antique leonard fly reels Mills Model 50 Raised Pillar Reel Leonard Mills - Model 51A-D

There is something so special about that colour and I have always done really well on them

It seems that the Canal can fish almost at any time of year, but the purposes of visiting anglers, think about late May, June and July especially for the bigger stripers, with big numbers of fish of all sizes in summer especially

Casting and bottom hopping also lets you work areas that are too shallow for getting on top of with your boat and to reach fish with a spoon from the shore or a fishing pier

Because bite-shortened hooks have minimal discard effects, these areas closed off from fishing pressure could potentially open up to recreational anglers if fishing methods used were only those that produced little-to-no post-release mortality