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About 60% of US Anglers practice catch and release.
Women make up about 33% of fresh water anglers and
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Jul 9, 2020; 08:42PM
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Category: Fishing Tackle For Sale
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Name for Contacts: 2 Catchfish
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Phone: 9496453864
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City: Costa Mesa
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Jeremy A.Cad... 40 lbs Grouper |
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Mar 23, 2004; 01:15PM - In depth spinnerbaiting
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Category: Freshwater Bass Fishing Tips
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Author Name: Steven Narup
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Author E-mail: Steven_Narup@hotmail.com
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Tip&Trick Description 1:
The equipment that Steven Narup
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Tip&Trick Description 2:
Gambler Pro Series Spinnerbait
In-depth Spinnerbaiting
By: Steven Narup
When most people are asked, “what is a spinnerbait?” They will more then likely reply with this, “it has a hook with a wire attached to it, with a lead head and a silicone skirt, with either one or two blades.” The majority of the time they will automatically describe the clothes pin spinnerbait. Well in essence, there is much more to that. There is more then just that style of spinnerbait, this is what most people do not understand. Two other spinnerbait types are just as productive when presented in the right situation. These two baits are the tail-spinner and the in-line spinner. These baits are slowly catching on to the clothespin spinnerbait.
There are quite a few styles of spinnerbaits, including tail spinners, in-line spinners, and clothespin style spinnerbaits. Each style has there own time and place. The most widely used of these spinnerbait choices, is the clothes pin style.
Tail spinners can be a great choice when fishing for smallmouth bass and or finicky largemouth due to the bait’s compact size.
In-line Spinners became obsolete for many years by most bass anglers. Until now, they are slowly catching on to both Smallmouth and Largemouth anglers.
In-line spinners are a great bait when the fish are active but they can also be great when presented it other situations. Most people use in-line spinners when the fish are in a negative feeding mood, due to the bait’s smaller more compact size. There is one problem with in-line spinners, which keep the majority of people away from them, the fact that they will give you line twist. To help with this scenario try a high quality stainless steel ball bearing, this will cut back on the line twist. A ball bearing helps prevent line twist like so, when the bait starts to spin and twist in the water column the line will most likely twist without a ball bearing. However, if you have a ball bearing connecting the leader to the main line, when the bait twists the ball bearing spins the line back so that the line will not twist. If by any chance you do have line twist, let out a couple hundred feet of line into the water and turn your trolling motor on, this will get most of the twist out of your line. Another trick is the tie your line to a heavy object and stretch the line out by tightening your drag and pulling the line.
The clothespin style spinnerbait comes in many different combinations including blade size and style and different size heads. There are Steel and Titanium wires. The Titanium version is nearly indestructible, and needs little or no tuning at all. Titanium also lets off quite a bit more vibration then steel. The heads on clothespin spinnerbaits are starting to be produced with different materials as well, such as Lead, and Tungsten. Spinnerbait anglers are slowly starting to make the switch to Tungsten spinnerbaits, due to the fact the head is almost ¾ the size of lead, making the bait work through cover almost effortlessly.
. In general, spinnerbaits are a very versatile lure, which is one main reason why most bass anglers use them. Bass anglers have been using them for many years now and they still produce fish as if they came out yesterday, you just have to know the different ways to fish the bait.
Tail spinners can be great finesse baits and they can be fished shallow or deep, because the body of the bait is lead, with a little blade on the back. The majority of tail spinners come with a single treble hook, making them not as easy as the clothespin style spinnerbait when trying to fish through thick cover. To work the tail-spinner you can just reel the bait back to the boat, but doing this you will reduce the odds of catching more fish, but it does work. Instead, you should give the bait a little action. You can yo-yo the bait by letting the bait fall to the bottom, then pick your rod tip up to about a 10 o’clock position, just keep repeating this procedure unless you are not producing. On the other hand, you can do a combination of things, to give the fish something different to look at. You can yo-yo the bait during part of the cast, then reel, or twitch it back to the boat. One last way to fish this bait would be to vertical jig it, in deep, clear, cold water. This technique will work in different conditions, but works best in deep, clear, cold water. When you vertical jig a tail spinner you cast the bait out a few feet and let the bait fall vertically, on a semi-slack line then you slowly lift your rod tip and shake the bait, let the bait fall and keep repeating this process. I like to use baitcasting gear when fishing tail spinners, but there are times when you need to fish lighter baits and that is when spinning gear comes into play. I mainly fish Pflueger rods and reels. The rods are very nice they come with premium Fuji guides and a Fuji reel seat, making the rod one nice package. I really like the Trion Baitcasting reel because they come with five ball bearings, one roller bearing and a smooth multi-disc main gear applied star drag system, making this a great reel for mostly any type of fishing. The reel is great if you want to fish a lighter line, because you can set your drag and the drag is so smooth that when a fish pools there will not be as much stress on the line itself.
