Day 1 trial results: Inconclusive, the water was cold and I only left the catfish lures out for 4 hours and the Magic bait was gone, plus they might’ve been hooked wrong, but the only fish I caught was at 11:00 PM on live bait.
Day 2 trial results: Inconclusive
2 soaked lures with normal Magic Bait roughly 2 hours and two all-day nightcrawlers. Magic Bait lasted, but so did the nightcrawlers. 0 bites, snagged two lines, result inconclusive
Day 3 trial results: No Result Two Magic Bait Lures and 3 Nightcrawlers. All nightcrawler lines were snagged multiple times (drag was no help), Magic Bait reel line likewise severely tangled, stayed that way all day and night. Lost a few nightcrawlers, unsure if it was the snag that slipped em off, therefore no real result was determined because no fishing was done.
Day4 (today) : 2 MagicBait stuffed Yum Crawbugs soaked in Catfish Nectar and two leftover nightcrawlers (I was out), both cast in great areas. Thus far, my MagicYumNectar lasted all day, a glorious and cool day, and my nightcrawlers got snagged again. I bought two more, changed spots on both and gently squeezed a little Magic Bait & Nectar out of the tops. Not but a minute later it appears I had a bite. I checked my poles about 30 minutes later, and one night crawler and one MagicYum was depleted. I reloaded it, Magic Bait soaked in Nectar and nightcrawler, and reeled then back in at 9 PM. The other crawded was empty, and both nightcrawlers were gone. It is highly unlikely they were dragged off or slipped away in the current because it felt like I had a fish until it was close to the shore. I recast the crawded right beside the nightcrawler AND ...roughly 11:00 PM , the Fish Whisperer finally caught his dinner, a blue cat about a foot and a half long, same as the other day, by leaving the spincast up for drag and anti-regurgitation and by casting the catfish lure beside the worm.
This will probably generate a feeding response at least among smaller fish, probably tore their mouths. Hooked nothing on the MagicNectarYum, results too soon to be conclusive according to the scientific method, it IS cold, but it seems as though my hooking arrangements were wrong: the worm hook was too big and curved (catfish hook), and the crawded hook although slightly visible as the professional video demonstration dictated was in fact, too small to hook, and the baits too far apart from each other for this frigid weather. In my observational opinion after 4 24 hour periods, YumMagicNectar will, in fact, attract some fish in a cold and wide strong currented river even in paper mill pollution from at least some distance during their alleged dormant period right in light winter/cold spring, and due to quota limitation, visible evidence can be offered in my album that they did, in fact, prefer live nightcrawler because I caught them on it. Therefore in lakes and streams this abominable creation will in fact, probably be highly effective at least to bring them to shore for bobber fishing with worms among many species of fish and if properly arranged will probably bring in even the bass. I’m also certain had I left open my spin cast and let the fish swallow the YumMagicNectarHook earlier in the trial, I’d have a more positive result because it’d less likely regurgitate what’s easily regurgitated and had a longer greater chance to lodge. I believe this is how to properly use the YumMagicNectar combo in the Arkansas River, that and at least 30 lb test line (I use 50). However, more results will come as I test this in other waters. Furthermore the fish weren’t jumping like they were before I deployed YumMagicBait, but this could be the rash of pollution that washed through for two days and it could be the extreme fluctuating water temperature. Negative Result Inconclusive
First trial End (Live nightcrawler vs YumMagicBait in early colder Spring in the Arkansas River)
I Suggest trotline. If shorefishing you actually might try cutbait possibly even scented plus, or wounded minnows and shad/skipjack (please don’t abuse the trotline, I think my neighbors do) with/without boat, with cutbait, Live shad, worms, and YumMagicNectar isn’t entirely worthless or unnecessary, and I still have both crawded (it didn’t get snagged, a great advantage if all goes well). I’ve already started trying artificial skipjack soaked in Nectar, only negative results when it’s brand new, soak didn’t last, it just swims there like a stupid rubber fish
The Fish Whisperer does not trot line, it seems like cheating or overdoing it seeing how I don’t have children, but if ya trotline or net please be legal
Trial 1 results: Two over 1 foot blue catfish and 1 brim, all 3 on nightcrawlers