Mo's 2022 Feesh Reports

[Ron Jones]

My nephew caught a cat that puked up a live goldfish when he was cleaning it. The goldfish's fins were digested but it was still alive so he tossed it in the aquarium and named it Jonah. It lived a couple more years and partially grew his fins back. They're tough little suckers.
-Mike

  Those goldies are super tough. They stay alive on a hook so well that we drop our lines into the bait tank while moving to the next spot...we'll fish them on multiple spots. Rob talks to his like a manager coaching his fighter between rounds...that boy ain't right.   Many times we'll fish a goldie in several spots...and it will still be lively as if it were never on a hook. We have a silly ritual where we'll free a goldie that ain't been bit after four or five dunks...we call it earning their freedom...HA!

I have done the hooked bait in the bait tank thing quite a few times. Works great with mackerel, and you get to be the first in the water at the next stop!

I love eating flat head. Ate a bunch as a kid out of the Colorado river. We normally used live perch (blue gill, red ear, some other color...) and would spend our time eating the bait!
Perch "fried" in beer on a riverside at midnight is hard to beat.
The Man