In-line spinners have been around for over fifty years, and they are still going strong, Mepps has been in the in-line spinner business for a while now, and they still sell great. Most anglers do not use in-line spinners while fishing for bass instead they are using bigger in-line spinners fishing for pike or musky. However, I know they are missing a lure that can catch bass like it can pike and musky. I have had great success fishing in-line spinners in creek openings, where the creek empties into the main river, fishing for smallmouth bass. In-line spinners can be worked shallow or deep, they come with or without tails, painted blades or non-painted blades. When you work an in-line spinner, the best possible way to fish these is to reel them in. If you try to jerk the bait, you will lose a lot of action, because in-line spinners are not made for jerking. In-line spinners let off a lot of flash, and maximum flash happens when you just reel it in. When I fish in-line spinners I like to use spinning gear preferably the Pflueger Trion spinning rod in a 6 ½ foot medium action, with a Pflueger Trion spinning reel, because they come in a 6:3:1 gear ratio which will allow you to speed up the bait without getting as tired out. They are very smooth and cast light baits a mile.
Clothespin spinnerbaits are one of your more versatile bait in the spinnerbait family. You can work them quite a few different ways, and give the bait a great action if you desire. When I work a safety pin spinnerbait, I really like to use a Pflueger Trion Baitcasting rod, anywhere from 6-foot medium to a 7-foot medium heavy action. The 6-foot rod will help you when you want to make accurate casts, and the 7-foot rod will help when you want to get distance with your bait. With the Trion rods, they are extra sensitive high modulus graphite, which will give you the ability to feel the blades turn on your bait. I will throw the bait on 15-20 pound test Berkley Trilene XL. When you work a safety pin spinnerbait, you can just reel it in, but again you are going to be missing some fish. When I fish a safety pin style spinnerbait, I sometimes jerk the bait, doing this gives the bait sort of an injured baitfish presentation. You can also let the bait flutter down, then you pick up your rod tip, and repeat, doing this gives the bait a yo-yo type effect. If I am going to be fishing a spinnerbait in cold water, I will look for anything that lets off heat because this will warm up the water just a little bit, fish do feel the difference, and I will fish the bait around that. If the fish are just coming up and nipping at the bait, you may want to add a trailer hook for extra insurance. I will usually throw a spinnerbait with a trailer hook in any tournament situation. If the fish are coming up and hitting that bait and not taking it you can use a soft plastic trailer, I like to use the Gambler Pro Series Spinnerbaits, beacause they come with high quailty blades and ball bearings, making it almost effortless to slow roll them and let them flutter down. To dress the Gambler Pro Series spinnerbait up I prefer the three-inch Bear Claw Grub from Bearpaws Custom Handpoured Baits. I like the Bearpaws grub because it comes with the scent baked right in to the bait, this will give you a definite edge on other anglers, because you will not need to use scent on the exterior of the bait.
Spinnerbaits are a great and versatile lure that have made a lot of many for companies in the fishing industry. The only thing I can say is next time you go out on the water I dare you to tie on a spinnerbait, and I know that you will not regret it.
