By Jose Manuel Lopez Pinto / Rappala Pro Staff Costa Rica
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The ARTIFICIAL sport fishing lureS
By: Jose Manuel Lopez Pinto MBA
Rapala Pro Staff/Representing IGFA Costa Rica
Which is the operation of the artificial sport fishing lures in the water?
The concept of the water column is interpreted like the different levels from depth from the surface to the zone of bottom (measured from zero meters in ahead to the level of the bottom), is there where the different types from sport fishing lures have their action of the box of the fisherman.
The fish can be located in the zone of bottom, suspended swimming in intermediate waters a (variable depth) or in low brief waters near rocky, low of sand, bottoms with aquatic plants, islands and borders.

Being consequent with the previous point the concept of limits of incapacity of escape of the prey exists and is important to know that for the fish predator these limits exist in the water column and are essential part of their strategies of hunting, include/understand: the included/understood vertical limit in the superior layer of the water before leaving to the atmosphere, the water produced one of greater depth by other predators on the lookout above or below the prey, the limit of zone of bottom, in addition the horizontal and lateral limits in the zones that present/display impediments of escape of the prey and the limits of incapacity natatoria of the prey in where the predator is able to surpass in speed and agility to its prey to capture it behind or frontally; the limits are important in the mobile battle of the artificial sport fishing lures to be captured with the ferocity of the great fish of waters.

The fish in addition have natural variability of movement within the water column in the day, as well as in the different stations from the year depending on the temperature, food availability and hereditary customs of the species, so the fisherman of cane and spool must adapt to these variabilities with his limits associate and to use the sport fishing lures that give to greater probabilities of fishing within the limits of incapacity of escape of the prey (adaptability him from sport fishing lures to the situation.
Therefore and at the general level for a good understanding of the fisherman, the sport fishing lures can be classified in their majority of the following form by their swimming action.

1. sport fishing lures of work in total surface (0 to 0,3 meters), defined like all those artificial ones of floating type or that by their action can be worked in a very superficial layer of the water or upon the same one. Within these they are possible to be categorizar: oscillating or rotatory teaspoons (spoons), floating witches (spinnerbaits and buzzbaits), sport fishing lures with frontal glass (poppers), bananas (Skitter Walk), pececillos (minnows), sport fishing lures with helix (propelers), smooth plastics of flotation and any other variant of sport fishing lure that is floating net or that can very superficially be worked in the water.

2. sport fishing lures of work in brief waters (Sub Surface) that are those that penetrates of 0,3 to 1,8 meters of depth. Within these they are possible to be categorizar: Oscillating or rotatory teaspoons (Spoons), witches (spinnerbaits), pececillos of flotation - immersion (Minnows with small plastic lip), Rattli´n Rapala or sport fishing lures without plastic lip (Lipless sport fishing lures), smooth plastics covered with lead at the internal level, with head jig of lead or armed with styles Texas, Carolina or Drop Shot.

3. sport fishing lures of work to average water (Mid Surface) that are those that works of 2 to 4 meters of depth. Within these they are possible to be categorizar: Oscillating or rotatory teaspoons (Spoons), witches (sippnerbaits), pececillos of flotation - immersion (Minnows with medium plastic lip), Rattli´n Rapala or sport fishing lures without plastic lip (Lipless sport fishing lures), smooth plastics covered with lead at the internal level, with head jig of lead or armed with styles Texas, Carolina or Drop Shot.