Great discussion! I, too, have always bought the "myth or not" of eggs on birds legs.
But, I keep coming back to the many golf course ponds that have BG and LMB in them (at least in Georgia). These ponds aren't connected to any water source and never have been. Unless the fish are migrating through sprinkler systems or hatch from golf balls...how did they get in there?
If you're too scared to throw that bait where the fish are, why did you tie it on?
