07 December 2007

Fishing Facts

It has been sometime since I have been able to write in my blog, this is largely due to the fact my daughter tends to hog the computer? However in my first blog I left off, talking about the importance of feeding the fish, "in order to catch more fish" First of all various venues do sometimes require a different approach.

The first thing I would do is to aquire as much knowledge about the water I intend to fish, ie: were the most popular spots are, what are the most dominent species what is the average depth, I would attempt to create a mental picture about the contours of the bottom of the venue, this would give me an insight as to were the most likely fish holding arears are likely to be, such as shelves were the water is deeper or even shallower.

Having fished for a great number of years now in serious competition, and alongside some of the best anglers in the country, it appears to be common knowledge that fish do inhabit these areas at certain times of the year. For example during the winter months it would be reasonable to believe the fish would be in the deeper water. The theory being that Given a greater volume of water it would therefore take longer for it to drop in temperature. On the other hand if the sun comes out even during winter months this can warm shallower water quicker, so can contradict this theory somewhat?

One thing is for sure is that, personaly I would rather be warmer than cold, another thing that comes to mind is that contary to popular belief that when the sun is out during the day, in the summer months the water will be warm , I have found this not to be the case, infact what does happen is that the water temperature increases conciderably during the early evening. During my early years as an angler I did a great deal of night fishing, and it wasn't until I fell in that I discovered this!.

On a more serious note now, I personaly believe that this change in temperature encourages the fish to feed later in the day, quite often you here anglers say the fish just switched on all of a sudden, meaning they started feeding late during the competition, this change in temperature however, maybe the reason for this in winter and summer. So keep one eye open for the sun and if you have a thermomitor It would not be a bad idea, to take it with you mostly in adverse conditions, during the colder months.

Many years ago my friends and I used to take some very respectable catches of fish during the night and I seriously believe this was largely due to this fact , coupled with the fact that there is less disturbance on the bank.