2011年5月30日星期一

Choose bream bait based on production / 'yuck!' ratio

Live bait is a necessary evil of bream fishing, especially in the spring when bluegill are on the beds.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, there's a legion of fly fishermen who say casting a fly is the way to go.

But for most fishermen, it's either crickets or a live wiggler - redworm, nightcrawler,Handmade oil paintings for sale at museum quality, catalpa or meal worm.

The cricket vs.What are the top Hemroids treatments? worm argument is an old one, and not one that will be argued here today ... well maybe a little. They both have their advantages, and their disadvantages.

Crickets are cheaper than worms, and they have less of the "yuck" factor.

But, worms can't jump, and if they escape their container, they are slow to make their getaway. If one or two get away,Largest Collection of billabong boardshorts, they simply die, dry up and that's that, as yucky as it is.

Crickets live in the boat in the garage and chirp all night until they ..We processes for both low-risk and high risk merchant account.. heck, they never shut up.

And there's this: There are two kinds of cricket fishermen, those who have had a cricket jump in their mouths or down their shirts, and those who will have one jump in their mouths or down their shirts.

It's even worse if the wife is involved, and in a soon-to-be-turned-over boat.

That said, a cricket in the mouth still beats worm guts on the hands, shirts, pants, the boat, the ice chest, sandwiches ...

It's true that when the bream aren't bedding and are scattered across the bottom in deeper areas of the lake, worms are indeed the best bet. They just work better when bream are feeding by sense of smell.Replacement Projector Lamp and bulbs for Canada and Worldwide.

When either will do, crickets are my choice.

But what if a third option, say an artificial scent-impregnated cricket, is available?
Real vs. fake test ...

Last summer, among the product samples to cross my desk was a jar of soft-plastic crickets. Came from Berkley as one of the latest in their successful line of Gulp baits, an array of lures that have natural scent and - I am guessing here - taste.

The literature suggested that the combination of the natural attractants and soft plastic (therefore, longer lasting) made them as good as or a better choice than the real thing.

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