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Tip&Trick Description 1:
Testing to see if this message posts correctly and this is a lot of texts
that do not mean anything but I want to check it anyway. fishing, also
called angling, the sport of catching fish, freshwater or saltwater,
typically with rod, line, and hook. Like hunting, fishing originated as a
means of providing food for survival. Fishing as a sport, however, is of
considerable antiquity. An Egyptian angling scene from about 2000 bce shows
figures fishing with rod and line and with nets. A Chinese account from
about the 4th century bce refers to fishing with a silk line, a hook made
from a needle, and a bamboo rod, with cooked rice as bait. References to
fishing are also found in ancient Greek, Assyrian, Roman, and Jewish
writings.
Today, despite increased human populations creating a great number of
demands on rivers and lakes, fishing for sport remains one of the most
popular forms of outdoor recreation in the world. The problems of the modern
angler fundamentally remain the same as those of every angler who came
before: where to find fish and how to best tempt them into being taken. The
angler must understand wind and weather, the nature of the quarry, and the
ways of the water. Fishing remains what it has always been—a problem in
applied natural history.
Early history
The history of angling is in large part the history of tackle, as the
equipment for fishing is called.
One of humankind’s earliest tools was the predecessor of the fishhook: a
gorge—that is, a piece of wood, bone, or stone 1 inch (2.5 cm) or so in
length, pointed at both ends and secured off-centre to the line. The gorge
was covered with some kind of bait. When a fish swallowed the gorge, a pull
on the line wedged it across the gullet of the fish, which could then be
pulled in.
With the advent of the use of copper and bronze, a hook was one of the first
tools made from metal. This was attached to a hand-operated line made of
animal or vegetable material of sufficient strength to hold and land a fish.
The practice of attaching the other end of the line to a rod, at first
probably a stick or tree branch, made it possible to fish from the bank or
shore and even to reach over vegetation bordering the water.
For over a thousand years, the fishing rod remained short, not more than a
few feet (a metre or so) in length. The earliest references to a longer,
jointed rod are from Roman times, about the 4th century ce. As with the
earliest rods made from streamside branches, the first longer rods were made
of wood, which would continue as the dominant rod material well into the
19th century.
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The history of the sport in England began with the printing of Dame Juliana
Berners’s A Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle (1496) as a part of the
second edition of The Boke of St. Albans. Berners’s work was evidently based
on earlier Continental treatises dating to the 14th century, but virtually
no records of these previous writings are known. Many of the methods
described in the Treatyse are surprisingly modern and remain in use in some
form or another.
The first period of great improvement came about the mid-17th century, when
Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton were writing the classic The Compleat Angler
(1653). During this time an angler might attach a wire loop or ring at the
tip end of the rod, which allowed a free-running line, useful for both
casting and playing a hooked fish. This method intensified the need to
develop a means of taking up and storing longer lines and led to the
invention of the fishing reel.
Experiments with material for the line led to the use of a gut string
(mentioned by the diarist Samuel Pepys in 1667) and of a lute string (noted
by Col. Robert Venables in 1676). The use of a landing hook, or gaff, for
lifting large hooked fish from the water was noted by Thomas Barker in 1667.
Improved methods of fishhook making were devised in the 1650s by Charles
Kirby, who later invented the Kirby bend, a distinctive shape of hook with
an offset point that is still in common use worldwide. Kirby and his fellow
hook makers eventually established factories in Redditch about 1730.
Redditch remains the current centre of the English hook-manufacturing
industry.
While evidence exists that the Chinese developed a rudimentary fishing reel
in the 3rd century ce, modern reel design dates back to 18th-century
England. The predominant British reel of the day was called the Nottingham
reel, based on the wooden lace bobbin devised in the lace-making town of
that name. It was a wide-drum, free-spooling reel, ideal for allowing line
and bait or lure to float downstream with the current and suitable for
certain kinds of sea fishing. By 1770 a rod with guides for the line along
its length and a reel were in common use. The first true modern reel was a
geared multiplying reel attached under the rod, in which one turn of the
handle moved the spool through several revolutions. Never popular in Great
Britain, such reels became popular in the United States and inspired the
bait-casting reel devised by Kentucky watchmaker George Snyder in 1810.
