What Baits Should You Have With Your Sea Fishing Tackle?
The bait is an essential part of sea fishing tackle. A fisherman should always have bait with him whenever he sets out to sea to fish.
The bait is a very important part of a fisherman’s sea fishing tackle. The specific reason for this is that it is the one that lures the fish to the hook and catches it. Without any bait in his sea fishing tackle, a fisherman cannot hope to return from his fishing trip with any catch at all.
In general, there are three types of bait that fishermen can keep in their sea fishing tackle. One type is live bait. As the name suggests, live bait are living creatures attached to the hook and used to lure the fish. Oftentimes, live baits are natural food of the fish the fisherman is aiming to catch. Freshwater fishermen tend to use earthworms, insects, grubs, minnows, crayfish and frogs as live bait. Saltwater fishermen, on the other hand, sometimes use small fish to attract the big catch available at sea.
The second type of bait is the prepared bait. Prepared baits used by fishermen include kernel corns, cheese or bread balls, salmon eggs, hotdogs, chicken entrails and the like. Saltwater fishermen often keep strips of fish belly in their sea fishing tackle to use as prepared bait.
The third type of bait is the artificial bait. These could be made of plastic, cloth, nylon or metal. Jigs, spinners, spoons, plastic worms and insects, and the like are all artificial baits. Most saltwater fishermen have a supply of jigs in their sea fishing tackle box.
What type of bait would work when you go saltwater fishing. It all depends on the fish you are planning to catch. A lot of fishermen swear by live bait, and some game fish do go for specific types of live bait. Fish tend to bite more eagerly at squirming live bait.
Artificial baits also work wonders on saltwater fishing trips. The key is to present them as naturally as possible to increase the chances of fish having a go at them. The weight of the lure often depends on the depth of the waters being fished, but the lure should not be too heavy, or else it would not look natural to the fish.
Many fishermen claim that fish have a keen sense of smell. Such fishermen always advise washing of hands before handling bait so that the human smell of one’s hands would not cling to the bait. Fish can sense human scent on bait and, wary creatures as they are, would not bite anything that smells human.
As much as possible, you should always have a few jigs in your sea fishing tackle box. However, what if you forgot to bring your bait when you set out for your fishing trip? In that case, you should learn to improvise. There was a story about a fisherman who forgot his bait once. To remedy the problem, he tore strips off his shirt and used it as bait. A big fish came biting, and once he caught that one, he used the pearly belly of his catch to create more bait.
Bait is an important part of your sea fishing tackle. You should always have some bait in your sea fishing tackle box before you go out on a fishing trip.
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Since it seems to have gone over so well…?
The Big Kahuna Weekend was a blast, I must admit… to the point that I was thinking today (Oh No! Run for cover!! She’s thinking again!!) that maybe this should be a regular occurrence… now I’m not saying everyone posting three questions a day every weekend (I think we’d all burn out… not only on original questions, but answering) but one weekend a month… or even if it’s a random one day a month of your choosing, we all wrack our brains and come up with a few good questions to spice up the every day repetitive questions that crop up here in the fishing section. I’ve really had fun these past few days, and it’s good seeing this much activity and not all of it being "What bait should I use for bass in November?" and things of that sort… I’m STILL looking for my cord to plug my phone into my comp to get this picture uploaded and posted to get people’s opinions (I think this should at least get a few chuckles out of some people… it’s a bizarre piece of tackle I found in my grandfather’s box, and I’m wondering if it would be what’s referred to in a little note that was in there as well… that’s all I’m saying until I can provide the picture)
Anyway, my point:
Should we make this an organized monthly thing?
Should we make this a random monthly thing?
Or should we just see how long the Big Kahuna Weekend drags on on it’s own before making any decisions on this?
