lures vs. bait

[Justfishin']

What ever helps me to relax more.
For me, it's being there, catching or not.
Caught big, caught small on both, but plugs do take less clean up and since I make most of my own it works out a little cheaper. To qualify it though- when I'm on the rocks, I use plugs 90% of the time. When I'm fishing holes and bars on the sand, I'm with Swimmer, great way to relax.

[Rob Rockcrawler]

The best fishermen i know are well rounded they fish what the fish want under certain conditions. A guy that i fish with regularly fished plugs about 33% of the time eels about 34% of the time and chunks the rest. HE has a couple spots that he has fished for many many years and knows when to use bait. I fished the spot a few weeks ago and nailed ONE nice fish on eel. HE said that eels would be working but i should concentrate on chunking scup during the tide stage i was fishing. HE went the next night and got 4 fish in the mid 30-42 pound range. HE didnt bring a plug or an eel with him, his game plan was to go chunking for big fish and it worked.