Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations Hook Shy Fish

For most of 2007 and all of 2008, I fished for BG in the extended (apx 1o0 yards of shoreline) feeding area. Usually about an hour and a half a week. But all that fishing was with worms, mealworms, and prepared baits imitating the same.

I have not had much experience, and less success, catching anything from a pellet imitation at random times. I do occasionally suspend a pellet imitation (mostly a pellet inside a ring of brown tubeskirt material) under a bobber in the middle of the feeding area after I have thrown the feed in. I have found this a good way to harvest a catfish; CC are just about the only thing that will take a pellet on a hook in the midst of feeding time.

To be honest I have not been too concerned about my BG becoming hookshy. The smaller ones, I remove. If the bigger ones become hookshy, it means I won't stress them too much from repeated C&R.