Freshwater Fishing Tips

Select bait and flies, identify and land fish, clean and cook your catch. An illustrated Kugach classic .

A manual for recreational fishing, with guidance on gear, rigging and information on the most common fish found in North American lakes and streams. The Complete Guide to Freshwater Fishing offers the nearly forty million freshwater anglers in the US with a comprehensive fishing resource. From the highly respected The Freshwater Angler series, this title covers all the major freshwater species in North America. It includes tips and techniques for catching gamefish throughout the country under every conceivable on-the-water situation. In developing this book, the writers, editors and researchers traveled from Alaska to Mexico to fish with veteran guides and nationally known tournament anglers. The tips and techniques they uncovered are fully explained and illustrated in the book. This giant book features: Over 500 spectacular fishing photographs that have never before been published. Extensive step-by-step visuals for learning every important fishing skill, including advanced fishing techniques for many species. The best how-to instruction ever found in any fishing book. Guide-tested tips from some of North America’s top experts.

Advice on everything from choosing the best tackle to catch and release fishing. Separate chapters on fishing for bass, walleye, muskie, pike, trout and exotic species.

Describes in detail how to catch every kind of freshwater fish in almost any situation.

Catch more and bigger fish More than 50 million freshwater anglers and 22 million saltwater anglers in North America are all looking for ways to tip the odds in their favor for catching their favorite fish species. They need to look no further. Fishing Tips & Tricks not only offers tips to make fishing easier and more productive, it helps make fishing more fun! The up-close and detailed photographs show how. These tips come from years of research; and includes everything from buying new waders and using hemostats to timing the strike to casting sinking fly lines. The author covers both freshwater and saltwater species, methods and skills. Sections include: · Tips From Famous Anglers · Tackle Tips · General purpose Tips · Equipment Tips · Gamefish Tips · Making a Record of Your Catch · Making & Modifying Lures · Care & Preparation of Fish

Here fishing guide and fly designer Henry Cowen shares decades of hard-earned knowledge of stripers for the first time. Learn about the species, its food, and where and how to find them, so you can land far more and bigger stripers. Knowing where and how to find stripers is key, and Cowen offers proven techniques for locating fish in both reservoirs and rivers, including water temperature, seasonal patterns, weather patterns, locating the bait, water clarity, and wildlife and how it can help anglers. The popularity of fishing for striped bass in freshwater is growing quickly, especially as global warming allows the fish to live in waters that used to be too cold. This is the first major book on the subject, one that is sure to be part of a big trend among fly fishers. Cowen carefully outlines fishing tactics, along with detailed photographs of the steps involved, covering: Retrieving a striper Fishing a point, uphill and downhill Working a topwater fly (constant retrieve) Hooking a fish (strip strike) Fishing a hump Fishing a saddle or blow-through Fishing a breakwater Using the countdown method Fishing a deep hole in a river Fishing a creek in a river And much more! Cowen also takes a close look at freshwater striped bass, explaining how natural and stocked fisheries are managed as well as the difference between the various species. Along with help choosing equipment and some notes on wading tactics, anglers will have everything they need to improve their fishing techniques or make a start on this popular all-American outdoor sport.

After more than 25 years of teaching anglers how to catch more fish, the editors at In-Fisherman now present their 100 top freshwater fishing tips. Covering more than 40 species of fish -- from gar and bass to pike and muskie -- here are the best strategies and techniques for successful freshwater angling. In-Fisherman is North America's foremost sportfishing authority. In addition to In-Fisherman magazine and five other periodicals, In-Fisherman radio can be heard weekly on 800 stations, while the award-winning "In-Fisherman" TV can be seen each weekend on The Nashville Network. In-Fisherman is headquartered in Minnesota -- the Land of a Thousand Lakes.