Things You Should Know About Bait And Tackle

By Shirley Phillips


Bait is any substance like food used to attract and catch animals like fish. Examples of them are worms, insects and smaller fishes but there are also artificial ones that are now commonly used by fishermen. It is becoming common because they can be used again and designed to resemble the appearance and movement of prey.

Baits are called tackle along with other fishing equipment or gears like lines, hooks, rods, sinkers, nets, reels and others. These are available in bait and tackle Dryden Ontario Canada stores and in other areas. Here are some essential details about these tackles you have to know when you are planning to learn recreational fishing or any other reason.

Hooks are used when catching fish through snagging the body or impaling the mouth and these things have been used by fishermen for ages. They are able to hold different kinds of natural or artificial baits or lures. They have different shapes, sizes, designs and the materials used in creating them depending on the purpose intended.

Lines are cords where hooks are attached to one end and the rods and reels on the other. Using them to catch fish is called angling and they were historically made from leaves, plant stalk, horse hair, silk thread, linen or silk. Modern ones are created from artificial materials including dyneema, dacron, polyethylene and nylon.

Plummets or sinkers are weights used for sinking lures and baits faster during angling or to cast them at greater range. They are made of lead traditionally but was banned by a few countries because of its tendency to cause lead poisoning when ingested. The weights vary depending on the kind of fishes you are wishing to capture.

Rods are used together with line, sinker and hook and there were made from reed, bamboo or ash wood while the handles were wood, cork or wrapped cane. Modern ones are equipped with guides and reel to stow lines. Their difference with poles are that their tips are where the lines are attached to and they do not have a reel.

The reels are devices used to deploy and retrieve lines by the use of spool mounted on the axle and they are used for angling. They usually are used on rods but other specialized ones are also mounted to boat transoms or gunwales or on crossbows. They have fittings usually to aid in casting for accuracy and distance perfect for casting competitions.

Nets are meshes formed by knotting a thin thread though ancient ones are made from leaves, plant stalk and cocoon silk. Hard nets are held open by a loop usually on the end of a long handle used for sweeping up fishes near the water surface. Cast nets are small round ones with weights on their edges thrown by the fisher and hauled back in after.

These tackles can be stored inside tackle the tackle box whenever they are not yet being used and a few of them have little trays for the smaller tackles. They have lids preventing the smaller tackles to mix with others and are detachable. These detached trays are useful when you need only to bring a small tackle.




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