Check out this article on selecting a fly rod –How to Select a Fly Rod [Complete Guide] At the end of the day, however, as long as you’re comfortable with your rod, that is the most important thing. If you’re spending time trying to get the feel of your rod and making poor c...
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The fishing technique known as noodling is something completely different. There's no fishing rod. In fact, there's not even a boat. A noodler wades into the muddy water, feels around for a hole and waits for a fish to lurch out and sink its teeth into his hand. Yep, people voluntari...
How to Set the Drag on Your Fishing Reel ByChris Myers May 13, 2016 The drag on your fishing reel is what keeps big fish from breaking your line. Properly setting the drag could prevent you from losing that trophy fish. ... Fishing ...
“In this video, we will show you what equipment we recommend for Pike fishing in Tjuonajokk. Fishing is none both by wading and from boat. We think a nine-weight rod is a minimum to fish here and something many pike fly fishers already own, so that is why we recommend that here....
Getting your casting technique to be smooth and purposeful will probably take hours of awkward rod waving, but it’s a skill that’s well worth the effort.If you’re just getting startedand don’t have the convenience of a burbling creek in your backyard, take your setup to a large gras...
open to the public. It’s basically a mini-lake and you just have to fish around its banks. You just need a rod and one of thebest baitcasting reels under $50to get started. You don’t need to get on a fishing kayak, cast a net, or do any other complicated thing of that sort...
Twitching the rod tip or tapping the rod blank with your index finger sends vibrations down the leader and into the fly, adding subtle movement to your caddis pupae patterns. (Joe Mahler illustration) As much as I enjoy fishing traditional down-and-across, wet-fly tactics, fish need to be...
Lesson 2: How to Make Fishing Lures | Fishing and Lure Making: Holding Your Rod & Reel Before you cast your line, it is important to make sure you have the right grip. In this lesson, we go over the standard grip for holding both spinning reels and baitcasters. What is more, we gu...
that’s the up side of fishing small creeks. There are only so many places for fish to hide. I should point out that for my two hours of fishing I paddled another hour and a half round trip. I set out for the flats about 2:00 and made it back in time for a shower before ...