Information needed

[billNpam]

First of all I would like to say thank you all for such a warm welcome to the BOC.
Now for much needed help. I have read alot on the Web Sight about using different baits. Catching Blue Gills would be the easiest for me at this time as I have never casted a cast net. The question is how to I rig these
1. Do I rig them whole and alive?
2. Do I cut them up like cut bait?
3. I read on one post to take the scales off is this required?
4. Do I slice them to open up the guts?

I just want to say thank you all in advance. :smile2:

[baitchunker]

i usually rig mine 1/2 and 1/2... one cut in half on one rod and one rigged live on another. there are tons of ways to rig them live, i think the key is the right size hook for the gill, so that the hook is exposed but does not change the way it swims.
hope it helps.
j.d.

[BAMA_CAT]

Alive or cut will work!!! Also Cooleys market has a basket that you can buy to let down off the wall to get shad for like $50.00 in a boat you can look on line for a shad scoop that you pull with your boat! Or maybe you me and mike can meet up one day and just get some shad together!!

[32Hotel]

I thought here in Alabama, any bream used as bait had to be caught by hook and line. Use of bream caught by net is not allowed. I reckon shad is OK.