For the majority people, Christmas time means shopping for gifts, cards and presents for their friends, family, co-workers and many others. Unfortunately, shopping for Christmas often times creates a lot of stress and burden for people due to the fact that they have to go out, fight the crowds and pay retail prices for the Christmas gifts they buy.

Now, you can get all of your Christmas gifts and supplies including ornaments, trees, cards, crafts and cookies at discount prices online and at the same time, same lots of time! Like the bass fishing Christmas card, they are also available online.

We all know that almost everybody in Florida is fascinated with bass fishing. They even consider bass fishing as their number one freshwater sport.

Most of these anglers have built bass fishing services because of them; bass fishing is already a hard habit to break.

Not only that, some of them would even make Christmas cards inspired from bass fishing. They do this as an effective business product especially on the holiday seasons or any other special occasions.

For children, Christmas cards are colorful and are usually printed with jokes, stickers, or games. There are also special Christmas cards that hold money or gift cards. For adults, Christmas cards are often either traditional or humorous. And most of the adults get their Christmas cards on the Internet.

Like Bass Fishing Christmas Cards which can be redeemed for online purchases, catalog orders, and purchases.

Most Bass Fishing Gift Cards are mailed separately to the shipping address of your choice. Such as:

• Bass Fishing Christmas Cards delivered in 3-6 business days.

• Catalog(s) or the gift cards are shipped separately.

• Free standard shipping to US zip codes

• Gift Card amounts are in US funds

Not only that, here’s your second choice…

Most Bass Fishing Greeting Cards businesses provide a great way to send a gift almost instantly to your favorite outdoor enthusiast. Simply provide them with the dollar amount and they will email a Gift Card that can be used immediately.

These are important reminders on how you can get the card that you order:

• Most Bass Fishing Christmas Gift Cards are delivered within four hours if ordered during normal business hours. Otherwise they may take 4 to 24 hours to be delivered.

• These gift cards are usually delivered without any problems. However, a full inbox, invalid email address, or a spam filter can prevent the greeting card from reaching the recipient’s inbox. In order to be certain that a Gift Card has been received, please check with the recipient.

• Gift Cards are available for U.S. orders only and are in US funds.

• Catalogs will not be mailed, but current catalogs can be viewed online.

And here is your third choice, if you want your bass fishing Christmas card to be more memorable do it yourself. It’s the thought that counts, not the amount anyway!

An ordinary hand-made Christmas card is very special, how much more if it was motivated by bass fishing? Very peculiar is it not? And yet too easy!

Here’s what you will need:

a piece of card 17cm x 25cm

a piece of crepe paper or tissue paper slightly smaller than the card

several pieces of colored paper, recycled or interesting texture

metallic braid or cord, or colored ribbon inspire

ruler

glue

scissors

pinking shears

and of course do not forget your pictures with the bass fishes (have it scanned please)

And here’s the easy way to do it:

1. Carefully fold the piece of card in half.

2. Use a very small amount of glue to fix the tissue paper inside the card as a lining.

3. Trim a piece of colored paper with pinking shears, so that it measures 13cm x 8cm. Glue it to the front of the card, leaving an equal margin on each side.

4. Cut a simple shape – a Christmas tree, a star, bells etc. – from an interesting paper of a toning or contrasting color. Glue the shape to the front of the card.

5. When you are done with that, edit the picture that you have just scanned. You can use Paint Shop Pro for it.

There you have it, just use your creativity and you’ll have a Bass fishing Christmas card to give to a bass fishing enthusiast.

Fishing is a favorite past time among older men. According to them, fishing provides peace and serenity. It takes their burden away and definitely eases the pressure this changing world offers to our everyday life. For those that are more adventurous and require extreme diversion, big game fishing is their preferred fly fishing technique.

Big game fishing is a type of fly fishing that aims to catch fishes of huge proportions such as tunas and blue marlins. This kind of fly fishing hobby is more like a sport since the effort of actually catching a single fish requires strength and agility.

This type of game fishing is usually done near ports and temperate coasts. Since big fishes are their target, the usual spot for fishing are located in deep coastal areas. As the location pertains, the boat should be seaworthiness. This means that the boat should be sufficient enough to carry several pieces of a four to five-footer fish. Normally boats required should be trailer able eighteen-foot minimum to about a hundred feet to be able to transport fishes to and from the fishing grounds.