About the same time, rod materials were undergoing major changes. Heavy
woods native to Britain and the United States were superseded by more-
elastic imported woods—such as lancewood and greenheart from South America
and the West Indies—and by bamboo. By the end of the 18th century, bamboo
became the rod material of choice. Several strips of bamboo were glued
together, retaining the strength and pliancy of the cane but greatly
reducing the thickness and weight of the finished rod. By 1870 bamboo rods
were being produced on both sides of the Atlantic.
After 1880 tackle design evolved rapidly. Horsehair fishing lines gave way
to lines made of silk, cotton, or linen. The average angler could cast three
times farther with these lines, and this increased distance helped spur the
development of artificial lures. With longer casting capabilities and more
line, a considerable tangle (called an overrun in Britain and a backlash in
the United States) could result. Governors were devised to prevent this. In
1896 William Shakespeare, Jr., of Kalamazoo, Michigan, devised the level-
wind, a traveling bracket on the reel that automatically spread the line
evenly as it was wound. The next significant tackle development took place
in 1905, when English textile magnate Holden Illingworth filed the first
patent on the fixed-spool, or spinning, reel. In this kind of reel, the
spool permanently faces toward the tip of the rod, and the line peels off
during the cast. The increased casting distance afforded by the spinning
reel—and facilitated by new lines with smaller diameters—revolutionized
freshwater fishing.
In the first half of the 20th century, rods became shorter and lighter
without sacrificing strength. Split bamboo was largely replaced by
fibreglass during the period immediately following World War II and finally
by carbon fibre or graphite in the 1970s. After the 1930s the fixed-spool
reel was taken up in Europe and after World War II in North America and the
rest of the world, thus creating a boom in spin casting. Nylon monofilament
line was developed in the late 1930s and became dominant after World War II.
Plastic coverings for fly lines allowed them to float or sink without the
application of grease. Plastic also became the dominant material for
artificial casting lures, replacing various types of low-density wood, such
as balsa.
Methods
The five basic methods of angling are bait fishing, fly-fishing, bait
casting, spinning, and trolling. All are used in both freshwater and
saltwater angling.
Bait fishing, also called still fishing or bottom fishing, is certainly the
oldest and most universally used method. In British freshwater fishing it is
used to catch what are called coarse (or rough) fish. These include bream,
barb, tench, dace, and other nongame species. A bait is impaled on the hook,
which is “set” by the angler raising the tip of the rod when the fish
swallows it. Common baits in fishing include worms, maggots, small fish,
bread paste, cheese, and small pieces of vegetables and grain. The bait may
be weighted down with what is called a ledger in Britain and a sinker in the
United States, usually of lead. In this type of fishing, the angler simply
holds the rod or lays it down and waits for the telltale tug of the fish to
be transmitted through the line. Bait may also be fished by suspending it at
a chosen depth under a buoyant object attached to the line that is made of
cork or plastic, called a float in Britain and a bobber in the United
States. The angler attempts to suspend the bait at a depth where foraging
fish will notice it and in locations near the natural hiding places of fish—
such as sunken weed beds, logs, and underwater rock formations.
The rods used in still fishing both in North America and Britain are usually
6 to 9 feet (1.8 to 2.7 metres) long, with a fixed-spool reel and
monofilament line of 2- to 25-pound (900- to 11,300-gram) test strength. In
North America, still fishing is usually practiced with conventional bait-
casting or spinning tackle. Freshwater fish taken by this method include
bluegills, crappies, perch, carp, and catfish, as well as bass and walleyes.
