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Are you ready to catch more fish while you’re casting, enjoy trolling triumph, and have a blast while bottom fishing? Of course you are—and keeping these 10 top tips in mind will help make it happen.

10 Tips on How to Fish for Beginners

1. Match your lure to the water color.
2. Choose your lure shapes and sizes that let you “match the hatch.”
3. Get fishing gear that appropriately size to the fish you’re pursuing.
4. If you are trolling, make sure your lures are swimming in a lifelike manner.
5. Choose your fishing line wisely.
6. Fish early, and fish late.
7. Be conscious of the tides and currents.
8. Always use new hooks and/or sharpen your old hooks.
9. Use a scale to set your reel’s drag.
10. Do your pre-fishing research.

The post How to Fish: Fishing Tips for Beginners appeared first on MyFishingThing.

Are you ready to catch more fish while you’re casting, enjoy trolling triumph, and have a blast while bottom fishing? Of course you are—and keeping these 10 top tips in mind will help make it happen.

10 Tips on How to Fish for Beginners

1. Match your lure to the water color.
2. Choose your lure shapes and sizes that let you “match the hatch.”
3. Get fishing gear that appropriately size to the fish you’re pursuing.
4. If you are trolling, make sure your lures are swimming in a lifelike manner.
5. Choose your fishing line wisely.
6. Fish early, and fish late.
7. Be conscious of the tides and currents.
8. Always use new hooks and/or sharpen your old hooks.
9. Use a scale to set your reel’s drag.
10. Do your pre-fishing research.

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1. Fishing Lure Colors

Match your lure color to the water color. You never know exactly what color lures the fish will prefer on any given day so you should always try changing color when you’re not catching, but as a general rule of thumb, start out by choosing lures that match the water’s color.

• In green water, lime or chartreuse is usually a top pick.
• In clear water, reach for white or pearl.
• And in tannic-stained water, root-beer is often going to prove productive.

2. Fishing Lure Shapes & Sizes

Choose lure shapes and sizes that let you “match the hatch.” When predators are feeding on a school of small, thin fish like anchovies, a small, thin spoon that’s the same shape and size as those baitfish will often prove deadly — but a five-inch lure with a wide body may well go untouched.

Profile and length are usually the key features in this regard, because your quarry may well be focused on the shape and size of the prevailing bait and ignore other offerings.

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