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At the point when the temperature plunges and the days are at their most bleak, you can still take advantage of your love of fishing, even on the coldest of winter days.

Here are a couple of things to consider and attempt next time you choose to overcome the elements:

• Fish have a tendency to get lazy in cold weather, moving around significantly less to save energy than they would in a hotter climate The result is that they require less nourishment and are liable to eat less frequently. The fish will frequently hide in a spot they know is useful to them, warmer, with plenty of nourishment. If you look hard enough, you will find them even in harsh elements.
• Because fish require less nourishment in lower temperatures, fish will feed harder if conditions are ideal for them. To provide for yourself the most obvious opportunity with regards to getting fish at this time of year, you may consider prebaiting your swim ahead of time of your session, by bringing a couple of loose offerings into your fishing spot throughout the span of a week. You will successfully make an atrificial larder for the fish to feast upon.
• Keeping your tackle light will help get additional bite’.As fish movement drops, so does the water color. As the water clarity enhances, fish depend less on their sense of smell and all the more on vision to find sustenance and keep away from potential dangers, so keeping rigs straightforward and simple will keep the fish from recognizing your trap.

By considering some of these ideas, you can heighten your chances of success in a frigid climate. If you’d like more information on wintertime fishing, please feel free to contact us.

When you’re fishing during the summer months, there’s nothing worse than watching that hefty bass caught earlier in the day turn belly up in the boat’s livewell before dusk. So to help prevent all of you anglers out there from having to cry into your tackle boxes, we wanted to share a few warm weather tips for keeping livewells from becoming kill zones:

There are very few things out on the water that will kill a prize catch faster than lousy water quality and stifling temperatures. Thus, try and fill your boat’s livewell with the best cool water that you can find. Then drop a water thermometer into the livewell and turn on your vessel’s recirculating pump before ever casting your line.

Remember, some species of fish are more sensitive to water temperatures and oxygen levels than others. According to the experts, dissolved oxygen content in livewells needs to be at no less than 7mg/l for freshwater fish. Some freshwater species may need more than that. Like we said, it all depends on the species.

Saltwater fish, on the other hand, may inherently be able to stay alive in water that has a dissolved oxygen level that is at 6 mg/l. Thus, when setting up a livewell, it never hurts to know as much about the species that you’ll be fishing for as possible. Doing so will go a long way in making livewell conditions perfect for that monster fish.

If you find that the conditions in your boat’s livewell start to deteriorate during the fishing day, you may need to adjust your aerator pump usage and check the oxygen sensor often. Using blocks of ice and special chemical additives may help rebalance the livewell’s water too. Should all of that fail to correct the problem, consider pumping out and replacing at least half of the livewell’s water content every few hours.

To find the best fishing equipment needed for maintaining livewells during the warm weeks ahead, please contact us at Performance Product Technologies. We have everything anglers and boaters need to keep their prize catches feisty and their summer fishing trips worry-free.