The Value of Good Sea Fishing Tackle Line

The Value of Good Sea Fishing Tackle Line

How important do you think the line is on a good sea fishing tackle? Any experienced fisherman will tell you that a good line makes all the difference in the world when you are out there on a boat far off the shore and fishing in saltwater. A line that is just the right strength and weight and is kept in good condition on a sea fishing tackle will help you immensely in making sure that you get the fish you are struggling to catch right into your boat.

We guarantee much better fishing results. Check out this new revolutionary invention and get ahead of your fishing friends. Buy the Award Winning ‘Esca Lures’ online at http://www.escalure.co.uk/

Unfortunately, even experienced fishermen can forget just how essential it is to keep the line on his sea fishing tackle in sound and working condition. Just like the rest of your fishing gear, your line gets exposed to extreme weather conditions when you use your gear to go out fishing. When left alone and uncared for, your line can get frayed and brittle. Using a frayed and brittle line on your sea fishing tackle can cause you to lose your catch no matter how hard you have hooked it and even if you almost have it inside your boat.

How can you, as a fisherman, avoid the embarrassment of losing your catch because the line on your sea fishing tackle is in a bad way? The simple response to that question would be to take care of your lines. Make sure that your lines and your reels and your other fishing gear are stored away properly after you return from a fishing trip. Put them away in a place where they could be worn down by the heat or by the cold or be made a sport of by bugs.

Also, before you set your boat out to the sea for a fishing trip, take the time to check on your sea fishing tackle at least a couple of days before the trip. See if your lines are fraying or if they have weakened. You can tell if you have a weak line by just pulling at it. If the line on your reel is weak, pay a visit to your local tackle shop and get yourself a number of new spools to replace your old line.

On your fishing trip itself, just use the appropriate leader and the appropriate lead weight on your line when you make your cast. The strength of the leader you should use depends on the type of fish you are trying to catch. The same goes for the weight of the leader you ought to use. Many fishermen use this rule of thumb: the strength of the leader should be ten times the weight of the lead. So, if you have a 30-pound leader, your lead should be three ounces only.

There is also an advantage to using a slightly lighter sea fishing tackle when you are fishing out at sea. Not only are you being kinder to your fishing line, but you are also presenting a more natural presentation to your intended catch. A light line on a sea fishing tackle will move more naturally in the water, and it will make it more enticing for the fish to bite.

Deep Sea Fishing – Fishing Rods for the Big Ones

Lighter fishing rods are usually fine for fishing in rivers, lakes, or even from the ocean shore, but when it comes to deep sea fishing for larger fish, you are going to need a much stronger rod. Fishing for marlin, shark, large sea bass or giant halibut takes a strong rod – one that can take the weight of the fish, and that can also withstand the time it takes to land one.

Many deep sea fishermen tend to find graphite to be the best material for a heavy duty deep sea fishing rod. Although graphite is not as flexible as fiberglass, it is extremely strong despite its relatively light weight, which means that it can stand up to the weight of a large fish such as a marlin or shark, and will not be so heavy that a fisherman gets tired too easily when fighting a fish for a long time. Although graphite is used to make all kinds of fishing rods, such as lake fishing rods or fly fishing rods, it is still a good material for a deep sea fishing rod – the rod simply needs to be longer, wider, and denser. Graphite is not the only material used to make deep sea fishing rods, but it definitely is a popular choice.

Fiberglass rods are also used for deep sea fishing, and their greater flexibility means that they can also withstand the fight between a fisherman and a big fish. Though not as durable as graphite, therefore not as long lasting as graphite rods, fiberglass deep sea fishing rods will still last for an acceptable length of time, and will be able to provide a lot of good deep sea fishing hours before they wear out.

One of the best places to look for a good deep sea fishing rod is, believe it or not, the Internet. Even if you don’t end up buying a deep sea fishing rod from an Internet web site, you can still find out a lot of information on the different types and styles, compare prices, and find out what accessories you need to go with your rod once you purchase it. Research is a key factor when you are buying something as important as a deep sea fishing rod; you don’t want to go on that deep sea fishing trip you’ve been waiting for all your life and then find out that you purchased an inferior rod. Take advantage of the information that you can get on the Internet, as well as the information that you can get from experienced deep sea fishermen and personnel at stores that specialize in fishing equipment – especially ocean fishing equipment.