The most common natural North American baits are worms, minnows, crayfish,
cut-up fish, leeches, and grubs or maggots.
Another type of bait fishing, most commonly done in rivers and streams,
involves drifting a baited hook into deep pools and beneath in-stream cover
(such as logs and rocks) to entice game fish that station themselves in
those locations for feeding. Conventional spinning gear is the tackle of
choice for this style of fishing.
Ice fishing, through holes cut in frozen lakes, is particularly popular in
the northeastern United States and the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence valley
region of the United States and Canada. Equipment is commonly a three-foot
rod with a simple reel or a cleatlike device to hold nonfreezing
monofilament line and a tilt, or tip-up, to signal when the fish has taken
the bait. Fish taken through the ice vary from panfish (crappies, bluegills,
and perch) to larger game fish (pike, walleye, bass, and lake trout). Ice
fishing became increasingly popular in the 20th century in |
|
Tip&Trick Description 2:
2 Testing to see if this message posts correctly and this is a lot
of texts that do not mean anything but I want to check it anyway.
fishing, also called angling, the sport of catching fish, freshwater
or saltwater, typically with rod, line, and hook. Like hunting,
fishing originated as a means of providing food for survival.
Fishing as a sport, however, is of considerable antiquity. An
Egyptian angling scene from about 2000 bce shows figures fishing
with rod and line and with nets. A Chinese account from about the
4th century bce refers to fishing with a silk line, a hook made from
a needle, and a bamboo rod, with cooked rice as bait. References to
fishing are also found in ancient Greek, Assyrian, Roman, and Jewish
writings.
Today, despite increased human populations creating a great number
of demands on rivers and lakes, fishing for sport remains one of the
most popular forms of outdoor recreation in the world. The problems
of the modern angler fundamentally remain the same as those of every
angler who came before: where to find fish and how to best tempt
them into being taken. The angler must understand wind and weather,
the nature of the quarry, and the ways of the water. Fishing remains
what it has always been—a problem in applied natural history.
Early history
The history of angling is in large part the history of tackle, as
the equipment for fishing is called.
One of humankind’s earliest tools was the predecessor of the
fishhook: a gorge—that is, a piece of wood, bone, or stone 1 inch
(2.5 cm) or so in length, pointed at both ends and secured off-
centre to the line. The gorge was covered with some kind of bait.
When a fish swallowed the gorge, a pull on the line wedged it across
the gullet of the fish, which could then be pulled in.
With the advent of the use of copper and bronze, a hook was one of
the first tools made from metal. This was attached to a hand-
operated line made of animal or vegetable material of sufficient
strength to hold and land a fish. The practice of attaching the
other end of the line to a rod, at first probably a stick or tree
branch, made it possible to fish from the bank or shore and even to
reach over vegetation bordering the water.
For over a thousand years, the fishing rod remained short, not more
than a few feet (a metre or so) in length. The earliest references
to a longer, jointed rod are from Roman times, about the 4th century
ce. As with the earliest rods made from streamside branches, the
first longer rods were made of wood, which would continue as the
dominant rod material well into the 19th century.
Get a Britannica Premium subscription and gain access to exclusive
content.
Subscribe Now
The history of the sport in England began with the printing of Dame
Juliana Berners’s A Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle (1496) as a
part of the second edition of The Boke of St. Albans. Berners’s work
was evidently based on earlier Continental treatises dating to the
14th century, but virtually no records of these previous writings
are known. Many of the methods described in the Treatyse are
surprisingly modern and remain in use in some form or another.
The first period of great improvement came about the mid-17th
century, when Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton were writing the
classic The Compleat Angler (1653). During this time an angler might
attach a wire loop or ring at the tip end of the rod, which allowed
a free-running line, useful for both casting and playing a hooked
fish. This method intensified the need to develop a means of taking
up and storing longer lines and led to the invention of the fishing
reel.
