Unconventional bait

[Captian_Zero]

Hi

After reading a post about a squire caught on a piece of chicken thigh meat, I thought I would pose the question - What is the some of the "unconventional" baits you have caught a fish on?

I have tried beef heart a few times and caught bream and whiting.

Cheers

Chris

[raefpud]

ahhahaa - yellowbelly on a mc donalds french fry at night in the upper reaches of the brisbane river, drunk off my nut of course - was very entertaining :o

[cHiCo]

caught tarpon on balls of bread with le`snak cheese on em lol.french onion flavour of course

[adamleah]

I put a fly ie. Blow fly on a whiting hook and caught a 32cm whiting,,,,, They were really thick that day and prob would have jumped on a bare hook...

[MY-TopEnder]

My little brother is still convinced that a Gummi Worm looks like a soft plastic, and he reckons a flathead will go it (they eat anything anyway).

Today the shovelnose i got was taken on the same chicken thigh.... actually so was the flathead, and the bream. Mainly cos i left my other bait at home.

[Maria]

Caught bream on raw potato when I was younger. Don't ask what spurred the desire to try such a bait, cause I don't know either. ;D

Ben

[Remo]

try the humble slab of meat can just about catch anything!

[el_carpo]

I remember sitting at the water's edge at a favorite lake of ours when I was just a little kid (4 or 5), waiting for my dad to bait my hook with a worm for me. I got bored and pretended to fish with just a bare hook. Sure enough, a little bullhead bit and I caught it. So the strangest bait I've ever used to catch a fish is no bait at all! ;D

A bullhead is a little brown colored catfish relative.

[bidkev]

Caught half a dozen different species on bacon rind back in the UK but haven't used it here yet. Also caught heaps on kipper (smoked herring). I'm pretty conservative in my approach to bait, trusting to proven baits and having p[lenty of 'em.

My mate calls my boat "The Pincushion" as when I go out on my own, I may have as many as 8 rods on the go sticking out from all sides of the boat :-) all with different baits and sizes of terminal rigs.......squid, cuttle, herring, pilly bottom and float fished, whitebait, mullet, prawn. If one proves to be consistently catching then I will abandon some of the others and focus on that bait.

[Dylan_Rylatt]

i have used jelly fish to catch scat or butterfish

[Mudcrab]

Spent 23 years in PNG and you still can't go past an old discarded but still working hand grenade as bait!

[Maria]

Hahahahahahaha VMR - is our sport called fishing or collecting pieces of fish? ;D

Ben

[Fisheasy]

Fished Lake Argyle for Sooties and catfish with wild passionfruit, silverside, grasshoppers and cheese and caught a few under the dam wall.

Don't forget Kingtin you're only allowed 3 rods per person in the saltwater in Queensland anyway. Used bacon rinds down the pin and caught flathead.

[CHRIS_aka_GWH]

tailor on strips of IQF cardboard boxes & the plastic inner

[SeaHunt]

My mate calls my boat "The Pincushion" as when I go out on my own, I may have as many as 8 rods on the go sticking out from all sides of the boat :-) all with different baits and sizes of terminal rigs.......squid, cuttle, herring, pilly bottom and float fished, whitebait, mullet, prawn. If one proves to be consistently catching then I will abandon some of the others and focus on that bait.


I think you had better brush up on your Qld fishing regulations with the " 8 rods on the go" bit Kev. #::)

[northsboy]

Ive caught tilapia and eels on chewing gum lol......and barra on FROGS!!!....

[lordy]

Ive caught tilapia and eels on chewing gum lol......and barra on FROGS!!!....


like this one (pinched this photo, hope my mate don't mind). I've heard tales of a legoman lure from up the deep north.

[bidkev]

I think you had better brush up on your Qld fishing regulations with the " 8 rods on the go" #bit Kev. #::)

Bugger! I forgot about that one :-(

This site is *so* good for info.

Thanks for the tip-off SeaHunt and Fisheasy.

cheers

kev

[northsboy]

LMAO LORDY!!!!!! Is that one of those lollie frogs?? hahahahaha there to nice to send out for fish lol :P :P :P Im talking about real green frogs......alive ahahaha barra boof em ay!

[SeaHunt]

Northsboy, don't want to be a stick in the mud, but unless those frogs are canetoads or like the ones in Lordys picture , it is also illegal to use them now.
Very BIG fine for using live frogs.... :-X

[SeaHunt]

Lordy , that Red frog is still good, I'd eat it. # :D

[northsboy]

Owell mate that was couple of years back now...

[northsboy]

By the way dont think im gonna get caught by DPI on a golf course fishing lol.....but ok mate ill keep that in mind!

[SeaHunt]

No your not going to get caught mate, # ;D
But seriously, I think we are running out of frogs.
When I was a kid the dam things used to keep us awake at night when it was raining. Me and my brothers used to have to go and and shut a few up with our sling shots.
It would be years now since I have even seen a green tree frog.
We used to catch all sorts of frogs on the banks of the Condamine and use them to catch yellow belly and cod.
My old man used to put them on the hooks for me because I couldn't bring myself to do it. ( I was only about eight).
When he put the hook down their throats , they used to grab the hook shaft with their almost human like hands to try and stop it going in. # :-X

[northsboy]

Yeah mate i know what you mean....I never put them on the bloody hook me mate did and it was at night as well i couldnt see it!....My mum would kill me if she new what i used to catch those barra...*coz she loves frogs* ! But yes mate i will keep that in mind coz i never knew that!
Cheers mate
Liam

[Cloud_9]

went to peel a few months back had pillies, big prawns from prawn farm and steak.
the only thing that was working was the steak, no takers on pillie or the prawns.

Cheers Cloud 9

[Cloud_9]

on the barra thing , heard that mice are on the most booffed list as well .
i couldn't ty a hook on micky then cast him :-X :-X :-X

Cheers Cloud 9

[Maria]

Mice attached to a float with about 50cm of trace will swim around on the surface pretty cool. With the float behind them, they keep paddling, going nowhere. So I've heard anyway....

Ben

[northsboy]

Don't lie ben i know uve tryed it :P :P ;D ;D

[Batters]

cod on rabbits head

dads also caught some with ducks and turtles in them

[Billo]

mullet on corn kernels ....

[Zeeke]

i once tied some fur on a hook and threw it in... it nailed a bream.. actually, ive now nailed a couple of bream on this fur covered hook

[Tezza985]

Just found a use for my old socks well!

[philip_thomson]

i tried cookie doe one day caught a small bream. steak is good for bream also my uncle caught a "monster bream" down south on steak. ben i wonder if a dolphinfish would take a live mouse attached to a float? ;D a friend of mine caught a decent bream on flathead gut
cheers philip