| Week of 8/6/2003 #205 |
Question: You and your
friend are fishing a tidal river in the Northeast. It is Mid-May water
temp is 63 degrees, visibility is 2 ft. At daybreak it is overcast with
a coldfront approaching, air temp 75. High tide is at 6:53 am and low is
at 2:15 pm. The river has many points, flats, coves and feeder creeks.
Grasses are just beginning to emerge. The two of you have been on the
main river fishing the banks around some structure, points and only have
picked up 1 bass the first 2 hours. Where would you try next to land
more bass and what spawning period would you think the bass are in?
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Answer: First of all,
with high tide being early morning I would be fishing the feeder creeks
and shallow cove areas where I would expect the bass to be. I would
mainly be throwing a T-rig lizard. With the temperature I would think
they are spawn and pre-spawn. Later in the day I would fish some deeper
water if the action has slowed with some crank baits.
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| Week of 8/13/2003 #206 |
Question: You are fishing
with a baitcasting outfit that you have recently purchased. You have had
some practice throwing it a few times and everything is going well. You
are out on the lake and half way into your cast your lure catches a tree
limb and you end up with a major backlash. You begin pealing off the
line when the line stops coming off. You look at your reel and see that
the line coming off the reel is under a loop and wonder how that even
happened. What do you do now?
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Answer: After you see
that the loop is keeping your line from unspooling off your slowly bring
the loop to the opening and gently pull the loop towards you to give
some slack. Then you would continue to pull your line out until the
backlash is gone or come to another loop and do the same. (Knows how
that situation feels....Happens to me all the time).
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| Week of 8/20/2003 #207 |
Question: While fishing
your favorite lake you decide to try a texas rigged worm. Never trying
this type of fishing before you rig a 6" worm with a 2/0 worm hook and a
1/4 oz bullet slip sinker. After a few casts you get a strike and set
the hook, missed him. This happens about 5 more times during your outing
and give up on the style of fishing. What could you have been doing
wrong ?
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Answer: I would have
changed to a number Three hook. And also let the fish pull the line a
little to make sure he has it. Then set the hook.
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| Week of 8/26/2003 #208 |
Question: It's mid-summer
and you are out on a lake fishing a large bed of Hydrilla. Water depth
is 2 to 6 feet. You know there are bass in there. What equipment, i.e.,
rod type, line weight, and lures would you use to "get um outa there"?
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Answer: I would use a
Heavy or at least a Med Heavy action rod with a minimum of 20Lb
preferably braided line. I would mainly flip or pitch a 1/2 oz jig
w/trailer combo to get through the weeds twitching it once and a while.
If no strikes, try another hole. After an hour or so I would change to a
T-rig worm or lizard, 3/8 - 1/2 weight
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| Week of 9/2/2003 #209 |
Question: You are fishing
a lake in the Midwest. It’s the end of July, water temperature 82
degrees. Your outing begins at daybreak. Its somewhat foggy and overcast
air temperature 72. You decide to throw buzzbaits over some submerged
weed beds. In the first hour you have caught 2 real nice bass but have
missed 7 other strikes. What should you have done differently to have
hooked those fish.
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Answer:
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