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Helpfull for trolling,
Trolling is a very helpfull technique that is tailor made for fishing for any angler regardless of your degree of expertise. It's easy and it works well.
Put these techniques together and you will catch fish.
Trolling requires a boat and a way to move it in the water. This can be done with a motor or with oars. You will need a rod and a reel, "blade string". (What you troll) and a lure or some sort of bait. The troll can be used with just about any type of lure or bait.
Let the troll out behind your moving boat until you have around 75 to 150 foot of line out. The speed and weights will will dictate just how fast or slow the trolling rig will move and how deep it will troll.

And tomorrow it's supposed to snow more here in CO... sigh...

If only i had it in me to take up ice fishing. Unfortunately, i love rivers, though if any of there area lakes were un-frozen, i'd gladly hit them up to get my fix.

I don't tie flies in the winter, I don't ice fish, i don't hunt. That means a long, tortuous winter waiting for the thaw. Then comes the spring runoff, where only a select few rivers and tailwaters are fishable when my itch to get out is at it's worst.

From the lack of winter-photos on the site, i gather most of you don't do a whole lot of fishing in the winter either.

What do you do to keep occupied during the winter months?

I love knots. Use them for climbing, paddling, fishing. They're beautiful, functional, and fun to learn and tie. It's good to know a basic assortment of knots for anything, but especially for fishing.

Here's a great site to learn a new fishing knot. It's called Animated Knots by Grog.

They've got all kinds of knots actually, not just fishing knots.

About 8 years ago, I started fly-fishing for trout. I was working seasonally as a Park Ranger at Rocky Mountain National park and decided it was the perfect place to learn to fly fish. I've always fished for trout, but my fishing methods have changed over the years.

I started trout fishing as a kid with my dad, usually using worms. Eventually power-bait came along and we used that for a time, and it worked OK. Then one day, we were fishing in Kentucky on a creek called Otter Creek, using powerbait, not catching anything, and a guy came down the stream with a stringer packed with really nice rainbow trout. We asked what he was using, and he said "spinners". The guy kindly gave us a couple to use, as we didn't have any, and we tied them on and caught a handful of nice trout in the remainder of the day.

New Angles

Angling is an ancient pastime

And thousands sit with permit paid

Some stand on the riverbank

Some enter the water and wade

Long held traditions are kept