Fishing Blog

Bass fishing has evolved to a near cult popularity with so many anglers through the years that there have been so many products made, clubs formed, and articles written about it. Here you will read about the types of Bass fishing lures you can use to catch them. Also, there is also a list on the necessary equipments to have when going bass fishing.

The type of bass that will bite almost anything is the largemouth bass. Minnows, worms, or other live bait, plus poppers or streamers presented with a fly rod, or plugs thrown from a casting or spinning rod are ways where they can be caught. Since bass is usually associated with weeds, a weedless bait will often be necessary. Morning and evening are the best fishing times when warm months come. They usually like to stay in warm water and warm weather. There is only little bite during winters.

Smallmouth bass pound for pound are the scrappiest fish of all fresh water bass. They are usually associated with a rocky stream or lake environment where its favorite food, the crayfish, is plentiful. The best lake fishing takes place in the month in June and just after, the spawning season, and in early fall. Natural lure like hellgrammites, dragonfly larvae and crayfish are especially useful during early morning or late evening. Most likely, the best artificial lures are those who are used on the surface. Light tackle is ideal. Fish quietly, casting toward rocks or logs, keeping the rod tip up and the line tight. Many fishermen debate on the colors used for their lures. This may vary on the bass fish that is to be caught.

Fishing requires more than just a simple fishing rod and some lure for serious fisherman. People who fish for leisure are those who fish because it’s their hobby, they can have some tools and accessories that will help them make it easier and be able to catch more fish. Here are some suggested tools for starters that will help them improve in catching fish:

• Fishing Rod. The most important piece of equipment and should be chosen with care. A basic rod-and-reel set is enough for beginners. It is necessarily important to have more featured materials. The most important is that you should learn how to use the rod and be comfortable to it before moving into another difficult type of equipment. Professional fisherman can experiment different types of rod for them to know what works best for them.

When buying a fishing rod, know before you enter the store what kind of fishing you'll be doing, and under what conditions. Rods come from different varieties of materials, from wood laminates to fiberglass to carbon fiber. Rod handles should fit securely in your palm, and practice casting with the rod, to test how flexible and easy to use it is. In addition have the proper length of the rod. For using lighter lure, or catching tiny fish, a 4 inch to 6 inch rod is advisable to use. For using larger lure, which gets larger fishes or casting longer distances, a rod of at least 6 inches may be required.

• Waders. It is a water- resistant covering you wear over your pants to keep them dry so you can wade out into the water. A lot of are made like overalls, covering the chest and the legs, and with boots attached, for ultimate defense. Make sure the boots are warm and secure, to supply better balance while walking on wet rocks.

• Fishing Vest. Contains several pockets for storing fish equipments and your hands are free to manage the fishing rod. Also, should you have to wade out into the water, wearing a vest will let you to have all of your gear with you at all times. Make a decision beforehand which gear is necessary; if you store too much in the vest, it may make it too heavy to wear, which could bring you down.

• Tackle Box or Fly Box. In fishing it requires a lot of supplies and you need a something big to store all your gears. Spend in a durable tackle box, in which you can store your entire lure, keeping it easily to get to. Styles are classified into simple and inexpensive, and large and costly. Fishermen may only need something small, but the more advanced fishermen may want something handier. Furthermore, you should consider a fly box. Small enough to fit a vest pocket and allows you to keep them with you as needed.

The Eagle FishStrike 2000C is a high quality, dependable, and very wonderful tool to have on any type of fishing adventure. It offers some of the best features that you will simply wonder how you lived without them. In fact, is so packed full of them, that we have to jump into them right away! So, here are the features that make the FishStrike 2000 C so great.

We’ll start with its screen. The 2000C offers an ultra bright seven inch screen with 256 color display. This LCD display is sunlight readable. That means that you get color, beautiful clarity and depth as well as the ability to read it in the brightest sunlight. So much better than trying to deal with the glare of sunny days!

Let’s not forget to take into consideration the sonar on this fish finder as well. It has depth capability of up to 1000 feet that offers some of the best fish detection software. In other words, you can use it to locate your fish in some of the hardest to find places. Using features like FISH ID, COLORILINE, and FasTrack, you can see up to date sonar picture that are so detailed that you will be able to see your fish clearly, no matter where he is hiding.

