Light Tackle Fishing – Artificial Baits – Part 3[/b]
By Neil Gouws
October 2008
Okay, so you now have all your fishing equipment, and you’ve set everything up, you are now “locked and loadedâ€, but where must you use it and when must you use it.
There are different places that you could go artificial angling, being estuaries and ofcourse the sea.
For the purposes of this article I will split them up and try and go into as much detail as I possibly can, remember I’m not Neil Allmighty, use it as a guideline and work from there, I’m not some super all knowing fisherman, I tell you what I do know, it’s up to you to use it in a way that works for you.
If you have a better understanding of where, when and how your success rate can only get better, and the more you go fishing, well the better it will get.
With artificial angling the most important thing is mobility, you must be willing and able to move around, don’t just stand and spin and dropshot in one spot the whole day, move around while casting ! Work an area that you believe has potential.
Also the day of us having to go to a fishing spot and not knowing what the conditions are like are long gone, we now have technology available that “helps†us. If a specific wind has been blowing gale force for 5 days and the swell height is 6m, what exactly would you want to go and do by the sea except get washed off the rocks, Use the technology that’s available to you.
What are all the things that we will look at :
For a more in-depth explanation on tides please see http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/moontides/
What is important to know is that you get 2 spring tides and 2 neap tides in a month, not to the day, but more or less.
By Neil Gouws
October 2008
Okay, so you now have all your fishing equipment, and you’ve set everything up, you are now “locked and loadedâ€, but where must you use it and when must you use it.
There are different places that you could go artificial angling, being estuaries and ofcourse the sea.
For the purposes of this article I will split them up and try and go into as much detail as I possibly can, remember I’m not Neil Allmighty, use it as a guideline and work from there, I’m not some super all knowing fisherman, I tell you what I do know, it’s up to you to use it in a way that works for you.
If you have a better understanding of where, when and how your success rate can only get better, and the more you go fishing, well the better it will get.
With artificial angling the most important thing is mobility, you must be willing and able to move around, don’t just stand and spin and dropshot in one spot the whole day, move around while casting ! Work an area that you believe has potential.
Also the day of us having to go to a fishing spot and not knowing what the conditions are like are long gone, we now have technology available that “helps†us. If a specific wind has been blowing gale force for 5 days and the swell height is 6m, what exactly would you want to go and do by the sea except get washed off the rocks, Use the technology that’s available to you.
What are all the things that we will look at :
- Tides[/*]
- Low and High Tide [/*]
- Spring Tides [/*]
- Neap Tides
- Barometer Pressure [/*]
- Weather Conditions [/*]
- Water Conditions [/*]
- Time of day or night [/*]
- Reading Rivers [/*]
- Reading the Sea - Surf [/*]
- Reading the Sea – Rocks [/*]
- Knowing the fish you want to target[/*]
- Cob [/*]
- Garrick [/*]
- Shad [/*]
- Strepie [/*]
- Blacktail [/*]
- Spotted Grunter [/*]
- White Steenbras [/*]
For a more in-depth explanation on tides please see http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/moontides/
What is important to know is that you get 2 spring tides and 2 neap tides in a month, not to the day, but more or less.