Experiments with material for the line led to the use of a gut
string (mentioned by the diarist Samuel Pepys in 1667) and of a lute
string (noted by Col. Robert Venables in 1676). The use of a landing
hook, or gaff, for lifting large hooked fish from the water was
noted by Thomas Barker in 1667. Improved methods of fishhook making
were devised in the 1650s by Charles Kirby, who later invented the
Kirby bend, a distinctive shape of hook with an offset point that is
still in common use worldwide. Kirby and his fellow hook makers
eventually established factories in Redditch about 1730. Redditch
remains the current centre of the English hook-manufacturing
industry.
While evidence exists that the Chinese developed a rudimentary
fishing reel in the 3rd century ce, modern reel design dates back to
18th-century England. The predominant British reel of the day was
called the Nottingham reel, based on the wooden lace bobbin devised
in the lace-making town of that name. It was a wide-drum, free-
spooling reel, ideal for allowing line and bait or lure to float
downstream with the current and suitable for certain kinds of sea
fishing. By 1770 a rod with guides for the line along its length and
a reel were in common use. The first true modern reel was a geared
multiplying reel attached under the rod, in which one turn of the
handle moved the spool through several revolutions. Never popular in
Great Britain, such reels became popular in the United States and
inspired the bait-casting reel devised by Kentucky watchmaker George
Snyder in 1810.
About the same time, rod materials were undergoing major changes.
Heavy woods native to Britain and the United States were superseded
by more-elastic imported woods—such as lancewood and greenheart from
South America and the West Indies—and by bamboo. By the end of the
18th century, bamboo became the rod material of choice. Several
strips of bamboo were glued together, retaining the strength and
pliancy of the cane but greatly reducing the thickness and weight of
the finished rod. By 1870 bamboo rods were being produced on both
sides of the Atlantic.
After 1880 tackle design evolved rapidly. Horsehair fishing lines
gave way to lines made of silk, cotton, or linen. The average angler
could cast three times farther with these lines, and this increased
distance helped spur the development of artificial lures. With
longer casting capabilities and more line, a considerable tangle
(called an overrun in Britain and a backlash in the United States)
could result. Governors were devised to prevent this. In 1896
William Shakespeare, Jr., of Kalamazoo, Michigan, devised the level-
wind, a traveling bracket on the reel that automatically spread the
line evenly as it was wound. The next significant tackle development
took place in 1905, when English textile magnate Holden Illingworth
filed the first patent on the fixed-spool, or spinning, reel. In
this kind of reel, the spool permanently faces toward the tip of the
rod, and the line peels off during the cast. The increased casting
distance afforded by the spinning reel—and facilitated by new lines
with smaller diameters—revolutionized freshwater fishing.
In the first half of the 20th century, rods became shorter and
lighter without sacrificing strength. Split bamboo was largely
replaced by fibreglass during the period immediately following World
War II and finally by carbon fibre or graphite in the 1970s. After
the 1930s the fixed-spool reel was taken up in Europe and after
World War II in North America and the rest of the world, thus
creating a boom in spin casting. Nylon monofilament line was
developed in the late 1930s and became dominant after World War II.
Plastic coverings for fly lines allowed them to float or sink
without the application of grease. Plastic also became the dominant
material for artificial casting lures, replacing various types of
low-density wood, such as balsa.
Methods
The five basic methods of angling are bait fishing, fly-fishing,
bait casting, spinning, and trolling. All are used in both
freshwater and saltwater angling.
Bait fishing, also called still fishing or bottom fishing, is
certainly the oldest and most universally used method. In British
freshwater fishing it is used to catch what are called coarse (or
rough) fish. These include bream, barb, tench, dace, and other
nongame species. A bait is impaled on the hook, which is “set” by
the angler raising the tip of the rod when the fish swallows it.
