For what it's worth, I don't like having twenty or
thirty feet of line puddled up around my legs if I
have to move or while I'm trying to bring the fish to
hand. Like Rix, I let the fish run and take up any
slack line, then play them off the reel.
-John
Oregon
--- Drafey - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: "Alan Di Somma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 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.
>
> http://www.azod.com
> http://www.azflycasters.org/
>
> "Deep Thoughts"
> Is French kissing in France just called kissing?
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 10:56 PM
> Subject: [VFB] Landing a fish - stripping vs.
> cranking
>
>
> > I've got a question to ask the list. Since I
> normally fish water which
>
>
>
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