Mainebass1984

I just signed up to this site a few days ago. I live in Vermont , but have spent most of my time bass fishing Maine. I typically spend around 100-125 days on the water a year searching for giant largemouth. I have been seriously bass fishing for about 12 years now. I have fished in open and club tournaments I enjoy the competition. I am looking too pick up some new skills and techniques as well as some fishing buddies. I will be putting up some pictures soon. I am ready for the ice to metl up here so I can get out bass fishing !

The bill will never pass. The same legislator has also introduced a ban on hooks. Yeah hooks. The guy is just plain out of his mind. I participated in a study at Unity College, where I received a bachelors in fisheries biology, for the Maine dept of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife using soft plastics for feed for trout. The trout have a very very difficult time passing the plastic through there system. Most cases they could not pass it through there system. It essentially became a block in there digestive system. They could still feed but there capacity to digest prey was greatly diminished. They had less room in there stomachs. This also caused them to feed more frequently. The study also suggested that stocked trout were more prone to ingest soft plastic baits then native or wild trout. Most soft plastics are impregnated with salt as is the feed that hatcheries use. All this being said I have yet to see a trout that died from eating soft plastics. Usually the soft plastics are discovered by anglers after they have caught and killed the trout.