Sentence examples for bait off from inspiring English sources

Before I was born, my parents caught and ate bluefish all summer long, casting bait off party boats in Sheepshead Bay with my grandfather and uncle.

Wallerstein told BuzzFeed News that his organization frequently sees sea lions that have been shot because they steal bait off boats and otherwise interfere with fishing.

This method is preferred when fishing the bait off the bottom.

Place some packing or other buoyant material between pieces of bait to keep the bait off the lake bottom.

The more confident you become, you can even start skipping your bait off this structure to solicit a reaction strike from a nearby bass.

Place the tube so that it is half on the surface and half off the edge, with the end that is baited off the edge.

We watched the biggest ones approach, ignore the bait, and move off to lie motionless.

Surrounding them, large bluefish picked off bait that had escaped the mayhem of the stripers.

Some sellers are addicts, put out like bait to hand off the drugs, and then, if caught, to do the time.

When a fish takes the bait and swims off with it, the reel revolves, triggers the clip, and -- Bingo! -- the flag leaps up to alert you, just in case you found something to do besides stare at the tip-up as you sat on your inverted, five-gallon plastic bucket.

This is normal, as sometimes animals can retrieve bait without setting off the trap.