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Tilefish | Fishing for Lobster By Another Name
As you are dropping on spot after spot, the idea is to bounce your lead on the bottom, as if you were knocking on the door of the tilefish burrow. Boom. Boom. Boom. This vibration from your lead hitting bottom, getting stuck and then pulled out stirs the fishes curiosity.
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Slow Trolling Wahoo | In The Spread Fishing
The attributes and benefits of slow trolling for wahoo are many, the least of not which is the cost savings on fuel and that can be significant, in comparison to high-speed. You are likely to also catch more fish throughout the day. They may not be the monster you catch racing around in a fast boat, but they will be plenty.
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Permit Fish | Light Tackle Beasts
Approach areas that are known to hold fish in a very deliberate manner. Do not get right up on the fish. If you are sight casting, keep a healthy standoff. It is better to cast short than get too close and spook the fish. The main point is just to keep your distance. Another good point is to try and fish areas that are not getting as much pressure. Even little bit of fishing pressure can turn permit off.
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Winter Bass Fishing | Rat-L-Trap Presentations
Remember speed can be changed with different reels. A faster reel will give the trap a different look than a slow one. The rod tip also changes the look of the bait if you hold the rod tip high it will run more toward the top of the water level. Conversely, if you hold the rod tip down it will run deeper allowing the rattle trap to deflect and move erratically as you pull it though cover.
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Ballyhoo | THE Bait for Offshore Fishing
Quit honestly, if you are doing any kind of offshore small bait fishing, you are using ballyhoo in some fashion or should be. They are easy to rig and hold up rather well being pulled through the water, when cared for and rigged properly. It really is the standard in offshore fishing.
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Wahoo Fish | The Razor Toothed Delicacy
It may appear as though there is a wahoo season in any fishery where the fish is regularly caught, but is that really the case. There is an argument that can be made that the wahoo fish are always there, just in different concentrations. Several top wahoo fishermen I have spoken with say that can catch wahoo all year, if they so desired.
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Muskie Fish | Freshwater Apex Predator
Once you understand why and how musky utilize the subsurface topography, you will be in a far better position to capitalize on the bite when it happens. Muskie and most other fish seek refuge in deeper water. That is their sanctuary. Even it musky are in shallow water, they will usually have quick and easy access to deeper water.
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Winter Bass Lures | Flat Sided Crank Baits
A rattle bait can be presented in many ways allowing you to excite the bass and offer up a meal or become a reaction bait in many different situations. The presentations are endless with rattle baits, as just about anything you can imagine with your mind can be presented with this bait to winter time bass.
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Swordfish Videos | In The Spread Fishing
You will learn from a couple of South Florida's most sound tackle experts and swordfishing snipers. These guys have both commercial and recreational experience. They know the water and the species. We will show you boat driving, how to drop baits, get on target, recognize and react to the bite, rig swordfish baits, fight the fish to the boat, gaffing and what gear you need.
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Mangrove Snapper | The Fish Everyone Loves to Catch
Whether you are fishing nearshore reefs or offshore oil platforms, the mangrove snapper is one hell of a sporting fish, when paired with the right tackle. Legitimately, this is a light tackle endeavor. One that will please both children and adults. Mangrove snapper pack a big punch for their size, so be ready.
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Cold Weather Inshore Fishing
Patience is the key to putting fish to the boat, when it is cold outside. Low and slow with lures, it's almost painful to fish that way but feeling that light tick in the line is worth it. It reminds me of a freshwater crappie bite when a trout takes the bait, it's very light.
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Dredge Pulley Setup
Being a giant teaser, you do not want a fish to attack it. You want to attract a billfish with the dredge, but then switch the fish off of the dredge to a hooked bait. The process for moving a single dredge or multiple dredges is key to managing your spread. Your dredge pulleys make this so much easier.
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Dolphin Fishing Tackle | In The Spread
The two dolphin fishing rigs to know are the fluorocarbon rig for live bait full moon fishing and the monofilament rig for chunking on smaller moons. On the full moon, the dolphin, having feasted all night, will be lazy. You may see them even nose a live pilchard and toy with it. On the smaller or darker moons, this pilchard will be annihilated, along with chunks of bonito or ballyhoo.
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Rigging Trolling Lures | Skirted Baits
I often see lures that are over skirted. Don't do this. What I mean is the skirt, once it is on the head, should not protrude or bulge out past the diameter of the lure head. Whatever comes behind the head is going to effect the action. The head is designed to swim a specific way.
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Rigging Trolling Lures | Swimming Plugs
When you get down to rigging trolling lures like swimming plugs, you are relegated to perhaps changing out the bib or lip to vary the diving depth and beefing up the hooks and split rings for ballsier species like dogtooth tuna, wahoo and larger tuna. Leaders will range from wire, monofilament or fluorocarbon.
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Winter Bass Fishing | Hard Targets | Mike Gerry
After I find structure that appears to be holding fish, the best piece of advice I can tell you as you are dissecting the water for bites is use several different baits and fish several depths around the hard cover until you find what they want! It might be a slow-moving bait like a jig, or it might be crank bait or shaky heads or even a big worm.
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Puppy Drum | Inshore Eats
As bottom feeders, black drum feed heavily on oysters, shrimp, small crabs, clams and mussels. Cut bait and artificials work well when puppy drum are feeding heavy. When you think about all the bait options, the one that is easiest to get your hands on is shrimp.
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Tripletail FADs | Captain William Toney
This affinity for floating objects, gunky crab trap rope, pilings and channel markers makes tripletail easy pickings for fishermen. You are essentially sight fishing. As you motor past an object, you take a gander and see if anything is around. If so, you cast a few times and boom, hooked up. Yes and no.
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Winter Bass Fishing | Lake Guntersville
Starting at the deepest end is a good way to get the boat position correct the first time. Your job is to thoroughly work the area until you are sure you have covered it completely. Working from the deepest part of the point to the top allows you to be precise and cover all the edges and drops around the point. In most cases, the bass will hold at the bottom of it.
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Fishing Temperature Charts
Having a clear understanding of what elements to look for and why it matters is huge. Let's take a look at a few of the variables that are relevant and see how to layer them, to get a more data rich perspective. If you can relate variables like sea surface temperature or SST, chlorophyll, altimetry to known waypoints or structure, you will have narrowed your fishing down to a very defined and super productive area.