I love sitting in our small pontoon on a big pond, fishing with shiners, minnows or goldfish.

I don't. I normally bass fish, and use artificial lures but when I bream, crappie or cat fish it's with live bait.

Yes we are looked at as trash by the pros. Lol

Only if you are using it to catch the coveted tournament bass and keep them.

Well, at the 82 Classic, I told Roland he had cheated when he was telling me about his first 13 lb+ he had caught on a shiner at Okeechobee. He got a little excited and said he loved to fish with shiners!! I was just giving him a hard time. I never did have a problem with people using live bait and use it more than ever as I get older.
TomJ

Yeah alot of people look down on it. I don't care what you fish with. Only thing I care about is if the fish are biting

Just tell folks you caught it on a swimbait. It's a bait and it swims.

Whatever you catch them on, and whatever you use for bait dont matter. They all taste good

I don't really care if folks look down on me for using live bait. Catch em on what they're biting.

^^^^^ Big one there! What did she weigh?

How do you like that bait tank you have there. I have been considering getting one so I can fish for stripes at Lake Martin. But then if I did, not sure where I could find gizzard shad or red horse suckers for sale that was close enough to the lake to keep them alive until I arrived.

As an avid bass fisher there is nothing like catching some shad and live bait fishing. It's unreal what size bass you can catch on the real deal. I have fished for an hour on a school before with artificial bait and then drop a shad down and it will get eat immediately There is nothing like it. I have always wanted to get some crawfish and try them

Big night crawler hooked thru the middle wacky rigged for pitching a bed.

30 lbs

best one on the market bar none. I had a grayline before this one and I sent that piece of junk back and got this one. If you get a super bait tank II, you won't have to worry about keeping your bait alive till you get where you're going. I have kept shad alive in mine for probably 4 days or so. You could surely keep them alive longer. I've never had any die in it. Hell, I have kept stripers alive all day in it until I got home to clean them.

Inshore saltwater fishing I use live shrimp. But even with that it comes down to bait presentation. For example put a live shrimp on a basic Carolina rig without using a flurocarbon leader and see what happens. I use my share of top water lures and spoons but I catch more fish on live bait.

Mostly just the holier than thou fly fisherman.

I defiantly look down on live bait fishing, so much so that last night I looked down the rod some 60-70 times as my son and I used minnows to fill the cooler with some Sacalait :-)

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I don't care if they do. It's a lot of work catching bait sometimes.

Bass guys on Gville do too. I don't care. I still intend to catch a good un on a live bluegill one of these days.