Live bait to bass fish with. Right or Wrong?

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

I don't feel that I am brain washed because my brother and I have poured our
own jigs, spinner baits, and soft plastics for some time now.
"Rodney Long" wrote in message
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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

Me wrote:
I don't feel that I am brain washed because my brother and I have poured our
own jigs, spinner baits, and soft plastics for some time now.

Of course you don't, no one does, the mind set is "lures" are more
sporting, Like it takes more skill to catch bass on lures than live
bait, in fact in most cases this is true, two fishermen using the same
lure, one will catch more than the other due to the skill of his
presentation. When using live bait, in most situations, there is no
"presentation" skill involved. The live bait does it for you

That's what makes my Wiggle rig so good, it allows the fishermen many
different presentations with the same lure, even to the point of a
better presentation that what live bait gives the fish, the reason is
live bait can only struggle for a few seconds then they are tired, their
"highest" fish drawing action is over quickly, when you are wiggling,
the lure does not get tired (and neither do you), you can mimic an
injured bait's struggle for ever, even in one spot (which when a bait is
injured it actually stays in one spot) This takes the action from the
manufacturer's hands, and places it in the fisherman's hands

Here are two minnow lures on the Wiggle rig,, no live minnows can act
like this but a few seconds, then they are done , now this is a
presentation that few fish can resist, and can be done for ever

http://ezknot.com/2minnows.wmv

Here is a plastic worm, just showing the "maximum" action the fisherman
can place on his plastic worms with this technique of fishing. It is the
only method of fishing that can actually make a plastic worm move like a
real one.

http://ezknot.com/12worm.wmv

These links will just open the movie clip file, not take you to my site,
this is shown only for educational purposes of lure presentation, to
show that some lures can be presented better than live bait, I could
care less if anyone buys anything.

I challenge others to post lure actions videos on this group, for
comparison, and for teaching how to obtain those actions, so everyone
learns better methods of fishing
--
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