What would give you a better chance at a fifty?

[Nebe]

Originally Posted by piemma

can you say"LIVE BUNKER"?

bring your greasy bunker out to Block Island when the large are feasting on sand eels and see what happens.

the favored offering, be it live bait or plugs depends on the situations you are confronted with.

Bass are opertunistic feeders, but they are also selective when there is ample choices put in front of them.

if it were me and i went on a quest for a 5o this year, i would use cut bunker and chum like a mad man. I'd fish the same spot every night for days on end and in essense I would 'create' my own pogie bite in an area that i know holds big bass by simply having a chum pressense at some level every night.

[ProfessorM]

Originally Posted by Nebe

if it were me and i went on a quest for a 5o this year, i would use cut bunker and chum like a mad man. I'd fish the same spot every night for days on end and in essense I would 'create' my own pogie bite in an area that i know holds big bass by simply having a chum pressense at some level every night.

That is just what we used to do for years at Keene street, in the canal. Tide after tide. Artificial chum slick. Had to coax the fish up over the edge to feed. Chum everything and drift the heads. Gave up doing that lots of years ago, got boring and pogies got scarce and expensive. I would vote for bait Steve.

[Skitterpop]

Yeah those guys who enjoy their breakfast and friendship at the Chicken Ranch don`t catch fish but who cares when you have friends.

[Jenn]

Bait.

[Mike P]

An eel casts as well as most metal lip swimmers, Gil. And I don't retrieve a swimmer much faster than I retrieve an eel.

A rigged eel will outcast most swimmers--but is that a bait or a lure?

And I won't mention dogfish and their preference for bait over jigs

[Ake G]

Actually making it out on the water when conditions are most favorable with one of my two favorite plugs.

With those two things coming together I'd have all the confidence in the world.

[bloocrab]

Mike, when speaking of eels,,,

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is that a bait or a lure?

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I hope you know what you started, that will be the Title to the next 4 new threads. ,,,

Seriously though,, I don't consider eel fishing equal to bait-fishing. I do work chunked baits thru drifts...and I will also make occasional bounces with my chunks when bottom fishing, to rejuvenate the juices as well as move it away from a tugging crab or just to another spot,,, but eel fishing in an essence, is plugging ...with a "Living" plug. "Plugging" by definition, is to "keep at something" which to me means continuously casting and retrieving, that's what I do with eels, , thus plugging .
I have also chunked FAT river eels, but I consider that Bait Fishing, it's all in what you do with the eel that makes it a plug or a bait. Happy now??

In my analogy, I was comparing a 2 -3 oz. needle versus a bloody, fresh pogy chunk ..............I should have been more specific.






but just like in my other post, I would still pick BAIT over PLUGS if there was money on the line

[MikeToole]

From a boat:
Live Bunker
Bunker spoons
Whole or the head of a Dead Bunker

From the shore:
Chunks
Eels
Mambo Minnow