The Joliet Junior College Anglers Club Presents' Catch More Fish From Local Waters

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The Joliet Junior College Anglers Club
Presents.Catch More Fish From Local Waters

• Welcome from the JJCAC

• Bank fishing philosophy
• Understand local waters in terms
• of the species and number of
• fish present

• Finding and attracting fish
• Finding fish holding features and using chum to
  increase your catch rate

A 40 plus pound carp, caught while bank fishing

• Bank angling methods
• Methods and tactics used
• when bank fishing

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Welcome from the JJCAC
What is the JJCAC?
A non-profit student run organization open to the
wider community
JJC sponsored activities

• Seminars formal and on the bank
• Informal Friday fish-ins at local venues
• Regular bank fishing events with the Midwest
  anglers club
• Service projects, such as the Family Fish
  Frenzy with the JPD
• Angling research under water videography studies

Ryan and Laurie at a Friday Fish
The end result a nice mixed catch
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Bank Fishing Philosophy (are you a barracuda or
an angler fish?)

• Most predatory fish species have evolved, over
  millions of years, to become mostly either
• Pursuit predators such as the barracuda or
• Ambush predators such as the angler fish

The piscatorial arts have also evolved along
analogous lines Boat / sport fishing the
pursuit of specific quarry Bank angling ambush
style approach for whats there
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Comparison of Pursuit and Ambush Angling styles

• Pursuit (Cuda)
• Typically fish from a boat
• Goal is to locate and then angle for target
  species
• Method relies on mobility and fish locating
  technologies (fish finders etc.)
• Typically species specific

• Ambush (Angler fish)
• Typically fish from the shore
• Goal is to attract fish to the anglers fishing
  area (swim)
• Method relies on creating an attractive bed of
  feed in the swim
• Typically species non-specific

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Understanding Ecosystems whats in your Local
Pond, Lake or River?
Key idea The majority of ecosystems contain a
similar mix of prey, predatory and super
vegetarian species
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Understanding Ecosystems whats in your Local
Pond, Lake or River?
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Understanding Ecosystems whats in your Local
Pond, Lake or River?
Take home message Bank anglers, who are less
mobile than boat anglers, can greatly increase
their catch rates if they target whats there.
These species are typically
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Finding and Attracting Fish
Overview Bank anglers can increase their catches
by

• Locating and fishing close to any fish holding
  feature in the area they are fishing. On most
  venues this is typically a marginal shelf or
  step. Such features can be located by carefully
  pluming the depth (DEMO)

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Finding and Attracting Fish

• By introducing chum (groundbait) into the area
  being fished. Groundbait is a feed intended to
  attract, and then induce a competitive feeding
  response, among the fish.

Simple groundbait recipe and mixing instructions
(DEMO)
General recipe 4 cups yellow corn meal 2 cups
white bread crumb Vanilla (or other flavored)
water Handful of bait samples Note Add more
white crumb for flowing or deep water

• Mixing Instructions
• Add the dry ingredients to a shallow, round bowl
  ( e.g. Tupperware)
• Thoroughly mix the dry ingredients
• Slowly add the liquid while vigorously mixing.
• Add just enough liquid so the mix just holds
  together when squeezed
• Push the mix through a coarse sieve

Check out more groundbait recipes at
Bankfisher.com
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Bank Fishing Methods and Tactics
TOP TIPS

• ALWAYS fish your bait or rig over a groundbaited
  (chummed) area. This will almost certainly
  guarantee more fish.

• Match your hook to the size of bait you are
  using. Use small baits (single or double corn,
  half leaf worm, single wax worm) in preference to
  larger ones. An elephant will eat a single
  peanut, but a mouse cant eat a T-bone steak.

• Use a sensitive a float (bobber) as possible it
  should have a narrow tip and body. This will give
  positive guzzunder bites. Avoid the old red n
  white bobber at all costs!

• Use a light a line as you can the bait will
  behave more naturally when falling through the
  water and attract more takes.

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Bank Fishing Methods and Tactics
Three simple rigs that catch Fish (DEMO)
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Questions?
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Special thanks and recognition to Members of
the JJCAC John Wilkins (Midwest Angler
Founder) Bill Hodge (CAG President, IL) CBA
members featured in photographs YOU ALL for
coming
Please support the JJCAC though he purchase of
plummets, bank sticks, T-shirts and club
memberships All available at the club table.
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