Your question was about giving a thumbs down/stupid question flag… which is why Y!A probably got rid of it… they don’t like it when anyone badmouths their system, even if it’s not really badmouthing and just trying to give input. and there was another one I answered, too… can’t remember exactly what it was right now… at least I’m pretty sure that one was yours…
Injun! Sorry you missed it, it was a hoot! You shouldn’t be a stranger, otherwise you wouldn’t have missed it. How’s the move going? Not sure we’ll be able to save you any fish if you wait too long, man. ; )
Very good question I just want to point out alot of people got involved. Usually about 50-65 questions are asked at this time of the year and we have more than 100 questions. I also noticed people who have not been on here much or for a while participating. Technically it should be a year round thing but people have schedules and there are ignorant people on here. I will be joining the military pretty soon so I dont know if I can make time. However I think if we can get people to participate again that would better. What I did was for the past couple of months I have been adding people that I know who are mature and are knowledgable to my contact. Then I waited until I got time and messaged them. At the same time I went back to very old questions and asked those people as well. Some werent able to make it , but for the most part alot of people did. I hope from all of this we all will keep in touch with each other and at the same discuss and share our experiences. I was telling people that there was a time when I would come on and ask questions to see what they think or I would just come on to see their answers and questions. I also hope that everybody would not let dumb and ignorant people get to them. There are still people who enjoy your contributions and I am one of them. Thank you all and thank you to you too. God Bless and loose lines
PS Like Chad was saying make sure you vote Best answer and try to thumbs up and star other peoples contributions. I would like to add that people should take a basic fishing proficency test and yahoo should have a section soley for beginners until they can prove themselves worthy of asking and answering in a thoughtful manner. Before I go to bed I might want to add that I have made 40 plus contacts so they are still out there
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I had to work 12 hour days this past weekend and I thought it was great to find some interesting questions and answers. It was worth staying up a bit later to check it out and try to answer all I could.
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Well done on many levels my add would be every six months would be plenty, say july fourth weekend and thanksgiving? Not quite sure why but Yahoo’s gestapo pointed out that somehow my asking for simple answers isn’t why answers is on line so… they felt the need to omit my question that I asked for a simple yes or no answer about. I wish I could remember what I said in it? 10 of you answered it so it must have been worthy of someone’s thought provocation. Again sorry!
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A few thoughts.
First, it looks like it was an unmitigated success. I have been reading questions and answers all morning and I’m not even halfway through the weekend’s backlog. Lots of fun and interesting reading, but I’ve got to stop and get some work done now. Great job, redheat — the idea was solid and you did great as the linchpin.
Having said that, those of us who participated by asking questions did so by coming up with questions that we would not ordinarily ask and/or don’t really need answers to. Also, by and large we got answers from other regulars. For example, I asked a question about fishing mentors and the answers were terrific, but I can’t really ask the question again next month. I suspect this is true for most of the regulars here — we sort of looked up at the ceiling for awhile and came up with some broad, abstract questions to pull in lots of people. A lot of these were basically opinion polls. When we have "real" questions, we just ask them. My point here is that there are problems to making this a regular occurrence. The main one is that what we REALLY want is for new(ish) Y!A users to come into our Fishing section and ask us interesting technical questions so that we can earn meaningful points, share what we know, get our Top Contributor badges, and so forth. We are less interested in a spate of contrived questions from other regulars (though, again, it WAS fun). I could see us doing two or three more of these, but trying it every month would only get us so far.
Next, I have a feeling that this Big Kahuna weekend did exactly what it was supposed to do — generate NEW interest in the Fishing section. For example, I saw a few answers from someone named Hazel (?) Hazle H — something like that. She seemed very knowledgeable and interested, and I wouldn’t be at all surprised if she became a regular here. Maybe a few novice anglers likewise noticed how busy and interesting it was here and will be back with question. Another thing: we showed trolls and noobs that this is not a place where there is a vacuum of attention — this isn’t the best place to troll or post no-content answers to get points. The purpose of all this was never to generate 100 questions per day from now on, it was to give us a shot in the arm and show everyone that we’re a community, and I definitely did that. Even though some of the questions we asked were contrived or "made up," I thought of a few more I might ask when things get slow…
Finally, my impression is that in the spring we will have a big influx of new activity (mature, interesting, reasonable questions, perhaps asked by people who know the difference between a "striper" and a "stripper"). A while back, I asked a question or two about the declining traffic in the Fishing section and the consensus was that for many people, fishing is over for this year. Come April, we’ll have a lot more fodder to chew on. Maybe we can do the Big Kahuna thing in the winter months to get us by until then?
If nothing else, face it: redheat proved that what we have here is a couple dozen people who really like this forum and are willing to communicate and coordinate to improve it and make it more fun. He also proved that we are not deteriorating into a place where trolls and other stupid people just take over. That’s a great thing. Lots of other Y!A sections are soulless wastelands, perpetual pissing matches, or overpopulated pointmills. We at least have a community, even if it’s a little quiet some days.
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I thought the idea was very good but I got there a little late but it worked.So maybe thats what is needed a monthly thing that brings out the best questions from all.So lets let a rip!
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