Best Fishing Days 2013

I'm sure that most ice fisherman know this, but if you save the shells from your white eggs and drop them down through the ice you can see the fish cruisin' between you and the bottom a little better...

Tip of the day "You don't know if you don't go"

To use liver try getting a piece of your wife's stockings or a piece of her pantyhose (the foot portion works best) . Insert the piece of liver in the hose tie a knot in it and thread the whole concoction on your hook. Be sure to cut off any excess material. The hose lets the fish bite and the scent escape but does not let the water or fish steal your bait.

Always get to know your fishing hole and it's surrounding ecosystem. For instance, in a creek I used to fish in as a child the fish refused to bite on the night-crawlers we bought from the bait store. We went without a bite until my dad found a green worm in the creek bank. It was then that I learned to use what the fish were naturally feeding on as bait. Plus the green worms smelled really terrible, adding to the effect and imprint left in my memory. I see many posts remarking on the wonders of liver, and one recommendation I have is to use a snap swivel (or just tie your line back on each re-bait) and a treble hook so you can easily release the hook, thus sticking the largest center point directly on the hook post and position it so it won't just flip off on your first cast. Liver is good bait, and if the fish aren't biting at least you won't go hungry.

catch fish, its better than catching a cold!

a great tip for catfish:
put non iodized salt on drained chicken liver and refrigerate overnite, it toughens the liver enough to stay on the hook for hours and channel cats love it. a little garlic powder helps too

For catfishing, I use to use nightcrwlaers and and goldfish. My Uncle and I discovered a dip bait method. We went to Wal-Mart and bought Premo Original Super Sticky Dip Bait. We tried that a few times and it worked out great. Then we got the bright Idea to Mix the Dip Bait with Majic Bait chicken liver formula. We'd put the Magic Bait on the treble hook and dip it in the Premo. I tell you what we can't keep out lines in the water long enough to relax. I also use Majic Bait Nightcrwler formula by its self. Good Luck and have fun.

Larry-Missouri

Give a man a fish and he'll eat for the night. Teach a man to fish and he'll eat every night.

Is this good for all countries?

To keep stink bait or liver on your hook, cut a small square of material from a pair of women's pantyhose. Run your hook through one corner, then wrap once around your bait and hook the other corner. The pantyhose material let scent out, but keep the bait on your hook. Works great on catfish.

for trout fishing , the black roostertail with a gold blade takes the cake during the month of april and halfway through the month of may , after about the 20th of may there is no match for the yellow coach dog spinner with gold blade, the coach dog gives the appearance of a salamander and various types of lizards . trout burn these bad boys up give it a try you wont be disappointed

Regarding 'when water is rippled or still.' You can count on the water in high mountain lakes to be rippled, still or churned. I have discovered windy conditions and churned waters overall to be beneficial fishing over the years.

I believe it is best to fish the other end of the lake where the winds have pushed and churned nutrients to the corner of a lake, outlet/inlet/cove in other words fishing against the wind. My success rate of catching fish in this manner has increased significantly throughout the years.

My years of buying lure du jour have all but come to an end based on observation and usage of lure(s). When fishing mountain lakes, small ponds, streams, rivers, inner city lakes and lakes in general I have discovered that carrying a small pocket-size tackle box with two lures in quantity catches many species albeit carp, catfish, trout, bass, crappie, bluegill, salmon, walleye, pike.

I'm not out to catch the biggest or the most fish inasmuch as I am willing to gain another experience in the great outdoors by keeping it pragmatically simple.

Now that Spring is here, with spawning and post-spawning times are near, it's best to fish the shallow warm waters that attract the forage.

I *think* the north shores warm first, but I may mistaken.

Remember the food chain:

1. wind stirs up the water and frees plankton.

2. Minnows feed on on plankton.

3. Wind shakes insects free from the water vegetation.

3. Smaller forage fish and smaller game fish eat the insects.

4. Larger game fish feed on forage and smaller game fish.

5. The plankton, insects, and minnows are up against the wall--the windward sides of the bar, the drop-off, the bank, the weedbeds.

Choose your lures according to the hatch, the forage,and the species you're after.

Big fast smart TroutIn ct at baldwins pond in meriden, you should use a sliding weight with a size 4 hook and yellow powerbait. on the bottom of the waterfall use no weight or bobber and use meal worm on a size 6 hook and drop it right down and you will defitely catch a 13+ in trout right there. The trout are tricky but be prepared.

For Catfish we use what is called cut and gut, it is fresh caught, cut up peices of Gizzard Shad meat and the gut of the shad combined on the hook. You can catch the Shad in a throw net. Best is to catch the Shad from the same lake you are fishing

for catfishing i use pieces of bars of soap it sounds weird but trust me it works i was fishing on a cat pole one day and i caught a 95 pound cat but remember to always use a treble hook.