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NO BOAT NO PROBLEM
cast it out according to the factors of the lake
as mentioned above. While keeping close An umbrella and sun screen will help the
watch on that float, you can fan cast a jig in comfort level on a hot day while fishing from
another area away from the float. the bank.
Fan casting is a technique that allows you caught can scatter fish away from that area
to cast numerous times in different directions by a few feet. So, if you caught the first one
covering more water. A simple method to at 10:30, cast to 10 and 11 and then move
remember is 10—2. Picture a clock on the inward back to 10:30.
water. 12 is dead ahead of you on the water.
Make your first cast at 10. Then 10:30, 11, b. Where allowed, use multiple float,
11:30 and so on until you reach 2. Then take sinker and hook rod set—ups. Put them
five or six steps to the left or right and repeat apart from each other at different depths.
the process. The deepest should be the furthest cast in
the center of your clock. The next one should
Once you catch the first fish, keep casting be shallower by six inches to a foot on the
in the same general direction. Most fish will left or right of the center rod and the third
group together and you can catch a few in one (if law permits) should be even more
one spot. But, don’t cast in the exact spot shallow and placed on the right or left of
you caught the first fish. Go on either side center. So, you have one at 12, one at 11 or
of that spot. The disruption of the first fish 11:30 and one at 12:30 or 1. This will cover
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