Don't want to start a battle, but minnows are a forage fish, "fuel for the food web" and will likely be eaten before they reach 1 year. Much like rabbits, very high mortality rate - their purpose to exist is to be food for other predators.Pug wrote:<snip> it seems wrong to me to kill a dozen or two minnows to catch sport fish ...then release the sport fish. What about the poor minnows!!!!! <snip>
Live bait vrs Gulp Alive?
True, however when you take minnows out of one body of water, you are then removing forage fish for that body of water. The minnows are then bought up by various fishermen, and used to catch fish all over the place. Not necissarily in the same body of water where they came from.Out4trout wrote:Don't want to start a battle, but minnows are a forage fish, "fuel for the food web" and will likely be eaten before they reach 1 year. Much like rabbits, very high mortality rate - their purpose to exist is to be food for other predators.Pug wrote:<snip> it seems wrong to me to kill a dozen or two minnows to catch sport fish ...then release the sport fish. What about the poor minnows!!!!! <snip>
Also, how many fishermen out there, think that only a live minnow will work, how many dead minnows are then thrown into a bush?
I enjoy using minnows, but I prefer minnows that are raised on a fish farm. However, a baitshop may not always have access to farmed minnows.
That is exactly why the MNR is tightening down on live bait. Disease and invasive species spread too easily this way. For all back-country trout fishing, I trap/catch my own minnows and only use them in the lakes that I took them from. When done fishing, the unused ones are returned to the water they came from. Yep - the dead ones go into the bushes... Racoon food ... I prefer my minnows tugging a Thill float above them.Canmoore wrote: <snip> True, however when you take minnows out of one body of water, you are then removing forage fish for that body of water. The minnows are then bought up by various fishermen, and used to catch fish all over the place. Not necissarily in the same body of water where they came from. <snip>
Bonus= Don't have to transport minnows -especially handy when portaging a canoe!!
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I ussualy fish the Petrie island part of the river and let me tell you that some days in Walleye Bay Gulp minnows or leeches work better then live minnows. The trick is presentation ..... jig head colour the way your jiggin ect.... I say try them both and will see what the fish think !
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If you do something different or use something new in a body of water under fishing pressure.....you might just have the key to success on occasions.
On the water, the evalution you make out of your fishing outing as everything to do with how you will succeed. Planification, practice, experience and research will help you making better decisions as of what you will be using when,where and how.
Some products will make your life easier. I aggree that Gulp Alive crawlers for exemple will be much more resistant than regular crawlers.
This would be one serious advantage to Gulp Alive. This might also be one of the main reason some anglers would use it.
Lot's of waters have never seen Gulp Alive....another advantage. New products can be deadly sometimes!
But no mather what you use learn how to do it right and that will give you the edge to succeed. In the world of anglers we all sware by the products we are using most and are familiar with. Changes sometimes is a good thing! Be versatile.....be open!
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On the water, the evalution you make out of your fishing outing as everything to do with how you will succeed. Planification, practice, experience and research will help you making better decisions as of what you will be using when,where and how.
Some products will make your life easier. I aggree that Gulp Alive crawlers for exemple will be much more resistant than regular crawlers.
This would be one serious advantage to Gulp Alive. This might also be one of the main reason some anglers would use it.
Lot's of waters have never seen Gulp Alive....another advantage. New products can be deadly sometimes!
But no mather what you use learn how to do it right and that will give you the edge to succeed. In the world of anglers we all sware by the products we are using most and are familiar with. Changes sometimes is a good thing! Be versatile.....be open!
444
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I agree with 444. I usually give a new bait or lure 2 seasons to make the "team".Big Bass 444 wrote: But no mather what you use learn how to do it right and that will give you the edge to succeed. In the world of anglers we all sware by the products we are using most and are familiar with. Changes sometimes is a good thing! Be versatile.....be open!
444
Bass Addict wrote: It simply boils down to ..BERKELY is to damn cheap to replace those leaking lids....Shame on them..
If you all want to get the point across to Berkley about their cheap containers we should get together and do a bit of a protest with signs at the B1 this fall. With all the media the B1 will have at the event, I'll bet Berkley will listen thenFishing 24/7 wrote:they should put it on the label .
ATTENTION!
this is a cheap container.
this CHEAP product WILL leak in you bag pocket and or boat!
using this DAMN CHEAP product WILL make you STINK to the point that your girl friend will not......
you get the picture!
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I'll stick with the original Gulp, small bag vs. big leaky bucket...Plus I haven't really seen much of a difference in catch rates. If anything I'm gonna go pick up some Yum worms tomorrow, neighbor gave me a couple to try and depending on how you rig them they produce some really nice results.
But when it comes down to it, if you've got room in your tackle box they will help you catch fish.
But when it comes down to it, if you've got room in your tackle box they will help you catch fish.