BARRY'S BASICS : WITH CASTING, IT`S SAFETY FIRST.Byline: Barry Brightenburg Being safe is a fishing essential, especially when casting in a crowd. Hooking a fellow angler angler, common name for a member of the family Ceratiidae, European and American bottom-dwelling predacious fishes. The angler lies on the bottom and lures its prey with a long, wormlike appendage that extends forward and dangles over its mouth. can ruin even an epic bite. Practice extreme caution when in close proximity to others - including on piers and bank-fishing, but particularly on party boats - by never taking your eye off the lure or bait bait a preparation containing a palatable food substance such as raw meat, carrot or bran and a pharmaceutical or poisonous substance. The purpose is to introduce the medicament or poison into the unsuspecting animal. when tossing a line. That way you can stop your casting motion immediately if you spot someone hooked up with a big fish coming up the rail right at you or a deckhand running with a gaff behind you. And, don't worry, it's very difficult to miss the ocean, no matter how closely you watch the bait. If you are at all unsure about your casting ability, talk to a deckhand or the captain and ask to be shown how to properly toss a line in a crowd. Or watch a prolific caster and carefully mimic the technique. Or practice from the boat's bow - away from the bait tank, the chum line and most anglers. When boarding, ask the crew about casting rules. Many skippers skippers larvae of Piophila casei, the cheese or ham fly. The larvae skip around on the cheese that they inhabit in a quite repulsive way. require that jigs must be cast forward of the crowded bait-tank area. On half-day boats, for example, anglers often must leave their rods at the rail when getting bait to avoid hooking anyone at the bait tank. But on long-range boats, anglers must bring their rods to the bait tank so that an unattended rod doesn't get fouled up with an angler who is hooked up with a tuna tuna or tunny, game and food fishes, the largest members of the family Scombridae (mackerel family) and closely related to the albacore and bonito. They have streamlined bodies with two fins, and five or more finlets on the back. . When storing a rod in the boat's rod holders, make sure all hooks are pinned securely to the rod. And be certain that jigs and lures are attached low and to the side of the reel, not on a guide higher up, so that if one of those big treble treble, highest part in choral music, thus corresponding in pitch to soprano, but associated with the voice of a boy or a girl. The term appeared in 15th-century English polyphony, probably as an anglicization of the Latin triplum, hooks do get loose it won't catch a passer-by in the face, which hurts a whole lot more than being hooked in the leg. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO Casting can be a safety issue as these anglers in Lebanon, Mo., gather for the opening day of trout trout: see salmon. trout Any of several prized game and food fishes of the family Salmonidae, native to the Northern Hemisphere but widely introduced elsewhere. Though most species inhabit cool fresh waters, a few (called sea trout; e.g. season earlier this month. John S. Stewart/Associated Press |
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