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05-24-2004, 09:48 PM
This weekend, I enjoyed the company of one of my old dive buddys, Bruce Myers. Bruce is one of those detail oriented Engineer guys, who is pretty observant.
Experienced fishermen and divers know that a big bait show on your spot most often means the big fish will be there, since bait is what they eat.
Our conversation on the way back from the Grounds was "where is the bait"? It is obvious that there is a lot less bait now than there was ten and twenty years ago, which would of course mean there will be fewer fish..........unless someone thinks that the bait follow the fish rather than the fish follow the bait.
So, anyway, as I drove to the weighin on Sunday AM I listened to a fishing show, and sure enough, diving came up, and.......the captain cited an experience where a bad diver had jumped his spot........which is bad for the image of diving, but as we know there are cones that dive as well as fish. But shortly thereafter, they talked about bait, and how you can buy 50 pounds for cheap and so on, and always take a bunch of bait, and be sure and chum........and on and on.
Which brought rise to these questions........where does that bait come from, what effect does it have on fishing, and what are the scientists and regulators doing about it?
Does the bycatch from shrimping affect this? Are there any efforts to reduce this? Are there any efforts to get fishermen to conserve bait?
Experienced fishermen and divers know that a big bait show on your spot most often means the big fish will be there, since bait is what they eat.
Our conversation on the way back from the Grounds was "where is the bait"? It is obvious that there is a lot less bait now than there was ten and twenty years ago, which would of course mean there will be fewer fish..........unless someone thinks that the bait follow the fish rather than the fish follow the bait.
So, anyway, as I drove to the weighin on Sunday AM I listened to a fishing show, and sure enough, diving came up, and.......the captain cited an experience where a bad diver had jumped his spot........which is bad for the image of diving, but as we know there are cones that dive as well as fish. But shortly thereafter, they talked about bait, and how you can buy 50 pounds for cheap and so on, and always take a bunch of bait, and be sure and chum........and on and on.
Which brought rise to these questions........where does that bait come from, what effect does it have on fishing, and what are the scientists and regulators doing about it?
Does the bycatch from shrimping affect this? Are there any efforts to reduce this? Are there any efforts to get fishermen to conserve bait?