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By Mark Sherburn, Fish and Game Officer.  Eastern Region   New Zealand  There is a saying in the tackle industry that lures are made to catch the  anglers first!  I am sure that, like me, you have enjoyed staring Goggle-eyed in fishing stores over the vast array of fishing lures in every shape and colour imaginable. " But, which one do I buy, and which one do I put on?" Lure choice is one of those often debated topics within groups of fishers. During opening day surveys on Lake Tarawera I enjoy asking successful anglers what they were using. Some don't like to tell me- I assume because they are using some hot super secret  new lure that they've 'invented', but I doubt it. while others are only too keen to tell me " orange number 56, swear by it, "only lure I ever use..." Not surprisingly, there are old rules of the thumb too; dark lure on a dark day, bright lure on a bright days, reds and orange in the winter, etc. No matter which lure is y

www.rod-fly-fishing.com This starts out as a fly-fishing story. Uncle Ted and I had cut a swath through the blue ribbon trout streams of the greater Yellowstone area. The Tedder is a renowned fisherman and hunter in Idaho, and so far the highlight of the trip for me was that I was staying even with him. Now I had a new challenge for Ted. I had intrigued him with a story I had written for a fly-fishing magazine on catching common carp on the fly. What if windpower had been 'their' idea? Mark Altieri Plain Dealer "I had intrigued him with a story I had written for a fly-fishing magazine on catching common carp on the fly. I also had been periodically sending him Plain Dealer articles by D'Arcy Egan highlighting me fly fishing for carp on the Rocky River and ..." http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2012/09/what_if_windpower_had_been_the.html But what if the wind industry had evolved differently? Let's say the things were actually efficient, didn't re