Most fishfinders with side view allow you to view down and side imaging at the same time on the same screen
Now youll want to chamfer or round over the edges, you can chamfer it as much as you like, but for our purposes, drawing an indented line, a half-inch in from all sides will be a good guide
Malindine notes that many of the animals carved into hooks have a real-life ability to move between environments, adding that one such example is the river otter, which can swim almost like a fish and run through the forest like a rabbit. For his study, Malindine spent nearly a month at the Smithsonian Institutions Museum Support Center, a collections storage facility in Suitland, Maryland, examining one of the largest collections of wood hooks in the world
Never raise your rod high with the large fish, keep your handle angle at about 45 degrees or less
If you havent experienced the short handle struggle yet you will one day and youll buy a catfish rod with a longer handle