There are two bait techniques effective for big game fishing. First is trolling. Trolling is putting bait behind the boat. Bait normally used is squid that are lined up in several rows. Another bait technique is known as chumming or chunking. This technique requires fishermen to throw several pieces of bait fish overboard. Consistent throwing or presentation of bait fish usually attracts large game fishes.

Everyday you hear of some new gurus idea for a healthy hobby and I just think this is a good time to mention how great fishing is for a healthy hobby.

If you are honest with yourself, you will probably recall how enjoyable it was to go fishing with your father, mother, guardian or a good friend when you were young and had so many less worries in your life.

This enjoyment is what creates the healthy hobby. Being at peace, like when you are fishing, is one of the healthiest ways to take care of yourself.

Take some time out of your busy life and go fishing. Better still, take your son, daughter, wife, husband or good friend and not only will your life be healthier but you will instill a healthy hobby on them as well.

This has been a short entry as I was just trying to get back into the habit of writing following my time away for personal reasons. I apologize for my absence and I hope to start writing about my favorite healthy hobby…Fishing, again very soon. I hope you will check back for new entries soon. Daniel

Did we just say we were going to expose the sport fishing pole? Provocative! But just how does one go about exposing a sport fishing pole? Do you somehow suppose there is something hidden about these poles?

Stop! Get your head out of the gutter. Our idea of exposing the sport fishing pole is to show the suttle, yet important, differences between the Sportsmans fishing pole, and the Hobbiest fishing pole. For the sake of curriosity lets just read this short post and see where it is going to go.

Whether you are the sportsman or the hobbiest, you are going to find this article revealing and possibly even informative. So without further ado lets get started.

Many fishermen, I have discovered, are just hobbiest. Not to say they are a lesser individual, but they are less concerned about their fishing gear, poles included, than the full out sportsman. They use whatever fishing gear they can get their hands on, and do not much care about the makers of the gear. They fish to fish and leave the fancy stuff to the “expert” fishermen.

On the other hand, the “expert” fishermen are extremely fanatical – some would say, about the poles they use, as well as the other fishing gear. The name on the gear really has little to do with the professionals choice of gear, including their sport fishing pole.

They choose their gear for things like craftsmanship and quality of product. The name on the gear may only factor in if the sportsman knows that names only going to be placed on quality products. Then the name can take a part in the sports fishermans choosing of a fishing pole.

If you feel this post is leaving out something important you can do one of two things. 1) you can leave me a comment down below or, 2) you can check back and see if I have continued this post in a new post. Meanwhile, please take a moment to bookmark this site so you can return at will, or take a moment to sign up for my RSS feed so you can be instantly notified whenever I update this site. To sign up for the RSS feed, just click the RSS Feed button in the upper right side of this page.

Today we will continue our live fishing bait series where we left off discussing some live flying fish bait. We last discussed, in cryptic detail, the life cycle of the mayfly. Here we begin with some detail of the cycled appearance of these wondrous creatures.

Mayfly Nymphs usually have three tails and are best used for live fishing bait when they have exceeded one inch in length and are found in muddy stream bottoms.

The more mature Mayfly Duns are still sexually immature, dull in color with gray wings and are found near streams on some green leafage.

The Adult Mayflies, often called spinners, have triangular wings with an upturned tail that may be three times the length of the body and they are sexually mature.

This next one is commonly mistaken to be a large mosquito, when in fact it is an Adult Crane fly. About an inch in length with long spindly legs and see through wings that appear to have veins running through them. Mostly they are found in damp woodlands or near streams with trees all around it.

Usually seen darting and hovering over streams, lakes, marshes and ponds the Damselflies rest with their wings held lined tightly to their body, while the adult version, known as a Dragonfly, rest with their wings fully extended.

All our trout fishermen will be paying close attention here as trout love flies of all sorts and they are often spotted picking flies off the waters surface. Some trout, such as the cutthroat trout, even eat flies almost exclusively.

This is where fly fishing comes in. These experienced fishermen know that to catch these fly eaters, they must immitate them as best they can. Just as the normal fly will just touch onto the water for a very brief moment and jump from spot to spot, so shall the fly fishermen by casting their flies.

We will end our live fishing bait series here for now and we hope you will check back often for more great fishing articles, or better still, take a moment to click the RSS link in the upper right of this page and get signed up to receive instant notification of all the new posts I make.

We continue our live fishing bait series with our discussion on some of our favorite bugs. So if your interested in crickets, flies, and some other goodies like that, you are going to want to pay attention to this post.

