pole fish fighting position

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  • Aug 5, 2010 at 3:11 am #5046
    dave schlick
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    Aug 5, 2010 at 3:49 am #44215
    anonymous
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    1. use as big of tippet as you can get away with
    2. side pressure, side pressure, side pressure
    3. change angles on the fish

    Try the “straight up” thing on tarpon and you surely won’t land any, but you may end up with plenty of broken tips and ferrules.

    Aug 5, 2010 at 4:56 pm #44216
    gavin poppen
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    Side pressure, and dont let em head downstream on you…Sometimes that cant be helped though. Cheers.

    Aug 5, 2010 at 5:42 pm #44217
    Dan
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    I fight fish primarily off the butt of the rod.

    Aug 5, 2010 at 10:36 pm #44218
    Avatar photoJohn Williams
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    I guess if “all the best fishermen” are the folks shown in varied catalogs he might be on to something. But for my money it’s SIDE PRESSURE ( I wish there was a way to insert Joe Humphries voice saying that) all the way.

    Aug 6, 2010 at 12:45 am #44219
    craig phillips
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    All the best fishermen who frequent that shop must not catch fish that weigh more than the weight of the fly line out the tip of the rod.

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