On Jul 23, 10:59 am, "NOYB" wrote:

Get some Berkeley Gulps (small shrimp work well) to keep on board for the
times you don't have bait. You can fish it just like live shrimp or
cut-bait right off the bottom, and they sometimes work better than live
bait...especially in preventing the bait stealers from stripping off your
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Another problem for me is that all of my life, what I needed to fish,
I carried in my pocket, cept' the pole. Started boating and started
buying tackel boxes and filling them with artificial baits. Went
fishing last night with my middle and her husband. Went back to live
bait, worms in this case, came home with a nice rainbow in the bucket.
Lots of very fat panfish at Crystal lake this year, in fact in lots of
lakes. Should be a good year for Calico Bass (east coast, fresh water
version, state record about 2 lbs iirc) which don't have a lot of
meat, but the fillets are better than sole. Don't really like to keep
them in summer, wormy. Anyway, the kids were swimming, and fishing at
the same time. Knew the panfish would not mind, but I did not expect
to hook a big trout just 20 feet or so under the swimmers. Rainy
today, probably won't go out.