difference of saltwater fishing. He found that bigger, saltwater fish mean stronger, saltwater fish, and those stronger, saltwater fish do pull even the newest and heaviest rods into the water much faster than weaker, freshwater fish do. He was pretty mad about losing that rod.Last learned was the corroding effect of saltwater on metal. Before our trip was half over, every part of our fishing reels that was meant to swivel or turn had locked up. Our view of WD-40 as the most efficient of lubricants, withstanding all elements, was dissolved by the splashes of salt water. To continue fishing we were forced to disassemble our reels every day and saturate them with grease. No such a weakness of WD-40 had we ever encountered in our career of freshwater fishing. Our reels werent the only things being destroyed by the salt water. Our lures were as well. Their lustrous, metallic surfaces became dull and oxidized. They began a whole epidemic in our tackle boxes, spreading their gritty growths to even those lures that hadnt come into contact with salt water. To save the small remainder of healthy lures, we were forced to adopt the tedious and time-consuming, foreign culture of bathing them in freshwater and keeping them in a clean, quarantined box.Conclusively and strongly stressed to the naive freshwater fisherman, freshwater fishing can shockingly differ from saltwater fishing. Successful freshwater fishing is allowed by simpler and more practical means, including a wider range of lure selections, limp and simple line, and the lightest of gear. It has minimal demands on fishermen and equipment. Saltwater fishing, on the other hand, surely does not....
