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Daytime Swordfishing | Advanced Deep Dropping Made Easier
The challenge is how you hit those bottom spots. Deep dropping baits requires attention to detail. The last thing you want to do is get you presentation tangled up your lead or leader of both. A steady hand and understanding of how to stretch your line out is key. Even without current, it is not advisable to just drop your bait over and let it descend in free spool. Using your boat to help stretch out your rig is helpful.
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Retrieve and Cadence in Largemouth Bass Fishing | Mike Gerry
Many of the world’s best bass fisherman will talk about cadence as a key to catching fish on many different types of baits. There is no doubt that cadence is especially important while retrieving a bait, but cadence does not mean to do the same thing every time you work a bait.
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Golden Tilefish | Deep Dropping for Good Eats
Focusing on what the bottom is telling you is key to finding these gems. Tilefish burrow out small cave like structures in the muddy bottom where they make their home. They will stick very close to the shelter of their burrow, venturing out to grab a bite and darting back into the cover of the burrow. This not only makes them hard to mark on your machine, it also requires your baits to be on the bottom
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Justin Nguyen | Florida Peacock Bass Fishing Guide
It is Justin's knack for knowing where fish will stage to ambush their next meal and how to trigger bites that will have you landing any number of peacock bass and other exotic fish. He is one of those guys that will always catch fish. He has a keen ability to find the right stretches of water that hold peacock bass waiting to chew your fly or lure.
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Popping Cork Rig | Sea Trout Fishing - Captain William Toney
Cast the popping cork rig ahead of the boats drift and give it 2 to 3 good pops then pause for a few seconds and repeat this same motion back to the boat. Most of the strikes will come as the bait is falling from the last pop.
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How to Fish in Adriatic Sea? Best Short Tips!
The Adriatic Sea may be surrounded by small countries, but the shoreline is very long! There are thousands of bays, peninsulas, and other landscape features that make it so good for fishing. Hundreds of islands from north to south offer some spectacular fishing sites, as well as the historical locations and charming cities.
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Peacock Bass Fishing Florida | Captain Justin Nguyen
The thinking is that there are hundreds of miles of interconnected canals and inland waterways that were cut to carry water from the swamps to the sea. In most of these stretches of water you will find peacock bass. To really navigate all these options and to get into some super skinny areas that hold chunk bass, you need a guide that is accustomed to fishing overgrown, hard to get to spots. This is where Captain Justin Nguyen comes in.
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Triple Tail Fish | Simple Technique for Catching
If I spot one I will slow the vessel down after passing the fish, then idle on a wide berth back up wind or tide to cut the motor off and drift into casting range. Sometimes the triple tail will be deep under the buoy and will look like grass to a untrained eye.
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Planer Fishing | Target Suspended Fish
During the heat of the day, you will need to get your presentations down where the fish are suspended. How do you get your baits down 10, 20, 30 or even 40 feet in the water column, where the fish are, and keep them there, while you troll around? Fishing planers are the answer.
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Musky Fishing Techniques | Cory Allen on the Figure 8
The reason the fish followed your bait in most cases was either you were unaware of its presence and thus couldn't react accordingly to make it "evade" or simply the distance and angle from the rod tip to your presentation wouldn't allow such drastic maneuvers anyway but at boatside you can.
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Rigging Trolling Lures | Start With Quality Lure Heads
There are so many different lures for so many applications. It is crazy the amount of lure sizes and shapes available for every species. Based on the lure size, the component sizes vary. Hooks, crimps, leader material, cable, shrink tube, chafe gear, bibs, wire, so forth and so on, all change. It's never ending.
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Understanding Bass Movements | Lake Guntersville Fishing
The biggest advice I give folks is to understand what the natural details of the spot or area where you have found fish without making a big run. In other words, is the area a point, a contour drop or break; does it have wood on it, what are the specifics that surround you so you can move to another location close to where your fishing?
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Collins River Muskie | Fishing the Spawn
Muskie can be caught at the beginning of the spawn and periods of cold snaps can delay the ritual. In the upper reaches of the Collins river it is not uncommon to see spawning fish as early as mid March, or as late as the end of April. Most musky will recover from spawning by the middle of April.
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Swordfishing | The Fine Art of Deep Dropping
When you start to compare the bottom topography of where numbers of swordfish are caught, you will notice common traits. You will see what appears to be significant structure. Things like seamounts, ridges, ledges, depressions, anything the can provide sanctuary or an ambush point is what swords prefer. This principle holds for any fishery. Fish, especially billfish, will pursue food, but they will seek pockets of slack water or solid structure to keep from expending energy fighting the current.
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Spring Snook Fishing | William Toney – Homosassa Florida
Using a 30 lb. fluorocarbon leader is a must because a snooks mouth and gill plate will cut the fight short when they jump or shake their head with any smaller leader. Not to say that 20 won't work sometime, but your taking a big chance of losing a nice fish.
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Flathead Catfishing | Catch More Cats
Fishing for flathead catfish entails pinpointing singular fish. With maturity comes a burning desire to be alone in a dark place. There is a biological switch that goes off, pushing the fish to stake out a stretch of bottom and aggressively defend it against any and all intruders. Other flatheads are not even welcome. This is why catching trophy flathead catfish is so much more involved.
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Spring Bass Fishing | Lake Guntersville – Mike Gerry
We then changed the weight from a heavy 1oz. to a variety of weights addressing different depths and different situations. We then started changing the length of the leader allowing you to address heavier cover as the lighter weight and changed leader length became ways to move it through different types of cover from rock to grass and all in-between.
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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.