Professional Fishing Guide & Instructor Whether you fish with family, friends, colleagues - or if you are new to the sport come and be my honored guest on the water.
Tell me your goals for the outing, ask all the questions you want and learn all you can. I specialize in coaching conventional and fly fishing techniques on Texas lakes and rivers. again, remember that light line demands taking time to fight the fish and don’t try and land the fish until it is tired enough. Enjoy the fight and do not rush. Finally, use a net or your hand to land the fish rather than lifting it with the line into the kayak.
Fighting and Landing: The number
one reason for lost fish is relaxing the line pressure. This happens when the rod tip is dropped down after a hook-set, dropping the rod tip while fighting the fish causing slack line, or the fish jumping causing slack in the line. Maintaining constant line pressure leads to better success. Once
40 l Southern Kayak Fishing
Whether you fish rivers, ponds or lakes from your kayak, finesse fishing the
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July 2015
drop-shot is extremely effective. It’s fun, exciting and will improve all you angling skills because it hones your atten-tiveness to details and feel. One final thought, if you don’t want to get hooked, avoid destruc-tive temptations. Barry Dodd
Exchange stress for relaxation, fun and memories. Lakes: Canyon, Dunlap & LBJ Rivers: Guadalupe, Blanco & San Marcos Boat, Kayak or Wading
(210) 771-0123 www.TeachEmToFish.net