How To Start Fishing Any Lake for Beginners- Tips and Techniques

February 19, 2025 admin Fishing Tips And Destinations 50

How To Start Fishing Any Lake for Beginners- Tips and Techniques

Here are a few tips / setups for lake fishing for beginners. I hope this helps you get started! If it’s a new lake or a lake you don’t know, make sure to stop by the local bait shop or do a quick web search. Remember, minnows and worms are always a great start.

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  3. awesome video on beginner techniques. I have been thinking about doing a video for the last few days because its crazy how many channels have bad or overwhelming information in videos focusing on beginners. Its good to see a video that isn’t telling you to spend hundreds of dollars on gear and lures to start fishing. Especially since often times the most effective bait is live.

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  8. Y’all learn about mosquitofish. It’s an invasive species and breeds like rabbits so you catch them all over the US for free bait. (Don’t use them in water that doesn’t already have them though- very invasive and they fuck shit up eating fish eggs)

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  9. My fiancé and I are about to start fishing together she plans to teach me but I’m the type of guy that likes to research hobbies. I gotta say this video will be very beneficial for someone who’s never cast a like since they were 8.

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  18. Im a newbie fisher. From all that I have seen, heard and discussed, it seems to me the overall behavior and ecology is important.

    Can someone simplify the basics, not because Im stupid, rather Im trying to build a simple basis to work off of. As in, what can I look up and study beforehand, as well as, what are some basic tennets?

    I understand a swivel, sinker, bobber, and basic terminology. But, I dont understand how to basically apply these different techniques in the right order/combination.

    For example, I was near Bridgton-Sebago Maine in a local lake. Not crazy movement of water, about half of the movement of water was due to wind. Was mostly murky and dark, only the coast was visible in direct sunlight (could see at most 6ft deep, and it wasnt clear). I used some spinner lures with light line and light sinkers (not moveable sinkers) and I caught a small bass, a pikerel, and a pike. Nothing large, or legally able to keep, but I caught something. I focussed on giving time to let the bait sink, and then tried to drag it across the bottom without catching on plants (it never even once caught on a rock which was suprising) as I had read previously. And our of the probably 40 casts, caught those three fish, 1 on day one and the last 2 on day 2. I noticed that the bait with a shiny bottom was a big difference, but I noticed the thinner slender spinner was better for smaller fish and the shorter girthier bait was better for the bass (small bass not the big bass species). Also, I noticed a lot of biting, but a lot of letting go with a tigher barrel (the spool, I dont know the proper name). When I let the looseness of the line go lower via the nob on the top of the spool, same amount of bites, but I ended up getting 2 fish rather than that 1 small bass. I knownI was getting bites only because that was the only thing I remember learning as a kid, about the difference between stuck and actually having a bite and actuallt fighting the fish with the reel.

    So all in all, id like to know what I should take away from that experience as well as what should I be paying attention to, and even, if possible, the main theory. I love learning, so this is not a chore.

    Thanks!!!

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  31. Next time just show us while u talk on how to fish I’m a visual learner and I didn’t learn anything 😢

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  36. Man I just wanna know why my reel keeps getting stuck and not moving. Grandpa recently passed away and I took his rods but I havnt been fishing in a decade and lost my touch. Took apart the reel and watched a video on relining the line but that didn’t do sht. Caught a good sized trout today with a line wrapped around a soda can 😂

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  43. Been fishing my whole life but you brushed me up on some things that I just haven’t thought about in a while thank you very good and informative.

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