Then, there is the recording. The 2000C offers waterproof slots for up to two digital memory cards. You can use this to record your trip so that you can view it later.

On top of this, the 2000C has GPS capabilities as well. That means that you can use it to locate your position to ten feet using satellite technology, find your way to the hotspots and to not worry about getting lost in the meantime. You can use pre-programmed maps or use details you saved from your last successful trip.

Remember the frustration of not being able to find that awesome hotspot from last month? That will never happen again thanks to the positionng and tracking technology of the 2000C.

Yes, this is the fishfinder you have been waiting for with the right balances of tools to allow you to bring your fish home!

If you enjoy fishing, you’ve probably seen at least one fishing show on television. Have you ever thought, “I would love to have that person’s job, fishing all day”? Well, put some more thought into that idea and you could become a professional bass fisherman/woman!

First things first: if you think that all you need is lots of cash to spend on fancy boats and tackle, you’re headed in the wrong direction. Bass fishing is like any sport &ndash it takes dedication, patience, practice, and skill. If you know someone who seems to know what it takes to catch that beautiful bass, go and visit them! Get as much information out of them that you can, and write it down. During your spare time, get out on the water in a boat, a canoe, or a rubber raft, whatever you have, and try out some of the methods or suggestions they gave you.

You can also research bass fishing information on the Internet or at a library. There are many books on the subject, and there are also magazines you can subscribe to. The most important thing is to practice what you read. If you’ve tried ten different lures and none of them work, keep asking around &ndash eventually you will hit on something that really works to lure those fish in!

Are there any fishing competitions in your area of the country? Make sure to take part in them; nothing helps you hone your skill like a little competition. Plus, you never know who might be at a competition &ndash there could be someone from a local television network or outdoors company looking for a person with your skill at reeling in the bass.

Whether you land a job as a professional bass angler or not, you should always like what you’re doing. If you’re trying so hard to be the best angler in the world that you don’t even enjoy fishing, you should take a step back and take the time to enjoy fishing again. With patience, practice and some tips and secrets from other anglers, you’ll be reeling beautiful bass into your boat and feeling glad that you took the time to learn this excellent sport.

The Humminbird Fishfinder 565 offers many great, high quality features that are essential for finding a load of fish every time that you head out onto the lake, river, or even the ocean! Any fisherman who is serious about finding the best fish needs to have a fishfinder like this one. Simply consider the features that it offers. Let’s take a look at them.

The Fishfinder 565 has a high definition, 240V by 240H five inch screen. Sounds great, but what does it actually do? This high definition screen allows for a very good picture. In fact, the grayscale is very precise and you will not miss the color. It is a big screen so you get a good sized picture for easy viewing. But, what does the 565 put on this screen? The 20 degree single beam sonar is optimized for coverage and precision bottom detail. With this amount of sonar, you can see very clearly what is lurking below whether it be a structure or the fish you are searching for. And, you don’t just see directly below your boat but in the area next to it as well. This gives you the best opportunities to see the fish you want.

Other features offered by the 565 include Sonar Echo Enhancement so sensitive that it will see your jig up to 40 feet away which allows you to watch the fish become lured towards it! Imagine seeing the fish latch on to it! It also allows for separate targets within 2

With fly fishing, sometimes it is all about the chase. Here’s a day trip that looked unfruitful, but turned out alright in the end.

Colorado Fly Fishing

We put the raft in on a warm morning in Sept. without a cloud in sight. My expectations were not high, since a warm sunny day tends to put the fish down, at least on this stretch of the Colorado. When the fish aren’t rising, I go straight for tandem streamers; there is nothing more exciting than a big pissed off brown chasing your streamer off the bank in shallow fast moving water. Dredging the bottom with a nymph just doesn’t do it for me. If I break out a nymph’n rig, I must have exhausted all other options.

The first quarter mile of water put a bleak outlook on the remaining 9 house of river ahead of us, not a single chase through some of the higher quality water on this stretch!! My invited guest on board had no experience throwing a heavy awkward tandem streamer rig, and was fairly discouraged after nearly throwing his shoulder out with only a handful of well-placed casts. I always talk of the exciting chases, but now; he must think I am full of it. I now know the frustration that guides must endure while watching miles of quality water go by without a singe well placed or completely untouched. “There was probably a nice fish it that pocket we just passed”, came out of my mouth far too many times than I care to recall.

