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If you read the angling magazine you may feel you need a $20,000 boat, $300 a day guide or enough tackle to stock a small shop. Such simply isn't the case. If the perfect school is a log with a teacher on one end and a student on the other, the perfect fishing trip puts the angler in touch with fish with the mimimum number of technological solutions.
After writing about fishing for more than 30 years, and fishing for over fifty I've developed my favorite techniques and target species. In freshwater give me a small brook and brook trout or a pond with bluegills -- "Brim" if it's the "War Between the States" where you live. I'm not picky about tackle. A cane pole works. So does a five foot long ultralight spinning rod and two to four pound test. Lures run to plastic grubs or flies, but baits like stump grubs, red worms or hellgrimites work too. Frankly, I doubt you live more than an hour from this kind of fishing. Those in warm weather climes might substitute crappie for trout. If you're one of the 50 percent of all Americans who live within an hour or so of saltwater you might consider saltwater panfish. My own favorite are smelt that run ten to fifteen inches or so off the California coast. But just about any saltwater panfish works and, if you can fish from a dock, sandbar or jetty, so will the above-mentioned tackle. Otherwise go with a longer rod to seven feet or more, line to eight or 12 pound test and larger hooks and bigger baits. Keeping it simple does work. In fact, in salad years I used to watch an old man catch jack smelt off the Berkeley Pier with a cane pole faster than you could believe. So don't complain if you don't have the kind of fishing writers get to enjoy free in your area. Instead, match your tackle with close in action and enjoy. Go To Page: 1
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