The way I see the insects is there are the swimmers, the crawlers, jumpers, and of course, the fliers. All of which are like candy to different fish. They cannot help themselves when they come in contact with their favorite one, because they see it so rarely it becomes a treat.

Crickets and grasshoppers are a fishing favorite, because like nightcrawlers, some fishermen can catch them as they need them, and for others they are commonly available at your local live fishing bait store.

Crickets are usually found in wooded areas or fields, especially the dark-colored cricket, commonly known as a field cricket. There is a gray cricket that is commercially raised and sold in bait shops and pet stores.

Grasshoppers like grassy or weedy fields. Most are 1-2 inches in length. The dark colored grasshoppers are some shade of gray or brown and live on the ground. The green shaded crickets live on plants.

Mayflies are a fish favorite and they are a very interesting choice as they go through many changes in their short life cycle. Of course this is one of those which came first things, the egg, or the mayfly because their short life is so ever changing.

The mayfly life cycle is something to be aware of as they can be used as live fishing bait in several different stages of their metamorphosing life. So lets look at their short life and see something amazing.

1) A mayfly mates with the opposite sex while in flight.

2) After mating the female drops her eggs in the water.

3) The eggs sink, adhering to plants, rocks or other things at the bottom.
4) The larvae hatches in about six months. They eat and grow for about five months going through several molts -changes.
5) When full grown they swim to the surface.

6) Now it splits and sheds its skin -molts, and in seconds it has wings that harden.

7) The mayfly then flies off to nearby vegetation where it stays for a day, or two

It molts into an adult where it lives just long enough to mate and drop its eggs, except a few live for weeks.

Its the many changes and short life of this live fishing bait that gets it so much attention in this post, but we are going to pause here, we will say its in memorial for such a short lived fishing bait and we hope you will return to view the next post in this Live Fishing Bait series.

As we continue in our live fishing bait series we find ourselves touching upon some other wonderful live fishing bait that all true fishermen are sure to find useful.

This first one I remember using alot as a boy because they were so easy to hook. In fact, I have even had them hook themselves on a baitless hook. I kid you not.

Bluegills, they have a blueish gill flap with a black lobe. The bluegills and other sunfish, often called bream, are well distributed in North America.

Mottled Sculpins, known to some as mudlers or bullheads, have large pectoral fins and they live in mountain streams of the West and many eastern states and Canada.

Yellow Perch are most commonly found in the northern United States and Canada. They are identified by their yellowish tint and have 6-8 dark bars running top to bottom on their sides.

Rainbow Smelt are iridescent with silvery sides and adipose fin, a pointed snout and long narrow body. They have large teeth. An ocean species, although they have been stocked in many inland lakes in the northern United States and Canada.

Whenever you are buying live fishing bait avoid buying baitfish with damaged fins, reddish snouts or fungus growing on the body. Fungus grows as white cottony patches wherever scales and slime have been rubbed off. This indicates the have been handled too much.

You should also watch out for any with bulging eyes and blackened heads, as this too are signs of disease in most kinds of baitfish. But moving along…

Lets take a few minutes to discuss some other live fishing bait. For instance, did you know there were eight different kinds of common fishing worms?

Probably the most commonly used is the Nightcrawler, big and juicy, how can the fish resist them. But there are some others that may not be so well known to you by name.

We use many of them perhaps without realizing their different names like the Leaf Worm, Garden Worm, Red Wiggler, Gray Nightcrawler, Grunt Worm, and even the African Nightcrawler.

So you see there are numerous worms that we use for our live fishing bait. So with that said I will pause until the next post where I will continue with Live Fishing Bait -Part – 4. Be sure and check it out as I am sure you will enjoy it.

In our previous post we ended with descriptions of a few of the most common minnows that we use as live fishing bait. In this post we will continue our discussion of live fishing bait with the continuation of the minnow descriptions and then we will go on from there with other live fishing baits.

Goldfish, which many say resemble carp because they both have saw-toothed spines on the dorsal and anal fins, but goldfish do not have barbels and are found thoughout the United States.

Golden Shiners have a deep body with gold coloration with a sharp-edged belly behind the pelvic fins and they can grow to over one-foot in length. They prefer the quiet waters where they thrive in the clear lakes with dense stands of aquatic plants. Commonly found in southern Canada and the eastern half of the United States.

Southern Redbelly Dace, or rainbows – as sometimes referred to, have a reddish belly and two dark bands on their sides. Commonly found in the Midwest and South in smaller streams.

