Some fish species just don’t respond well to lures. Most lures won’t work if you just cast them out and wait for a bite. The biggest disadvantages of lures is that they require input from an angler before they will catch a fish. Now that we have a massive human overpopulation on the planet it is also becoming harder to justify collecting natural organisms on a large scale for fishing bait. Bait is often not very durable – you can’t cast it repeatedly and present it continuously in good condition. Bait doesn’t last – it goes rotten and you have to throw it away unless you store it in the freezer. There are some fish species that just don’t react well to lures, but still can be caught on natural bait and that is a huge plus. That is at least the theory of passive bait-fishing and in plenty of situations it does work. Throw out a baited hook and than wait until a fish finds it, eats it and gets hooked. Bait can have an advantage in that it will catch fish with very little input from an angler. Bait is real and fish eat it – so that has to be a positive. To find the answer we need to look at the positives and negatives of both bait and lures. Bait smells and tastes natural, fish eat it on a daily basis, so why do we fish lures at all? Can you really catch more fish on bait, or are lures actually in the race? And – shock horror – is there a possibility that lures are even more deadly than bait? Now that is the $64 question and one worth finding an answer to. This question pretty much sat me on my backside and led to some other questions. The young tacker wanted to know why I messed around with lures when I could obviously catch more fish on bait. I was recently rabbiting on about lures to a few hundred people at a tackle store when a kid asked me an interesting question. I don’t think about it too much – I just seem to gravitate to the artificials more often than not. THERE are times when I still fish bait, but most of my fishing these days involves either lures or flies. Are lures more effective than bait? An interesting question and one which Bushy has spent much time pondering.
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