-- Chumming with corn, or ground baiting, is a standard practice in European Angling, AKA match angling, specimen fishing, bank angling, etc. This is a very VERY big deal in Europe, including the British Isles.
The primary target is carp type fish, but anything is fair game. You toss ground bait: corn, boilies, maggots, worms, whatever into a specific spot, and place your baited hook in the middle of it. It's still harder than you may think to hook up on these fish. However, catch and release is like a religion in this form of angling. They even have "carp blankets," to protect the fish they pull up on the bank. Your guy on the river obviously hadn't read far enough in the instruction book. Steve _____________________________________________________________ Get 25MB, POP3, Spam Filtering with LYCOS MAIL PLUS for $19.95/year. http://login.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus&ref=lmtplus
