Finding the best fishing lures and bait is an art.
Fish and Cut Bait with These Strange Lures
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I grew up fishing, like most Southern girls.
Grandma would get us up before daylight to work in the garden and right after we would race to the creek. One day when the other girls was using salamanders(I have never had the heart to kill them) I used the little square caramels I had in my pockets... I caught more than anyone that day!
I've used a number of weird stuff to catch fish' me personally when I want to go fishing I go to the local grocery store and buy canned yellow sweet corn, a pack of hotdogs. I think its crazy I can go to the grocery store with two or three dollars and buy bait instead of going to the local bait a tackle shop and have to spend close to twenty dollars there but catch more fish with the stuff that I bought at the grocery store!!!!!. Who would of thought.......
Yes, I have caught more fish with canned corn and Wheatie balls than with worms!
In the cold winter months the realy big catfish over fifty pounds will eat whole mussles and you can see when you catch one it's bottom lip will be sanded off. I have tried many times to catch the big ones with mussles but failed often not to mention it's cold water your hunting for mussles in to begin with. New solution on the shelf in walmart I purched some oyster sause (in the chineese food isle) and marinated some cut bait in it for 24 hours before fishing. Wow! It is the best thing that I have ever used on the big ones, and it is great on steak as well.
near night fall at local lake eaten up with insects and ready to leave gave it 15 more minutes and went home with 3 big mouth bass never before probably never again but i wouldnt complain bro beleved in the night too big to be any but carp in the light of day we saw otherwise
we were fishing for hybreads on a lake near home using chicken livers. When we ran out I took a paper towel and tore it into small squares and diped them in the blood which was left over. It worked just as good as the chicken liver.
Out of the Mouths of Babes
One Spring day I was crappie fishing with my two daughters. The spoons we were using were not working at all. One daughter suggested we try the glitter off their backpacks, pink & blue. Just to go along with them, no other reason, I decided to try their suggestion. We then enjoyed a very productive day of fishing !
Proud Dad
My father always laughed at me when i was a little kid cause i would try the strangest baits to go fishing with. One time when i was about 10 or so i took my sister down to the salt water tributary behind our house at the time and we were fishing for croaker, tautog, speckled, and brown trout, basically what ever would bite. we didnt have enough money to buy a box of worms after i'd bought her lunch with my allowance, so we went over to the produce depatment of our grocery store and bought a bunch of celery. the lady checking us out laughed when she heard that we were gonna use it as bait, but when we showed back up about three hours later with about half a dozen croaker in a wheeled cooler filled with river water to get my sisters picture taken and posted on the community catch board she couldn't believe her eyes. my dad still insists it was the smell of the chicken nuggets on the celery that attracted those fish, and me and my sister still swear up and down that it was all the celery, so try it some time. you never know what you'll catch if you don't try, just like attracting deer by rubbing your hands and face with orange oil to keep off the cold ;)
I was fishing with my youngest son a few years ago. He was eating gummy worms, but he doesnt like the orange ones. I suggested as a joke that he put one on his hook and use it for bait. We caught 18 large bluegill and redear before we ran out of gummies. We had behemoths and redworms but the orange gummies were what the fish wanted. We still save all the orange gummies throughout the year for bait when fishing time rolls around.
I claim to be the best...I thought I was just talking. Ran out of bubble gum trick worms in Tallessee, Al. After losing the last one on my first catch, I rigged up a Hardee's straw with two hooks. The first at the end of my line ,tied a second hook to the first and hooked the straw near the rear 30 min later I caught a large mouth bass of about 2 lbs. I knew I was good!!!
