Practical Fishing Tips, 2000, North American Outdoor Group B Back, reducing soreness when fishing, 92 Bait     better scent dispenser, 110     slow-release dip bait, 110     soft landing for soft bait, 107 Bait, live. See also Baitfish; Worms, live     activating lethargic leeches, 67     catalpa worms, 102     pop-off float for big baits, 94 Bait containers     handy crawler tote, 32     minnow bucket, 39 Baitfish     adding wobble to shad, 111     bullheads and sunfish for catfish, 113     keeping baitfish on hook, 95     storing minnows for ice fishing, 137     trimming tail of, for catfish, 111 Bass tips     add thump to spinnerbaits, 47     curling blades of buzzbaits, 48     double Carolina rig, 52     double trailer, 47     file barbs for prefishing tournaments, 57     fishing docks with crankbait, 54     fizzing bait, 51     indicator plants for, 44     noisy tubebaits, 50     offset jig hook, 53     pop-off balloon, 56     propbait ploys, 49     recognizing revers weedline, 45     recording prefishing details, 57     skirt care for, 46     slipping plugs, 54     speed up with jigs for white bass, 66     spicing up jigging spoons, 51     spicing up plastic worms, 52     spreader rig for stripers, 56     tailweighting topwaters, 48     wacky worm, 53     watch shadows for, 45     weighting minnowbait, 55     in wild rice, 44     willow-leaf spinnerbait for, 46     yo-yo lure, 55     zig-zag your Zara, 49 Batteries, storage tips, 25 Believer, 87 Birds as indicators of baitfish, 74 Bluegills, popper and subsurface fly, 64 Boat motor     maximizing outboard power, 21     storage tips, 24-25     trimming up motor for slow trolling, 23 Boats     big-water hull tip, 20     carpet care, 19     controlling your drift for trout/salmon, 116     flow-thru live well, 18     lighting up side planers, 79     precision jigging for trout/salmon, 123     removing sticky seats, 19     storage tips, 24-25     tethering tools to, 88     tunnel jon for shallow water, 20     underseat lure tubes, 89 Boat trailer     crossing safety chains, 22     fine-tuning tongue weight, 22     level loading, 21 Bobbers, slip-bobber casting, 35 Bucktails     doctoring for pike/muskies, 96     teaser to, 86 Bulrushes, bass in, 44 Buzzbaits, curling baits of, 48 C Carolina rig, double, 52 Casting     breaking backlash habit, 16-17     with slip-bobber, 35 Catalpa worms, 102 Catfish     add flex to limblines, 108     add wobble to shad, 111     better scent dispenser, 110     bullheads and sunfish for, 113     catalpa worms for, 102     circle hook for, 100     compact jug-fishing rig, 103     conveyor rig for dense-cover cats, 105     cormorants draw cats, 106     easy pencil-lead rig, 104     easy trotline storage, 108     emergency slip-sinker, 112     hand-landing flatheads, 102     lighting for night fishing, 100     night-light for juglines, 109     oxbow fishing, 107     preventing deep hooking, 106     slow-release dip bait, 110     snag-proof "slinky," 104     soft landing for soft bait, 107     stop jugline tangles, 109     3-way slip-rig, 112     trimming tail of baitfish for, 111     twist-gaff for giant cats, 101     unhooking, 113 Cattails, bass in, 44 Circle hooks, 100 Cormorants, 106 Crankbait     fishing bass under docks, 54     two-way steelhead rig, 118 Crappies. See also Panfish tips     deep-basin crappies, 65     leveling jig, 60     pinpointing suspended, 60 D Dip bait, slow-release, 110 Double uni-knot, 27 Dropper rigs, adjustable dropper rigs for walleye, 78 F Fish-cleaning tips, 148-155     Canadian filleting method, 149     cleaning mudline, 154     field-dressing trout, 152     minimizing contaminants, 153     no-smell offal, 154     removing E-bones, 154     removing Y-bones, 150-151     using all of your walleye, 155 Fishing line, 26-31     breaking backlash habit, 16-17     coiling leaders, 39     connecting mono to superline, 27     curing kinky mono, 28-29     cushion for superline, 122     double uni-knot, 27     effective line-straightening methods, 29     fixing line wraps, 12     frayed mono, 9     line-selection chart, 26     line-spooling tips, 30     miscellaneous tips, 31     no-slip split shot, 32     roller guide for wire line, 13     slip-proof crimps, 33     spectra knot, 27     stopping superline slippage, 28