Whether You’ve Been Fishing Since They Invented Hooks, Or Just Starting Out, You’ll Be Amazed At What You Can Still Learn About Saltwater Fishing From This 1962 Manuscript!
There is one great big fundamental in catching a fish— get him to bite at a tasty-looking tidbit wrapped around a hook that won’t let him go. Master that fundamental and you can give lessons not only to Andy but to every fisherman in town.
This we can tell you for a start: that tidbit should be someÂthing which, to a fish, is good enough to eat. Fishermen call that bait. Or, if it isn’t something good enough to eat, it should look like something good enough to eat. Fishermen call that a lure.
The dictionary says chum, a plural word, are pieces of oily fish. Fishermen say chum is a decoy to get sports fish up close to your tidbit-encased hook. It works like this: the chum the fisherman tosses into the water creates an oil slick that drifts off with the current. The fish he’s after swims into the slick, smacks his lips and backtracks the slick to its source where the fisherman is waiting with baited hook.
Since fish are cannibalistic, bait can be any fish or pieces of fish smaller than the one you’re after. The most common baits in America’s saltwater states are mullet, sardines, menhaden or mossbunker, anchovies, clams, crabs, sand lice, mussels, eels, sea worms, spearing or silversides, shrimp, smelt, herring, squid, and killifish—or mummichugs, as they call them in New England.
To read more, go to the Salt Water Fishing Secrets website by clicking on this link.