Experienced cooks will tell you that one of the secrets to getting a good deep fried turkey is what you put on it before it goes into the fryer. Do some research and you will find a myriad of recipes for turkey rubs, and once again, which one you choose is a matter of personal preference. The bottom line is, though, that if you put a good rub on your turkey before you deep fry it, you’re going to get a finished product with better flavor.

We guarantee much better fishing results. Check out this new revolutionary invention and get ahead of your fishing friends. Buy the Award Winning ‘Esca Lures’ online at http://www.escalure.co.uk/

Fishing – A Great Hobby For You To Enjoy

There are a great number of different types of fishing for you to choose from.

It is probably best if you have someone to take you for your first trip.

If you enjoy it you are likely to go again.

I was fortunate enough to have an uncle take me on my first fishing trip. We went float fishing on a river. After just a few minutes my uncle hooked a rainbow trout. He was kind enough to let me reel it in. I found this a great thrill. The trout was quite small so we put it back in. Although we were only at the river for a short spell, I enjoyed it so much that I went again with my brother and have kept on fishing for years now.

I think that the important thing with me was that my first fishing outing was successful, thanks to my uncle and this is what gave me enthusiasm to want to keep going back. The sort of fishing that I was introduced to was quite basic. Coarse fishing with a rod and line. Using a float to indicate bites.

I have always enjoyed the thrill of waiting for some movement of the float, and see it disappear under the water. I think this is one of the best moments in fishing for most anglers.

The moment that float disappears, signals excitement. Your imagination starts to work. You wonder if you have hooked a giant fish, and the moment you strike, you will know – if it is a big one your rod will bend and you will feel the weight of the fish!

This is what anglers wait for. That great moment when they have a nice fish on their line.

Next comes the pleasure of reeling it in. This can be a battle if it is a big fish.

You will need skill to play it carefully, without it breaking your line or getting off of the hook. Your quarry will often swim deeper trying to get away, and you will need to steer it away from reeds and other snags. Once it tires you will be able to bring it near to your landing net. This is when you will have your first sight of the fish. This is a great moment for any angler.

It is surprising how many fish get off of your hook, so it is only when it is landed that you can relax and savour your achievement. Once you have lowered your net under it and hauled it in, you will have a great feeling of satisfaction, because you have outwitted a creature with great guile and instinct. This is a bit like scoring a goal in football or potting a ball in golf, the same feeling of elation and achievement.

If you take a camera with you, it is always nice to record it. It is good to look at and remind you of the pleasure you had.

With digital cameras it is always nice to load them on to your computer and email them to your friends!

I was lucky in that my uncle also introduced me to sea fishing. When I was on holiday, we went on a boat trip. We went out a few miles and then when we stopped, I had my first experience of fishing from a boat. After a few minutes, I had my first bite. I was surprised at how strong the fish was.

My rod was bending and after a few minutes I could see an unusual looking fish near the surface.

My uncle pulled it over the edge of the boat. The unusual looking fish was a cod!

This was the first live one I had seen and it was great fun pulling it in. This one was big enough to take home. That is one thing I like about sea fishing, most of the fish you catch you can take home and eat, so you get the pleasure of catching it and eating it.

I think that the main thing is that I had a great experience on my first fishing trip and this encouraged me to keep going, so it is worth trying a few different types of fishing until you find one that you enjoy.

If you have not been, but are interested it is a good idea to ask a friend that goes fishing to take you along and introduce you to what could become a life long passion

We guarantee much better fishing results. Check out this new revolutionary invention and get ahead of your fishing friends. Buy the Award Winning ‘Esca Lures’ online at http://www.innovativefishingtackle.co.uk/

 

We provide ESCA LURES offering quality items at prices far cheaper than the high street. Every item is carefully packaged using the latest technology to ensure safe shipment to you. Enjoy your visit!

www.escalure.co.uk

www.innovativefishingtackle.co.uk

 

 

The Basics of Fishing Equipment – Know Your Tackle

The Basics of Fishing Equipment – Know Your Tackle

Buy the Award Winning ‘Esca Lures’ online at http://www.innovativefishingtackle.co.uk/

Basic fishing tackle consists of a rod, line, hook, bait, lure, and sinker, all of which are specially designed to be as easy to use and accurate as possible. For example, the line is made up of a cord specially manufactured to be very hard to detect underwater while being very strong. Factors to take into account when buying a new line include issues such as resistance, the stretch, its strength and suchlike. The line should be chosen after considering the size and species of the fish that is to be caught.

