YOUr a SUcka if you A CRokEr soker..

[Hopedale Hustler]

i was soakin 12 inch pogeys at thunderhorse and medusa..

[SULPHITE]

Not gonna lie I caught bait on friday, got wasted fri night and let the most of the bait perish!! Threw some mullet on sat, but couldn't stand it went to plastics and caught my reds...everyone I saw were chunking shrimp, saw a couple of croaker or mullet throwers...I just needed to compose my self to recover so we jammed the radio and let'm soak...once reality came back we were chunkin plastics only and for the rest of the day.

[Feesherman]

We threw topwater all day on Saturday. Kept gettin bit so no reason in stopping. My girlfriend had a huge fish on for a while, pulled more drag off the reel than any fish I ever caught and my biggest trout is 8 pounds. It ended up gettin off. Poor thing, she was dying to weigh a fish in a tourny.

[Light Tackle John]

I absolutely agree. A 2cooler partener emailed me wanting to fish the tournament together and the first sentenced said "Are you freed up this Saturday to fish the Spectacular on Big Lake; the only problem is we can't wade and the allow live bait". Neither of us ended up fishing the tournament for other reasons but it didn't bother us as much because of the rules.

I don't care if fisherman want to throw live bait to catch thier fish. If the title "tournament" is being used, live bait should not be allowed unless it is for a charity and then there should be seperate divisions with the artifishual payout being higher!! Wading should be allowed even if they say you must be on the water by boat 1st, and may exit and enter the boat to wade as long as the boat is the primary means to travel and transport fish off the lake. Something like that would work for me.

[Pescador]

Sounds like jealousy to me...I'm no tourney fisherman, but if I were live bait would DEFINATLEY be on my agenda. I have nothing against fisherman who use plastics, I throw them on occasion. Why get mad about it? Catching your own bait and keeping it alive takes much more skill and patience than going to Academy and picking up a bag of plastics.

["W"]

Originally Posted by Pescador

Sounds like jealousy to me...I'm no tourney fisherman, but if I were live bait would DEFINATLEY be on my agenda. I have nothing against fisherman who use plastics, I throw them on occasion. Why get mad about it? Catching your own bait and keeping it alive takes much more skill and patience than going to Academy and picking up a bag of plastics.

I know you didn't go there!!!!

[Feesherman]

Originally Posted by Pescador

Catching your own bait and keeping it alive takes much more skill and patience than going to Academy and picking up a bag of plastics.

Wow what a skill. At least, since you don't have any fish catching skills, you can always make mullet/pogie gumbo out of the bait you skillfully caught when you don't catch fish.

[Pescador]

Originally Posted by Feesherman

Wow what a skill. At least, since you don't have any fish catching skills, you can always make mullet/pogie gumbo out of the bait you skillfully caught when you don't catch fish.

Haha...i don't have a care in my mind what anyone uses for bait to catch there fish. The two seperate tourney divisions sounds like a great idea! But believe me...I'm definatley not eating my bait; TROUT seem to LOVE it! Saturday Mornings catch....

[SULPHITE]

I see a pretty decent sized trout in there...

[dbarham]

Originally Posted by Cajun Elite

BAN LIVE BAIT FROM TROUT TOURNYS... THIS IS BS sorry it just burns me..

croker debate?

[LaAngler]

do croaker wars ever get anywhere?

[rosska]

Hopefully this one will at least get two different divisions in tournaments!

[Hopedale Hustler]

the only reason i care is cause some people seem to think people who do use live bait from time to time are less of fisherman..

[LaAngler]

any idiot can go out and bounce a sand eel.....

["W"]

Originally Posted by LaAngler

any idiot can go out and bounce a sand eel.....

[Long Pole]

I see some 8" flounder too...

[Feesherman]

Originally Posted by Long Pole

I see some 8" flounder too...

I can't rag on that. I always keep a few small ones like that because my Mom loves to bake them in her toaster oven. She get's so excited when I bring her some little flounder like that.

[cmdrost]

this goes down for the dumbest thread of the year! Who cares what people use to fish with.

[Feesherman]

Originally Posted by cmdrost

this goes down for the dumbest thread of the year! Who cares what people use to fish with.

I will say, I don't care what people use to fish with. It's the tournaments we are talking about. It's two totally different fishing methods. The trout masters tourny that came here a few years back did not allow live bait. I would like to see the Trout Shootout go the same way. Maybe start with two different divisions, live bait category and artificial category with more prize money going to artys. I would imagine more and more would start signing up for the artys due to more prize money and it could be phased out all together.


Disclaimer: This my opinion and my opinion only.


P.S. I don't think this thread is dumb.

[matt wahl]

Originally Posted by Feesherman

I will say, I don't care what people use to fish with. It's the tournaments we are talking about. It's two totally different fishing methods. The trout masters tourny that came here a few years back did not allow live bait. I would like to see the Trout Shootout go the same way. Maybe start with two different divisions, live bait category and artificial category with more prize money going to artys. I would imagine more and more would start signing up for the artys due to more prize money and it could be phased out all together.


Disclaimer: This my opinion and my opinion only.


P.S. I don't think this thread is dumb.

Good solution , let the live bait people have their own bracket!