-When fishing a tube for suspended fish, try rigging it up Carolina style with a 1' to 3' leader, place a piece of Styrofoam inside the tube to float it up more above the weight.- Dave Salamon
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-Dip tubes, lizards and any other soft plastic lure into a dipping dye. This adds contrast, color and will increase strikes. - Jeff Snyder
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-When you encounter tough fishing conditions downsize your equipment. Smaller, more non-threatening baits, lighter line and slower presentations will add strikes. - Jeff Snyder
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-Learn to setup and effectively use your marine electronics! Simply running them on auto settings out of the box will cause you to miss most of these high tech units fish finding features.-Jeff Snyder
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-Walleye can be the finickiest of feeders. Pause a moment after you sense a walleye strike…your hook to land ratio will greatly increase. - Jeff Snyder
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-For Walleye fishing in stained or dirty water, don't overlook shallow water, in some cases as shallow as one foot. - Bill Reabe
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-When fishing with live bait, you must let the fish run with the bait (take line) before you set the hook. - Mark Heverly E-bait Inc.
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-When fishing rivers for Walleye always look for current breaks to hold some fish. - Bill Reabe
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-During the spring Walleye spawning run on rivers, not all of the fish go to a dam to spawn. Look for them near gravel beds all along the river. - Bill Reabe
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-When cleaning your boat chrome use white toothpaste to scrub off oxidation or other stains. - Tod Conner
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-When trolling with night crawlers put them in ice water, they will swell up and toughen, and your boat will not get dirty when you rig your worms or if you tip over the crawler tub. - Tod Conner
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-Go to the jewelry store in your town and ask for the little polishing cloths most hand out for free. These work great for shining up your spinner blades. - Tod Conner
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-When fishing in areas where zebra mussels are present, use Berkley Fireline as your leader to stop the fraying in front of your lure. If it is really bad go to fine wire leaders. - Tod Conner
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-Hot Hook will always out produce unpainted hooks in pour visibility, on low light days use the (chart/green). Us the firetiger (char/orange/green) hook on bright days and clear water. - Mike Boettcher
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-Use twin tailed grubs as trailers on jigs in place of pork! The fluttering action of the twin tail and slower fall rate will add more strikes. - Jeff Snyder
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-Use dart head jigs in place of traditional cylinder tube jigs. The dart head adds action, spirals on the fall and works more erratically on the bottom. - Jeff Snyder
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-Downsizing lures produce more strikes during heavily pressured times. Smaller, less threatening lures pose an unassuming profile that pressured bass find hard to resist. - Jeff Snyder
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-Smallmouth are constantly on the move! Learn to read currents, forage movements and habitat preferences. But mostly learn to fish the fish, not the spots! - Jeff Snyder
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-Back up lures, such as spinnerbaits, crankbaits and especially topwaters, with a plastic worm or jig. When a fish misses your offering, a well placed worm will hook an otherwise missed fish! Jeff Snyd
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-When you encounter tough fishing conditions downsize your equipment. Smaller, more non-threatening baits, lighter line and slower presentations will add strikes. - Jeff Snyder
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-The most important tip anyone can offer is maintaining sharp hooks no matter what the fish, lure or presentation. You can't have too sharp a hook! - Jeff Snyder
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-Learn to master the ultimate tough times technique…"Drop-Shotting". This hybrid born in perch and crappie fishing keeps your bass lure in the face of finicky largemouth. - Jeff Snyder
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-When fly-fishing, carry a few spare hooks and 2 inch sections of pipe cleaner. If you run out of flies, wrap a pipe cleaner around a hook, this will look just like a Nymph. - Eddie Dillon
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-When fishing a swamp rat, don't set the hook when the fish hits. Slowly count to 3 or wait until you feel the pull on your line. If you set the hook when the fish hits, you will pull the lure away. -
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-To keep a jig holding scent longer with fewer sprays, wrap a pipe cleaner that matches the skirt around the shank of the hook. The cloth on the pipe cleaner soaks up the scent. - Marty Kaczmarowski
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-It is commonly very difficult to remove those big treble hooks w/o injuring the fish. However, if you take the lure off the leader, you can pull the treble hook out through the gills. - Chris Carney
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-For an easy catfish bait try bologna. Cut bologna into thin strips, role up the strips up and dry them in the microwave. Then hook a part of the wound piece of bologna onto the hook. - Kelly Thompson
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-Trout will always face upstream waiting for the current to bring them food. Casting your spinner ahead, and bringing it downstream will help improve your chances of landing a trophy trout.-Rudy Franco
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-When fishing tubes, and the fish aren't attracted, break off a piece of Alka-Seltzer and place it inside the tube. The fizzing action and sound attracts more fish to take the tube. - Eddie Dillon
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-Have trouble removing pork chunks from jigs? Push one end of a coffee stirrer straw over the barb and slide the pork right off.-Jeremy Embrey
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-When fishing with a top-water frog, bend the hooks out slightly. This will increase your hooking percentage greatly. - Eddie Dillon
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-When using a top-water frog, but on a small (1 inch) grub on each of the hooks. This will give the frog more action with the added grubs. - Eddie Dillon
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-When storing your soft jerk baits, remember to store them straight. If they go in bent, they will remain bent and will not run straight. - Eddie Dillon
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-When fishing with jigs on a low visibility day, add a rattle to the jig. The noise will attract the fish more. - Eddie Dillon
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-Dress up treble hooks on your up top water plugs. Get some small tubes baits (crappie tubes) and clip off the very tip; slip the tube over the shank of the hook and reattach it to the plug.- J. Embrey