About 3 miles into our float, which is exactly what it had become, a sightseeing float, the weather began to change. Here came the clouds, an encouraging sign, of course unless the wind comes with it. Here came the wind, and next thing you know, our beautiful sightseeing float turned into a back rowing battle to keep the boat heading downstream. Luckily, this did not last long, but the rain did begin to fall.

Within a few minuets after the rain subsided, the mayflies were swarming and the fish were rising. Were eddied out in several prime spots and began to catch fish in the swirling foam. Just about any well-placed cast was rewarded. Time went by unnoticed, until suddenly I realize that we had only traveled half way to our take out and more than half of the day was gone. Pushing through the slack water and hammering the moving water with the streamers was now becoming very productive. Finally, I could prove to my guest how exciting the chase could be. It seems that every other cast produced an aggressive brown, either territorial or just plain hungry.

We landed several nice fish while powering through the final stretch, arriving at last light. A turn in the weather sure can turn on the fish and bring on the chase.

Fly fishing is all about finding a great location, preferably in the middle of a hatch. The Green River in Utah was one such place, but is it still?

The Secret Is Out

No less than five years ago, it seemed like you head to the Green River and see few others along your little stretch of paradise. These days, it seems like a freeway.

The Green River starts at Flaming Gorge in the far Northeast of Utah. It then winds down through the Dinosaur National Monument area before passing through the deserts of central Utah and eventually flows into the Colorado River. The best fishing is around Flaming Gorge where the scenery and water make for a great trip.

Perhaps it is just me, but this area of the river must have been highlighted in more than a few magazines. There are all manner of people on the river and jet skis aren’t unheard of. Admittedly, there has always been white water rafting groups in sections, but nothing like this. Kayakers and so on seem to be flourishing like mad. If there had been a few more boats on the river, you would’ve needed a traffic cop!

Now don’t get me wrong. The river is for everyone. It is just a bummer when a little known spot becomes a hot spot. Sort of a case of paradise lost.

While the river is certainly more busy, the fish still seem to be biting. Browns and Rainbows are the catch of the day.

Perhaps I was just there on a bad day. The Green River is so nice that even a bad day is still a good day. What the heck, I could’ve been working!

One of the great features of online bingo is the ability for players to chat with each other while playing. The chat room is also the place to ask for help from the chat leader on duty. The community based atmosphere of online bingo is one of the great attractions to the game. In the chat room fun and exciting games are being run alongside the bingo being played, these games need to be administered and thats one of the functions of a chat leader.

The chat leader is an extremely busy person who has to do 100 things at once from being a peace keeper between fighting players, welcoming players to the online bingo room, helping player with their queries and overseeing chat room games.

When a player uses the online bingo chat facility she must be aware that there are certain rules and courtesies to take note of.

Online Bingo players must take note the following when using the online bingo chat rooms:

1) If you are asking a chat leader a question and they do not answer straight away, please be patient with them they are very busy people, try asking the question a bit later if they look very busy.

2) Online bingo players must respect all decisions made by a chat leader.

3) The chat leaders will help with any problem that arises in the online bingo chat room and will be as objective as possible.

4) To make the chat leader more visible on an online bingo chat room they write in capital letters, so as a courtesy try not to write in capitals so as not to confuse fellow players.

5) Online bingo players must refrain from trying to impersonate a chat leader, if caught you could be banned from playing.

These courtesies will help the chat leader and ensure an enjoyable online bingo paying experience for all.

Almost everyone likes to go on fishing trips, whether you do it just for fun, or for sport is entirely up to you. Many people fish for leisure, but also let it become a little bit more competitive around family and friends. Here is some advice about striped bass fishing, and to offer some tips that you might not have known, but can help you excel on the family fishing trip.

If you are planning on going on a trip for striped bass, take this striped bass fishing tip with you; there are some things that you should carry with you when you go, and we're not talking tampons or toothbrushes. You should carry a fishing rod that is at least twelve to eighteen feet in length according to the circumstances of your striped bass fishing trip.

Your rod should also have at least two hundred to three hundred feet of fishing line. You want to make sure that your rod and reel can support the fish that you catch, you don't want to be drug into the water. The best place to go striped bass fishing is in the quietest place you can find at full neap tide.

