Ethical or not ethical is the question ?

[BuckeyeCrappie]

Hmm, I saw a video where Hayden Jeffries catches a Crappie on a piece of trash…

[J White]

Hmm, I saw a video where Hayden Jeffries catches a Crappie on a piece of trash…

If that’s the same one I saw, the fish attractant was the best part


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[MCG1]

Some places chumming is illegal and unethical. Is chumming like baiting? Seems like fly fishermen are held in high regard. Not a bare hook, no live bait. Seems these questions have been around for a long time, eh? In the end, it boils down to is it legal, and does it satisfy YOUR standards. But differing opinions should be considered.

[BuckeyeCrappie]

If that’s the same one I saw, the fish attractant was the best part


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We saw the same one. I was thinking his sponsors must be cringing. It’s off the www now.

[Ketchn]

Some places chumming is illegal and unethical. Is chumming like baiting? Seems like fly fishermen are held in high regard. Not a bare hook, no live bait. Seems these questions have been around for a long time, eh? In the end, it boils down to is it legal, and does it satisfy YOUR standards. But differing opinions should be considered.

this ..... if it's legal and it makes you happy go for it ..... let's not forget all those that came before us to make it so .....in some spots around the planet things we banter over are possibly something that could go south in a bad way .....
ketched fish over the years using about anything that was lawful , some of those things are still in my bag of trix and might be employed when deemed needed to ketch .....
used trash myself one fine day on a white bass run , stopped at around 350 something because I was tired and lost count .....
a split shot and a single hook and a pc. of plastic bread wrapper off the bank .....and they were just flat out destroying it !
draws quite a crowd when you sling like that and to be sure lot's of laughs at my "bait" that day ....

[Spoonminnow]

...one could always use a stick a dynamite.....KABOOM! Merciful and quick.

[BuckeyeCrappie]

I knew fellas once who used some old TA-312 military crank telephones to shock fish to the surface in their swamp pond. Those things (phones) sure put off a zap. Fer sur it was illegal….

[Ketchn]

I knew fellas once who used some old TA-312 military crank telephones to shock fish to the surface in their swamp pond. Those things (phones) sure put off a zap. Fer sur it was illegal….

If it was their own pond maybe not , just saying, seen my buds son fill up a 5 gallon bucket with big crappie going over the spillway on their lake using a landing net during a small flood , totally legal on private waters in this state ...

[MCG1]

...one could always use a stick a dynamite.....KABOOM! Merciful and quick.

Years ago my old man did that very thing to take surgeon out of the river. If a brown trout floated up...
Different times, but probably illegal and unethical, eh?

[soonerdg]

I'm guessing Ketchn was posting this as a joke. But...i think use of an artificial jig would be considered more of a decoy than baiting. The baiting debate for hunting is about using natural food sources to attract the animals. Decoys are generally acceptable.