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Hello, I'm Dwight Norris of FishingAtWork.com and today we're going to talk about how to hold a fishing hole
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Stay tuned. Generally with most fishing holes you're going to have an open face rail slash spinning rail
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where the line is exposed in a circular fashion, which I talked in a previous video
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So, particularly with the spinning reel, you need to take your middle finger, like your
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spock, split it, put it around the handle here, grasp it, and then, if you're like me
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the way I teach it, you put your finger here, and if you have live bait, you're gonna hold
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the line here you can feel everything that's happening between you and all this
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and your lure so you can feel when a fish is picking it up tasting it moving it a little bit left or right or just taking it and just going We all know that move That pulls the whole thing down
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But if anything else happens and it's really lethargic or slow, you'll be able to feel those slight, subtle changes in the lure that aren't the environment around you
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i.e. rocks or stumps you're bouncing over. It'll be a fish picking it up and
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Do that little pull here and there. Feels weird? Give it a hook set. So when you're casting
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you know, you're holding it just like this and you let it go as soon as you reach the uh, just
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before the point that you want to go to and then your line will travel in that area with a small
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degree of error. When you're you're reeling it in, it's just like this with your left hand. If you do
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it this way, you can switch it if you're left-handed and cast with your left hand. Same thing right
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between your two fingers here, like slap, stick it in between and work it like that and
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roll the other way. Now right here you can see there is a counter balance. This is the
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Kevin Van Dam series KVD lightweight rod As you can see easy to balance on one finger Wow got that right the first time Good job boy
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If you're going to be casting really far or you're using this in the salt water and you have to put a lot of weight on the fish
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you can do the same kind of hold here, but you're going to put your other hand toward the back of it
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of it. Not directly on the butt but directly above the butt. And then you can do longer
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and harder casts and put more force behind it. And you can also hook set it harder too
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depending on what kind of thing you're hooking it to. If you have a striped bass you don't
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want to hook it with one hand. You want to really reel back like a blue fish and make
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sure the hook penetrates them out effectively. Otherwise whenever it jumps it's going to
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throw your bait or your hook and it will be prime because you lost your fish. Now if you
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have a big caster which I didn't bring with me. The same thing you're gonna..
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Basically this will be the big caster right here and you position your thumb
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in your hand your thumb right here A little piece of webbing and push it up against just just next to the little thumb reel here and then you can have your thumb over the top of it and your thumb will be rubbing just over top of
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the um the line. This is pretty basic. You can't really do it any other way but if you're not
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really in it you put your thumb right in that little right that little notch there and you can
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do the same kind of hooks hook set and use the two hand option hook set it that way. And other
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Other than that there's really not much other ways to actually hold a fishing pole
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So if you're looking for ways to hold a fishing pole or maybe different techniques, these
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are the two that I recommend. They've worked for me for decades and they can work for you too