The sinker, otherwise known as a plummet, is a weight that aids in getting the bait and hook as far out into the water as possible from wither the shore or a boat. Hooks are available in a wide variety of sizes, shapes and materials to suit each person’s individual fishing style.

Baits and lures are the other essential elements of any fishing tackle arsenal. The lure is an object that looks and moves like the prey of whatever fish you’re aiming to catch. Once the lure has done its thing, the fish will turn its attention to the bait, which is the prey element the fish will go for. The lure and bait work in tandem to ensure you get a good catch. The bait can be natural, such as maggots or insects, or man-made materials. As with everything else in fishing, a successful catch is down to having the best fishing tackle at your disposal.

The Two Best Fall Bass Baits

Because people fish in so many different ways and most have a favorite way to fish, picking just two baits from the hundreds is difficult.

This is not an article for “experts” or people set in their ways. It’s for the guys and gals who just like to fish and sure would like to go out sometime and catch a whole bunch of fish.

The best time to do that is during the fall, especially here on Barkley and Kentucky lakes, as well as on most other lakes on this general latitude.

Spring is when most people who don’t fish every weekend think about wetting a line. Being cooped up for most of the winter has a lot to do with that. And spring is a great time to fish because bass and other game species are moving shallow where they become more vulnerable to the average fisherman.

During the fall, however, game fish again move shallow, but for a very different and important reason: During the spring, their primary motive is to spawn. During the fall, all they’re thinking about is putting on their winter fat.

All those little fish they spent so much time making and guarding during the spring are nothing more than delicious, bite-sized morsels during the fall, and the truth is, they don’t care who made them.

These bait fish of various species, but mostly shad around here, travel around in tightly-packed pods that can number in the thousands. There is some safety in numbers, but this natural instinct also makes it much easier for bigger fish to find and attack them.

Because the food these little fellers eat is found on or near the surface, these massive groups of synchronized swimmers are silhouetted against a clear sky like a flashing neon sign that says “eat here.”
There is no more predictable pattern at any time of year. I’d be hard pressed to pick just two baits that I would call best for the spring, but during the fall I can do so with great confidence. These baits not only are the best, they are designed to be fished in a way that anyone can master in a few minutes, regardless their experience.

One is a Rat-L-Trap. You can fish just about any size and color of this lipless bait, and the other similar baits by other manufacturers, and catch some fish, but by far, the best size is a one-quarter-ounce with chrome sides and a blue back.

And you can fish it a few different ways, but by far, the best way is to bring it back about as fast as you can. They are wind resistant and very easy to cast long distances on either baitcasting or spinning equipment, using 10- or 12-pound test line.

The other is a Mepps or Rooster Tail in-line spinner, again in one-quarter ounce. Choose the whiter or lighter colors. Sometimes, when it is overcast, those with a gold blade work better, but bass and other game fish bust minnow pods most frequently when it is clear, so in-line spinners with a chrome blade are best.

In contrast, in-line spinners are best fished slowly, just fast enough to make the blade rotate, and the best equipment to cast them is a spinning outfit with 10-pound-test line. It, too, is very easy to cast long distances and all you have to do is bring them back slowly and steadily. If you bring them back slowly, they won’t twist the line, either, so you don’t need a swivel and all those extra knots that could break. Just tie them directly to the line.

You may have noticed that you can fish both baits quite well on a spinning outfit with 10-pound-test line, and that’s really what I’d recommend, but I’d like to stress that the reel you choose should have a fast retrieve rate of 6-1 or better for the Rat-L-Traps. For this bait, speed kills, and you can always slow down for the in-line spinners, if that is what the fish prefer.

These two baits are so great, because they closely resemble the action, color, flash and size of the young-of-the-year minnows, especially during October and November, when this kind of fishing is at its peak.

With just one rod and two simple baits, you can go out and catch fish all day long by simply moving from pod to pod. These pods not only are highly visible and attractive to gluttonous game fish; it is simple for a fisherman to see which ones are being ravaged because of the splashy surface shows these game fish perform as they tear into them with predatory exuberance.

It may be not only the easiest, but the best fishing of the year.

