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About 60% of US Anglers practice catch and release.
Women make up about 33% of fresh water anglers and
about 85% of fresh water anglers begin fishing at 12 years old. |
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Jan 22, 2010; 11:08AM
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Category: Canada Fishing Trips
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Name for Contacts: James Bowden
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Phone: 1 800 585-8069
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E-mail: redpine@xplornet.com
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City: Haileybury
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State: Ontario
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Country: Canada
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| Description: |
Imagine the opportunity to catch six different species of gamefish while being pampered at a remote island lodge in Northern Ontario, Canada. Red Pine Wilderness Lodge is that place. As hosts for the last 21 years my wife Janice and I have accommodated many satisfied guests from North America and some as far away as Singapore. Although Walleye is the most popular target, Northern Pike, Smallmouth Bass Whitefish, Perch and Brook Trout are all available on the 28 miles of Lady Evelyn Lake or the portage lakes that we feature. Check out all the details at www.redpinelodge.com or call the toll-free number to book your next all-inclusive fishing adventure.
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Ladies Only Fishing Photo Contest
$50 worth of free fishing tackle for the photo with the most votes. Contest open to Ladies only.
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Mar 23, 2004; 01:15PM - In depth spinnerbaiting
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Category: Freshwater Bass Fishing Tips
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Author Name: Steven Narup
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Author E-mail: Steven_Narup@hotmail.com
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Tip&Trick Description 1:
The equipment that Steven Narup
prefers to use is a Pflueger Trion. |
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Tip&Trick Description 2:
Gambler Pro Series Spinnerbait
In-depth Spinnerbaiting
By: Steven Narup
When most people are asked, “what is a spinnerbait?” They will more then likely reply with this, “it has a hook with a wire attached to it, with a lead head and a silicone skirt, with either one or two blades.” The majority of the time they will automatically describe the clothes pin spinnerbait. Well in essence, there is much more to that. There is more then just that style of spinnerbait, this is what most people do not understand. Two other spinnerbait types are just as productive when presented in the right situation. These two baits are the tail-spinner and the in-line spinner. These baits are slowly catching on to the clothespin spinnerbait.
There are quite a few styles of spinnerbaits, including tail spinners, in-line spinners, and clothespin style spinnerbaits. Each style has there own time and place. The most widely used of these spinnerbait choices, is the clothes pin style.
Tail spinners can be a great choice when fishing for smallmouth bass and or finicky largemouth due to the bait’s compact size.
In-line Spinners became obsolete for many years by most bass anglers. Until now, they are slowly catching on to both Smallmouth and Largemouth anglers.
In-line spinners are a great bait when the fish are active but they can also be great when presented it other situations. Most people use in-line spinners when the fish are in a negative feeding mood, due to the bait’s smaller more compact size. There is one problem with in-line spinners, which keep the majority of people away from them, the fact that they will give you line twist. To help with this scenario try a high quality stainless steel ball bearing, this will cut back on the line twist. A ball bearing helps prevent line twist like so, when the bait starts to spin and twist in the water column the line will most likely twist without a ball bearing. However, if you have a ball bearing connecting the leader to the main line, when the bait twists the ball bearing spins the line back so that the line will not twist. If by any chance you do have line twist, let out a couple hundred feet of line into the water and turn your trolling motor on, this will get most of the twist out of your line. Another trick is the tie your line to a heavy object and stretch the line out by tightening your drag and pulling the line.
The clothespin style spinnerbait comes in many different combinations including blade size and style and different size heads. There are Steel and Titanium wires. The Titanium version is nearly indestructible, and needs little or no tuning at all. Titanium also lets off quite a bit more vibration then steel. The heads on clothespin spinnerbaits are starting to be produced with different materials as well, such as Lead, and Tungsten. Spinnerbait anglers are slowly starting to make the switch to Tungsten spinnerbaits, due to the fact the head is almost ¾ the size of lead, making the bait work through cover almost effortlessly.
. In general, spinnerbaits are a very versatile lure, which is one main reason why most bass anglers use them. Bass anglers have been using them for many years now and they still produce fish as if they came out yesterday, you just have to know the different ways to fish the bait.
