08-14-2022, 11:54 AM
I second the idea that the bones don't bother the fish, at least catfish. For them I like to cut the chub into about one inch wide strips and fish the whole segment. When ice-fishing for trout we usually carve off bits at the lake. Then there's my friend who caught a slot buster at Strawberry on a whole chub. I seldom scate any bait fish. I guess I think that they don't bother the fish that eat them in the wild, so why bother. Just one man's opinion.
The older I get the more I would rather be considered a good man than a good fisherman.