Re: [VFB] Landing a fish - stripping vs. cranking

[Drafey -]

I'll usually strip in a freshwater fish unless it's a big one. For the larger fish I hold the line with my thumb and forefinger letting line out if necessary but always keeping tension. Then I grab some line near the reel with the same hand with my pinky and third finger so I can start cranking slack in. Holding the line helps keep it taught for line going onto the reel.



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Subject: Re: [VFB] Landing a fish - stripping vs. cranking
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 06:07:06 -0700

John:

A lot has to do with size of the fish and the species.
Stocked trout are just retrieved by stripping in the line.
Northern pike you don't want to be holding the line when they decide to run.
Largemouth bass you should get onto the reel as quickly as possible.
Crappie I use one of those automatic reels that no one likes. They have such
a paper thin mouth that I want to get as much line is as quickly as
possible and then I hand strip in the rest of the way.
Big trout I try to get on the reel as quickly as possible.
Any small freshwater fish can be brought in by hand by stripping. Unless you
are in a fast moving body of water and you have a lot of line floating all
around you or dragging downstream. Or if you are in a kick boat or float
tube,if you don't mind all that line on the stripping apron. But once it
falls down around your feet, you have a problem.
If you are going for salt water species and you have to use the two handed
retrieve you should let the fish take up all the slack that you have just
pulled in by hand and then get them on the reel as quickly as possible.

Then the old thread of which hand do you use comes up again. And again. And
again.

I'm not an instigator am I?

Any one want to start on that thread again?

Alan Di Somma
Phoenix,Az.

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> I've got a question to ask the list. Since I normally fish water which


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