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Posted: 8/3/2019 5:17:51 PM EDT
[Last Edit: WildBoar]
I once caught a 3lb LMB on a Wendys french fry. Ran out of shiners and didnt have any lures on me so I put on a huge fry, sent it out and it got nailed about 3 feet from shore.
Caught a huge Mayan Cichlid on a balled up piece of foil from a cigarette pack. |
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Posted: 8/3/2019 5:38:30 PM EDT
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No bait, just a hook.
Apparently scraps or fish were dumped in this certain area of the river and they hit whatever hit the water. |
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Posted: 8/3/2019 5:41:07 PM EDT
[#2]
Cigarette filter
Tin foil |
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Posted: 8/3/2019 5:49:01 PM EDT
[#3]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By joshiedoom:
No bait, just a hook. Apparently scraps or fish were dumped in this certain area of the river and they hit whatever hit the water. |
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Posted: 8/3/2019 5:54:42 PM EDT
[#4]
1 inch cube of dial soap. Bass jumped all over it.
Had an old guy tell me something about the soap stimulates their desire to feed. |
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Posted: 8/3/2019 6:03:51 PM EDT
[#5]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Willz:
1 inch cube of dial soap. Bass jumped all over it. Had an old guy tell me something about the soap stimulates their desire to feed. |
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Posted: 8/3/2019 6:05:59 PM EDT
[#6]
Grandpa had a mermaid fishing lure and caught bass on it. I guess those fish love them some mermaid!
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Posted: 8/3/2019 6:06:05 PM EDT
[#7]
Blue gills on boiled peanuts.
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Posted: 8/3/2019 6:06:31 PM EDT
[#8]
Corn for trout. Never could understand why it works but it does.
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Posted: 8/3/2019 6:12:26 PM EDT
[#9]
Corn for Carp, Bluegill, catfish, even a Koi. I've used pantyhose strips for gar.
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MD, USA
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Posted: 8/3/2019 6:41:24 PM EDT
[#10]
a clear rubber thing you put over the hook to make it snag free, i just used it like a clear worm
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Posted: 8/3/2019 6:41:55 PM EDT
[#11]
fish in my lake will only eat hot dogs
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Posted: 8/3/2019 6:44:56 PM EDT
[#12]
CORN....
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Posted: 8/3/2019 7:20:21 PM EDT
[#13]
In Alaska on the Russian river fishing Red's (sockeye's) I say a piece of cloth at my feet, I picked it up it was a three inch long closed zipper with 1/2" of cloth on either side with a number 2 hook behind it.
Darned thing caught fish too. |
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Posted: 8/3/2019 7:58:37 PM EDT
[#14]
Gum wrapper.
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Posted: 8/3/2019 8:12:43 PM EDT
[#15]
A bream I could barely get my hand around with a piece of hot dog in a storm water runoff pond. I also caught a bull frog on a piece of hot dog. Everything likes hot dogs.
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Posted: 8/3/2019 8:27:11 PM EDT
[#16]
Christmas tree tinsel wrapped around a fly hook on a 4 wt rod for blue gill.
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Posted: 8/3/2019 8:31:45 PM EDT
[#17]
Caught a sturgeon on a banana peel in the Columbia.
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Posted: 8/3/2019 8:33:17 PM EDT
[#18]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 50-140:
In Alaska on the Russian river fishing Red's (sockeye's) I say a piece of cloth at my feet, I picked it up it was a three inch long closed zipper with 1/2" of cloth on either side with a number 2 hook behind it. Darned thing caught fish too. |
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IL, USA
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Posted: 8/3/2019 8:56:44 PM EDT
[#19]
night crawler or any bait sprayed with WD40
I don't remember where I heard/read that but it works, was early 90's when we started using it. so not an internet thing then caught 100's of crappie, bluegill, small mouth bass and catfish when we first started using the WD40 "bait mate" one of us would use it and the other would not, the one using it always caught MORE and BIGGER fish! still have a little can of it in my tackle box to this day |
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Posted: 8/3/2019 9:22:23 PM EDT
[#20]
Jimmy Carter Penut lure. Green Briar leaf that was yellow and green. Tin foil, orange tape and corn. Oh and carp on corn flake balls.
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Posted: 8/4/2019 9:15:46 PM EDT
[#21]
Cigarette butt
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Posted: 8/4/2019 9:19:20 PM EDT
[Last Edit: GSPatton]
[#22]
Blluegills on a half long blade of grass hanging from a bobber.
