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Originally Posted by keakar
I never bought em, and I never will even when they were 20-25 cents each
never had any problem catching limits on plastics when they were feeding on shrimp
now when they are feeding on fish I have bought cocahoes a few rare times and it has helped a lot at those times but I cant afford live bait and learned to successfully fish without it.
I find the only time live shrimp matters is if the guy next to you has it, then they will not hit plastics as much until 10 minutes after the live bait guy leaves, then you still catch plenty on plastics
live shrimp are for guys with disposable income and charter boats who need the edge so their customers can catch, even the fishing challenged ones lol.
it does make a difference but until they can put up a force field around them so I don't catch hard heads, sheep head, and baby croakers who eat all my shrimp, well I cant afford to feed live shrimp to trash fish |
I have fished the Port Suphur to Grand Isle area a lot; and you only need 2 baits to catch trout. LSU Queen Cacahoe, and Glow Chart Sand Eel
I believe the West Side benefits from live shrimp much more at certain times of the year.