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"Back in the day," it was one of the main baits supposedly used off the bass stands. The gaffer would chum the water with bunker while the fisherman would sit atop the bass stand with a lobster tail baited on the bottom. An old timer I fish with told me some stories about how he used to use small live lobsters down at beavertail. He would fish them like an oversized crawfish and insert a single hook in the tail so as not to kill the bug and allow it to swim around. Used to do VERY well like this, but my impression was that it was now illegal to use them as bait. Could be wrong, though, as I never had enough $ laying around to buy a few dozen to try.
I have found plenty of lobsters in the stomaches of bass the last few seasons, especially in one spot in CT that I fish that is littered with lobster pots.
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