Striped bass are members of the temperate bass family, which includes white perch and white bass species. Striped bass breed in freshwater and spend their lives in saltwater. However, they like to be in a quiet environment so that they are not disturbed. The four major bodies of water that you can find striped bass in are:

1) Chesapeake Bay

2) Massachusetts Bay

3) Hudson River

4) Delaware River

Stripped bass can be caught by a number of baits and this striped bass fishing tip should help you to decipher which type of bait to bring with you on your trip. Bass like these following foods: clams, eels, anchovies, bloodworms, night crawlers, chicken livers, and sand worms.

The best time to fish for stripped bass is during the winter or spring. In the winter the stay in their haunts in shallow water. In the spring, you can find stripped bass in the rivers to freshwater and spawn until late fall when they then seek shelter.

Two wrist surgeries kept him from competing, but on Sunday he proved all of us that rehabilitation is working as he defeated tennis player Jurgen Melzer 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 to win the U.S. Clay Court Championship. The next thing he will have to do is to make the main draw at Wimbledon in late June.

Fish hadn’t been in a lucky streak, before Sunday he had lost six of seven tennis tour finals before. He needs to play at least four more of those before Wimbledon to gain enough ATP points to get straight into the Grand Slam draw. He also started the week ranking 212, but he is projected to jump to position No.120.

This is the first fall of the Austrian Melzer before Fish beat him in a 2003 three-set quarterfinal match here. The title is Fish's first on clay. His only other tour win came three years ago in Stockholm. This explains why this victory means more to Fish than to any other American tennis player that could’ve won the Clay Court Championship.

While the Americans treat Monte Carlo like anathema, world No.1 tennis player Roger Federer has embraced the dirt in 2006, proclaiming he will play all three Masters Series events at Monte Carlo, Rome and Hamburg in an attempt to sharpen his game for an assault on Roland Garros.

Have you ever watched one of those televised shows that show the fabulous fishing available in Canada, (or also known as the "Great White North) & wondered, can that really be true? Can the fish actually be so huge? Can the scenery be so spectacular?

It IS true!

From the eastern shores of the Maritime Provinces to the vast wooded tract of coastline on the west shores of British Columbia, Canada offers fishing that is so abundant & unspoiled, that anglers from around the globe visit each year, then subsequently return year after year.

All Provinces offer fishing that is unique to them, yet all are connected by a common theme, & that's the huge expanses of almost undiscovered lakes & rivers in the northern regions.

Look at the Province of Ontario, 95% of its population reside in the lower regions that account for maybe 10% of its land mass. What's in the other 90%?

Huge, crystal clear, lakes & rivers. Thousands of them! And all full of fish.

Whether one is looking for a weekend retreat that's accessible with your family car, or the "trip of a lifetime", a visit to a remote northern lake accessible only by float plane, this province offers it all.

Compare that to the even larger expanse of the Nunavut. Here's a Territory that sits almost entirely north of the 60th parallel, & has almost all it's regions inaccessible by roads. There simply are none!

But the fishing! Home to more I.G.F.A records than any other fresh water region in the WORLD!

Did you know the N.W.T is home to the 5th largest body of fresh water on the globe?

Great Bear Lake is 500 miles north of Yellowknife & the closest permanent road is some 300 miles away? Almost 12,500 square miles of crystal clear water, that's under ice for all but, maybe 100 days a year. Water so cold, that fish grow so slowly they can be 60-80 years old.

Then consider this.

There is only one community on this lake. Maybe 500 people, tops! Four Fishing Lodges, over 280 miles of lake between one & the next closest! Ice free for just a couple of months, these fishing lodges can operate only 2 short months a year. Total capacity between them all is maybe 160 fishermen at a time, scattered over 12,500 square miles!

Also, consider Great Slave Lake. Situated some 300 miles south of Great Bear Lake, Great Slave Lake is almost as large an expanse of water, almost as isolated, but has the convenience of a bustling frontier type city, situated right on its shores.

Yellowknife, the territory capital is also the "hub" for many of the remote northern lakes & fishing lodges, as it's serviced by a modern airport, with frequent & daily scheduled flights connecting it with more southern cities, or as the northerners call it, "the outside"

With stats like these, do you think these fishing lodges can offer a unique fishing experience?

You bet, there is no other place quite like it.

Why not treat yourself, & plan on a wonderful "trip of a lifetime".

Check out what Canada has to offer at Canada Fishing Lodge.