Fishing Tips

Fish on the Hook in a Matter of Minutes

Sometimes its about scent, presentation profile, sun location, and sound that keep fish biting. Once you know what to do it's incredibly easy to garner strikes from aggressively biting fish!
Take a look at this awesome looking Steelhead! It was caught using the scent trick to keep it on the bite though the river was running with unlimited visibility. Using a size ten corkie, No. 2 hook, yarn on the eggloop, and a unique fishing scent I was able to hit into this fish within a few minutes after fishing the hold. Varying these techniques kept me into fish when everyone else wanted to call it a day since they weren't doing the same.

Timothy Kusherets

If there are fish in the water and you're not getting a hit right away stop and change what you're using for something else. In many cases, when fish go off the bite they've been pressured by other fishermen using the same lures and baits so that means getting fish to bite only requires changing the profile of the offering with color, size, and scents.
Fish aren't that smart but they're intelligent enough to know what stings and what doesn't so when fish are caught and released that sometimes puts them off the bite due to fishing pressure and to counter that all you have to do fish another hold nearby.
Sometimes fish go off the bite when the sun is direclty overhead, this is especially true when waters run clear. When that happens look for overhanging branches, riffles, and deep pools; this is where fish hold as the sun is directly above.
Wade slowly downstream to prevent fish from being spooked by the wake legs make. Boaters can line the deck using carpet or simply wearing tennis shoes to prevent sound from being transmitted through the hull.
Even if fish are jumping all over the place, you can bet if they don't bite within minutes move on downstream because unless the pressure changes that fish will stay off the bite. Use these really simple fishing tricks and you'll ferret out those pressured fish when all other anglers cannot.
© Timothy Kusherets 2007/10