Rocketlures

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Just a simple collection of luring tips and strategies. If you have any, please contribute

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1. Try everything, from grubs, worms, to spinners and spoons. Don’t just keep to crank baits and plugs (as some would call a plastic wooden fish like lure). Try progressively from surface lures to deep diving lures. Search the water column.

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2. Search the water. Don’t stay at a single spot for too long. Try around at all sorts of cover, beside weeds, under structure, at the water opening, fallen tree etc. Fishes don’t usually hang out in the wide open, without any sort of shelter and cover.

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3. Observe your surrounding. Be attentive to any splashes and surface activity. Seeing school of bait fishes is a good sign that the biggies are lurking around. Look for birds. They are fishing too.

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4. Be mindful of the amount of light and the water clarity that you are fishing in. Bright day calls for red, orange, yellow and natural tone lures as these stands out clearly in bright day. If you are fishing deep, go for yellow to blue colors as these colors retain more visibility the deeper you go. Stained water calls for brighter lures and dark murky waters calls for bright flourescent lures. For night luring, use a dark lure. I would also go for silvery reflective lures at night if there are some light sources around.

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5. Think like a fish. Impart that action positively into the lures that you are “puppeting”. Never just cast and retreive mechanically. Fishes can just detect the unnatural movements from a discouraged lurer.

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6. Adjust your retrieving speed. Some lures works best within range of speed that you are pulling. Give allowances for water current and other wind resistance. Observe how your lure is swimming at various speeds.

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7. When the fishing is tough, downgrade to a smaller lure. Smaller lures can catch a big fish, but big lures cannot catch a small fish.

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8. Impart a little scent to your lure. Sometimes, due to external smell, fishes are turned off from attacking your lure. Scent helps to cover unnatural smell to entice the fishes to bite.

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