I actually wonder about that alot, especially after catching my drum last year on a bunker chunk that hooked a live blue. How often do other critters attract predatory species to our chunked baits?
Say the stripers are feeding on calicos and come up on one eating your bunker and engulf the whole package, or drum coming up on snappers pecking your bait, and take a swipe grabbing your hook as well. There really is no way to know, but it'd be nice to take advantage of it when possible. If I get out I plan on exploiting it a bit this season by casting multiple small baits on 8/0 octupus hooks on droppers, hoping to hook a snack size blue like last year but leaving it for dead out on the hook. Just gives you more bait in the water and maybe some live action if you get lucky.
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Ben
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