Years ago, this webauthor was privileged to live by a large fresh-water lake in the upper Midwest, during which years he was able to do a significant amount of fishing.

Accordingly, he has experience and information he believes is rather trustworthy and beneficial to all you anglers and would-be anglers out there in cyberspace.

In the spring, it is best to fish shallow near the shore. A heavy sinker attached to the line is not necessary that time of year. When fishing during autumn, however, the opposite is true, being that fish are closer to the lake bottom and a heavier line sinker is helpful. The sinkers in both cases should be the ones with rubber twisters at both ends.

Using 6-lb.-test monofilament line will get you more fish on the line, but you will lose more with such light test. 8-lb. test is preferable, and without using a leader connected to the lure.....although, again, you will lose fish if you don't use a leader, being that fish frequently bite off the line as they grab the lure.

It is best to have clean hands - without gas, oil, or any other noticeable smell - when handling all lines, lures, and bait to attract fish.

A number of fishermen troll far too fast for most fish, with the exception perhaps of northern pike. A small and noiseless electric trolling motor is best to approach fish silently without scaring them, and avoid making such noise in the boat as stomping on the floor or hitting the sides of the boat, especially if you have a stringer of lively fish you have already caught.

Live bait, especially small and not larger minnows, fish can promptly grab (along with the whole hook) at once without having to try to slowly suck them in. Frogs can be used for a number of game fish. Worms are great for bass, and tiny minnows for crappies. If an artificial lure is used, both a Rappala and Lazy Ike are somewhat effective (and more effective than spoons) for game fish.

Still-fishing during daytime sunlight in a weedbed is a good place to get sunfish and perch. Make sure you hook your nightcrawler worms on a small-enough-curve hook with a long-enough shank, so that the sunfish and perch with small mouth openings do not merely nibble your bait off a large hook they can't get into their mouths. The long shank on the hook is useful in cases where the small fish swallow the hook, to prevent the delay and bloody mess it takes to rip a deeply-swallowed hook out of their throats.

Secure your fishing pole line with a minnow on it on a dock overnight and by morning a bullhead might be attached. Fishing near a sandbar is a favorite area for walleyes. On windy days, it is possible to not drop anchor when trolling in a boat, but rather let the boat quietly drift over sandbar areas for such fish.

If you get a seemingly-quick but then constant pull on your line while trolling, you have probably caught a snagbass (i.e. weed), and it is best to reel in and remove the fish-frightening weed from the lure. If you get a nibble, do not jerk the bait out of the fish's mouth: let it take the bait, and then hook it. If you get a slight or greater tug on the line, and the line is then tugged in gentle or more forceful jerks, you probably have a fish on. With light monofilament line, do not horse the fish in...let the fish take it, although keep the line firm and hold your rod up and not sideways, as you gradually reel the fish as the fish's action allow. Again, keep the line taut, but not so tight as to pull the lure out of the fish's mouth nor break the line, especially if it suddenly dives.

Have a large-enough net on hand for the bigger fish.

During summer, it is typical to troll out about 25-70 feet from shore in water depth of 12 or more feet deep. If there are beachhouses, lakehomes, watercraft, swimmers, and sunbathers along the shore, study the architecture and variety, but watch out for protruding docks and approaching watercraft when trolling. Never drink alcoholic beverages so much as to get drunk while boating. Wear sunscreens on the face, nose, and neck areas with a light-cotton long-sleeved shirt to avoid sunburn and melanoma skin cancer. Hats help prevent sunstroke. Sit on a life-preserver cushion, and keep noisy radios off.

To me, it makes little sense to immediately throw back trophy-sized fish which can be eaten. If, however, you fish in a polluted lake, it is much better to eat fish from the grocer's meat counter.

In the New Testament, God through Paul stated that He likes things done "decently and in good order" (I Corinthians 14:40).

The Lord, through that same apostle, declared that it is the will of God that we both genders abstain from immorality by taking and possessing sexual mates for themselves in holiness and honor and not in the passion of lust so that no one is defrauded nor caused to be unclean by being immoral (I Thessalonians 4:4-8).