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-Shine up those old, dirty spoons, with a bit of toothpaste. Apply a generous amount of it on both sides of the spoon and rub it on. Let it dry and wash it off with water.- Eddie Dillon
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-If you have old worms, or worms that have no scent, put them in a plastic ziplock bag and put in garlic flavored cooking oil, or spray them with something like PAM.- Eddie Dillon
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-Wrap a piece of pipe cleaner around the hook shank to keep your pork, or plastic from sliding out of position on your spinnerbait or jig. The pipe cleaner will also hold scents better.-Jeremy Embrey
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-To keep your soft plastic baits from getting fired on a hot day, glue a sheet of plastic foam to the underside of the lid of your tackle/worm box. The foam helps to insulate the box.-Jeremy Embrey
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-When cleaning or making repairs on a reel, work over a large shallow plastic container or a rectangular cake pan so use won't loose any parts.-Jeremy Embrey
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-Put your expensive polarized sunglasses in a Crystal Lite drink mix container. The container will hold just about any style of glasses and protects muck better than a soft case.-Jeremy Embrey
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-Fit a jigging spoon around a tube when fishing for deepwater bass. The tentacles will attract the deepwater bass more then a regular tube or jigging spoon. - Eddie Dillon
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-When fishing with a top-water frog, cut a small hole in the top. Place in small B-B's. This helps in the casting and also provides a rattling sound most bass cant resist. - Eddie Dillon
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-Wear clippers on a lanyard around your neck. This way, you will always know where your tools are and wont be fumbling around in your pocket when you land a fish. - Eddie Dillon
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-Add a larger soft-plastic tail to slow your jig's sink rate. When bass are finicky, they are more likely to take a slower falling bait. - Eddie Dillon
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-Cut the leading hook off of each one of the crank bait's trebles when fishing over dense weeds. This reduces snags, because the hooks most likely to catch weeds are gone. - Eddie Dillon
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-Once you determine a crankbait's running depth, use a waterproof marker to write the depth on the lure. This way, when you need a lure that runs at a certain depth, you'll know which one to use. - ED
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-When crappie fishing is slow place a dozen minnows in a perforated two liter bottle and lower it above suspended fish. The baitfish will often put crappies in a feeding mood. - Mark Becwar
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-When fishing Texas rigged plastics, peg the sinker. This makes your rig much more weedless, and more sensitive. - David Dunford
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-Don’t spool your reel full of line. Use backing, and then add about 70 yards of the line you want. This makes it faster and more economical to change lines more often. - David Dunford
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-When using a Rapala speed matters. First try a slow constant speed if no hits occur, on the next cast try a jerk and pause retrieve. This is very productive on bass. - Big Bill
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-When fishing for whiting, use red tubing 3-5 cm long on your rig just before the hook. This increases the visibility to the fish and protects the line form other fish with teeth. – Alicia Jensen
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-Pre-Rig worms spin better and without line twist, with a high quality ball bearing swivel like those made by Sampo. - Bill Lodi
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-Instead of using a toothpick as a stopper in a Carolina Rig, simply pinch on a tiny split shot and use it as a stopper. It's easier to move along your line, to adjust the length of your leader. - Bill
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-When using a spinnerbait for bass, slide on a plastic twister tail to the hook, to give it even more action that Bass cannot resist. - Bill Lodi
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-For short hitting walleyes when jigging, use a stinger hook and let it dangle free to increase your odds of hooking short hitting fish. - Bill Lodi
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-Carry a small spool of Dacron line in your tackle box. It makes great slip bobber knots when you run out of the original pre-tied knots. - Bill Lodi
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-When fishing for catfish with chubs or minnows, take a knife and cut a few centimeters up the belly. Cut just enough belly until the insides are starting to come out, the extra scent is irresistible.
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-To make your rod cast even farther, apply a liquid car wax to all of the insides of the rod guides, wait for the wax to dry, and then buff off the excess. It puts a nice slippery finish on the guides.
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-Fishing weed beds for Bass, strikes but no hook-up?- Cure this by adding a large button about 12 inches ahead of lure and plug it with a tooth pic. - Dave Tackett
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-When down rigging bait minnow's or chubs, hook them through the tail. This works extremely well with red-tail chubs, lindy rigging or drifting & trolling slow. Minnows will also last longer. – R Jones
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-When fishing tube baits, stuff a piece of cotton in the hollow part of the lure and soak it with your choice of fish attractant, It will flow out with more volume and much longer. - James Marshall
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-If you don't have fishing dye, dip bait into packs of cherry Kool-aid (in plastic baggie). When the lure hits the water, it mimics blood. Sure to be a hit. - Tammy Cocklin
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-When jigging for trout or perch from a boat, tie a small kastmaster or willospoon 18" above your jig, the sun reflects off the kastmaster or willospoon and attracts fish to your jig. - Tim Rock
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-When your blades get dingy or oxidized, keep some ketchup packets nearby dab some one the spoon, blade let it sit for 2 minutes and rub it off you will have a like new shine. - Chris Winter
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-Fan casting weed beds may confuse Bass, its here, its there, Bass run all over and give up. Make it easy on you & the fish, try casting in the same spot over & over, draw them to you. - Dave Tackett
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-The easiest way to free a crankbait or jig is to put a 2oz weight on a snap swivel and attach it to your line. Get over the snag and just drop the weight down this might knock free. - Jim Wilson
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-When bass get finicky, try texas rigging a 3 or 4 inch finesse worm, casting it under docks or along the weed-edge, let it stay on bottom for 30 seconds, if that doesn't work shake the rod tip -
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