel have taken over the lake and destroyed the bass population which used to be there. Any one else ever experience such a thing?

So when my older son said “let’s try the creek”, I said sure. The creek has yielded some very nice catfish, carp, pickerel and bass in the past. So we got some earthworms for the boys and off we went. Being a rubber wormer, I naturally used my rubber worm in the creek.

Well, my older son was the first to catch a fish and he caught a “roach” not long after we started fishing. My younger son caught some sunnies as usual and kept me busy re-worming and taking the fish off the hook. I decided it was time for my younger son (he’s 5) to learn how to put worms on his hook. After all, Dad needs to get in some fishing! After a few unsuccessful tries, he finally got a worm to stay on his hook!

I gave both my sons some bass fishing tips and we moved to another spot on the creek. My older son said there were no fish at that spot and wanted to move on, but Dad prevailed. Within 3 casts, I had a nice 14 inch largemouth bass in hand. After releasing the fish and helping my younger son unhook his sunny, he promptly caught his very first largemouth! Picture included here! I told my older son why the spot was a good spot and hopefully the lesson will stay with him for a lifetime!

We moved to a few more spots and my older son caught a nice largemouth as well as some sunnies.

A couple hours of fishing and we headed back home – a good day of fishing behind us!

Make sure YOUR fishing trips are successful – check out the 100 Best Freshwater Fishing Tips available on the upper right corner!

“Catch” you later.

 

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Fresh Water Fishing Tips

The best fresh water fishing tips I can think of would naturally start at the beginning or actually prior to the beginning of your fishing trip. And that would be the preparation. Yes, it can be a boring and tedious task – but without proper preparation your fishing trip can be over before it’s even begun!

The first tip – make sure your rod and reel are clean and ready to go. It’s as easy as visually inspecting the rod to make sure the eyelets or line guides are still properly attached. Check the reel seating and make sure that it is properly tightened – you don’t want to lose the first fish due to your reel falling out of the rod seat! Lastly check the reel’s operation – make sure that it’s functioning properly and that you have enough line on it.

Next – determine what you will use to catch the fish. If you’re going to be using bait, make sure you have enough of it to last your entire trip. Also make sure you have the right sized hooks and a sufficient quantity of them as well. If you’ll be using lures rather than bait, check them and make sure the hooks aren’t rusted and that they’re sufficiently sharp enough to do their job. Also, make sure you have enough of the lures. Plan on losing a few of them and make sure you have back-ups! If you don’t lose any… great – but if you do, you’ll be prepared!

The third fresh water fishing tip is to make sure you have the right paraphernalia – clothing, hat, license, sunglasses, etc. These will help make the trip more pleasant and also help you avoid bugs, too much sun and a possible run in with the local game warden!

These tips should get you ready to go – now all you’ll need are some fresh water fishing tips to help you catch those fish! I’ve found what I believe is one of the best books to cover these tips and you should check it out if you don’t want to come home empty-handed! It’s written by the folks at “In-Fisherman” and is titled 100 Best freshwater Fishing Tips.

With more than 25 years of experience in teaching anglers how to catch more fish, the editors at “In-Fisherman” have published their 100 top freshwater fishing tips. It covers more than 40 types of fish – from gar and bass to pickerel and muskie. It will show you the best strategies and techniques for successful freshwater angling.