If you can catch a wolf spider, superglue a lightweight hook on it's back and let run around the pond. They never last long and it is a hoot |
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WA, USA
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Posted: 8/4/2019 9:29:46 PM EDT
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Caught a fish on a vibrax that got hooked into the eye of a swivel, that must have been snagged on a log. PNW fall fishing a river, thought I was snagged. All of a sudden I was playing a 15ib steelhead. While reeling in, I was like WTF my lure was like 15" from the fishes mouth. He must had been there awhile as he did not fight like a 15lb steelhead. Read about it happening to people, never thought it would happen to me. Should have bought a lottery ticket. Oh wait they were not around yet. Let the fish go..
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Posted: 8/4/2019 9:33:02 PM EDT
[#24]
Commodity cheese.
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Posted: 2/26/2021 8:33:40 PM EDT
[#25]
"Drilled" a hole in a pull tab with my pocket knife, and ran a 2/0 worm hook through it.
Texas rigged, I caught 2 largemouth. |
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Posted: 3/14/2021 4:09:11 AM EDT
[#26]
Gummy bears and a smaller length Albense brand mini gummy worms. I had to try it. I was shocked that I caught a trout with it. It was crazy.
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Posted: 4/4/2021 10:22:25 AM EDT
[#27]
Cheddar and onion brat
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Posted: 4/6/2021 1:44:22 PM EDT
[#28]
Perch eyeballs
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Posted: 4/6/2021 5:09:25 PM EDT
[#29]
Chunk of potato salad.
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Posted: 4/6/2021 5:24:16 PM EDT
[#30]
I caught a bluegill with a booger on a small hook
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Posted: 4/6/2021 5:31:04 PM EDT
[#31]
Bacon. Bass love bacon.
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Posted: 4/6/2021 8:58:30 PM EDT
[Last Edit: goodmedicine]
[#32]
Pink mini marshmallows for rainbow trout.
I think they see it as salmon roe. |
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CO, USA
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Posted: 4/6/2021 9:15:16 PM EDT
[#33]
A dickfer
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Posted: 4/6/2021 9:33:48 PM EDT
[#34]
When we were kids my buddy put a big chunk of cheese on a hook I told him you are dumb that wont catch anything but a bullhead! A second later he reeled in one of the biggest crappies I ever saw.
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Posted: 4/6/2021 9:44:55 PM EDT
[#35]
Caught a 10 lb striper on chicken liver while reeling it in fishing for catfish.
When I was a kid, maybe 12 years old, parents dropped me off at the local lake to fish. Was going for big carp using a loaf of frozen bread dough mixed with jello powder and cheese powder from Mac n cheese. Caught a few. When it was about time to be picked up, for shits and giggles I balled up the remaining dough, a little larger than a softball sized chunk, formed it around a treble hook, opened my bail, and lobbed it into the spillway. 30 seconds later, my line takes off, was absolutely shocked and elated and fought a 20lb flathead in. Was my biggest fish ever at the time. Brought it home alive face down in a 5 gallon bucket, tail hanging out the top, and released it in the little pond down the street. Went back the next morning to try to spot this new pond monster. Found it right away alright. On top of the water. Exploded. Frozen bread dough expands an awful lot in the belly of a fish in 75 degree water. |
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Posted: 4/6/2021 9:47:03 PM EDT
[#36]
Catfish on a cut out from a coke can folded over shiny side out, also grape bubble gum
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Posted: 4/6/2021 9:53:00 PM EDT
[#37]
I caught a snook on a ketchup packet.
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Posted: 4/7/2021 3:21:54 AM EDT
[#38]
I’ve caught rock bass on a plain hook
Maybe they thought it was some sort of chironomid larvae? |
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Posted: 4/7/2021 5:02:47 PM EDT
[#39]
Bluegill on a chunk of dried mud. I was dropping little crumbs of mud in the water and they'd come shooting up to the surface to see what it was. Put a little j hook in a dirt clod and pulled a nice gill out.
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WA, USA
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Posted: 4/27/2021 11:50:14 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By dempsy1: Catfish on a cut out from a coke can folded over shiny side out, also grape bubble gum I folded over a grizzly dip can lid witb a couple pebbles inside to rattle and tied a treble hook to it. It worked for bass a couple times. Rusted out quickly though. |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 4/27/2021 11:57:56 AM EDT
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we use corn or chicken gizzards for perch, bass, and catfish.
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