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May 19, 2005; 07:10PM - Special Overstock Pro Bass Boat Covers
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Category: Boats
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Price: varies
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Name for Contacts: Terry's Outdoors
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Phone: 417-300-6605
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City: Nixa
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State: Missouri
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Country: USA
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E-mail: terrysoutdoors@yahoo.com
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I have a great buy on a Pro17, Pro18, Pro19, and Pro20 overstock covers...email me for details |
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May 17, 2004; 11:04AM - Cabo Bite Report
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George landrum
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Author E-mail: gmlandrum@hotmail.com
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Report Description:
Capt. George Landrum
Fly Hooker Sportfishing
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
CABO SAN LUCAS FISH REPORT MAY 9-15, 2004
WEATHER: All right, we do have the summer weather with the days in the high 80’s and low 90’s and the nights in the mid 70’s, but this week we also started out with spring winds! It seemed that every day at the beginning of the week the wind started blowing around 10 or 11 in the morning and blew all day and night, not letting up until around daybreak. At the end of the week it finally let up and this weekend it was very nice with just slight breezes. No rain, of course, but lots of sun!
WATER: We started this week being wrapped with a band of cold water that came down the Pacific coast and decided to stay for a while. This water ran from 62-66 degrees and extended from that Pacific up by the Golden Gate to the Cortex up by Palmilla and off shore as far as 15 miles to the southwest of the Cape. The rest of the Pacific was an even 70 degrees while the Cortez had a warm 73-74 degree band of water about 15 miles out. At the end of the week the warm water on the Sea of Cortez side had managed to push the cold water back to the Pacific and we had that warm water only 10 miles off shore while there was a finger of water in the 77 degree ranged working its way toward us from up around Punta Gorda. The water displaced by the warm current worked its way out toward the San Jaime and Golden Gate banks and it was not until you got to them that the water got warmer than 67 degrees on the Pacific side. The surface conditions on the Pacific were pretty rough all week due to the steady winds, and the swells were fair sized, but the Sea of Cortez was not too bad in the mornings.
BAIT: We have had a good mix of both Caballito and Mackerel this week, with most of the Caballito fairly small but with some nice big Mackerel available. The normal price at $2 per bait.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: While not as red-hot as last weeks bite, the Striped Marlin were still out there this week! Most of the action moved to either the San Jaime Banks, right along the eastern edge where there was a temperature break, the southern side of the 95 spot where the same thing occurred or up the Sea of Cortez toward the Gorda Banks and Punta Gorda. That cold water that came down the Pacific coast forced the fish out of the immediate area but they were still within range for a full day trip. Live bait was the favorite and either drifting with it or tossing it to tailing fish resulted in pretty good action. A few of the boats were able to get into the action and I saw as many as five Marlin flags on one boat for a day’s trip.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Almost a repeat of last weeks report as far as Yellowfin are concerned, but there was one day, Wednesday, when a school of nice fish showed up and a few were caught. For the most part the Yellowfin this week were small fish and there were not a lot of them. The nice fish showed up at the southern end of the San Jaime and there were four lucky boats there at the time. The largest fish that I actually saw caught was #141 and there were others in the 80-90 pound range hooked, but the Captains said there were a lot of big fish in the #150 to #250 range jumping clear of the water. They were feeding heavily on squid and it took time and patience to hook up.
DORADO: Again, the report is the same as last weeks, with the Dorado being scattered around and not particularly concentrated. Finding floating debris was the key and there were some small kelp paddies on the Pacific side that had fish in the #15-#25 class under them. Live and cut bait worked well when the kelp was found.
WAHOO: A few more flags were flying this week and there were some happy anglers as a fair bite on Wahoo in the 40 pound class happened at the inner and outer Gorda Banks. The best bite was early and it was around the tide change. Marauders and Marlin lures worked well, and dark colors seemed to out produce the bright ones.
INSHORE: The cold water that wrapped around us had the Roosterfish bite drop off, but the Pargo took up the slack with some nice fish ranging from 15 to 30 pounds being found in among the rocks. Not much else was happening this week inshore except for an occasional bite by Yellowtail off the arch. Early in the morning or late in the afternoon on live bait seemed to be the best time and best bait.
NOTES: A new computer and DSL instead of dial-up! Almost like Christmas for us, this makes such a difference. This weeks report was written to the music of ZZ Top on the 1985 Warner release “Afterburner”. Until next week, Tight lines!
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