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This is a dedicated thread for discussing article: Bait Boat Musings
If I ever won the lottery I would have a boat built to my own specifications It would be STELF Boat it would not be seen at all. Instead of carrying rigs bait and free offerings it would carry mini torpedoes designed to destroy all bait boats I would name this submarine The Sweeper. and with a bit of luck and time they will be swept away for ever. We can all dream.
Myself and my friends have talked about the why's and wherefores of bait boats and one of them put it very simply I thought. He said using a bait boat was like playing football with a blind goalkeeper in the over teams goal.
That's fine, but since when, outside of fishing matches, did fishing become a contest?
Surely it's always been thus? A contest between the immense brain and technilogikakacle advances of the 'uman race, against the goldfish and his mates?
Fair enough, but surely that's a personal contest, not one against the bloke next to you? How far you are prepared to go in "winning" the human versus fish contest is a matter of choice.
Ever since the attitude of got to catch the fish come what may came in I think.
Ah the not-so-new got to catch thing; I'd say in Europe it stems back 40,000yrs+, when Mrs Ugg told Mr Ugg; "we need meat, go catch some fish uhh!"
And thankfully for us, Mr Ugg rose to the challenge, otherwise we wouldn't be here now...
These days putting food on the table to feed your family does not come into how you catch fish today we do it for our enjoyment even using hand grenades can be justified to but food on the table if that is the only way you can achieve your aim families come first. Not the case today though is it, unless you are a pot fisherman and fishermen that use bait boats are not pot fishermen are they.