Centerpin fishing, also called float fishing or center pin fishing, is a
fishing technique
Fishing techniques are methods for catching fish. The term may also be applied to methods for catching other aquatic animals such as molluscs (shellfish, squid, octopus) and edible marine invertebrates.
Fishing techniques include hand-gatherin ...
which uses a centerpin
rod, a
centerpin reel, and
Roe
Roe ( ) or hard roe is the fully ripe internal egg masses in the ovaries, or the released external egg masses, of fish and certain marine animals such as shrimp, scallop, sea urchins and squid. As a seafood, roe is used both as a cooked in ...
, or an
artificial fly. The method is used for
steelhead
Steelhead, or occasionally steelhead trout, is the common name of the anadromous form of the coastal rainbow trout or redband trout (O. m. gairdneri). Steelhead are native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific basin in Northeast Asia and ...
fishing in
fresh water, and is currently popular with freshwater
salmon
Salmon () is the common name for several commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the family Salmonidae, which are native to tributaries of the North Atlantic (genus ''Salmo'') and North Pacific (genus '' Oncorhy ...
anglers who drift floats downstream.
References
* Gross WH (2008)
Steelhead & Salmon: Use the Secrets of the Pros to Catch More and Bigger Fish' Lyons Press Series.
* McClane AJ and Gardner K (1987
''The Complete book of fishing: a guide to freshwater, saltwater & big-game''Page 12. Gallery Books.
External links
''Woods N Water News'', March 1, 2008.
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