Fishing With Live Bait And A Bobber For Lazy Fisherman?

[Hyrule Bass]

i bet many of the people frowning upon live bait are also smearing megastrike, jj's magic, and other bait imitating scents all over their lures. How is that no different? Youre trying to make your artificial baits more life like with the scents...

[loodkop]

No lazy angler will ever be consistently successful. A really good live bait angler puts in some study before just chucking out a bobber. The best bait live/artificial won't get any bites where there is no fish.

[tholmes]

Just another tool in the tool box. I will throw out a jumbo in the winter while I work other presentations just to up my chances.

And believe it or not, using live bait is an art all to itself and is by no means automatic success.

 

^^ X2. It's not wrong, just different, and requires a different skill set.

 

I think that fishing artificial lures is way easier than live bait.

 

Tom

[Felix77]

I went camping with my family and friends last summer.  One of the guys on our site came to do a little fishing but had no clue what he was doing.  Bought all kinds of stuff and some worms.  He was skunked on the waters right in front of our campsite.

 

I befriended him and "showed him the way".  One fish drew some of the others over including my kids.  About five of us spent the next few hours talking, drinking beers, smoking cigars all while casting out worms and waiting for the bobber to drop.  One rod/reel amongst us all mind you!

 

His girlfriend even took some of the perch we caught and cooked them up!

 

They left more excited about the sport, I got to do some unplanned fishing alongside him and it was all over a hook and bobber.

 

Time and a place for everything people.

[chubaka]

Lazy? Nope. More like relaxing

[Sbennett9]

Hey man, Have at it! Live bait is a good break away from constantly casting and retrieving the same unsuccessful crankbaits over and over again. Especially in ponds it can be one heck of a time if you're with good friends and cold drinks. To each his own, just follow the rules of your local regulatory organization and enjoy the sport. After all, at the end of the day we all strive to enjoy time out on the water correct?

[Ratherbfishing]

I'm too lazy to hunt down live bait and then clean fish if they swallow the hook.  That's two reasons why I don't use live bait.

[GaBankFisher]

Kinda seems like the bucket thread...unprovoked, inaccurate, over-generalization.

I fish like that sometimes and I assure you I'm not lazy or pathetic. Also spend a lot of valuable time bobber fishing with my boy.

Why the negativity over simply different preferences?

Now, if they're illegal, unethical, bad sportsmen, etc., that's a different story.

[Scorcher214]

I feel like a senko is lazier than live bait lol.

[mod479]

I feel like a senko is lazier than live bait lol.

 

^^^^ Beat me to it.

 

OP.....I can see your point, but it's really no different than tossing a wacky worm and letting it sink 20 feet, rinse and repeat all day long. Is that guy less lazy or somehow more skillful than the dude tossing a minnow under a slip bobber next to him? I don't think so.

 

Successful livebait fishing with my lazy grandfather is the only thing that kept me with it in the first place, especially when all my friends were watching this new saturday TV show, or playing some video game, I was filling buckets with perch, sunfish, and bullhead. Now I'm fishing some tournaments, who knows whats next?  I have to thank the old man for that. RIP  

[roadwarrior]

Well, shoot!  I was going to reference a Fish Chris article on his website, but he has apparently taken it down. At any rate, live bait fishing is what you make of it, really

no different than fishing artificial lures.