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January 5, 2011

Bass Fishing Basics

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 1:30 pm

Fishing is a thinking person’s pursuit. No matter whether you fish for a hobby, as a sport or for a living, you have to be able to outfox the fish you are searching for. Not just that, but unlike most hunters, you cannot see your quarry. You have to work out where it is likely to be and what it is likely to do.

Anglers usually fish alone, so it is not remarkable that each angler has a few of his or own personal methods and preferences. This goes for any type of fishing, but it is particularly a fact of some fish. This mostly means the big and the clever (well, for fish) species. One of these clever varieties is the bass.

Bass fishing techniques vary with regard to several circumstances including temperature, season and type of water and coast line – whether you are fishing fresh or salt water.

If you are fishing for bass off a boat, then you are almost certainly fishing in deeper water, because bass swim in deeper water when it is cold, so make certain that you have all the safety gear and that you know how to use it. Furthermore, you must be aware of your country’s or state’s legal requirements.

For example, if you take anglers out with you, you might have legal responsibilities or there might be seasons when you may and may not fish. These very from region to region and have to do with spawning and maintaining the amount of stock.

Bass experts have their own techniques, as was mentioned above, but a lot of bass fishermen recommend fishing at night. This is not a bad notion as there is less chance of getting your line entangled with others, particularly if you are fishing off a rock or the shore.

Fishing for bass at night is not a bad technique for other reasons as well. Although there are different kinds of bass, most of them are shy and cautious, so if they feel that the water is over clear, they might choose to bottom feed. This is one of the areas where local knowledge and expertise plays a big part.

Bass are wary predators and also a little work-shy. They prefer to hide themselves somewhere and wait for their victim to pass close by. Therefore, a rocky shoreline is ideal bass fishing territory in the summer months while the bass swim and hunt closer to the surface. In the winter, you will need to fish the bottom water where it is relatively warmer.

While bottom fishing, bass will be searching for small fish and sand worms, whereas in the summer they are feeding on the top and will not be expecting to find any worms. Then they will be looking for small fish and insects that have dropped into the water, like flies. Bass are meat eaters, so berries, seeds and bread should not be of much use, but hey, not all fish behave like the text books say that they should!

The thing to keep in mind is that local conditions count and although fishing with a rod and line is necessarily a solitary and quiet sport, especially in fresh water, fishermen like to socialize afterwards and pass on their knowledge. So, if you are having trouble with catching the fish you are searching for, join a local anglers’ club and mix with the experts.

If you are keen to learn bass fishing techniques and want to find out more, please come along to our web site entitled Gone Fishing.

August 23, 2010

What Is Needed For Fishing?

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones. @ 10:52 am

Fishing equipment is referred to as fishing tackle by specialists and hobbyists and it generally refers to rods, lines, hooks, weights, spears, lures, bait, reels, nets, and et cetera. The fishing gear that is attached at the end of a line is referred to as the terminal tackle

The word tackle referring to fishing equipment comes from ‘takel’ which first meant the rigging of a ship, that is, the equipment consisting of ropes supporting a ship’s masts and sails. Later, the same word was recorded as having a different meaning, that of equipment for fishing and that meaning has been preserved ever since.

The most basic fishing apparatus consists of a rod, a line, a hook, a lure, a bait and a weight or sinker. The line is a basic string especially made for fishing that is both long, thin and yet strong, so that fish do not notice it. There are various things that an angler asks about when buying a fishing line, such as its resistance, stretch, strength et cetera. The line will be chosen based on what kind of fish the angler intends to catch.

The sinker or weight, also called a plummet, is actually a weight that helps in casting the hook and the bait as far as possible from the shoreline or from the boat that the fisherman is using. They are usually made of lead as their purpose is also to sink and to get the bait closer to the fish in the water as fast as possible. However, lead sinkers have been banned in some parts of the world, especially the really small ones, which are often called ’shot’. If eaten by birds or other fish, the lead, which is known for its high toxicity level, will cause the death of the animal.

Another elementary piece of fishing equipment is the hook. This device meant for attaching the bait on the line and for hooking into the fish’s mouth. It is fastened to the line and the fisherman can select from a very variety of shapes and sizes.

And last but far from least, is the bait or lure, without which fishing equipment cannot be effective. A lure is a man-made device attached to the end of the line that resembles the prey of the fish you are after in every way. Its purpose is to attract the attention of the fish with its colour shape and movement. Artificial flies, tiddlers and sand eels fall under this category. When the fish eats the lure, it gets hooked.

On the other hand, bait is the item physically attached to the hook. Bait is basically of two types: animal or foodstuff: ‘animal’ referring to small fish or other water creatures, insects or crawlers and ‘foodstuff’ referring to human food like grains, such as hemp, bread or whatever else the fisherman believes might attract the type of fish he’s going for.

