Bass Fishing

Fishing for and catching Bass, in various waters across the globe, has a proud history and tradition. Most of us are too glad to get dabbling in and form part of it, whether from small boat, shore, rocks or rocks, rivers, streams, lakes or oceans. We like to tell our mighty tales and contemplate how to change and modify, adapt and or create new techniques, approaches to hook small mouth, large-mouth, speckled, spotted, striped and black bass. To each his own. You pick your favorite.
Knowing how to tell a small mouth from a large-mouth bass, striped from spotted and so on, is a very basic skill most anglers master quickly. Looking specifically at size and physical features
are good places to start. Train your eye to ‘spot the differences’, so to speak. Most, if not all of the so-called ‘insider’ secrets, tips and stories to tell of big hauls of Bass, all revolve, around a very simple basic rule – understanding the fish, (their life-cycles, feeding preferences, habits and patterns, habit and menu of choice, their nature, their relationship with the broader eco-system
and position on the food-chain, timing it right. Also heeding your surroundings, your fishing equipment (tools), having the know how and basics under your belt and finally optimizing (every!)
opportunity… In effect, you are going about, creating the most favorable angling process and outcome you can muster! Bass fishing is a passion, a science and an art form upon itself.
It appeals to young and old, attracts anglers from all walks of life and both sides of the professional and amateur spectrum.

River Monsters is a very scary show. It’s a series about huge fresh water fish – with names like the Goonch (you immediately know its going to be nasty) and the Piraiba. Then there is the Goliath Tiger Fish and the Giant Fresh Water Sting Ray. These are fish unlike anything you have seen before, all teeth and spines and each with a reputation for not only maiming and killing – but also sometimes consuming their human victims. They grow to unfeasibly large proportions, look like extra-terrestrials and inhabit rivers such as the Congo and the Amazon – far, far from the nearest Holiday Inn, Best Western or Chinese Take-Away. But the really, really scary thing about making this series is having to deliver one of these monsters in each show. This means that the presenter – extreme angler, biologist and adventurer, Jeremy Wade, has to actually catch one and wind it in on his reel.
Following the huge success of Jeremy Wade's River Monsters series in the US (highest ever audience figures in the history of Animal Planet) it is now showing on ITV1 in the UK. These half-hour programmes air on Thursday evenings at 7.30pm. A second season is also in production, featuring an all-new cast of outsize and outlandish fish. This will be broadcast on Animal Planet US from April 2010.
It’s a moment of television gold – and unlike some other television shows that Jeremy would be far too polite to mention, nothing is faked. It all happens in the camera and for real. The only trouble is that Jeremy has to perform this stunt every week and do so in genuinely harsh conditions.

Blue Marlin

The blue marlin is the largest of the marlins, common to 11 feet, and known to exceed 2,000 pounds. It is cobalt blue on top shading to silvery white on bottom, although colors can vary by region, leading to the belief that their may in fact be two distinct species - Atlantic Blue Marlin and Indo-Pacific Blue Marlin . The upper jaw is elongated in form of a spear, dorsal fin pointed at front end with no spots, and pectoral fin and anal fin are pointed. The lateral line is reticulated (interwoven like a net), making it difficult to see in large specimens. The body of the blue marlin is covered with imbedded scales ending in one or two sharp points.
Blue marlin feed primarily on tunas and other pelagic fishes and to a lesser extent on young reef fishes and squid. It is difficult to find a blue marlin over 10 years old, however they are believed to live up to 15 years. All specimens of trophy size are females; males do not exceed 300 pounds.
The blue's enormous size and legendary fighting ability make it one of the most highly-targeted gamefish in the world. Anglers commonly troll natural baits such as mackerel, tuna, bonito, ballyhoo and dolphin in hopes of enticing one of these giants. Brightly colored lures and teasers are also commonly used.

Fishing From Small Boats

Fishing from small boats is an international pasttime that provides opportunities for anybody from any social or economic situation to enjoy time on the water. Small boats of all shapes and sizes are found on our lakes, rivers and ponds year round. The reasons for owning and fishing from small boats are as varied as the people who own them, and range from economic to just plain preference.

When someone mentions using a small boat, it conjurs up images of pulling a flat bottom boat out of the mud and sitting in the leaking aluminum hull while plying shallow stumps and bushes for fish that inhabit these type waterholes. But on this site, you'll find that fishing from small boats is more than just a mudhole experience. With a carefully rigged flatbottom boat, canoe or kayak, you can do some serious fishing on some serious bodies of water. And while the pond experience will be included because of it's value to those with small boats, fishing from small boats in lakes of all sizes and types are discussed on this web site.