Is it possible to catch bass on live bait ?

Live bait works if you throw it in the right spot!

Well they can't live on Plastic baits.. of course you can just like the fish in your Sig. You will find most folks in This Section are artificial purists. Mainly because most fish tournaments and since tournaments don't allow live bait they don't waste their fishing time with something that wont help them get better at Fooling Fish.

Here's an article on Shiner Fishing in Florida.. it will work in Texas just the same.

http://www.jimporter.org/articles/article41.shtml

Bass Eat: Crayfish,Insects, Shad, Bluegill/Sunfish, Crappie, Catfish and Minnows.

http://ezinearticles.com/?Using-Live-Bait-For-Bass&id=2719425

http://www2.insidenova.com/isn/sports/local/article/weekly_fishing_report16/22455/


Bazz

Yep thats the reason they catch so many big bass on trout lines baited with live perch.

Is it possible you are troll?

what's a "trout" line?

60's version of a Trotline... rookie!

large shiners and large crawdads are awesome for bass, used to use them alot from the bank as the crawdads were easy to catch.

No, don't ever try it!

I do it time to time. Made fishing a lot easier when my back was out, I could sit in a chair and watch a balloon swim around. Have not ever had a double digit, but had fun...

To me it is almost as exciting as topwater fishing...watch your balloon dart around, you can tell when they get have seen a fish...turn on the jaws theme song...and they disappear....fun fun

yes, what do they eat when we aren't catching them? lol.

i have fished at times when they will bite nothing but live bait.

i fish a small private lake around here during the winter, and we throw the cast net for shad, then let them swim freely. its amazing how big the fish are and the numbers of big fish are that you catch on them...

Theres a chapter about live bait fishing in the book, "How to make friends and influence people!"

Just go to Fork and follow one of them pretty wrapped boats around and toss your shiner/balloon rigs behind em. Surefire way to catch fish!!!

Unless the person running the boat looks like this...

good grief!! thats scary enough to scare the stink off a warthog!!!!

I used to use waterdogs at Monticello, but they kept looking back at me.

cameron said they grab the hook and scream while you pin the hook through thier little lips....

You mean for people over 60 that fish for trout?

Fishing waterdogs is kinda creepy...you put them on the hook and there little "hands" are grabbing the shank..."No mister, please!"

Texas record was caught on a Minnow, id say you could!

live bait fishing in the heart and soul of florida big bass fishing...

Yes

I remember hearing folks in East Texas say Trout line when I was a kid Circa early 60's .. but they could have been Yankee's? I have personally always called them a Trotline... unless I hang up a good fish in one.. then they are %#@*&^ lines.

If you require any further explanations... never mind.

how do u think the indians did it?????

They used flashlights and grabbed them with their bare hands. DUH!

I like to change my fishing plan sometimes and catch some shad and see what I can catch....I'm really wanting catfish....but yesterday I caught two 5's and a 4...black bass, then something really strong ate my live/cut shad head. This fish fought as hard as a 15 lb red fish...really fun, but at the very end she gave up and it turned out to be an 11.5 lb drum!

I doubt they are saying Mr., probably saying something a little less formal, hehehe.