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Thursday, April 30, 2009

How many fish you catch is determined by how you hold your mouth - Really!

Believe it or not, the way you hold your mouth will determine how many fish you'll catch!!! No lie (insert big grin here) The question is - Are you using your outh the right way to catch more fish?

My youngest son and I were fishing on Au Sable River and we were both using the same rod, reel, line and lure. Everything was exactly the same. The problem was - which happens for many of us who take our kids fishing - I had caught about a dozen bass and he hadn't caught any. Big problem - and we were only standing maybe 10 feet apart. I wasn't winning any father of the year award this fishing trip!



He finally said to me "Why are yu catching all the fish and I'm not?" I thought for a minute & said "Well, you're not holding your mouth right". I had to come up with something witty so my boy didn't feel like giving up on fishing. He gave me that "yeah ok" kind of look all our kids have given us at times and said "Well, how am I suppose to hold it?". I looked at him and said "like this". I made a crazy contorted face, stuck out bottom lip and basically just made my face all messed up. So, I looked over and seen him trying to mimic the face I made and I just kept fishing away.

I never thought any more about it. Except for the occasional looking over at my son to see if he was making any progress...... lol......

Well, a couple of months later, he went up to the his grandparent's cabin in the mountains of Colorado and was fishing for trout with his Opa. He was standing by the stream Opa came along to check on him. Opa kept watching and talking to him and really scrutinizing him. Eventually Opa asked him "is there something wrong with your face? Are you sick?".

Well, Opa almost fell into the water when he heard his grandson explain to him that if you make this face you're more like that to catch more fish. Needless to say, this has been an ongoing discussion in our house every year that my sons go fishing with their Opa!!!

His Opa tried not to laugh and Oma (my mother-in-law) who told my wife and it got back to me. Well, as you can imagine - now wehn we go fishing we're all trying to out do each other's catch and when we do it's because we "made the perfect fish face"....... Great memories!

A little diddly about Bass Fishing & the BAIT used........

When most people think of Bass Fishing Bait, usually basic information, not particularly interesting or beneficial is what most come up with . But believe it or not there’s a lot more to choosing the right Bass Fishing Bait than what meets the eye.

Most of this information comes straight from the Bass Fishing pros who know what type of the bait is best to lure your fish. I love following what these guys are using because every year they come out with new lures & bait that's always better then the year before. Make sure you read all of this because it'll just about guarantee that you’ll know what they know and have a greater edge to catching more fish.



How can you catch a big fish? How can you attract those fish when daytime? How can you have the best catch of your life? May be you need to "seduce" those fish to come into your fishing rod. But what you really need is the best fishing lure.

Fishing lures is very important to bass fishing because it will help you catch more fish or even win that very important fishing tournament.

There are tons of types of lures used specifically for bass fishing. There are fishing lures for luring small fish, for fish living in shallow waters, for fast swimming fish, for big and large fish as well as for a big-mouthed fish.

In Bass fishing you need to pull the fish’s attention towards you. Fishing lures help you to excite the fish awareness. Some of the lures contain a rotating and shaking action and it produces an overall thrill for the starving trout, pinfish or bass into a feeding emotion.

Some of the Bass fishing lures create a glittery charm for the fish and works in wonders in catching your favorite fish. The manufactures have come up with a multi-color design so that the fish can see the lures clearly and get attracted.

A fish-like imitation also makes a fish swims fast towards it. This is one of the oldest form of fishing lures.

Other Bass Fishing lures are also designed to be thick in the middle and have a curve at the both edges to create an angle when it is soaked on the water. The design and its actions of the fish lures will also let you manipulate the fish and you will catch them in the easiest way.

To look different from some of the other fishermen, some guys have a different color for their fishing lures, like the silver, gold plated, red/white, firetiger, lightning flash, rainbow color, shades of red gold and the yellow slash.



Bass fishing lures comes in tons of different sizes too; some of them are thin, some are big with tiny edges, depending upon the size of the fish you want to catch. If you want to catch a small fish and the fishing lures you are using are very big the fish might think that the lure is really a predator and he won't take the bait. Fishing lures should also depend upon the size of the fishing hook.

Bass Fishing lures also vary in the weight, some fishing lures are ultra light and they are angled so that it will spin. The angel the fishing lure will be consistent on its action, it can also have the territorial defense against the instinct of the predator fish.

Added features to the lures like a life-like fish shape can also be a very effective way to catch the attention of the fish. These fishes have three-dimensional images that will make the lure look irresistible, hopefully!!.

Several types of life-like fish lures have sparkling eyes so that it would be easy for the fish to identify the lure and the fish will get tempted.

If you want to have deep fishing lures, those with tight design will exile, break and do better than any other crankbaits. Because of the features a wobbling effect in swallow water. There are professional anglers who add some blood on their crank baits so that hungry fish will immediately swim towards the lure. Afterwards if the fish already take up the scent of blood, the fish will bite the hook.



Basically you got to choose the best way to attract the fish for you. It;s not about fooling the fish, it is about thinking of the best idea in order for you to attract them.

Go fishing! There's nothing better..........