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Common Trout Fishing Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Common Trout Fishing Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Common Trout Fishing Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
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Common Trout Fishing Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

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Are you new to trout fishing and keen to start catching fish?

Trout are a challenging fish to catch for beginners, and many anglers struggle to catch fish when first starting out. Also, what’s good advice for a skilled fly-caster may not be good advice for an inexperienced fisher who has different skills and expectations.

Common Trout Fishing Mistakes and How to Avoid Them is a clear and concise article which highlights the key mistakes inexperienced anglers make when trying to catch trout with artificial lures and flies and suggests a number of ways they can improve their chances of catching fish.

Unlike many books and articles which are at aimed at helping experienced fly anglers catch trout in challenging situations, this e-booklet focuses on ways inexperienced trout fishers can catch more trout by targeting easier-to-catch fish using a combination of spin and fly fishing techniques (approximately 9,000 words, including references).

LanguageEnglish
Release dateJan 9, 2014
ISBN9781310140709
Common Trout Fishing Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
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Michael Courtman

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    Common Trout Fishing Mistakes and How to Avoid Them - Michael Courtman

    Common Trout Fishing Mistakes

    And How to Avoid Them

    By Michael Courtman

    Smashwords Edition

    Copyright Michael Courtman 2014

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    Table of Contents

    Introduction

    Part One: Spin Fishing Mistakes

    Mistakes in Spin Fishing Strategy

    Tackle Mistakes

    Not Being Adaptable

    Part Two: Fly Fishing Mistakes

    Fly Tackle Mistakes

    Casting Mistakes

    Mistakes with Flies and Leaders

    Stalking Faults

    Mistakes in Fly Fishing Strategy

    Wrapping Up

    Glossary

    Resources

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    Introduction

    Although catching fish isn’t the only reason why people like to go trout fishing, early success is very important for new anglers. Trout are a challenging fish to catch, and often it’s early success that provides newbies with the motivation to persevere through the tough times and become an accomplished trout fisherman or woman.

    In Common Trout Fishing Mistakes and How to Avoid Them I identify some of the common mistakes made by inexperienced anglers, which are often based on misleading or unrealistic advice, and suggest a number of ways by which they can improve their chances of catching trout. This article includes everything from focusing on situations where trout are easier to catch, to highlighting some of the likely reasons why anglers can struggle with casting or tackle failure.

    Although there are many ways to catch trout, I’ve decided to focus on the two most popular and affordable – land-based spin fishing and fly fishing. Certainly there are a number of other successful methods of trout fishing, such as trolling and jigging from boats, or live bait fishing for sea-run trout, but it’s difficult to cover all these methods in a short, concise booklet. Spinning and fly fishing also complement one another since there are trout fishing situations where spin fishing is the best option and others where fly-casting will be a lot more effective.

    One thing I would like to emphasis with trout fishing in general is that flexibility is an important ingredient to fishing success and an angler who is willing to change their fishing methods to suit the circumstances is more likely to enjoy regular success than a persistent but stubborn fisher who uses the same methods and tactics in all situations.

    What about natural baits?

    There is no doubt that natural, live baits such as worms, maggots, crickets and bait fish can catch a lot of trout – in fact, after fly fishing with nymphs, live bait fishing is probably the most effective means of catching trout. If you have access to suitable waters for live bait fishing, and an experienced hand to show you how to do it, then by all means try fishing for trout using this method. However, I’ve decided not to cover live bait

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