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Hi Charlie M,   a couple of suggestions to help avoid snagging fish. If fishing clear water, get Polaroid glasses. I use amber when it is overcast or even raining. Use a darker gray for bright days. Get the sun angle right, and you can watch the fish react to your lure and make the "take". You will notice immediately that if you only relied on the feel, you would miss nearly all your strikes. The fish usually swim up and bite down on the fly without just smashing it and running.

If water is not clear enough to see fish, you may have to move to where they fish are not as thick. Never let a lure travel right down into the fish, instead retrieve it just over them and see if one will come up and nail it.

Above all, do not use a treble hook. Some anglers report they just have to tie on a treble and fish will launch out of the water and snag themselves on it right away, before you even cast it! :)

Use single hooks, fish away from the thousand-fish school areas, try to see the fish. and remember, at times they just are not on the bite. these fish are not hungry or feeding. They are striking out of reflex, habit, or aggression. all of their energy is going into spawning, they do not even waste any on digestion.

Hope this helps,    Kid

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• Thanks for your help and a quick question CharlieM Aug 22 2005
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