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Date: February 27, 2007 at 11:39:03
From: ken, [pool-70-20-4-145.prov.east.verizon.net]
Subject: Re: Rigging for finese


USe hard mono like triline Xt or something similar like camo line from Bass pro. Never use soft mono as it is all marketing and no meat. The same is true with that fluoro crap.

Six pound is fine you can double it if it makes you squeamish.

Razor sharp hooks and very light drag. Sweep sets and no jerks to set hooks. Drag so light that it only stops the line from slipping out when you cast. Use your finger on the rim for drag. You can land fish quickly this way and not fray your line.
It is skill not equipment.
You use your fingers like a cluth when driving.

Change knots often.

Lots of people who do not know how to fight fish come up with all kinds of ham theories about killing fish by fighting them too long.
A minute a pound is the norm with all kinds of tackle.
The fish get tired from swimming and that is how it works unless you skip them over the surface like a rock skipping along with heavy tackle.

People who are agastat this information do not know how to fight fish except by pulling on them hard with heavy tackle. They learn this by reading fishing writers who parrot hearsay from other writers. Make believe rather than experience.

Fighting fish is more sophisticated than that.
It is more than yanking and blaming tackle failure when you lose one.

You have to not care about losing or landing them and then you become free to begin to learn how.

IF you are afraid to lose one then you cannot learn how to do it.

Heavy handedness is the sign of fish fighting ignorance even if backed up with bragging bravado and name dropping.

The fish does not abraid the leader - the pressure you put on the fish does.

You can even land blue fish if you do not pull and cut the line on their teeth! :-)


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