different ways to catch Alantic Sting Rays with out hurting them?
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you could catch them with your hands, just wear rubber gloves so that they will not slip from your hand so easy, but maybe you should try your idea first
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You can throw a pebble up, and they will go for it too.  \nI had a pool growing up, and they would skim the surface for bugs and water.  Once, while I was coming up for air, I got smacked in the face by a small brown bat. That is a sensation I will never forget. I fished him out with the skimmer.  He was clicking like mad the whole time.
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Bass will be coming up to the shallows looking for spawning areas and food, try a plastic worm with a small weight in and around the lilly pads (texas rig style)hook point in the worm to prevent hooking the pads. Try green spinner baits around the timber letting it sink close to bottom. Most people reel crankbaits so fast only the most active fish will bite, slow down :D
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.....With a fishing pole and bait like nightcrawlers or mealworms.  Try to fish at stocked ponds though, that's cheating!
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Mostly luck.  I have caught a 30lb redfish on a 3" finger mullet, and a 25lb snook on a 2" DOA Terror eyez. One theory is that larger fish like small bait b/c it requires far less energy to consume them.- Florida
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Use skein or power-bait with a #12 treble hook on a 6lb fluorocarbon leader with 1/8oz sinker and an indicater(small bober) try varios depths and allow to flow with current.\nSingle eggs or minnows on a snelled egg hook. as above.\nMaggots on a black mini-foo with split shot 2' above and indicator is my favorite.\nCasting spoons also works.\n\nhttp://steelheaduniversity.com/jigs.html
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You should be able to find plenty of accessable areas to fish plastic worms from the bank.  Look for coves, inlets with grassy bottom.  Also fish visible and submerged points, and don't forget the occasional dock or two.  Also, if you can't afford a boat and want to access more areas, try a float tube.  They are easy to use and pretty cheap.  Good luck.
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I usually fish for bass their are not as smelly as the northern pike, although those pike put up a good fight. We usually catch them on a 3/8 oz. spinner bait in a chart. or white/chart color. Red and white dare devils work also, pretty much any thing will work, we have caught them on 7" Black power worms 5" senko's ( they are a little pricey for pike though) my parents neighbor swears by 6 to 8 inch minnows. The spinner bait is probably the easiest way I belive to catch them, as long as they are close by they will inhale them, then it's fight on. Just cast out and reel in. You may want a steel leader I usually just use fire line in 14lb or 20lb and haven't lost one yet, although I would have liked to some times. Good luck and catch them Pike.
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What are you fishing for? and are you talking NY City area or Finger lakes region or more West ? most places a night crawler will work just fine, or a spinner bait, a plastic worm in a shade of green or black. good luck and catch some big ones
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I lived in Jacksonville, Florida all my life. My bass-club had a tournament out of Talquin in the late 90's. \n\nI think you should be throwing 7 inch Berkley "Power-worms" in "Red Shad/Green Glitter" or "Camo" colors.\n\nTry a 1/4 OZ "Titanium" spinner bait with "GOLD" willow-leaf blades and a "red/chartreuse" skirt. \n\n"Hank Parker's" "Classic" spinner-bait works TOO!\n\nThe guy who won that particular tourney put his trolling motor on at a brisk pace, threw spinner-baits until he found fish, then slowed down and thoroughly worked the area with "Power-worms",( he ended up wining over $600).\n\nAlso, try the new "Senko" 5" stick bait in "cinnamon/black/Merthiolate tip" color. I have heard this bait works VERY well "walked" across weed tops and weed-lines.\n\nIf all else fails, try "downsizing" your line diameter("Berkly Fireline" size 4/10), using a "spinning" reel, and throw 1/8 & 1/4 OZ, "Beetle-spins" with curly-tailed bodys in "Black body/silver blade" or "Chartruese body/ gold blade". \n\nIf you find a concentration of "spooky" Bass, try throwing a "Yum" "Zellamander"(no weight), Texas-style rigged, "water melon/red-flake" color.  \n\nCast to wood! Cast along weedlines! GOOD LUCK!