Common baits in fishing include worms, maggots, small fish, bread
paste, cheese, and small pieces of vegetables and grain. The bait
may be weighted down with what is called a ledger in Britain and a
sinker in the United States, usually of lead. In this type of
fishing, the angler simply holds the rod or lays it down and waits
for the telltale tug of the fish to be transmitted through the line.
Bait may also be fished by suspending it at a chosen depth under a
buoyant object attached to the line that is made of cork or plastic,
called a float in Britain and a bobber in the United States. The
angler attempts to suspend the bait at a depth where foraging fish
will notice it and in locations near the natural hiding places of
fish—such as sunken weed beds, logs, and underwater rock formations.
The rods used in still fishing both in North America and Britain are
usually 6 to 9 feet (1.8 to 2.7 metres) long, with a fixed-spool
reel and monofilament line of 2- to 25-pound (900- to 11,300-gram)
test strength. In North America, still fishing is usually practiced
with conventional bait-casting or spinning tackle. Freshwater fish
taken by this method include bluegills, crappies, perch, carp, and
catfish, as well as bass and walleyes. The most common natural North
American baits are worms, minnows, crayfish, cut-up fish, leeches,
and grubs or maggots.
Another type of bait fishing, most commonly done in rivers and
streams, involves drifting a baited hook into deep pools and beneath
in-stream cover (such as logs and rocks) to entice game fish that
station themselves in those locations for feeding. Conventional
spinning gear is the tackle of choice for this style of fishing.
Ice fishing, through holes cut in frozen lakes, is particularly
popular in the northeastern United States and the Great Lakes–St.
Lawrence valley region of the United States and Canada. Equipment is
commonly a three-foot rod with a simple reel or a cleatlike device
to hold nonfreezing monofilament line and a tilt, or tip-up, to
signal when the fish has taken the bait. Fish taken through the ice
vary from panfish (crappies, bluegills, and perch) to larger game
fish (pike, walleye, bass, and lake trout). Ice fishing became
increasingly popular in the 20th century in |
|
Tip&Trick Description 3:
3 Testing to see if this message posts correctly and this is a lot of
texts that do not mean anything but I want to check it anyway. fishing,
also called angling, the sport of catching fish, freshwater or saltwater,
typically with rod, line, and hook. Like hunting, fishing originated as a
means of providing food for survival. Fishing as a sport, however, is of
considerable antiquity. An Egyptian angling scene from about 2000 bce
shows figures fishing with rod and line and with nets. A Chinese account
from about the 4th century bce refers to fishing with a silk line, a hook
made from a needle, and a bamboo rod, with cooked rice as bait. References
to fishing are also found in ancient Greek, Assyrian, Roman, and Jewish
writings.
Today, despite increased human populations creating a great number of
demands on rivers and lakes, fishing for sport remains one of the most
popular forms of outdoor recreation in the world. The problems of the
modern angler fundamentally remain the same as those of every angler who
came before: where to find fish and how to best tempt them into being
taken. The angler must understand wind and weather, the nature of the
quarry, and the ways of the water. Fishing remains what it has always been
—a problem in applied natural history.
Early history
The history of angling is in large part the history of tackle, as the
equipment for fishing is called.
One of humankind’s earliest tools was the predecessor of the fishhook: a
gorge—that is, a piece of wood, bone, or stone 1 inch (2.5 cm) or so in
length, pointed at both ends and secured off-centre to the line. The gorge
was covered with some kind of bait. When a fish swallowed the gorge, a
pull on the line wedged it across the gullet of the fish, which could then
be pulled in.
With the advent of the use of copper and bronze, a hook was one of the
first tools made from metal. This was attached to a hand-operated line
made of animal or vegetable material of sufficient strength to hold and
land a fish. The practice of attaching the other end of the line to a rod,
at first probably a stick or tree branch, made it possible to fish from
the bank or shore and even to reach over vegetation bordering the water.
