Reeling in Advice

At your local library you will likly find a number of books on fishing from maps of lakes to ice fishing, reading these books and studying your target speicies will get you closer to success.
Here are some books that will give you advice and may improve your chances of catching fish.

1.500 fishing tips for freshwater 2.Freshwater gamefish of North America, hunting and fishing library series {Pictured}
3.Northern pike and muskie, hunting and fishing library series
4.Catfish, hunting and fishing library series
5.panfish, hunting and fishing library series
6.Walleye, hunting and fishing library series
7.The complete book of saltwater fishing
8.Northern pike a complete guide to pike and pike fishing
9Wisconsin's top muskie lakes.

Don't fish on friday the thirteeth

Just for the fun of it I am going to tell about the worst luck any fisherman can possibly have!
There is one little tiny noise that no angler ever wants to hear when reeling in the big one.....snap. And hooks, those things are nasty, one time I caught a bass and it fell off the hook, sending it flying and hitting me in the finger or when my friend hooked me in the neck and he kept reeling in Ouch! If you ever get hooked,you do not want it to go into your skin past the barb, I can't imagine how painfull that must be to get out. These ones are simpler but downright irritating! When you get poked by the sharp spines on a bluegill's back. The scent of rotting dead fish and pretty much fish in general. When you touch a fish and it's really slimy. When the warden starts questioning you. When a bullhead slices you with it's sharp fins. When it gets too dark to continue. When your boat starts sinking. When you reel in a bunch of weeds. When you snag your line on something and you spend endless hours freeing it. When You lose that ten dollar lure to a snapped line. When your line snaps due to a snag. When the fish gets away. When the guy next to you starts catches your fish! When little kids are running around. Ducks swim by and scare all the fish. when another fisherman is in your spot or when someones dog jumps in the water. And last but not least, the worst luck of all, When you have to untangle a mess of line!

Self control

Two weeks ago I hooked a beaufiful northern pike! The thing was on my line for about twenty five seconds and then I accidently pulled the hook out of it's mouth. Bummer, but to tell you the truth I never saw the thing but the guy next to me described it to me. Well anyway, I now know why the fish escaped and what I did wrong, my andreniline rush got the better of me. You see I have this habit of jerking back on the rod more than once to make sure the fish stays hooked and keep reeling between jerks. I knew how to fight it and I knew what to do but like I said, my exitement overcame me. Perhaps if I had given the fish more line, it would have stayed on the hook. Well the point here is that you must learn to control your andreniline rush, it's not easy to to stay calm when you hook the big one, it is very exiting but still, you have to fight him just right before you can land him. For example if the fish is swimming downword, lower your rod and let out about a foot of line before raising the rod and reeling, if the fish is swimming out farther and farther keep letting out line until he stops, if he jumps out of the water that is an attempt to throw the hook so what you have to do is raise you rod as high as you can. The trick to keeping the fish on the hook is making sure your line is tight but if he is straining the line, just loosen your drag a little. You should only reel in under one of three condition, when the fish is has stopped struggling, if the fish is only struggling a tiny bit or if it has dragged out too much line and is about to snap it. One more thing, when landing the fish, if it is a big fish like a pike, salmon, muskie, catfish or even a big bass, it is best to use a net. Man if Only I had caught that pike, not only would it have been my first pike, it would have been the biggest fish I have ever caught.

Beware!

Fishermen, watch your backs! Because popping up in lakes and rivers all over the united states is the giant snakehead! These monsters are such a problam because they are predetory beyond imagination, eating smaller fish, decreasing they're numbers and lowering the food supply for larger species. Native to thailand and other areas of southeast asia, they are considared a delecacy and up until recently have been sold live at many asian supermarkets and are capible of surviving out of the water for at least eight hours, some are still being smuggled into the country as you are reading this, some have escaped captivity and some pet owners have dumped snakeheads they can no longer keep into American waters, in fact one was recently cought in the lake Michigan in Chicago. If somehow, you catch a snakehead you must kill it and contact your local DNR office immediatly. Be extreamly careful when unhooking these things, they have teeth like demons and are responsible for some bloody attacks in thailand. Note that you may find out that your possable snakehead catch is actually a bowfin, a native fish often mistaken for a snakehead.

Beat this! Bass anglers!

Well bass fishermen, you have officialy been beaten, for years you have been catching huge bass, trying to break the sixty and forty year old records for both large and smallmouth bass and you have landed some pretty impressive catches. But!.... in the year 2007 two fish and two anglers changed the world. First, the largemouth bass, a lucky angler {Bless his heart} fishing in Dixon lake in Californa managed to haul in a whopping Twenty five lb one ounce Largemouth! Sadly the previous record of Twenty two lbs from the forties is now a memory from the past. Now for the smallmouth. Another fisherman in canada proved himself by landing a beautiful twelve pounder and without knowing it, erased the previous Eleven lb record from the top of the list. These fish are amazing and they're captors should be proud, Congratulations! We all give high fives from our hearts! Still How long will these records last? We all know that there are bigger fish out their, they just haven't been caught yet and they could be hiding in an enormous lake on the other side of the country or in that small community pond down the street, you never know. These future monsters will continue to elude us from the shadows, but for how long? Which one of YOU will reel in the next giant? This is the picture of the world record largemouth

Best tasting fish around

The following fish Are by by far the best eating on my watch, If you live in an area where you can catch any of these, I would reccomend you take them home and cook them.

1.Yellowfin tuna, good grilled, canned, broiled or as sushi
2.Mahi Mahi, good broiled or grilled
3.swordfish, best grilled but also good broiled
4.Walleye, good fried, baked or broiled
5.Whitefish, Best fried but good when baked
6.Bluegill, Only good pan fried

This is yellowfin tuna pictured