This topic always stirs the pot everytime it comes up.:rollem:

perhap's it's because if everyone knew how,,holes could be wiped out,,market flooded and a shorter season.....to much of a good thing?

Here--knock yourselves out.

uh, lol.

ok.

Swimmer, what do you mean by "the commercial fleet"?

riverrat2 nice fish, were you on time? Did you bring lunch? :rotf3:

Just play nice people ;) - thanks...

John

Hahaa that picture is hilarious, i guess thats what you look like after not sleeping more than 2 hours for 3 days straight and living on redbulls and pop tarts.

The "commercial fleet" are the boats with licences to fish for bass or anything else, they usually fish the same area, they can be any size boat. Most people just know the guys in the fleet, in the spring this year there were 15 or so of them fishing the bay all CC'S together fishing the same area.....

thanks

Hey , I know that boat !!!

Them Parkers are fishy!!!

nice fish Max...glad to see it...hope your having a blast

Interesting info. - Good stuff. Makes me want to get a damn boat!... 30 keepahs?? !$$#!#$!@#@#$!$

used to yo yo quicks's in my commercial days- very deadly.

Yo-Yoing Wall Street Journal Article amnd Video
 

Boys

The jig (sorry) may be up.

See today's Wall Street Journal on a complete description of Yo-Yoing. There is even a video on how to do this if you subscribe electronically. Won't be long before every numnutz in creation will be doing it and I'm sure the tackle stores will be selling Yo-Yo kits, too!

We've successfully used a technique close to this off Sandy Hook and it works like a charm. Deadly for the lazy lunker. If you use a small metal leader on the weight, you'll also prevent the blues from chomping off that piece of the rig and all you'll lose is the hook.

wow, just watched the vid.

Asking a dumb question, wouldnt it be easy to run another leader from the hook eye ring through an eye in the lead weight? That would attach the weight to the main line and wouldnt impact how it looks to a bass? Seems like a simple solution to the bass inhaling the lead and the situtation if the bunker falls off.

Nobody was banned. The weight of the lead inside the fish was deducted from the total weight of the fish and the fish counted.

I have never done it BUT....
Could it be done with less objections if the equipment changed? how about changing the "coat hanger or wooden scewer" to a paper stick something like in a candy sucker. those things last for hours. we are fisherman and know a few knots so...sew the mouth shut with thread instead of a hog ring or staple. as for the 6-8 oz of lead use something natural that is small enough to be passed. sand could work if put directly in the belly and sewn up afterward. sounds like there are a few people looking for the easiest and fastest way not the better way to yo-yo.
I may check it out for myself some day.

There was a big article in On The Water less than a year ago with pictures, technique, and debate of it's ethics. I say if it catches God Bless! Definately need a boat though there in lies the problem.

Nobody was banned last year, but I think MikeP is referring to an incident which occurred years ago, before the internet age.

That would be correct. This thread started in 2006. Lev's fish was 2007. No one ever said Lev was banned.

The article was aimed at giving both sides and as has been said atm least once in thsi thread...here are many variations and personal ethics are a key in this debate.

Also, remember when you talk about banning this technique the language will ahve to be written to encorporate certain facets that will most definately effect other fishing techniques. Do you put a rubber core in the mouth of an eel, fish a rigged ballyhoo. Prohibition is not the answer. Education is.

Who bumped this thread anyway.

So much for fight club.

YoYo bait inside my buddies bass.......... I crack up every time I read that title too fast rofl:jester:

I have been fishing the derby since "73" and of the two or three people I can think of who are banned or were banned from the derby I don't believe any of them were caught stuffing weight in a fish.