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Homemade Fishing Floats
Fishing floats are used to suspend a bait or lure at a desired depth in the water and also act as an indicator when a fish strikes. Floats are simple rigs that include a lead or weight and a hook with bait or a lure. Floats are commonly made from materials including balsa wood, plastic, cork and sty
How to Fish With Daphnia Cluster Flies
Daphnia are incredibly small members of the zooplankton family that make up rivers and lakes. They are too small to mimic individually, but can be mimicked as a group using blob pattern flies. Trout are very found of Daphnia, and consume them in large quantities during the cooler parts of the year.
How to Make a Fishing Lure Wind Spinner
Spinners can be highly effective fishing lures and they are easy to use; casting and retrieving the lure is all that is necessary to attract fish. Most spinner lures consist of a treble hook, a shaft with a few weighted beads and most importantly, a shiny concave blade that spins when pulled through
Chesapeake Bay Fishing in VA
The lower Chesapeake Bay in Virginia offers plenty of fishing opportunities. Non-commercial saltwater fishing can be done using a cast net, dip net, rod and reel, hand line, spear or eel pots.
How to Use a Car Key to Fish for Trout
If you are ever fishing in the back country and lose all of your fishing lures, a simple trick will save the day. One easy skill every angler must master, asides from tying a surgeon's knot, is using a car key to fish for trout. This method makes use of the metallic car key as a lure to help reel in
How to Make a Fishing Bobber From a Wine Cork
Many children learn how to fish with the simple old set-up of a line and bobber. There isn't really an easier way to teach a youngster how to know when the fish are biting than telling him to just watch that bobber--and If it goes under, pull hard! Although bobbers aren't terribly expensive, if yo
Top New Zealand Fishing Locations
Keen anglers from all around the world look to New Zealand as a top holiday destination. From chartered fishing trips and game fishing off the coast to hunting trout in rivers up and down the ...
How to Open a Fish Farm
Opening a fish farm requires extensive research beforehand. However, restaurants and supermarkets demand more fish for their businesses, according to Louis Helfrich and George Libey with the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Services, Virginia Tech. Fish are a healthy food, low in calories and ch
Trout Fishing in Southwestern Minnesota
In Minnesota most trout fishing lakes and rivers are located in the north and southeast regions, but there are a few trout streams in the southwest area. Streams are stocked with rainbow and brown trout on an annual basis, and larger bodies of water can be fished year-round where regulations allow.
Homemade Bait Curing
Bait curing is the process of removing salmon and trout eggs from inside a freshly caught female salmon or trout and treating the eggs to allow them to be stored for a prolonged period of time without damage. When eggs are stored in a freezer without curing, the ice particles that form within the eg
How to Attract the Biggest Bass
Many bass anglers would like to catch big bass. But ask them if they would rather catch numbers of bass, or catch one big one, and many probably would struggle with the question. Indeed, anglers who target big bass specifically use different fishing methods than anglers who simply are trying to maxi
Pennsylvania Fishing Guide
Trout, smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, walleye, and more are all waiting for anglers who choose to fish Pennsylvania's many waters. Trout streams stocked with rainbows, browns, and brookies are popular with fly fishermen. Smallmouth anglers won't be disappointed when they fish the state's producti
How to Tie Strong Fishing Knots
Tying a strong fishing knot is essential to rigging a line for any type of fishing. From small mountain trout on 2-pound test to blue marlin on 150-pound-test braided line, the weakest point in the rig will be the knot. Tying strong knots not only involves tying the knot correctly but also choosing
What Types of Sharks Are Used for Shark Fin Soup?
The shark fin soup industry uses a wide variety of relatively large sharks. The majority of these sharks are now under threat. They are slow to mature and breed; sharks either give birth to a few live young or lay a small number of large eggs, rather than produce thousands of eggs at a time in the m
How to Make a Javelin or a Spear
Spear fishing with a hand-made javelin or spear has been a way to capture food for centuries. In a survival situation where food is scarce, fishing with a spear can be the difference between finding food for supper and spending a night with a growling stomach. A custom spear is a basic tool that can
How to Tie a Leader to a Hook
Tying a strong knot to join a leader to the hook is necessary to ensure you can secure a catch and prevent fish from slipping off of your line. The snell knot is one of the older knots that anglers use to tie a leader directly to a baited hook, according to the Animated Knots by Grog website. It eff
Black Grouper
The Black Grouper falls into a larger category of fish known as "perciform fish" or more commonly, bony fish. Nicknamed the marbled rockfish, the black grouper has distinct coloring. They sport a rectangular pattern made ...
Daydreaming About an Alaskan Salmon Fishing Trip
If salmon fishing is your favorite activity in your free time, then you should know that you are not alone. A lot of salmon fishing aficionados have been heading to Alaska to gratify their penchant ...
How to Replace an Underground Line Without Digging
There are two primary ways to replace an underground line without digging. The first method is directional boring. This method uses a special machine designed to tunnel under the ground from point A to point B. The second method is to have a conduit already in the ground so you can simply pull the o
Fishign to Help Families
West Michigan Fishing Charters Giving Back I've always been interested in giving back. I can't say that I've done that as much as I would have like to or as much as I thought I ...