Gene Kearns wrote:

On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 16:51:02 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

I'm going to try to give up using "live" bait or fish chunks (bait that
was once live) and concentrate on using hard lures and plastics. I
started thinking about doing this last season, and started making the
transition towards the end of the year, going back to the lead-headed
jigs with plastic shrimp, and some of the other larger plastics that
served me so well in NE Florida. Last season, from August on, I
experimented in the Bay with the usual dead fish bait one buys at the
bait stores and with plastics, and the fish-caught count was about even
most days.

I might still use chum bags as an attractant, though. Yes, chum is
formerly live bait. But, then, the life of a fisherman isn't binary.

Somehow, I'm afraid if I quit using "live" bait I'd adversely affect
the ecology of Long Bay. You see, the fish have become so accustomed
to me feeding them, to stop now would surely have a negative effect on
their diet.


Ahhh...you, too, are part of the Federal Fish Feeding Program. I've been
a member for many years.

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