Sometimes when Using a baloon rig. I like to use life savers candy!
Tie a short lite line from the hook area to the life savers use like 4-5 put the string thru the LS then tie a balloon to a string and string the other end thru the LS throw it out and after some time the ls will melt and release the baloon and your bait is in place!
This works well on piers with a west wind if your on the east coast of coarse.
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Since the mid-1980s, many have raised alarm and hyped rumors that balloons are a constant threat to sea animals, causing a plethora of deaths. Most often this misinformation can be traced to two incidents which occurred along the New Jersey coastline back in the 1980s.
The first incident was in 1985. A 17-foot whale was severely injured after it got stuck within the pilings of a pier and subsequently died. Although the actual cause of death was never scientifically established, the post-mortem revealed a deflated mylar balloon attached to three feet of ribbon in the whale’s stomach. Balloon release opponents frequently claim this was the cause of death. Perhaps, but this incident doesn’t support the anti-release position because neither mylar balloons or ribbons are used in releases.
No direct cause of death was determined by authorities in the second incident which occurred in 1987 and involved a leatherback turtle.. When discovered, the turtle was so decomposed that gender could not be determined. It did have a three-foot long wound caused by a boat propeller — a common cause of sea animal injury and mortality — and the neck of a latex balloon attached to three feet of ribbon also was found in the intestines. This latex balloon did not come from a release — professionally released balloons do not have ribbon attached. Once again, this incident is irrelevant to the anti-release argument.
Until 1997, TBC studies of public incident records and academic research pertaining to balloon releases produced no other incidents of sea animal deaths or injury cases caused by balloons. With one exception occurring in 1996, those presenting this “evidence” have never produced scientific documentation to substantiate these allegations.
The University of Texas Marine Science Institute produced some turtle mortality research in which balloon pieces were found in about six percent of the animals examined. However, chief researcher Pamela Plotkin unequivocally stated that balloons were not the cause of these turtle deaths.
Dr. George Balazs of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Marine Fisheries Service is often cited by balloon release opponents. However, Dr. Balazs has never claimed that a balloon caused the death of any sea animal, even though he has found balloon pieces during several necropsies.
The one exception to the rule was documented on The Discovery Channel in 1997. Marine scientists rescued a sick whale off the Florida coast. During an exploratory surgical procedure, the scientists found and removed a deflated latex balloon blocking the digestive tract leading into the second stomach. The whale subsequently recovered and was released back into the ocean.
In pursuing the facts, TBC also has conducted two extensive database searches. These searches examined documented turtle deaths along the U.S. coastline from Maine to Texas during the 1980s. The results of this investigation: only one report of a balloon being swallowed — the New Jersey leatherback turtle incident described earlier.
Typical of the information contained in these databases is the 1988 database which documents 284 incidents in the Northeast. The most significant causes of death were from boat hits and propeller wounds (79). There were 17 ingestion incidents — not one was attributed to balloons.
A study by wildlife researcher Cathy Beck, published in “The Marine Pollution Bulletin,” found no balloons involved in the deaths of more than 800 sea cows examined over an eight-year period.
In summary, after extensive review of goverment and environmental databases, searches on the Internet, following up media reports and checking facts covering the period 1980 to 1998, TBC found:
One scientifically documented incident in which a sea animal was harmed by a latex balloon
No direct scientific evidence that any sea animal has been harmed or killed by a latex balloon involved in a release
In one 10-year period, more than 100,000 sea turtles were killed by shrimp trawlers
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The first incident was in 1985. A 17-foot whale was severely injured after it got stuck within the pilings of a pier and subsequently died. Although the actual cause of death was never scientifically established, the post-mortem revealed a deflated mylar balloon attached to three feet of ribbon in the whale’s stomach. Balloon release opponents frequently claim this was the cause of death. Perhaps, but this incident doesn’t support the anti-release position because neither mylar balloons or ribbons are used in releases.
No direct cause of death was determined by authorities in the second incident which occurred in 1987 and involved a leatherback turtle.. When discovered, the turtle was so decomposed that gender could not be determined. It did have a three-foot long wound caused by a boat propeller — a common cause of sea animal injury and mortality — and the neck of a latex balloon attached to three feet of ribbon also was found in the intestines. This latex balloon did not come from a release — professionally released balloons do not have ribbon attached. Once again, this incident is irrelevant to the anti-release argument.
Until 1997, TBC studies of public incident records and academic research pertaining to balloon releases produced no other incidents of sea animal deaths or injury cases caused by balloons. With one exception occurring in 1996, those presenting this “evidence” have never produced scientific documentation to substantiate these allegations.
The University of Texas Marine Science Institute produced some turtle mortality research in which balloon pieces were found in about six percent of the animals examined. However, chief researcher Pamela Plotkin unequivocally stated that balloons were not the cause of these turtle deaths.
Dr. George Balazs of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Marine Fisheries Service is often cited by balloon release opponents. However, Dr. Balazs has never claimed that a balloon caused the death of any sea animal, even though he has found balloon pieces during several necropsies.
The one exception to the rule was documented on The Discovery Channel in 1997. Marine scientists rescued a sick whale off the Florida coast. During an exploratory surgical procedure, the scientists found and removed a deflated latex balloon blocking the digestive tract leading into the second stomach. The whale subsequently recovered and was released back into the ocean.
In pursuing the facts, TBC also has conducted two extensive database searches. These searches examined documented turtle deaths along the U.S. coastline from Maine to Texas during the 1980s. The results of this investigation: only one report of a balloon being swallowed — the New Jersey leatherback turtle incident described earlier.
Typical of the information contained in these databases is the 1988 database which documents 284 incidents in the Northeast. The most significant causes of death were from boat hits and propeller wounds (79). There were 17 ingestion incidents — not one was attributed to balloons.
A study by wildlife researcher Cathy Beck, published in “The Marine Pollution Bulletin,” found no balloons involved in the deaths of more than 800 sea cows examined over an eight-year period.
In summary, after extensive review of goverment and environmental databases, searches on the Internet, following up media reports and checking facts covering the period 1980 to 1998, TBC found:
One scientifically documented incident in which a sea animal was harmed by a latex balloon
No direct scientific evidence that any sea animal has been harmed or killed by a latex balloon involved in a release
In one 10-year period, more than 100,000 sea turtles were killed by shrimp trawlers
Minuscule Litter Threat
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dont sweat the one ballon that you use as long as you walk around and pick up at least 5 pieces of plastic trash blowing around everywere and the plastic botles
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