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Lake Maps -- Help your favorite angler find the best fishing holes with a collection of up-to-date lake maps. Fishing Hot Spots offers maps of premier lakes throughout the United States complete with tips on where the big ones are hiding. Some of these maps have even been collected on computer CDs. To purchase lake maps, go to a leading outdoor sporting goods store or try www.fishingmap.com (suggested retail price: $10 to $20).

Fishing DVD -- To whet you

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At times the success of a confident fly fishing angler can be attributed to persistence. An angler, confident in their abilities is just going to fish longer when things dont start hopping right away. But other days when all things are equal, the fisherman with the most confidence often catches the most fish.

Three quick stories come to mind illustrate this. First off let me say there have been plenty of times when I have been on both sides of the confidence equation. A few years ago, I was steelheading with a couple of fly fishing buddies. Unlike me, though there guys werent purists. And we were using terminal gear. Although were just dead-drifting jigs, very similar to fly fishing,

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Sipping rise happens when insects are trapped in the surface film and usually leaves a bubble behind.

Sub-surface rise causes all the problems as the rtout seems to be rising to take a surface fly, bt it is really taking an emerging nymph. As it does so, it disturbs the water making it looks like a proper rise.

Head and tail rise are usually seen in smooth stretches of water to nymphs trapped below the surface film where the whole fish appears.

The challenge comes in first identifying the fly that the trout is taking, whether they are taking duns or spinners, or if they are nymping s

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