02-01-2003, 03:36 PM
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2]Bear Lake Mack,[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2]I was going to send you a PM with this question, but I figured that, since others might want to know also, I thought I would ask you in a public post. Hope you don't mind.[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2]A couple of times you have posted that it is better to dip-net your cicso during the cisco run rather than foul-hook snagging them. Not because one way or another is easier, but because dip netting them leaves the cicso bait fish in better condition ... not damaged or all ripped up. You have also suggested that, when snagging for cisco, to bend the barbs down so that when you unhook them, they don't get all tore up.[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2]Here's my question(s): Since the regulations don't allow bait meat to be any longer than one inch, won't I have to cut up the cicso to use it to tip my hooks anyway? Or can we use cicso whole? If we can use cicso whole, then I understand your logic. If not, if we have to cut them down to 1" max pieces anyway, then what does it mater that they have had a hook run through them before a knife cuts them up?[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2]Also, speaking of regulations, does anyone reading this post know what page, in the 2003 proclamation, I can read the part about 1 inch bait meat? I can't seem to find it.[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2]Thanks,[/size][/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2]I was going to send you a PM with this question, but I figured that, since others might want to know also, I thought I would ask you in a public post. Hope you don't mind.[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2]A couple of times you have posted that it is better to dip-net your cicso during the cisco run rather than foul-hook snagging them. Not because one way or another is easier, but because dip netting them leaves the cicso bait fish in better condition ... not damaged or all ripped up. You have also suggested that, when snagging for cisco, to bend the barbs down so that when you unhook them, they don't get all tore up.[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2]Here's my question(s): Since the regulations don't allow bait meat to be any longer than one inch, won't I have to cut up the cicso to use it to tip my hooks anyway? Or can we use cicso whole? If we can use cicso whole, then I understand your logic. If not, if we have to cut them down to 1" max pieces anyway, then what does it mater that they have had a hook run through them before a knife cuts them up?[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2]Also, speaking of regulations, does anyone reading this post know what page, in the 2003 proclamation, I can read the part about 1 inch bait meat? I can't seem to find it.[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2]Thanks,[/size][/font]
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