To Tip or NOT to Tip... That is the question

[wakina]

Can probably catch them without bait, but for $5.00 I am taking bait and tipping em. A little flavor never hurt.

Better to have them and not need them than to need them and not have them.

Like BossHog says for 5 bucks worth of shiners that is a drop in the bucket compared to a jigging rod and reel, boat, gas money for the boat and money spent on gas getting to the launch as well as jigs, leader material, and other tackle. I throw away more money than that on other foolish fishing things but never considered cost for minnows or nitecrawlers as a wasteful expenditure. But that is only me.