fishing or not fishing

[Fisherjoe]

Troll on brother! More to it than simply dragging lures thru the water and hoping to snag a fish. Can be boring until you go thru a school of fish, then all hades breaks loose!

[Tim_T]

If you are fishing within the law, who cares how you catch them.

[DJD]

Sounds like envy from folks who can't or won't do it. I know some folks feel the same way about using live bait but it's all what floats your boat. I'm not into trolling for bass but I've trolled for other fish and loved it! Congrats on the good catches.

[floatman]

I don't troll myself, but one of the most respected bass fisherman ever Buck Perry developed a system call Spoon Plugin, pretty hard to argue with that!!!

and by the way, why do you care what they think?? fish on!! JMO

Gary

[kygorski]

Sour grapes, trolling is fishing, and its got to be done right to produce fish. I used to try to be a "spoon plugger" but it was too much work at times. Living just a few miles from lake michigan we trolled a lot.When I first got down here it was to fish for stripers,I had the penn reels dpwnriggers.and trolling boards and mast,Got rid of almost all of it. What ended the trolling was when my auto pilot quit, and 1200 bucks wqs too much money for me to spend with a good conscience. You just keep on keeping on,that world record SMB was caught trolling, and if that record is ever boken, it will be knowledible troller who does it.