Being that Eve was the first to take and eat the forbidden fruit in Eden, then did even worse by giving nonsoliciting Adam some of it also, and thus to blame from the start for bringing sin into the world (see Genesis 3:1-6 and I Timothy 2:14), let us consider some scenarios where the inferior-gender weaker sex (see I Peter 3:7) causes sexual assault [themselves] instead of the superior gender being to blame.

Let's say that a single girl (past infancy) or (young to middle-aged) woman is sunbathing "birthday-suit" naked on a deserted beach (therefore perhaps admittedly or nonadmittedly bait-casting herself and fly-fishing for men at random - or at least for one "suitable" specimen) she can then either accept or reject at her whims, and a single or already-married fisherman heads toward her.

Where is her boyfriend or husband?

If she declares that she has none, and there is a lockable enclosed boathouse or cabin nearby, what happens next? What is his logical response to her as he approaches her? He could assume that she is insane (Luke 8:27), and call 911 on his cellphone. Or, he could instead suggest they both go inside the building,

after which he takes off all his clothes, then asks her if she would suck on his hotdog before he sticks it in between her buns (it takes two to tango, both prong and socket), after which intimate connection semen could be bathed off with a quick swim in the lake before getting redressed. [The situation would have been messier if the encounter happened where there was a forest, field, or pasture with no water around to bathe off the sperm off] .

Under those circumstances, it would be quite difficult - if not practically impossible in that situation - for them to first determine spousal suitability by presenting each other with a Compatibility Questionnaire and then either mutually sign or not sign a Concubinal-Marriage Certification Form, depending upon the questionnaire answers. Then again, he might forego the opportunity, realizing that she might again display her goodies to other men at random when he is not around.

If the nude single girl or woman is seen by two or three men simultaneously, there is a serious problem, being that not even once in the entire Bible is there any recorded case of a fornicating or adulterous harlot committing multiple-man bigamy. The temptation for the men would be to take turns soliciting her for sex, and might quickly agree among them to each select a hole to insert each one's penis into [there are three holes: mouth, vagina, and rectum], convey their decisions to the naked woman, individually and privately remove their clothing with her alone, then selectively limit genital insertions to the designated holes as specified to avoid AIDS-causing male-against-male seminal contact. In that case, it would definitely be impossible to first determine spousal eligibility by initially presenting anyone with compatibility questionnaires nor signing concubinal-marriage certifications.

The man or men privately encountering the totally-nude girl or younger woman might not want to connect into her with their private parts, not only because the man who gets the vaginal-opening choice would take a chance in getting her pregnant, then would have to be identified with and socially/morally responsible for a child. The man who got the rectal-opening choice might come into messy contact with some of her feces. All men involved with her would take a chance of contracting some venereal disease. Finally, there is the Biblical prohibition against fornication, with Hell promised to fornicators.

All throughout the Bible, and especially in the New Testament, are admonitions to wait for the Lord, patiently turn the other cheek, look away rather than lust, and simply take the persecution of not being able to do anything about it at the moment (except perhaps pray) and let God work things out in His retributive ways and timing. If the single girl or woman strips naked in view of public traffic along a highway and seen by passing motorists speeding by on the freeway, 911 cellphone calls to the police are the only sensible responses by those hapless travelers visually attacked by such gross indecency.

And where is the cutoff pertaining to degrees, stages, types, and intensities of nudity-to-partial-nudity suggested in the situation above? Would the same responses by a a fisherman, fishermen, or freeway drivers be done seeing the sight of a woman merely TOPLESS (with bare breasts exposed)? Wearing a buttocks-baring thong-strap bikini, or barefoot with sleeveless tank top and short shorts? With LOOSE long hair, a sleeveless blouse, kneecap-length shortened skirt, and no socks under summertime sandals?

It is NOT to be expected for ONLY [human] males to exercise sexual self-control while women terroristically and rather anonymously flaunt various degrees of immodesty to and against men, which in effect entices men to do what has been described above. A physical-contact sexual-connections price MUST be paid - which should be paid ONLY by the human-female seducer(s) themselves instead of forced on substitutionary innocent female victims displaying non-asked-for nudity of whatever degrees and types and severities to men as individuals and as a group.