Buy the Award Winning ‘Esca Lures’ online at http://www.innovativefishingtackle.co.uk/

Sand Eels As A Fishing Bait

Sand Eels

An eel-like fish which swim in large shoals, that’s the sand eel. They are abundant and an important part of the fish food chain. The sand eel is a bait fish that every one bait fishing knows about but I believe few realise the potential of. Sand eels often catch more fish than any other bait, just ask the guys down south or in Wales.

Exactly why the sand eel is such a popular ‘bait fish’ amongst the predators in the sea is hard to know. It seems to account for most species when used as bait especially the likes of Bass, Mackerel, Pollack Garfish, Trout and even Salmon.

The sand eel can be fished in several different ways and are normally best fished as a ‘live bait’. It can be hooked through the mouth – up through the head, through the back, through the tail or through the skin on the kneck. I don’t think personally it matters too much how the hook it set as long as the sand eel stays alive and looks natural. Different species of fish will attack and take a bait in various ways.

Finding sand eels can sometimes prove hard but by asking about in your own local area you might find a boat, or tackle shop that can supply you. Otherwise it means gathering your own. The effort in gathering your own is well worth it because of the effectiveness of this great bait!

The best methods to present sand eels are by using them under a float or on a long snood on a bottom rig. The hooks most folk use are often circle hooks for bottom fishing and normal single or triple hooks when fished under a float. Sand eel will catch most of what we call our ‘sporting’ fish in this country, especially the infamous Bass.

A ‘best buy’ for keeping your sand eels alive is a bait bucket, there are one or two very good ones available from good tackle shops. The Salt Bucket by Shakespeare at around £18.00 is ideal for your live sand eels utilising an aeration pump. It has it’s own pouch for an aerator pump, has a lid which helps to keep the sun from cooking your eels and also stops them from jumping out! It can also be used for storage of baits such as crab, ragworm and lug worm. It’s easy enough to wash it out and it is also collapsible. You can pick up a battery operated pump for around the £9 mark. Sand eel will quickly die if not kept in oxygen aerated water but do watch the temperature as you don’t want your hard efforts ending up as cooked fish!

You can keep sand eels in tanks at home but it does get rather involved and I aren’t able to go into the method here. Any eels that do die on you, then freeze them down and be sure NOT to let any stay in your bait bucket if they are dead as they WILL kill off the others.

Bass is thee sporting fish in British Waters now and has certainly captured the imagination of a lot of anglers over the last few years. Most of the anglers I know love spinning for them using poppers, plugs, feathers or spinners and some are even starting to fly fish for them. Another very successful method used for Bass fishing in particular, is dead bait spinning and this is a method I would highly recommend.

There are a lot of benefits to using this method. You need to present the sand eel like you would a popper or plug, as an injured fish, nothing too hard in that and you get scent, colour, look and feel as an added bonus. Presenting them like this gives you the same options as using poppers etc, you can move about searching for your Bass whether it be along a surf beach, among rock gullies or between sand banks.

Just mount the dead eel on your hook by passing the hook through it’s mouth and making sure the hook comes out through it’s stomach and use a bit of elasticated cotton to secure it…simplicity itself.

There is another method and that is to wrap the sand eel in a slice of squid and secure the squid with a bit of elasticated cotton, leaving the head and tail of the sand eel protruding. This method helps to protect the eel and it should keep a lot longer on the hook before having to change it. Use a small weight on the end of your line, you can get small spinning weights which prevent the dreaded line twist. A hook snood as long as possible to comfortably use to a decent sized hook, add your bait, most species have larger mouths than we tend to give them credit for and away you go.

Remember that Bass are a ‘sporting’ fish and as such are used to chasing their prey. They will often be found round rocks, on the downside of a sand bank waiting for their next meal to show itself. Don’t be afraid to vary your retrieval rate, you would be surprised at the speed bass, mackerel etc can move at. You will often see a ‘swirl’ next to your bait as you retrieve, don’t stop, keep the retrieve the same, if the fish doesn’t hit your bait straight away, stop the retrieve for about 10 seconds then start again, this is when a bass will often take.

Sand eel is an excellent sea fishing bait.

Happy fishing.

Buy the Award Winning ‘Esca Lures’ online at http://www.innovativefishingtackle.co.uk/

 

We provide ESCA LURES offering quality items at prices far cheaper than the high street. Every item is carefully packaged using the latest technology to ensure safe shipment to you. Enjoy your visit!