Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Catching Your Own Bait

Fathead minnows, leeches, and worms are mainstays in bait-shop refrigerators across the country. These old standards have produced stringers of game fish for decades, and decades to come. For a greater selection of live bait that will give you the ability to change with the fish, skip the tackle shop and catch your own. Most fisherman enjoy catching their own bait, with traps, seines, and cast nets. Make sure that these types of bait catching are allowed in your state or country. The down side to catching your own bait is that some people may illegally keep game fish that were caught in the traps, seines, or cast nets. The plus is that you get a large variety of bait to pick from.

Seth T.
Monte W.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Agreed. My dad and I used to spend the night before a fishing trip coaxing night crawlers from their homes with a mixture of water and dried mustard. A lot cheaper than the bait shop.