Tail spinners can be great finesse baits and they can be fished shallow or deep, because the body of the bait is lead, with a little blade on the back. The majority of tail spinners come with a single treble hook, making them not as easy as the clothespin style spinnerbait when trying to fish through thick cover. To work the tail-spinner you can just reel the bait back to the boat, but doing this you will reduce the odds of catching more fish, but it does work. Instead, you should give the bait a little action. You can yo-yo the bait by letting the bait fall to the bottom, then pick your rod tip up to about a 10 o’clock position, just keep repeating this procedure unless you are not producing. On the other hand, you can do a combination of things, to give the fish something different to look at. You can yo-yo the bait during part of the cast, then reel, or twitch it back to the boat. One last way to fish this bait would be to vertical jig it, in deep, clear, cold water. This technique will work in different conditions, but works best in deep, clear, cold water. When you vertical jig a tail spinner you cast the bait out a few feet and let the bait fall vertically, on a semi-slack line then you slowly lift your rod tip and shake the bait, let the bait fall and keep repeating this process. I like to use baitcasting gear when fishing tail spinners, but there are times when you need to fish lighter baits and that is when spinning gear comes into play. I mainly fish Pflueger rods and reels. The rods are very nice they come with premium Fuji guides and a Fuji reel seat, making the rod one nice package. I really like the Trion Baitcasting reel because they come with five ball bearings, one roller bearing and a smooth multi-disc main gear applied star drag system, making this a great reel for mostly any type of fishing. The reel is great if you want to fish a lighter line, because you can set your drag and the drag is so smooth that when a fish pools there will not be as much stress on the line itself.
In-line spinners have been around for over fifty years, and they are still going strong, Mepps has been in the in-line spinner business for a while now, and they still sell great. Most anglers do not use in-line spinners while fishing for bass instead they are using bigger in-line spinners fishing for pike or musky. However, I know they are missing a lure that can catch bass like it can pike and musky. I have had great success fishing in-line spinners in creek openings, where the creek empties into the main river, fishing for smallmouth bass. In-line spinners can be worked shallow or deep, they come with or without tails, painted blades or non-painted blades. When you work an in-line spinner, the best possible way to fish these is to reel them in. If you try to jerk the bait, you will lose a lot of action, because in-line spinners are not made for jerking. In-line spinners let off a lot of flash, and maximum flash happens when you just reel it in. When I fish in-line spinners I like to use spinning gear preferably the Pflueger Trion spinning rod in a 6 ½ foot medium action, with a Pflueger Trion spinning reel, because they come in a 6:3:1 gear ratio which will allow you to speed up the bait without getting as tired out. They are very smooth and cast light baits a mile.
Clothespin spinnerbaits are one of your more versatile bait in the spinnerbait family. You can work them quite a few different ways, and give the bait a great action if you desire. When I work a safety pin spinnerbait, I really like to use a Pflueger Trion Baitcasting rod, anywhere from 6-foot medium to a 7-foot medium heavy action. The 6-foot rod will help you when you want to make accurate casts, and the 7-foot rod will help when you want to get distance with your bait. With the Trion rods, they are extra sensitive high modulus graphite, which will give you the ability to feel the blades turn on your bait. I will throw the bait on 15-20 pound test Berkley Trilene XL. When you work a safety pin spinnerbait, you can just reel it in, but again you are going to be missing some fish. When I fish a safety pin style spinnerbait, I sometimes jerk the bait, doing this gives the bait sort of an injured baitfish presentation. You can also let the bait flutter down, then you pick up your rod tip, and repeat, doing this gives the bait a yo-yo type effect. If I am going to be fishing a spinnerbait in cold water, I will look for anything that lets off heat because this will warm up the water just a little bit, fish do feel the difference, and I will fish the bait around that. If the fish are just coming up and nipping at the bait, you may want to add a trailer hook for extra insurance. I will usually throw a spinnerbait with a trailer hook in any tournament situation. If the fish are coming up and hitting that bait and not taking it you can use a soft plastic trailer, I like to use the Gambler Pro Series Spinnerbaits, beacause they come with high quailty blades and ball bearings, making it almost effortless to slow roll them and let them flutter down. To dress the Gambler Pro Series spinnerbait up I prefer the three-inch Bear Claw Grub from Bearpaws Custom Handpoured Baits. I like the Bearpaws grub because it comes with the scent baked right in to the bait, this will give you a definite edge on other anglers, because you will not need to use scent on the exterior of the bait.
Spinnerbaits are a great and versatile lure that have made a lot of many for companies in the fishing industry. The only thing I can say is next time you go out on the water I dare you to tie on a spinnerbait, and I know that you will not regret it.
