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Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 1:27 PM
Subject: [VFB] Fish Retreval ???
Folks: Yesterday, I went back to the lake Bluegill
fishing, armed with some BEAUTIFUL Flies I got from Richard Zieger and, unlike
the day before.. I landed at least 15 fish.. Mostly bluegill and a cpl shell
crackers.. I am finding that getting them ON the hook after a strike, is like
my crappie fishing with Jigs, Takes PRACTICE... I used to get the little
strikes on grub tailed Jigs when crappie fishing and lose 90% of the fish.. I
can now land, (or at least hook LOL) 75% of all strikes.. Anyway, I caught
these yesterday (most) on a fat tailed grub, and a black spider and a white
spider, which I caught more off the white one than black I guess cause the
water is atill very stained form flooding we have had. Anyway, my question is
on retreival method.. Do ya'll reel in the fish, or just stip the line to
retrieve the fish??? Situation is this.. I drift fish 25-30 ft from the bank
(as they are still on the bed), and when one gets on, I reeled a few, and
stripped in a few.. Reeling was more fun, but I lost more fish, and it took
longer...So, is there a proper method??? Or a personal thing??? Or some way
that is totally different from the ones I mentioned??? Thanks in Advance,
Chuck
