We've come full circle

On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:50:18 -0500, "Joe Haubenreich"
wrote:

Shouldn't you be signing your name, "Charles 'my wife says no, I can't go
fishing with you today' Summers."

Joe
Snip

ROTFLMAO

Good one Joe

But if a Gulp bait falls off the hook, it can't reproduce.

Bill


"Bob Rickard" wrote in message
m...
As an ardent angler since age 4, for 61 years I have seen fishing go full
circle with respect to live bait fishing.

Being different from most people in most ways, my "fishing thing" has
always been to experiment & observe both fish & other anglers. Fortunately
for me, I never really cared that much about actually catching fish. Often
I could learn more by trying to find out what my prey would not hit during
a heavy feed. I mainly fished artificials, but I never had any qualms
about using live bait in appropriate situations; live bait does not make
success automatic... I've frequently seen great anglers catch zilch on
live bait.

Today, we have definitely come full circle. I've been laughing for some
time at the self-appointed "purists" who, while demeaning the users of
live bait, would spend all their time fishing little other than modern
chemical plastic clones like Yum, Gulp & all the others on the market
today, many of which actually contain processed live bait or simulated
substitutes. Regardless what you choose to call that stuff, folks, you
ain't no purist any more!

Bob Rickard
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I'm surprised that the regulations involving introduction of non-natives
doesn't go to the source, i.e. banning
the problem species (regionally) at the baitshops.
It seems like fishermen dumping leftovers is a moot point, since live
minnows can occasionally get off a hook
and maybe survive.

Bill


"Scott Seidman" wrote in message
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"Bob Rickard" wrote in
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at the self-appointed "purists" who, while demeaning the users of live
bait,


I'm no purist, but I can tell you that it doesn't take many irresponsible
users of live bait to do some incredibly nasty bucket biology. Live bait
is the strongest suspect for the introduction of the Round Gobi to the
Great Lakes, for example. If you do use live bait, make sure you know the
rules.

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Scott
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"bill allemann" wrote in message
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I'm surprised that the regulations involving introduction of non-natives
doesn't go to the source, i.e. banning
the problem species (regionally) at the baitshops.
It seems like fishermen dumping leftovers is a moot point, since live
minnows can occasionally get off a hook
and maybe survive.

Part of the problem of banning "regionally" bait, is what we experienced up
here in northern Wisconsin with Rusty Crayfish. They're a native species in
Illinois, but an exotic up here. Illinois anglers, vacationing "Up Nort"
would bring their own bait and if there was any left at the end of the week,
they'd dump them in the lake!

Rusties are extremely aggressive, extremely prolific and omnivorous, eating
anything animal or vegetable they could find. In the process they displaced
the native species, decimated lakes of weedbeds, and on some lakes totally
eliminated ALL the vegetation in the lake! This destroyed fisheries with
loss of habitat. They also ate any fish eggs they came across, so spawns
were unsuccessful too, lowering the gamefish and panfish population, totally
screwing with many lakes.

The way I see it, education is the key. What is fine in your waters might
be an "exotic", just a day's drive away!
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Steve @ OutdoorFrontiers
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