I'm not going to grace any of wormandbobber's threads in the hopes that they'll fade away, but I did have a question reqarding live bait.
I know that you can't use any live fish as bait, but what about other live creatures, other than worms, like leeches. Live leeches can be great walleye bait.
I'm also curious why the DFW prevents use of corn as bait. Why is that? Does it have to do with irrigation water? Corn is pretty common bait in other states. Though, I have found that the Powerbait "corn" works almost as well.
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I looked real hard at the Utah Fishing Proclamations in 2004 and I could not find anything prohibiting the use of leeches. In haven't had occassion to check since then.
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I think that the DWR believes that anyone desperate enough to use corn shouldn't be fishing. That's a good question though, and as for live leeches, sure, why not.
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The reason I was asking about corn, is that the proclamation indicates that it is illegal to possess corn while fishing. It made me think that according to the logic of recent posts, if you have a few ears of corn in your picnic basket for a crawdad boil on shores of Strawberry, you should be heavily fined or arrested. [
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The use of corn has been debated/discussed many times. Do a search on "corn" on this forum. Bottom line, the UDWR doesn't want people chumming with it, because it is so inexpensive and easy to chum with, and if anglers are using it for bait, in their opinion, it would then be used to chum. The regulations read, "Fishing is permitted with any bait, except corn, hominy or live fish." Read the entire Section 7. to get more information on exactly what and is not legal to fish with. Leeches would be legal, except on waters that only allow artificial flies or lures.
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The reason that corn has been banned is the inability of the fish to digest it. It used to be used alot for chumming. if a fish ingests it it may cause blockage in the intestines. obviously the fish dies.I think banning it is biologically a good move. As far as an ear of corn in the picnic basket I don't have an answer for that one. If you leave them on shore you certainly wouldn't have any problems. gshorthair
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Chumming should be illegal no matter what you are using to attract the fish. Just plain Unethical.
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We are in total agreement.
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[font "Impact"][#ff4040][size 3]Chumming is for people who don't have the skill to actually fish. Anybody can catch a fish when chumming.[/size][/#ff4040][/font]
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Since we are in the spirit of getting things off our chests thanks to slayer and WandB, I have to admit that I am a Michael Bolton fan, I am, I love his music.
Getting things off my Chest, Things I hate:
1. Transporting live fish
2. Deleted Threads
3. Locked Threads
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you know salmon egg, westfork, LS, you and I need to go do some fishing one of these days.
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Getting things off my Chest, Things I hate:
1. Transporting live fish
2. Deleted Threads
3. Locked Threads [/reply]
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FishUtah,
Don't know if leeches will work for walleyes in UT, don't believe there are any in UT waters. I have fished with them back east and had good luck catching eyes, but leeches were in these lakes. I have also tried them in good walleye lakes that didn't have leeches, and my live leeches didn't seem to work. I have never seen any leeches for sale in bait shops around here. If you could fined some they would be worth a try.
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Plenty of leaches down by Moab, but I don't know what fish they might catch. Nothing but dinky trout and big catfish to eat them when I was a teen. And maybe a carp or two.
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They do work for walleyes in Utah, and there are several anglers that do use them here. They are legal bait, live or dead.
I personally have overturned rocks in the Provo River that the underside was covered in little olive colored and black colored leeches. I've seen them stuck to the bellies of channel and bullhead catfish in Utah Lake as well. I imagine that they exist in nearly every low and mid-elevation body of water in Utah.
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[font "Impact"][#ff4040][size 3]I have also seen them on catfish. They were in the Jordan River. I caught some catfish at the little RC airplane place out by those pumps. All the cats I caught had little leeches on the underside of them.[/size][/#ff4040][/font]
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I've found tons in the Weber River too. Just find any submerged wood and it usually crawling with them; some are even fairly large. I have also seen them at a lake in the Boulders when I was a kid. We turned over large piece of submerged wood and it must have had about 100 small olive leeches on it. Also, like others I have caught catfish with them attached in the Green, Colorado, White, Delores, and Jordan rivers.
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