Show bj by 7 aw d jumil an almost invariably far more fish can be caught during certain types of rain than at any other time the only reason man many y an anglers lers dont know thin this is i that tha t they ve never tried fishing in the rain A steady allda all fill day da rain without thunder or wind of often produces spectacular fishing even a brief rain without thunder and especially if its with oat wind causes tar far more productive fishing than get before or after thunder sometimes seems to but out aish to the bottom and stop them from feeding yet tome some of the most fast and furious fishing for pike that ive ever encountered has been during severe thunder accompanied by wind hero here I 1 should warn fishermen who dont already know about it never to stay out on open water or wade a large large pool far from high trees during durin a thunder lightning str strikes tes the highest object around and you may be it which mug brings us to the subject of rainwear rain wear for fishermen the makers of rainwear rain wear have done such nice things for us with lightweight light weight space having iving plat plas tics bics you should a always ways keep jeep rainwear rain wear in your tackle box or creel think of it as belonging there as much as your lures there are raincoats of all lengths and there are coats and trousers of the same light material you can get theo tha with attached hood or with a separate parate ce hat now to 0 prove that rainy weather ashing fishing works let me quote jason lucas angling edi tor of sport sports afield magazine late last season I 1 wa was at a lard hard fished lake during th the of august when fishing is at lui its worst it wai was bad even for then but ne morning when I 1 awoke awe it vas was raining a steady noua onous rain with no wind the first gray light in the sky me anchored in the middle the lake all alone I 1 had a dry fly rod on an which I 1 put a mall small cork bass popper I heres feres what I 1 caught an choked in that one spot on one popper 78 75 bass weighing from 1 hi to 6 pounds 8 vail eye we weighing ilroy hing from 2 to 7 pounds 6 8 pike from 3 to 9 pounds 8 crap up to 2 pounds 3 bluegills blue gills up to a I 1 pounds A total oi of fine fine fish of course courm I 1 fished steadily for 16 10 hours but but the thing was so fascinating cina ting that I 1 force myself to go in until id landed an even fish this would have been impossible except in such a steady allday all day rain without thunder or wind in 1953 pedestrians were injured in U S traffic accidents ci dents saturday li is the most dangerous day of the week in traffic |