If you are curious about fishing and would like to read more, please visit our website called Gone Fishing

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July 14, 2010

Bass Fishing Tips

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 9:42 am

It is very handy to get some tips on bass fishing when you are a beginner. Firstly, it it is important to know that bass are fish whose metabolism depends on the temperature of the surrounding water. Their metabolism rises or falls proportionally with the increase or decrease in water temperature. Therefore, if the water where they happen to be is cold, as it is in deeper waters, they are less active and so eat a lot less.

Therefore, around about January, you should start bass fishing in increasingly warmer waters because the bass will want to leave the colder deeper waters so that they can spawn. Furthermore, during the Autumn/Fall the bass begin to move towards colder and deeper waters where they would be safer during the cold season. But fishermen should not expect them to migrate great distances all that quickly because their cycles of moving from one place to the next as the seasons do take several months.

It is also good to know when bass fishing that these fish are very sociable. They tend to stick together in schools, especially those of the same size. Therefore, if you have already caught some bass, you are likely to catch more in the same area as long as you do not throw the dead fish you’ve already caught back into the water to panic the rest of the school.

Moreover, a good bass fishing area is quite easy to identify. Just remember that they are predators, but not particularly active ones since their favourite food is not actually one they have to work hard to get. Instead, they just wait patiently and lazily for prey to swim past and then they pounce on it.

Bass fish often go for struggling or slow prey even if they are not normally on their usual diet. Their usual diet consists of crawfish, minnows, worms, insects, frogs and such like. Once a fisherman has learned these facts about bass, together with their mating customs, catching them is much easier and much more frequent.

However, bass are prey themselves, so they need cover too, which is why bass fishing is most successful in areas where the fish can find safety in and around small or large rocks, weeds and other shady or indeed sunny, well-lit areas where it is difficult for them to be seen.

Success at bass fishing also depends on the type of bait chosen by the fisherman. You should vary the bait according to both the season ” spring, summer, autumn or winter ” and the spawning cycle of this fish species. Beginners should not forget that there are always experienced anglers ready to provide tips – just don’t be afraid to ask because the most effective bait does vary from one region to another.

If you are keen on fishing and would like to read more, please go along to our website called Gone Fishing

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June 8, 2010

Deep Sea Game Fishing

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 12:10 pm

Although the terminology “deep sea fishing” seems to refer to marine fishing trips, the term actually applies to any type of fishing in waters wider than a lake. Rivers and ponds can not mean “deep sea fishing” as the water is too shallow in most cases. Open sea fishing is carried out outside coastal waters that is the habitat of lots of the larger fish.

Deep sea game fishing does require a larger boat in order to achieve open sea manoeuvres and store the catch conveniently. Such a boat should have enough room for the crew meant to actually do the fishing and also for the equipment needed in order to catch and store these larger scale fish. It should be the type of boat intended to withstand sea storms and bad weather and to gain easy access to the fishing areas in a fast and safe manner.

The wide range of fish that are caught in open sea fishing includes marlins, swordfish, sailfish, large tunas and various types of sharks. There are also smaller fish caught at the same time as these larger ones. However, these former, smaller fish are not caught on purpose. Such fish represent by-catch or even bait for other larger fish.

Deep sea game fishing has been carried out in practically the same seas since the time that this occupation became established and later it developed into a business. It is performed in California, Florida, north of New Zealand, in Nova Scotia, Hawaii and so on. In those areas, the advantage the fishermen have is that large fish live close to the coasts and it does not take a long time to get to these places.

Open sea fishing can be done using several techniques of which the first we should mention is trolling. That is a form of angling achieved by dragging a baited line on the bottom of the ocean. The bait is usually squid or some other smaller fish commonly used for bait and it is thrown behind the boat. The stabilizers behind the boat also called outriggers work great at enlarging the area that can be used for catching fish. Another technique is chumming or chunking which requires that large pieces of dead bait fish are thrown overboard so as to attract large predatory fish.

It is easy to understand that open sea fishing has been developed commensurately with larger market consumption. Nowadays, more and more people in large cities are beginning to be able to afford to vary their diets to include various sea foods, big deep sea fish have become more popular than ever.

If you are interested in fishing and would like to find out more, please pop along to our website called Gone Fishing

May 16, 2010

Lake Fishing.

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 4:58 pm

Lake fishing is very akin to river fishing, or slow-flowing river fishing anyway. The types of fish in rivers and lakes tend to be the same, which means that the tackle, bait and lures will be the identical too, although you may require a longer rod, say, a beach-casting rod to cast your bait farther out into the lake. Lake fish will frequently mature to a larger size than river fish, so your line should be stronger too.

