What are some fishing tips?
February 27, 2010
I am trying to learn alot about fishing, i live on a lake that has fish including crappie,bluegill,perch,sunfish,northern,bullheads,catfish,dogfish,bass,and carp.I want tips on how to catch any of these fish or any type of fishing tip. I am sort of making a handbook, so anything is acceptable. Thanks.
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WOW, I fish all those fish and can give you quite a bit of information on them.
Sunfish and Bluegills- It is basically a name for generally a whole variety of fish such as bluegill, pumpkinseed, and red ear. They both eat many foods such as, from most to least, insects, worms, small leeches, and minnows. I prefer using worms overall to all the other baits. Yet after tiresome and grueling experiences just looking for the worms, often empty handed, and putting the squirming worms on my hook, I gave up and resulted to plastic scented worms. I buy the food source lure’s pink 3” sugar scented worms and usually cut it in half for my size10-6 hooks.
i find them usually around structures, such as rip raps, branches, roots, weed edges, and more. Yet don’t get your hopes up for a big one because overpopulation usually stunts their growth since they compete for food ( not enough food for them). Also, 4-7 lbs of food a sunfish eats equals 1 lb. F.Y.I., these fish travel in groups based on size, so if you catch 1 fish of 1 lb, you will probably catch the same size and type in the same area. If one area doesn’t produce, a spot a couple of feet away may be full of sunfish.
Perch and crappies are basically the same thing except they eat a wider range of fish and mostly minnow. For these guys, i prefer using rapalas countdown 3, gold colored.
The prime time for fishing these guys is in the spring during spawning season. Also, the fish are usually big now.
Carp- They are like the catfish except usually, they don’t eat what catfish sometimes eats. I use stink baits and cut baits. Carps are usually bottom feeders. As I said, carps are also best fished in the spring.
Hope this helps and Happy fishing!!!
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First put a good bait on your hook.Then try to concentrate when you throw you’re line into the water.After that, you must be silent and wait until a fish eats your bait .
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first - you need to know their feeding habbits, areas where they hang out..and what bait they go for … study the natural grubs .. insects..baitfishes..shads…etc
Maybe start out with Bluegills. Easiest to catch, fun and tasty.Fish around structure or if your lake has lillypads, among them. I’ve had great success using crickets and you will catch other fish on them too.
For dark silty water, use a opaque color lure, and for birght blue water go for the greens and blues
Use a small hook and put a small ball of bread on the hook. Cast it out and catch the fish. Easy and fun… You can also use a bobber if you’d like. Good luck.
Use slip bobbers with small split shot and light line (4lb) and small lazer sharpened hooks with live bait to catch pan fish. In the summer use leeches and nightcrawlers. In the spring and fall use minnows. This is a very simple presentation that always works. You can adjust the depth of the slip bobber easily to fish from 5-25 ft. You slide the bobber stop up and down your line to set the depth. Look up slip bobber rigging for more info.