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Aug 4, 2003; 09:08PM - 1979 20 foot open Skipjack
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Category: Boats
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Price: 9500
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Name for Contacts: Kim Monaco
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Phone: 949-872-3233
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City: Costa Mesa
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State: California
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Country: USA
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E-mail: Kim@2catchfish.com
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Description 1:
Boat is in great condition stored under covered carport. |
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Description 2:
Interior is recently reupholstered and seats have been reinforced boat interior is actually in very good conditon. |
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Description 3:
Volvo penta 350 with volvo 280 outdrive single prop and has recently been serviced at Sea and Ski Marine of Southern California one of the finest Volvo repair shop around. Motor purrs like a kitten and it turn key well maintained. |
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Oct 22, 2006; 02:35PM - Gordo Banks Pangas San Jose Del Cabo
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: Eric
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Author E-mail: emails
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Report Description:
Gordo Banks Pangas
San Jose del Cabo
October 22, 2006
Anglers –
Visiting anglers are now arriving in swarms to the Los Cabos area and sportfishing
fleets are operating at near capacity levels. The annual tournaments are under way
and the typical fall excitement can be felt in the air. With everything set to go
off just as planned there could be some changes in schedules as there is now a late
season tropical storm that has developed off the west side of the peninsula, it is
named John and at this time is less than 500 miles from Cabo San Lucas and though
its projected path is not certain, officials are predicting that it will turn back
towards the northeast and follow a direct course skimming the southern Baja and then
heading towards the mainland Mexico. We thought the tropical storm season was over,
but with the water temperatures remaining warmer than normal, now averaging 84 to 86
degrees, there was always that chance of a hurricane still developing. We will hope
for the best, that this storm causes no significant damage and passes
by quickly, though a little more rain would be welcome, as the landscape that had
been so brilliantly tropical green has been fading recently.
The fishing action has been spread out from the Pacific and into the Sea of Cortez.
There has been more dorado action found on the Pacific, with fish to over 30 pounds
being found, though numbers were not huge, most charters were landing anywhere from
2 to 6 dorado per outing. Yellowfin tuna was the most common species found, with the
largest schools of 10 to 20 pound fish being located off the San Jose del Cabo area
and north to Punta Gorda, the action has tapered off compared to the past couple of
weeks, but still this has been the most consistent bite and boats continue to come
from as far away as Buena Vista to get in on the activity, which has been within one
mile of shore. Average catches per boat ranged from 5 to 15 tuna per morning, with
the action being best earlier in the morning before nearly one hundred boats of all
types swarmed onto the area.
There was some encouraging and exciting news reported from the Outer Gordo Banks, as
early in the week there were two monster gorilla sized yellowfin tuna accounted for,
one weighed in at 310 pounds and the other weighed a whopping 350 pounds, both of
these fish were caught from cruisers based out of Cabo San Lucas and while trolling
with live skipjack for bait. We had first hand reports because these fish were
hooked into while fishing right along pangas based off of La Playita. Perhaps this
will be the area that produces the big tuna for the upcoming WON Tuna Tournament,
though at this time very few of these larger tuna are actually being hooked into.
The billfish bite has continued to be slow, though there is a chance of variety, as
there were blue, black and striped marlin, as well as sailfish in the region. There
was one 500 pound class black marlin lost from a Gordo Banks Panga on Monday, this
was after a three hour battle and having the fish right alongside the boat and
actually getting a gaff partially into the fish’s head, only to have it take off and
break through the leader. Another heartbreak occurred on Saturday off of a Palmilla
based cruiser, after a battle lasting over five hours they had a black marlin that
was estimated to be as large as 800 pounds break through 400 pound leader material
that was attached to the petrolero pattern lure, this fish struck the lure in the
vicinity of the Outer Gordo Banks.
Wahoo action was very slim pickings, only a few scattered fish being accounted for,
still not in any significant numbers and not practical to exclusively target. We are
hoping that they become more active soon, because this is the season when they
typically are more abundant.
Bottomfishing did not produce much to speak of either, only a handful of smaller
pargo species, triggerfish and cabrilla. On Friday there was a 35-pound class
roosterfish taken from a panga while chunk bait fishing on the Iman Bank, this was
definitely a fluke and it is not the normal method or area where roosters are found.
The combined panga fleets launching from La Playita beach sent out 205 charters for
the week and anglers accounted for a fish count of: 3 striped marlin, 9 sailfish, 6
wahoo, 3 roosterfish, 15 sierra, 155 various pargo, 18 cabrilla, 1,440 yellowfin
tuna, 760 various species of skipjack and 74 dorado.
Good fishing, Eric
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