For over a thousand years, the fishing rod remained short, not more than a
few feet (a metre or so) in length. The earliest references to a longer,
jointed rod are from Roman times, about the 4th century ce. As with the
earliest rods made from streamside branches, the first longer rods were
made of wood, which would continue as the dominant rod material well into
the 19th century.
Get a Britannica Premium subscription and gain access to exclusive
content.
Subscribe Now
The history of the sport in England began with the printing of Dame
Juliana Berners’s A Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle (1496) as a part
of the second edition of The Boke of St. Albans. Berners’s work was
evidently based on earlier Continental treatises dating to the 14th
century, but virtually no records of these previous writings are known.
Many of the methods described in the Treatyse are surprisingly modern and
remain in use in some form or another.
The first period of great improvement came about the mid-17th century,
when Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton were writing the classic The Compleat
Angler (1653). During this time an angler might attach a wire loop or ring
at the tip end of the rod, which allowed a free-running line, useful for
both casting and playing a hooked fish. This method intensified the need
to develop a means of taking up and storing longer lines and led to the
invention of the fishing reel.
Experiments with material for the line led to the use of a gut string
(mentioned by the diarist Samuel Pepys in 1667) and of a lute string
(noted by Col. Robert Venables in 1676). The use of a landing hook, or
gaff, for lifting large hooked fish from the water was noted by Thomas
Barker in 1667. Improved methods of fishhook making were devised in the
1650s by Charles Kirby, who later invented the Kirby bend, a distinctive
shape of hook with an offset point that is still in common use worldwide.
Kirby and his fellow hook makers eventually established factories in
Redditch about 1730. Redditch remains the current centre of the English
hook-manufacturing industry.
While evidence exists that the Chinese developed a rudimentary fishing
reel in the 3rd century ce, modern reel design dates back to 18th-century
England. The predominant British reel of the day was called the Nottingham
reel, based on the wooden lace bobbin devised in the lace-making town of
that name. It was a wide-drum, free-spooling reel, ideal for allowing line
and bait or lure to float downstream with the current and suitable for
certain kinds of sea fishing. By 1770 a rod with guides for the line along
its length and a reel were in common use. The first true modern reel was a
geared multiplying reel attached under the rod, in which one turn of the
handle moved the spool through several revolutions. Never popular in Great
Britain, such reels became popular in the United States and inspired the
bait-casting reel devised by Kentucky watchmaker George Snyder in 1810.
About the same time, rod materials were undergoing major changes. Heavy
woods native to Britain and the United States were superseded by more-
elastic imported woods—such as lancewood and greenheart from South America
and the West Indies—and by bamboo. By the end of the 18th century, bamboo
became the rod material of choice. Several strips of bamboo were glued
together, retaining the strength and pliancy of the cane but greatly
reducing the thickness and weight of the finished rod. By 1870 bamboo rods
were being produced on both sides of the Atlantic.
After 1880 tackle design evolved rapidly. Horsehair fishing lines gave way
to lines made of silk, cotton, or linen. The average angler could cast
three times farther with these lines, and this increased distance helped
spur the development of artificial lures. With longer casting capabilities
and more line, a considerable tangle (called an overrun in Britain and a
backlash in the United States) could result. Governors were devised to
prevent this. In 1896 William Shakespeare, Jr., of Kalamazoo, Michigan,
devised the level-wind, a traveling bracket on the reel that automatically
spread the line evenly as it was wound. The next significant tackle
development took place in 1905, when English textile magnate Holden
Illingworth filed the first patent on the fixed-spool, or spinning, reel.
In this kind of reel, the spool permanently faces toward the tip of the
rod, and the line peels off during the cast. The increased casting
distance afforded by the spinning reel—and facilitated by new lines with
smaller diameters—revolutionized freshwater fishing.
In the first half of the 20th century, rods became shorter and lighter
without sacrificing strength. Split bamboo was largely replaced by
fibreglass during the period immediately following World War II and
finally by carbon fibre or graphite in the 1970s. After the 1930s the
fixed-spool reel was taken up in Europe and after World War II in North
America and the rest of the world, thus creating a boom in spin casting.
