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strange bait
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 10:20 pm
by The Quadfather
:batman:
Hey, I hope this topic hasn't been posted already, if it has please forgive me.
I was just curious to hear from some of you what is the craziest/strangest bait you've ever used with success for any kind of fishing. artificial baits or food baits.
I will be on the salt in the morining, and I know this is totaly cornball..... but there is a 7" shark on the boat. It is a toy of my son's. I can't help but want to hook it through the snout..... and send it out.
Grapes,,, hotdogs, gummy bears, etc.
Humor me for a laugh.
RE:strange bait
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 10:27 pm
by A9
Bullheads bite anything. I've gotten them on all sorts of stuff..Bacon, gum, anything.
RE:strange bait
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 1:33 pm
by viet
i've used hot dogs to catch flounder. kinda strange, not really though.
RE:strange bait
Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:49 pm
by fishnislife
Caught a trout on a cigarette butt once. I was playing around telling everyone that these stocked fish will bite anything. 
Another one:
I was fishing a dropshot set-up with split shot weights and kept getting bit. I noticed the bite felt like bluegill but wondered why they would hit such a big plastic that I was using. I figured out that they were hitting the split shot. So I took my dropshot hook and clamped a split shot on the middle of it and ended up tagging a bunch of bluegill. Haven't tried it since but I would guess that they like the shape, size and metallic color. 
And I have used you garden variety of household goods as well. Hotdogs, corn, cheese, bread, hamburger, dogfood, catfood, spam, ohh I did once catch a nice catfish on Oberta's original beef jerky.
fishnislife
RE:strange bait
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 11:56 am
by cavdad45
Sand toads for channel catfish in the Midwest. Great bait. It will only catch catfish, no gar or carp. Go figure!
Possum entrails for catfish also. But everything hits that.
Needlefish for Amberjack and Grouper!
RE:strange bait
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 6:09 pm
by iPodrodder
Caught a fish using a very quick setup using a paper clip as a hook and no bait. Also spilled half my trail mix and started a feeding frenzy.
RE:strange bait
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 10:13 pm
by Derrick-k
On a rafting trip on the salmon river one of my freinds stared chokeing, ho eventualy coughed up all of his lunch but 5 min later a schol of 4 or 5 huge!!!!!!!! 2-3 lb trout started feeding, after that occasion I bought a pack rod LOL.