Lake fish traditionally been classed under three general headings. That is to say, game fish, food fish, and bait fish. Bass, trout, pike, pickerel, muskellunge, perch, etc., are recognized as game fish because of their sporting importance. Carp, suckers, some of the catfish, yellow perch, etc., are though of as food fish.

This latter group is not considered to provide the sport that the so-called game fish do, but they do have a genuine economic and sporting value. The third kind are the minnows and tiddlers that can be used as bait for the first two classes.

It is not simple to explain the correct way to cast long distances, but it does come nuturally to quite a few fishermen. However, if casting does not come effortlessly to you, you will have to study other lake or beach fishermen. If you are not happy doing that, you will be able to find a video on the issue. However, the best way to learn how to cast is to go down to the beach , watch an expert at work and endeavor to do the same.

Nonetheless, lake fishing is enormous fun and the beginner will rapidly learn the correct method of lake fishing. Consequently, I have put a few practical tips here to help you learn lake fishing more quickly.

i]. Aim to adopt a smooth, whip-like cast. Nevertheless, if you crack the whip too hard, you will certainly lose a great deal of bait, flies or lures..

ii]. Timing is the all-significant issue in both the back cast and forward cast.

iii]. Study the habits of the fish that live in the lake that you propose to fish. All fish have both similar and dissimilar habits, so either obtain a book or video or join a club to find out more.

iv]. The majority of fish prefer some type of protection, either for themselves or because their quarry will like it there. Be careful of weeds, reeds and submerged logs or you will lose loads of line and tackle..

v]. The same as I said previously, lake fish tend to be larger, as food is abundant and there is bags of room. A large bass, for instance, can easily weigh 10-12 lbs, so ensure that your rod and line are up to the task. A rod of seven feet six inches to eight feet in length can withstand these sizes of fish.

Lake fishing is not so really unusual from other types of fishing, so if you put a little energy into studying the techniques and fish involved in lake fishing, you will soon master the skill and turn into an expert at lake fishing.

If you are interested in fishing and would like to find out more, please go along to our website called http://fishing.the-real-way.com

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April 18, 2010

Fly Fishing 101

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Michael Adams @ 2:21 pm

The idea behind this article is to help the beginner fly fishing. The terms used and the basic methods employed in fly fishing may be unknown to the beginner at fly fishing, so we will commence from the very beginning. Therefore, if you are a beginner fly fishing person, please read on in order to become acquainted with fly fishing.

The instruments needed for fly fishing are generally called tackle, but if you want to be more specific about the sort of instruments you need, you can add the words “fly fishing”. So, you get the phrase: “fly fishing tackle”. Fly fishing gear basically consists of artificial flies, a fly rod, a fly reel and fly line. The set-up is: the fly is attached to the line, which is wound around the reel, which is attached to the rod, which is used to cast the bait (the fly).

To make it easier to cast the fly as far as required from the angler, the line needs to be a little weightier than the other kinds of fishing line, since a weight is used in other forms of fishing to obtain the same result. Also, the artificial flies are available in all sorts of shapes, sizes and colours to look like real, live flies, depending on the type of fish the angler hopes to catch.

Generally speaking, the artificial fly is made of hair, plastic, feathers, fabric, fur and other materials in order to make the lure as closely resemble as possible the insect or fly most commonly eaten by the particular species of fish at that particular month or time of the day. This means that each fishing location requires that you select a certain kind of artificial fly that will look like the insects living in the area where your desired species of fish swim. Therefore, a kind of fly used in one area of the country may not work as well as you’d think in another.

However, there are classifications of flies too, although they fall into two basic general categories, which are known as ‘attractive’ and ‘imitative’. The imitative artificial flies look like real flies, while the attractive ones only rely on colour or the twinkling of sunlight in order to attract fish without necessarily resembling the fish’s normal food.

These classifications are then used to further sub-divide artificial fly fishing lures into: a] dry (looking like grasshoppers, dragonflies, etc. which float on or near the surface of the water); b] sub-surface (looking like larvae, pupae) and c] wet (resembling leeches and minnows and other small fish or fry).

The biggest distinguishing feature between fly fishing and non-fly fishing is that fly fishing depends to a great extent on the weight of the line to carry the artificial fly to that section of the water where the fish are schooling, probably at a distance from the bank. The line is often camouflaged and hollow, so that it will float.

However, non-fly fishing depends instead on the attached weight, usually made of lead previously, to pull the line off the reel and carry it on to the right area, where the weight will also take the bait or lure down to the feeding fish.

If you are keen on fishing and would like to find out more, please go along to our website called http://fishing.the-real-way.com

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April 16, 2010

Fishing 101

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Colin Jones @ 2:32 pm

So, you have decided that you want to learn how to fish. There are a few ways of learning, the hardest being trial and error. The best way is to find an instructor for one-on-one lessons.