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you might want to try dawn or dusk hours depending on the heat. soft plastics minnows or crankbaits for bass and spinners or live bait for trout.....try a slip sinker about 16 inches from you hook with a small split shot to hold it from sliding down then use half a mini marshmallow twords the eye of the hook then tip it with about 8 to 12 maggots might want to use a size 6 hook.. the marshmallow keeps the maggots up and out of the vegitation you can chage your depths with the small split shot. it also works with meal worms..
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White bass fishing is fun and they are also good to eat.\nI prefere to fish for them at night. I use small minnows for bait.You can hang a lantern over the water or get a floating light that hooks to a battery.I like to fish from a boat and just drop the line over the side without a bobber.By keeping the line tight you will feel the fish grab\nthe minnow. You may also use a slip bobber which works great. L.O.L.
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You should try a 3/8 ounce jig head , Texas rig a power worm (color:tequila sunrise) and jig it on the bottom near timber....this will give the worm a fairly slow sink rate and you will get lots of bites while the worm is sinking\n\nTry to use some Rapala baits, preferably the X-RAP, gold and silver colors work the best. Husky jerks work well in spawning bass beds and weeds.\n\nAnother tip is to use a a white tube with red glitter( Venom brand) and inset a 1/16 tud insert weight and jig that on the bottom...but don't push that tube weight all the way up. by doing this that tube twitches more and attracts more fish..also use some liquid powerbait bass attractant with that.\n\nBuzzbaits work very good. so des berkley gulp!\n\nlive shiners...never fail\n\nplastic frogs work very well as a topwater bait.
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Well because of your screen name I will assume your a bass fisherman as well.  First, try slowing your retrieve.  After that, go smaller.  If you use 5 inch worms, go to 4 inch or smaller. If smaller and normal don't work, go large. I posted a similar question and was given the suggestion to use a hole punch to put holes in a worm to change the action. Also try a razor on plastic worms to make tentacles that undulate on the retrieve.  Another 1 is if it hot, think deep and slooooooow.  Try using a bullet weight on a worm to get it into heavy cover such as weeds, or grass.  Always keep in mind where the sun is and cast to the shady side of stick-ups, or underwater trees.  A jig and pig, or jig and craw fished slowly on the bottom may help too.  In the lake I fish that's very heavily pressured, I have caught several of the biggest bass I have ever caught using a jig and craw hopped across the bottom, about 20 feet off shore on a point.  You should also try fishing the in flow of any streams that flow into the lake.  Usually bass will school in these areas.  Here is a site that is very good, give it a try and see if it helps.  Here is another 1 I use often.  Tight lines and use these sites, they will help alot. On the bass lures page, the articles are on the sides, in columns.
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A big Zara Spook, or a big spinner bait with at least a colorado blade. Big minnows or a small yellow perch would probably do well also.
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i know for the white bass and large mouth and walleye if any!!! id for sure try a bullet blade (there called alot of different things... the ones i got were called Zonars) !!! ,,,  http://www.in-fisherman.com/reference/weekly_tip/IFD_tip_FreshwaterDrumA.jpg  ... in the picture its the lure on the top left looks just like the pic pretty much... i was just introduced to those this year by a random fisherman who was pulling them out left and right using one... and saw i was having no luck... i was using twisters.. rapalas.. live bait... all of the above.. and i finally ran over to the bait shop and picked up a few of these and nailed white bass and large mouth in the same spot i wasnt catching them B4..but the picture is what they look like not sure what there called in ur local bait shop.. but they were killer... Ive found out that white bass LOVE Silver!!!
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Wave Breaker\nCradle to Wave\nRed Tyde\nWipe Out\nWatch This!\n\nif it's a sea ray, Ski Ray would work (if it's not, some people might not get it)\n\nsorry, best I can do at 12:30, with booze on board.