how do you drop line fish?
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He makes it sound easy.
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Your elastic should be fixed to a plastic pole connector, which is just a sliding piece of plastic that traps your line in a small hook. When you make your rigs, make them at home as it saves a load of messing about on the bank, just be sure to keep then tidy on rig winders and leave a few feet of extra line on the rig, so you have more to play with when finding your exact depth. Fish just on the bottom to start with, and then if you cant catch, bring it a little off bottom, you will eventually find em, tight lines
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Minnows:  buy a minnow trap and bait it with bread crumbs\nworms:    pick them up off the road after a heavy rain. Keep them in the basment or garage with coffee grounds and dirt\n\ncickets:  catch them as you find them.
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Use a #10 or #8 Eagle Claw hook and place a splitshot about 10 inches up the line to get it down in the water column. They are kinda gross to hook but either strait thru or piercing thru the side both work fine.
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#1.) Make sure you are using a heavy enough lure and set your reel...this must be done EVERY time you change lures. Tie the lure on and reel it to the tip. Now with your magnetic drag on 0 set your mechanical drag by loosening until the lure begins to drop slowly. Now put your magnetic drag on 6-7 for now and back up as you get better eventually ending at 2 or 3 for a setting on you magnetic. IMPORTANT** if your lure is too light you are screwed and will backlash enough for you to break the rod over your knee.\n2.) For a righty casting is very similar to hitting a raquetball . Depress the thumb bar and keep your thumb on the line...load the rod on your backcast and swing sidearm with some wrist at the end of your swing and take your thumb off the line (using the theory of a hammer hitting a nail usually helps)...where you stop the rod is where the lure should fly. Practice on targets will improve accuracy and thumbing the line to stop short will come in time.\n3.) You may be having some difficulty because a med-heavy rod is really almost a flipping stick....a whole nother story...it would be easier with a 6 ft. med action rod which will let you cast a little lighter lure easier and give you a hell of a lot more sensitivity...either way keep at it...it'll come in time and it does have some advantages with certain lures (cranks, topwater) over a spinning rod but then again the spinning can outdo the baitcaster with other things (worms, spinnerbaits). Hope this helps....Tight Lines!!
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To succesfully fill a freshwater takle box you will need the following: Hooks-some small for crappie,blue gill (sunfish) etc. some larger for Catfish - read the packages the should specify which hooks are good for which fish species. You will need some bass jigs and I recomend getting a Mepp's spinner kit. These kits usually contain several different types of rooster tail spinner baits and are excellent for crappie and blue gill fishing.\nYou should also look into getting some bait casters these are good for bass fishing. As all good takle boxes contain bobbers or corks whichever you decide to call them. You should get some different types of spinner baits and several different jigs just to mix things up a bit. After getting these thing you need to make sure you have some split shot and or some type of weight. 1oz weights will be good for most conditions but you may want to get several different weights ranging between 1/2 to 2oz. A good set of needle nose plyers is a must have-They have helped me out many times! A knife or pair of finger nail clippers is also good to have for little things such as trimming you string after tying on a hook (or a broken finger nail) They just come in handy. I always keep either water proof matches or a cigarette lighter in mine just in case and a package or two of crackers or some sort of light snack that way if I get into a mess of fish I don't have to leave when I get hungry. These are just a few things I keep in mine. I know I have more in there but I can't tell you everything with out looking.
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Depends on what kind of jig...\n\n\nBass Jig: I'll usually just cast into thick cover and jig it along the bottom.  Soemtimes I'll put some attractant on it since I'm going to be up close and personal because I'll probably be flipping it.  That usually works pretty well.  Other times, I'll get a lighter jig, put on a trailer, and swim it.  That will work pretty well when the fish are suspended.\n\nCrappie Jig:  Most of the time I just swim these since crappie in our area are almost always suspended on underwater structure.  However, when I'm fishing minnows w/ a bobber, and I've determined the depth at which the fish are suspended - run out of minnnows - I'll tie on a crappie jig to the bobber and swim it that way.  By doing that, the jig is at the same depth that the fish are.\n\nGood Luck.
