Strawberry 8/13/21

[wiperhunter2]

Your statement of "It will stay on the hook longer with skin attached and you can usually catch multiple fish per piece of bait." I find to be true also.
The other thing that I find is that I loose most all the meat on the first fish.  I then continue to fish with the skin and do just as well.  When freshening  bait I leave the prior skin and after another fish I have doubled the scent with skin.

Anybody else loose meat this fast?

It depends if it is fresh or frozen.  Fresh the sucker meat will stay together with the skin.  Frozen will get stripped.  It haven't used salted fillets like Kent uses so he will have to chime in on that.

I do not salt my chubs but it stays on the hook just fine, sometimes catching two or three cats with one piece but I don't usually use it for trout, so that might be different.