"Spring lizards" -- salamanders as bait

[TJ]

I've posted some info and pics in the past showing how some Asians use salamanders for food or medicine here in the East. Since these may have given some people (and I'm not including Nate among them

) the impression that Asians are especially cruel in this respect, I thought I'd balance the scales by passing along some info on how salamanders are used in the "civilized" West.

The info and images here are from a book entitled "Fishing with Live Bait".

(Message edited by TJ on May 11, 2004)

 

[edward]

I have an article that dicusses an easy way of catching D. quadromaculatus by fishing for them with barbless artificial flies.....

About 26 years ago, I purchased my first tiger salamander at a bait shop in Henderson, Nevada for 74 cents.....

Ed

 

[leanne]

Yep, they sell tigers as bait in Nebraska too---that's where I got my pet as well.