Spoons For Largemouth Bass
Posted on June 24, 2008
By Scott R
One of the earliest lures ever invented is still one of the best. The fishing spoon, basically just a hammered piece of metal will still catch fish like mad, if used in the same conditions that you would use a spinner bait. What do you think a bass is attracted by when it attacks a spinner bait? The dull plastic skirt? Uh.. probably not. So why spends tons of loot on a titanium wire, living plastic spinner bait, when the fish wants the metal blades? Just buy some spoons.
Buying spoons in tons of different sizes and colors is not expensive at all when compared to buying crankbaits and spinner baits. Especially if you don’t go into a big box store, but instead shop online. And, if you change out your hooks on these spoons, with some new split rigs, you will have one of the strongest lures on the planet. You can literally cast spoons right into the side of concrete and they will be perfectly fine.
The beauty of the spoon is that you can find them in all different sizes. From micro spoons all the way up to 2 ounce musky sized spoons. And you want to try all of these sizes. Spoons that are huge will catch average sized bass, and monster bass. If you feel silly throwing a spoon into the water because it is too big then you should probably be using that spoon. Big fish and decent sized fish are programmed to attack big baits with erratic motion, they just can’t help themselves.
Stock up on some largemouth bass spoons and watch your cost of fishing plummet and your catch size and numbers sky rocket.
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Yellow Perch
Posted on April 15, 2008
By Dale Mazurek
Perch are a great fish for young and old. They can be fished at any time of the year and in many depths of water. Perch are a great starter fish for kids or catching the big ones can be a great challenge to even the seasoned angler. Some of the biggest and most impressive catches are caught in the winter time.
Most perch are caught 2 or 3 inches off the bottom of the lake. Live bait is usually the bait of choice for most anglers with maggots being the most popular. You can tip a lead head jig with bait or use a plain number 4 to 6 hook with a split shot about six inches above the hook.
Perch can be found in many of the same places that you would find walleye. In the spring time you can look for them in the shallow bays and on shallow flats where the sun is warming up the water. For the rest of the year you can fish weedy or rocky humps. My favorite place in the summer time is in deep water with high weeds. I fish just above the weeds. You should try this; I think you will be surprised at what comes out of the weeds to feed on your hook.
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How to Get Started Ice Fishing
Posted on April 9, 2008
by Robert Weber
Ice fishing is a very simple sport and is only as complicated as you wish to make it. You simply need to make a hole in the ice and drop a line down it, and then pull the fish up. What could be simpler?
How to get going:
For starters you can tag along with a buddy from work, or from Forums like ones on this board. Then you can see how it is done and if it is something that looks like fun to you. That way you can see the gear, use it and determine what you would like to have in your own outfit and that which does nothing for you. You can keep your equipment as basic or as exhaustive as your wallet and desire dictate. If the array of equipment is daunting keep telling yourself that people caught fish through the ice for thousands of years without power augers, sonar, and $100 rods. A chisel, a hand line and some bait will catch you fish all day; add more gear if you want to. If you want to fish with tip ups then you’re probably going to have to get an auger, power or hand is again up to you and your wallet. You can always sell off gear you don’t need or like later, figure fair price is half of what you paid— that may keep you from dropping $400 on a gas auger the first day out. Where to drill, and how to rig for certain fish and linkers to boot are involved lessons and we’ll get to them later in other articles, for now let’s pick out the gear we need just to get going and see how to use it.
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Trout Fishing Strategies
Posted on April 4, 2008
More than 20 years ago I had the pleasure of learning how to fish for trout from someone I consider to be a ‘trout fishing master’. I consider him to be a master because of the fact that he caught trophy trout out of rivers and streams in Pennsylvania, that most anglers thought trout of that size didn’t live in. He spent a lot of time on the water fishing for trout, and had many strategies and techniques that other anglers didn’t employ. This man is gone now, but many of the trout fishing strategies that he taught me live on.
The first thing he believed in was using ultra light gear when fishing for trout. I’m talking about four foot rods and very small reels, spooled with four pound test monofilament. Many anglers consider gear this small to be some sort of “ice fishing” equipment, but it’s what he used to catch all of his trout, trophies included. I’ve been using ultra light gear myself ever since this man taught me these strategies, and I wouldn’t use any other equipment for trout fishing.
The next strategy he taught me was to pay attention to my clothes. You see, trout have very keen eyesight and if they detect a fisherman standing on the bank, they are much less apt to bite. This is why “loud” or brightly colored clothing should not be worn when trout fishing. Along the same lines, you also need to pay attention to where your shadow is being cast. Few things can spook o hole like a human shadow being cast into it.
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Scouting For Wild Turkeys
Posted on March 29, 2008
Scouting forms the most important part of wild turkey hunting. Turkey scouting involves spending as much time as possible carefully studying turkey habits. Learning how to and locating the roosting place(s) of a gobbler and his preferred places of feeding makes it easy to call him in. Most of the wild turkey’s time is spent in eating.
If a number of turkeys are spotted at a particular location in winter, it would be unwise to expect them to be found at the same place later in spring. Turkeys tend to spread out into different areas as the season begins. Therefore, areas totally devoid of turkeys at one time of the year may be full of them at another. The best way is to start scouting a few weeks before the start of the season and keep track of the movement of the birds. Depending on the mast available, wild turkey may remain in one area during spring, while preferring to move to another during winter.
Scouting turkey also involves looking at their droppings. The shape and size of the droppings clearly indicate, whether the bird is a hen or a gobbler. Hen droppings can be distinguished by their looped, spiraled or bulbous shapes of just over 1/4 of an inch in thickness, whereas gobbler droppings are thicker, averaging 1/2 an inch with shapes being straighter or J shaped. The sizes of the turkey tracks also can tell you the sex of the bird. Tracks about 3 1/2″ in length are hen tracks, while Gobbler tracks are longer; nearly 4 1/2″ in length.
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