Your tentacle is nothing magic for Lings, they will hit a curly tailed turd if you get it in front of them (I know, I talk about turds a lot on the subject of fishing :lol

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I have caught Lings on strips of Squawfish, if something will eat Squawfish, it becomes apparent that it will eat anything with meat, and Squawfish meat with the skin left on will take pliers to get it off the hook. If they see it they will eat it, if it has protein/taste they will swallow it.
I'm gonna start pickling Squawfish strips, getting my own label, and snapping pics of the meat in other fishes mouths so I can sell it!!! I'll get my own bounty for the Squaws lol. Sorry, it just seems like an infomercial seeing a product that is meant to be sold hanging out of a fishes mouth everytime one posts a report, but once someone gets confronted, the excuse would probably be 'I'm just posting another fishing report like everyone else does', but hey, you gotta make a livin some how.
Now we're gonna run into pics of Seabass, Bluegill, Largemouth, Smallmouth, and stockers with a pink tentacle hanging outta their mouths.