Simple little fishing tips...post them up guys

[MacPE6]

Don't stand near an open flame after eating mexican food.

[rarhomes]

Don't stand near an open flame after eating mexican food.

Is this a fishing tip

[rarhomes]

Never carry your rods standing up in the back of your truck or in the skiff console rod holders. BUGS!!!!!! got little sharp wings and bodies that will cut your lines and ruin your rods.
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[birdhunter]

When spanish or king fishing with a planner and spoon when finished: crank the planner to the tip, hand line the leader until you get to the spoon, hook the spoon on the leg of your first guide, from there, starting at the spoon wrap the leader around your reel until all the leader is around the reel, then loosen the drag a touch and make your last wraps pulling the planner down to the forgrip of the rod so it does not bang around on the tip. When you are ready to deploy simply loosen the drag and starting at the planner the leader plays off the reel until you reach the spoon. I know these may sound confusing but it works a lot better than if you start to wrapping the leader from the planner side and ending at the spoon then trying to find somewhere to hang it.

[hunt4fish]

When making inshore leaders get a piece of 2" pipe insulation and tie up all your leaders,putting the swivel in the slot and continue to wrap your leader around the insulation and then sticking the hook in the insulation.Works great for all kinds of leaders...... You can even put it around your T-top bar and keep on rolling,also works great for hangin lures after you have used them and you need to wash them off when you get home.

[MonoCeba]

On slow days, captains are often beleagered with "guests" who somehow feel that the captain has become, somehow, a psychiatrist.......they ramble on incessantly about themselves and, usually, about fish they caught somewhere else at some other time. Remember the sacred "Guide Fish"......one of the nebulous species that only guides can see..........give them a direction and a distance and ask, "Do you see it?!, do you see it?!" Cast!! Cast now!...........40 ft, 2 o'clock!! "Ah, dang.....you lined it! Nice shot, though, dammit.

The conversation and focus will change immediately, and they will get back to the joys of fishing, knowing that the captain sees things that they dont...............(Capt. Lee has seen species that actually turn up on the end of a hook........you still have to make the cast to find out).

"Guide Fish"........give 'em a try. Jim

[gottaflylee]

On slow days, captains are often beleagered with "guests" who somehow feel that the captain has become, somehow, a psychiatrist.......they ramble on incessantly about themselves and, usually, about fish they caught somewhere else at some other time. Remember the sacred "Guide Fish"......one of the nebulous species that only guides can see..........give them a direction and a distance and ask, "Do you see it?!, do you see it?!" Cast!! Cast now!...........40 ft, 2 o'clock!! "Ah, dang.....you lined it! Nice shot, though, dammit.

The conversation and focus will change immediately, and they will get back to the joys of fishing, knowing that the captain sees things that they dont...............(Capt. Lee has seen species that actually turn up on the end of a hook........you still have to make the cast to find out).

"Guide Fish"........give 'em a try. Jim

You had to go there didn't you, but the fish were there wern't they...I also recall someone that wanted to take a nap in the middle of one of the best big fish blitzs of the year...do I need to go there oh nappypoo one... As I recall, I said something like "you can sleep at the dock"...

[obxfish]

Buy doorbell wire at the hardware store. Its plastic coated single copper wire, cuts easily, and is great for storing leaders, wont rust like many ties do.

[tunakiller 4 hire]

When wahoos are mixed with the tunas and you dont want to add wire run your mono through the crimp then the egg sinker, hook and back through the egg sinker to the crimp and pull it snug this will give a little more tooth proof than the standard rig.

[eyefish2good]

When night fishing, you can rig all night from the glow of a lightstick without losing nightvision. I chase snook all over the place and they do break off on the pilings a lot. 1 lightstick keeps me rigged all night without atrracting lots of attention from spectators and fellow fishermen!
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