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in order to fly fish properly and have fun casting you need: backing, fly line, leader connection, leader and tippet.\n\nBacking basically fills up your reel so the fly line rests perfectly, and also keeps the fly line from being tightly wound around the spool and developing memory. Your fly line is essential for casting. You need a leader because you cannot tie on a fly to a big fat fly line. you need a leader connector so you can remove the leader when it gets too short. Tippet is tied on at the end of your leader so you can use your leader for a long time and still replace flies.\n\nall fly line comes in weights, and you your line has got to match the weight of your rod. so if, for example you're putting this new reel on a 7'6" 4wt rod, you need 4wt (wt=weight) line. If you over or under weight your rod by more than 1wt, your rod will not cast the line nicely. An exact match is ideal. If your rod is a spit weight (ie 5/6wt) than either 5 or 6wt would work for you.\n\nAll fly lines come in tapers. The most common and easiest to cast, and most versatile is "weight forward", anything else if for casting specific types of flies or for special water needs.\n\nEach fly line is sold by code, so if your rod is a 4wt, you will be shopping for a line with the following code: WF 4WT (weight forward, 4 weight). Also, choose floating.\n\nfly line runs from $15 to $60 - you get what you pay for.\n\nBacking is typically dacron line, let the fly shop suggest it for you. Backing basically fills up the reel for you so your fly line fits perfectly on the reel. Backing is also used for battling big fish (big big fish).\n\nYou will need to connect your leader to your fly line. Have the fly shop put on a connector (sleeve or mono-tie in). The connector allows you to put a leader on your fly line without having to tie a knot. The connector will also allow you to replace the leader when it gets beat without having to undo knots or chop off part of your expensive fly line.\n\nyou can buy leaders for about $4 each. get knotless tapered ones, 7' 5 or 4x is good for trout.\n\nfinally, tippet is clear thin line that you tie to the end of your leader so you dont have to tie your fly to your leader. Every time you tie on a new fly, you end up wasting a piece of your line. Since leaders are tapered, there is only about 1' of material at the end that is fine enough to put through the eye of a fly hook. Tying on a piece of tippet gives you an extra diposable length of line to waste changing flies, and you always have line that will fit nicely in the hook eye. If you use tippet, you'll be able to keep your leader for several months. tippet comes in 30' spools, appx $4-8 per spool, and you should tie on appx 2' each time you tie on a length. \n\nThe weights of tippet come in X's, which if you read the tippet label, correspond to breaking strenght. the higher the # the lighter and more fragile the weight.\n\nso for example, if you buy a leader that is 7' 5x, that means the lightest section of the leader is equal to 5x tippet. You should buy 5x or 6x tippet to match. If you try to tie a really light tippet to a heavy leader (ie 3x leader, and 8x tippet) the diameter of the lines will be so different that your knot will have a hard time holding and you'll loose a fish.\n\nhope this helps. good luck.
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In clear water, with a blue sky overhead, try a fairly dark coloured plug or jerkbait, along the lines of those you would use pike fishing. You can also try spinners, no particular kind, as they all work well on the right day. Just have a small selection of different colours and sizes. I prefer the mepps super vibrax, or the rublex ondex in sizes 4 - 6. Harris angling sell them for about £3 each, and there indesructable.\n\nIn overcast and cloudy water conditions, use the same types of lures and spinners, but opt for the ones with brighter colours. Tight lines
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The best kind of bait to use if you could have only one kind is a good old fashioned worm.  Crawlers work great.  \n\nOf course, there is no one kind of bait that works ALL the time, which is why there are so many other types of bait.  I have tried snails, shrimp, minnows, and worms, and worms seem to work somewhat better than the others in most seasons.\n\nIf you can't get your worm to stay on the hook, you might want to look into using plastic or rubber worms.\n\nAs for WHERE to fish, the trick to that is thinking about where the fish can hide bug still be able to jump out and find food.  This is typically on the edges of things like the edge of a dropoff, the edge of where a stream runs into a lake, the edge of the water where there are lots of tree roots and shade.
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Chuck, \n\nDont spray your line down man!!!! no need to put other things in the water that may deter the fish from slammin' on your bait. email me at Brgwski@msn.com.\nlet me know what your fishin for (usually), and tell me if you put the line on yourself. and what your flippin in the water
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You run the fishing line through the straws.  Tape the straws together loosely with the duct tape.\n\nYou can then control finger movement by tugging on the lines.
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Well, get a bank that is accessible, and hopefully flat.  If you happen to see any type of "downed trees" fish around there for bass, or, around rocky shores.  They love to hide in the rocks, but then again, you need to use a barber or float to save your hooks and lines.\n\nFor catfish, fish around embukments or pilings or piers.  \n\nI use worms for all fish.  Chunks of fish for catfish, doughball, or smelly chunks of raw meat that has been setting in the sun or has a strong odor.\n\nFlies, and spinner baits for bass.  Rappellas for deep water, off of piers, or boats.
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The best way that I have found to hook shrimp is to hook them right under their horn (that hard sharp pointy thing on the head).  Make sure not to go through the black spot.  That is there brain and if you hook them through there it will kill the shrimp.  Put a weight on you line several inches away from the hooked shrimp and gently cast your line.  The shrimp will be able to swim around on the ocean and attach the fish.  I really like using live bait with red hooks.  My boyfriend does use soft jigs made for saltwater.
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Follow these steps, and should work well for you......\n\n\nSteps:  \n1.   Remove the old line from the reel.  \n  \n2.   Thread the new line through the eyes on the pole.  \n  \n3.   Tie the line to the reel.  \n  \n4.   Wind the line onto the reel 20 cranks.  \n  \n5.   Check the line for twists. If twisted, turn the spool of line over.  \n  \n6.   Fill the reel to 1/8 inch from the spool rim.  \n  \n  \n \n\n Tips:  \n If using a closed reel, place a pencil through the center of the spool and have someone hold the pencil to keep tension on the line.  \n  \n If using an open-faced reel, lay the spool on the floor so the line comes off counterclockwise.
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ADVANTAGES: This particular rig has been working for hundreds of years. You almost can't go wrong. Simple and deadly. A "sinker-slide", a "Pyramid" sinker, and a "Circle" hook can catch a variety of fish including, Sheep-head, Redfish, Trout, Drum, Catfish, Croakers, Whiting, ETC.\n\nDISADVANTAGES: There really aren't many. It depends on where, and WHAT you are fishing for.\n\n Then again, If you mean this Q as an analogy, many MEN/WOMAN get "caught" "hook line & sinker", so it must work VERY well!!! lol
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ummm try a fishing shop