I learned something related to the pond fishing. So I'll pass this along. When your plastics (worms, lizards, crawfish etc) get wet in their zip lock bags after a rain. And they lose color or become dull looking to where you consider throwing them away, just remove them from the bag and place them in a throw away diapers or kids pull up disposable panties. This removes or absorbs the water but not the oils and returned them to their packaged colors. I never herd of this, it was just something I tried because I had some of those baby pull up panties in the truck. Dumped them in the diaper and I was surprised when I looked the next day. Looked like new baits.
And like you Frank, when my lmb grew to larger size I've seen fewer snakes in the pond.
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