Live bait to bass fish with. Right or Wrong?

On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 22:22:51 -0500, "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?
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, but I am shore that a 15lb base on live bait
would change my mind.


You don't seem to have a problem using minnows for crappie. What's the
difference, in your mind, to using them for Bass?

Using live bait is an effective way to catch big predatory fish of all
kinds. As long as it's legal, give it a try. Only then will you know
if it "satisfies" you.

Here in Oregon it is illegal to use live bait. Some very selfish
people trying to catch the "big one" introduced Tui chub to several
lakes. These Tui chub eventually crowded out the game fish in many
lakes, most notably Diamond lake.
http://www.dfw.state.or.us/fish/diamond_lake/index.asp

My Grandpa told stories of catching VERY big native Redside Trout on
the Deschutes river by hooking mice through the scruff of their necks
and putting them on pieces of wood. He said he'd let them drift down
into an eddy, and then tug them of the wood so they'd start swimming
for the shore. Hard to get a more natural action than that

Don