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Sometimes you're fishing and you get a small fish at the end of your line or on your lure and you say, "well stay there and get me a big one"
That might be ok for a perch or an alewive, BUT don't do it with a GOBY.
Reading Saturdays' Star about the invasion of the Great Lakes and in-land lakes there was a small part of a paragraph towards the end of the article:
I'm not shouting just emphasizing:
"IN AUGUST, THE PROVINCE BANNED THE USE OF GOBIES AS BAIT. FISHERMEN CAUGHT WITH ONE FACE PENALTIES RANGING FROM CONFISCATION OF THEIR EQUIPMENT TO FINES UP TO AN IMPROBABLE $500,000 AND JAIL TIME"
Let everyone be warned not to use those little devils as bait, just stick a knife thru their crainium and put them in a bucket and dispose of them on the shore.
The reason for the shore is that it is thought they're a " major link in the complex chain of events that puts toxic botulism into Lake Erie's food web and kills loons and other fish-eating birds by the thousands"
I have heard that people have tried gobies on their worm rigs and have been successful for walleyes. I guess that's why the lure makers have Goby imitators.
Pass the word along to all.
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David Delcloo aka Superdad
(Retired)
Kingston
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