https://www.whiskeyriff.com/2022/04/05/old-man-catches-beauty-large-mouth-with-only-minnows-and-bare-hands/

Got a sneaking feeling that man has been hand feeding that bass for quite awhile. 

11 minutes ago, Bassjam2000 said:

Yup. Bait monkey does not approve of this propaganda.

11 minutes ago, Bird said:

Got a sneaking feeling that man has been hand feeding that bass for quite awhile. 

My boat mechanic also sells bait. Every morning he takes the dead minnows from the bait tank and feeds the bass that hang out at the ramp. 

Are we doing this fishing thing wrong?

 

That’s illegal.  Lock that man up.

4 hours ago, slonezp said:

My boat mechanic also sells bait. Every morning he takes the dead minnows from the bait tank and feeds the bass that hang out at the ramp. 

I was tied up at a marina once hiding from a storm and decided to clear out a windknot from my spinning reel. I dropped my bait in the water to peel off the line and a huge spotted bass shot out from under the dock and grabbed my bait, of course I'm going to set the hook. The marina owner came out screaming at me for hooking his pet bass. I guess he fed it the dead minnows every day. It got me in the zebra mussel covered crossbars and broke me off but that fish would probably have given our state record a run for it's money. 

You need to take that video down, and remove it from internet!

If our spouses see that and and realizes we don’t need all the cool gear we have to fish with, man oh man. 
We’ll have some explaining to do …….they’ll be like “ Really… all you ever needed was a dead minnow in your fingers.”

“How many fish poles do you own?”

 

Yeah, if you Google the " dead minnow " technique, it works under every condition.

It will certainly lead to the demise of the fishing industry.......it was good while it lasted.

That's it!  I'm making finger puppets shaped like minnows!