Red Shiners are deep-bodied and rarely exceed 3-inches in length. Males have orange fin edges. They are commonly found in large, slow rivers from the Midwest to Mexico.

Common Shiners have a broad body and deep, narrow scales. They are found in streams and lakes from
Saskatchewan to Colorado, east to the Atlantic Coast.

Blacknose Dace have dark blotches on the body and a black line from the eye to the nose. They live in fast-water streams in the eastern half of North America.

Finescale Dace have smaller scales and are less colorful than the redbelly dace. They live in bog, streams and lakes in the Great Lakes region and parts of Canada.

Spottail Shiners are named for a black spot at the base of their tail. They often share waters with the emerald shiners, but do not go as far south.

Emerald Shiners have a slender body, and a large faint band along the side. They live in the lakes and rivers in the eastern two-thirds of North America.

We will pause there for today but come back soon, or register with my RSS feed in the upper right hand corner of this page to see the next portion of live fishing bait called Live Fishing Bait -Part – 3.

There are a lot of live fishing baits in this world and they all are broken down into many different categories. For instance, you are not likely to use a one inch minnow as your live bait if you are fishing for sharks in the ocean.

So you see there are some restrictions to what live baits you use and where you use them. Some baits are only available in certain areas or during certain times of the year, while others are simply not useful for one kind of catch, but extremely good for another.

We want to discuss things like minnows, and other baitfish, as well as things like crickets, frogs, toads, leeches and worms, crustaceans, salamanders and all sorts of flying insects.

Minnows are used for numerous reasons. Some minnows are chosen for their size, shape, activeness, sex, flash or color, even taste and smell. With so many decisions its a wonder anglers ever have time to get their bait in the water and this is just the decisions regarding the minnows and we still need to figure out our hook. But we will save that for a different topic.

Lets quickly go over minnows so you can identify them and perhaps even learn why some are chosen for one catch, but not the other. We will now identify the most popular thirteen minnows at your local bait shop.

Minnow Identification:

1) Fatheads, sometimes called mud-minnows or tuffies, have a short first ray on the dorsel fin and live in lakes and rivers throughout most of North America.

2) Creek Chubs look similar to the hornyhead chub, but have smaller scales and a dark spot at the front base of their dorsel fin. A very common stream minnow usually found in eastern North America and thrives in gravel bottom streams east of the rockies in the United States and southern Canada.

3) Bluntnose Minnows are more rounded at the nose than the fathead and have a dark band from the tail to eye and they live in the eastern half of the United States.

4) Horneyhead Chubs, also known as redtail chubs, have a lateral band that extends to the tail and they prefer gravelly streams from Wyoming to New York, south to Arkansas.

We will pause there and pick this up in our next post, so be sure and check back for Live Fishing Bait -Part – 2. I would strongly suggest you bookmark the website, or take this opportunity to sign up for my free RSS feed.

Please note that this article includes excerpts from the very well known fisherman Dick Sternberg, from his great book: Fishing With Live Bait. So you know the lake trout fishing tips are sound.

A favorite technique of springtime lake trout anglers is to throw out a dead baitfish,prop the rod on a forked stick, then sit back and wait for a bite. When a laker picks up the bait, it often runs 20 to 30 yards before it stops. A fisherman that forgets to open the bail may suddenly see his rod fly from the stand and disappear into the depths.

Just after ice-out, lakers seek shallower, warmer water. Shore fishermen cast with dead smelt or sucker meat on slip-sinker rigs. Because lake trout are scavengers, the bait should be fished on the bottom.

Like most other trout species, lakers shy away from heavy line. Use monofilamint no heavier than 10-pound test. Some fishermen switch to 4-pound line when fishing is slow.

Dead baitfish are not used as often in the summer because trout are usually scattered and may be suspended off bottom. However, fishermen frequently use sucker miat or miat from other baitfish to tip 1-to-2 ounce bucktail jigs.

If you run short of bait, open the stomach of a freshly caught lake trout. Remove any ciscoes or other baitfish. These soft, partly-digested fish are just as effective as fresh bait.

How to Rig a Smelt:

Step #1 of 3
Thread a 1/2 ounce egg sinker onto 8-pound mono.

Step #2 of 3
Add a barrel swivel and 3 feet of 6-pound leader.

Step #3 of 3
Insert a #2 hook through the lips of a 6-to-8 inch smelt.