1. Buy seasickness medication: If you’re going to fish on the water, nothing is worse than having your fishing ruined by seasickness. Most seasickness medication e.g. Bonine is very good. Even expert fishermen are known to take some on rough days. Take one before you go to sleep, another when you wake up and a third one before you go on board.

2. Buy a reference book: There are a lot of good books available at your local bookshops and online. The book ought to give you instructions as well as terms and definitions. There are some things you may not immediately understand but that you have to know anyway. For example, learn how to tie different kinds of knots. This knowledge will also be invaluable for other purposes throughout your life.

3. Get on a party boat: There are party vessels that take from five to as many as sixty fishermen. The boat will usually provide you with everything you need from bait, lures, rod, reel, sinkers to hooks. They will show you how to fish and even take the fish off the hook for you too. You will make plenty of new fishing mates on board and they will assist and advise you. Party boats will usually cost between $25 – $70 a day per person and the fish you catch are yours to keep. A party boat is a boon for beginners.

4. Select a pier: Assuming you have already learned the skills to use a rod and reel, you ought to look for a fishing pier. The majority of seaside cities have a public pier or pay-to-fish pier. You can hire tackle and buy bait at these piers and, if you do have trouble, there will be many pier anglers around to assist and give you tips.

5. Party or pier?: You may want to do either method three or four times or both at the same time at this point. The best thing to do is to practise both methods several times to really learn them.

6. The reel way: The conventional reel is probably what you’ve got up to this point. The traditional reel is made for a lot of wear and tear. However, maybe you now ought to think about purchasing a different type or / and make of reel. Ideally, you have already met other anglers and maybe made a friend or two who can assist you in choosing a reel. You could even ask a tackle shop owner for advice.

First off, you ought to understand the mechanics of the reel and the other equipment. Learning to cast, tie knots and bait is not that complicated. Secondly, you need to learn where to fish. Successful fishermen know where the fish are located. Fish move from place to place and clever anglers know these patterns and are able to anticipate where the fish are schooling.

If you are interested in fishing and would like to learn more more, please pop along to our website called Gone Fishing

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April 15, 2010

A Family Guide To Deep Sea Fishing

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 5:28 pm

Deep sea fishing is a great activity that a lot of families enjoy. Deep sea fishing is a sport that can give you and your family fantastic experiences and unforgettable memories that can last for a lifetime. The amount of family bonding in a natural environment is simply indescribable.

If you’re new to this sport, there are a few things that you should know before you commence with a deep sea fishing trip. It is indeed just one big adventure for you and your family, however, you should consider some things first to make sure your trip is a successful one. Other than not forgetting to take your camera for those thrilling snapshots, here are some things that you have to think about before making any plans at all.

Reckoning Time: Are They Up to it? First of all, you need to take a realistic look at your family’s abilities and age. Lets face it, you cant really get the most out of a deep sea fishing trip if your kids are infants or toddlers. If you’re trying to decide what kind of excursion to make, thinking about these factors is important too.

This is an important factor, even if you are thinking of using the services of a charter boat, since most boating companies have set age limits. Generally speaking, the typical lower age limit starts at about eight years of age. You should realize that firms set these rules to ensure your health and safety.

Furthermore, you should consider how long you want to stay on the sea. Most inexperienced fishermen prefer half-day trips, because they are less stressful and yet still great fun for the whole family. On the other hand, experienced anglers would definitely rather an overnight trip.

Nevertheless, no matter how long you have been fishing, you should still remember that your family’s physical comfort could affect the overall enjoyment of everyone on the trip. Factors such as temperament and age are important factors in how your family is able to adjust to a prolonged stay on a boat at sea, where the weather can change rapidly.

Be Aware of Travelling: another important factor is how far away your preferred fishing location is situated from your house. The fishing packages available on the market do vary greatly, depending on the charter company.

This means that the conditions and provisions that they offer on the boat will also differ. If you going to be travelling a great distance just to go fishing, you might be more interested in buying a package that is ‘all inclusive’, because it will provide you with everything you’ll need for the fishing trip.

However, all inclusive packages like these are usually quite hard to find, and of course, they are way more expensive than normal day trip packages. An average package usually provides you with bait and tackle. If you need a license, some packages include it, while others may charge you extra for it.

Know The Terms and Conditions: In general, charter boat skippers ask you to bring your own hats, sunglasses, coats, sun block, medications for travel sickness and anything else that you consider is necessary to take. Make sure that you are clothed appropriately with a series of warm layers, since it is far colder on the water than on land.

Furthermore, most of the day charter trip packages require you to take your own food. If this is the case, you should act accordingly. Try to pack items of food that are easy on your stomach, just in case the water gets a bit rough, which can happen very quickly at sea.

If you are keen on fishing and would like to learn more more, please visit our website called Gone Fishing

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