Me wrote:
How do you guys feel about using live bait to bass fish with?
Does it take any of the sport out of it?

A lot of people are going to disagree with me on here, the reason will
be self evident

This whole thing about "sport" with lures was started with the lure
manufacturers that sponsor Bass tournaments, (and just made their
livings from selling lures) they were designed (the tournaments) for
only one purpose "sell more lures". I think the only tournaments today
you can't use live bait are Bass, tournaments for most other species
allow you to use either lures or live bait.

These lure manufactures spent/spending huge sums of money
convincing,(brain washing) through their "sponsored" bass professionals,
the fishermen into believing, it's not a sport unless you use lures
and my sponsor's lures are the best to use. (most TV fishing shows do
the same as the lure manufacturers pays their bills) It's called
marketing. Now many bass fishermen believe what they have been sold is
true, there is no sport unless you use fake baits, they will fight you
over this, they will flame you over this. I make my living from people
using lures, I'm now on the inside of this industry, I should not be
telling people this, but I think it is a huge disservice to the
fishermen not to, especially those fishermen who have never used live
bait. DO I get a bigger thrill catching a hog on my rigs, and lures, of
course "I" do. Am I disappointed when a big bass hits a live Blue gill
I've thrown out for a huge cat fish ? Heck NO ! It's a blast to land,
just the same


My neighbor spends the winter in Florida and fishes with large shiner for
bass.
I just don't think I would get the same satisfaction catching a bass on live
baits as I do with artificial,

Your mind has been brain washed from years of advertising, and
convincing from those who make their living by selling or marketing
lures, or from other fishermen who have had their brains washed.

but I am shore that a 15lb base on live bait
would change my mind.

Maybe,, I mean you would enjoy it, but because of your mental training
by the lure industry, you would feel a little hollow in the pit of your
stomach

Bill Dance was filming a TV show on bream fishing with his grand
daughter, see asked him, Grand Pa, why are we not fishing with chirppers
(what she called crickets) , We always bream fish with chirppers, His
reply, no chirpper company will pay me to fish with them.

Now in other species professional tournaments, the lure companies are
minor sponsors, the boats, motors, rod's and reels, electronics pay most
of the bills, actually they do now in bass fishing as well, but he lure
companies is where it all started, and their first rule was "NO LIVE BAIT"

Don't get me wrong, I never fish for bass with live bait any longer,
Heck my Wiggle rig is better than live bait, I've proved it in head to
head testing against live bait, over and over again. Now sometimes I
will use "dead" minnows or shad on it, and these do out catch the lures
on it, as well as out catching the "live" minnows and shad not on it.




--
Rodney Long,
Inventor of the Mojo SpecTastic "WIGGLE" rig, SpecTastic Thread,
Nutri Shield insect repellent. ,Stand Out Hooks ,Stand Out Lures,
Mojo's Rock Hopper & Rig Saver weights, and the EZKnot
http://www.ezknot.com