09-09-2003, 06:39 PM
[cool]Well, fishfather, since you wander over to the Utah board once in awhile, I can tell you how to start a major ruckus over there. Just bring up the issue of corn. It has been outlawed in the state for many years...even for carp. The DWR (fisheries) loves their little hatchery pets and have proposed many reasons why corn should not be used...except that it is too darned effective.
Go ahead. I dare ya to ask about the corn issue and see what happens.
I have used corn for several species and have even seen bass take it. Both corn and green peas work in the salt water for opaleye and other grazing species. On a little private lake in Mesa Arizona, I had a townhome that had the back patio right out to the lake. I would take a small plastic bag of corn kernels, my ultra-ultra light spinning rod and some small hooks and have a ball with several species. If a bluegill didn't get the corn, a catfish might. If they waited too long, a twenty pound carp would slurp it in and race to the opposite side of the lake with my 4# line over its shoulder and my poor little reel shrieking.
I once won a bet with one of the most unusual offerings. I hooked a size six bait hook through the tip of a discarded cigarette filter and cast it just above a midstream rock, in the Kern River, above Lake Isabella. One of those stupid freshly planted hatchery rainbows slurped it in and held onto it long enough for me to set the hook and drag it in. I don't think I would have wanted to eat that fish...with a discriminating diet like that.
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Go ahead. I dare ya to ask about the corn issue and see what happens.
I have used corn for several species and have even seen bass take it. Both corn and green peas work in the salt water for opaleye and other grazing species. On a little private lake in Mesa Arizona, I had a townhome that had the back patio right out to the lake. I would take a small plastic bag of corn kernels, my ultra-ultra light spinning rod and some small hooks and have a ball with several species. If a bluegill didn't get the corn, a catfish might. If they waited too long, a twenty pound carp would slurp it in and race to the opposite side of the lake with my 4# line over its shoulder and my poor little reel shrieking.
I once won a bet with one of the most unusual offerings. I hooked a size six bait hook through the tip of a discarded cigarette filter and cast it just above a midstream rock, in the Kern River, above Lake Isabella. One of those stupid freshly planted hatchery rainbows slurped it in and held onto it long enough for me to set the hook and drag it in. I don't think I would have wanted to eat that fish...with a discriminating diet like that.
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