As the title says "fishing with lures" is going to be a blog about how to use the many various fishing lures available including high speed gamefishing lures, deep diving minnow style lures, surface popping lures, metal slices and jigs, freshwater lures and more.

Basicaly the Fishing lure is an artificial fish attracting device with it's primary role to assist the fisher person in catching fish. Whether this be due to the fact that there is no suitable bait available or whether it is the desired fishing method.

So in short "The fishing lure" is supposed to represent something which attracts the fish whether this be an existing inhabitant of the fishes environment or just millions of years of survival instincts coming into play.

You will find that not all fishing lures even look like a bait fish or bug or other typical inhabitant of the environment a fish would consider part of the food chain.

I have personaly made various styles of fishing lures from whatever materials were available at the time whether it be bits of feather or fur, multi coloured strands of cloth, silver foil along with softdrink and beer cans. And they all worked providing i cast the lures as often as possible and in the desired manner to suit the species or location being fished.

There are so many different methods of using the various fishing lures that it would be absurd for me to sugest i know all of them however what i can assure you of is should you consider the following the next time you go to fish with lures it will increase your catch rate.

1. Always take a couple of lures the local experts have sugested along with some which you feel would also suit due to the colours which may represent existing food sources, size in comparasin to the fish being targeted, the swimming depth whether you are fishing shallow streams amongst the timber and other natural cover or deep holes along with swimming action whether to represent a typical food source or representative of another fish attracting method such as splashing on the water surface as with insects and baitfish. Although there is no rule book for what fish must eat on every given day and in fact how they should feed althouh there are some desierable times, tides, conditions which may increase the oppertunities.
2.  Find a location which you feel is worthy of a fish inhabiting for reason of aquiring food such as deep gutters in shore when surf casting or amongst the timber in a local stream, to deep holes in unsheltered rivers.
3. Always use various methods of retrieve ensuring you have allowed the fishing lure to swim in the appropriate manner, depth and speed which can vary greatly depending nthe fishing lure being used.
4. Always cast into protected wooded locations in streams and rivers as these are very typical haunts of fish species all over the world not only to allow the predator fish species to ambush moving targets as they swim buy but they also act to protect fish from other predators, the sun, tide and swell movements etc.

This is just a teaser of what is to come however considering i owned and operated 2 fishing charter businesses previously witnessing many thousands of fish hookups in bothe fresh and saltwater with all types of fishing lures i am confident i will b able to offer some advise if required.

So please do not hesitate in blogging me with any question or maybe you would like to add your experiences also as i am sure we all agree that we can never learn enough about our favourite subject FISHING with Lures.

Tight Lines.