Nylon monofilament line was developed in the late 1930s and became
dominant after World War II. Plastic coverings for fly lines allowed them
to float or sink without the application of grease. Plastic also became
the dominant material for artificial casting lures, replacing various
types of low-density wood, such as balsa.
Methods
The five basic methods of angling are bait fishing, fly-fishing, bait
casting, spinning, and trolling. All are used in both freshwater and
saltwater angling.
Bait fishing, also called still fishing or bottom fishing, is certainly
the oldest and most universally used method. In British freshwater fishing
it is used to catch what are called coarse (or rough) fish. These include
bream, barb, tench, dace, and other nongame species. A bait is impaled on
the hook, which is “set” by the angler raising the tip of the rod when the
fish swallows it. Common baits in fishing include worms, maggots, small
fish, bread paste, cheese, and small pieces of vegetables and grain. The
bait may be weighted down with what is called a ledger in Britain and a
sinker in the United States, usually of lead. In this type of fishing, the
angler simply holds the rod or lays it down and waits for the telltale tug
of the fish to be transmitted through the line. Bait may also be fished by
suspending it at a chosen depth under a buoyant object attached to the
line that is made of cork or plastic, called a float in Britain and a
bobber in the United States. The angler attempts to suspend the bait at a
depth where foraging fish will notice it and in locations near the natural
hiding places of fish—such as sunken weed beds, logs, and underwater rock
formations.
The rods used in still fishing both in North America and Britain are
usually 6 to 9 feet (1.8 to 2.7 metres) long, with a fixed-spool reel and
monofilament line of 2- to 25-pound (900- to 11,300-gram) test strength.
In North America, still fishing is usually practiced with conventional
bait-casting or spinning tackle. Freshwater fish taken by this method
include bluegills, crappies, perch, carp, and catfish, as well as bass and
walleyes. The most common natural North American baits are worms, minnows,
crayfish, cut-up fish, leeches, and grubs or maggots.
Another type of bait fishing, most commonly done in rivers and streams,
involves drifting a baited hook into deep pools and beneath in-stream
cover (such as logs and rocks) to entice game fish that station themselves
in those locations for feeding. Conventional spinning gear is the tackle
of choice for this style of fishing.
Ice fishing, through holes cut in frozen lakes, is particularly popular in
the northeastern United States and the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence valley
region of the United States and Canada. Equipment is commonly a three-foot
rod with a simple reel or a cleatlike device to hold nonfreezing
monofilament line and a tilt, or tip-up, to signal when the fish has taken
the bait. Fish taken through the ice vary from panfish (crappies,
bluegills, and perch) to larger game fish (pike, walleye, bass, and lake
trout). Ice fishing became increasingly popular in the 20th century in |
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Jan 15, 2003; 09:20PM - Zombie Rig
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Category: Rigging techniques
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Author Name: Wes Partain
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Author E-mail: wes.partain@alltel.com
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Tip&Trick Description 1:
I primarily use this rig for King Mackeral fishing on the East coast. The rig is very simple. When using a ribbon fish deep try attaching a single bait hook roughly 8-10 inches above the ribbon fish. This technique will provide more action to the dead ribbon fish and will also appear to the King Mackeral that the ribbon is attempting to feed on the live bait. All avid King Mackeral anglers know that a large king is more acceptable during a feed. I hope that this rig will help add an edge to everyone who fishes live bait for King Mackeral. The rig should be tied as described below:
30 - 50lb barrel swivel to haywire twist, 4 inch #6 leader wire, haywire twist to single bait hook (sz. preference), haywire twist 8 inch #6 wire, Hookup jig head 3/16, haywire twist to 3 or 4 hook stinger setup. No picture is provided due to the length of the rig. The small wire and hooks are not noticable when whole rig is in frame.
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