Northwest Fishing Reports

I just read Trent Hale's post about using gummy worms to catch trout, and it got me wondering... What is the oddest bait you have ever used to succesfully land a fish???

Mine would probably have to be a bare hook in a perch feeding frenzy

Beerman

ive used white chewing gum after being chewed and caught sunfish. thats about the weirdest thing i have ever used.

I;ve seen bluegill bite at bird droppings that have just hit the water......not that i'd try to use that as bait...funny when they chose to bite my swivel instead of the worm.......

oddest think i've used would have been hot dogs.....we were camping at the lil site at Box Canyon dam, went night fishing on the river but forgot the worms....had lots of hot dogs so we use a treble hook from some daredevils and a bullet weight....come some big squaw fish!

I have used hot dogs and bread before for carp. Lake of the ozarks.

I used to work for a gal, who when she was a little girl, would lay on the dock and put her hand down into the water in a bunch of weeds. She would then stick one finger out of the weeds and wiggle it. When the bream would come along and bite on her finger, she would flip them out onto the beach. Just the thought of that vision makes me laugh.

Diamond lake, Oregon: Velveeta hole. Used a glob of velveeta cheese for trout. Kicked ass with it.

Long lake: The Thumb's perch spot. Bare hooks. Why use bait if the perch are dumb enough to bite gold hooks? That was a good fish fry that night.

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Lotech Joe wrote:I used to work for a gal, who when she was a little girl, would lay on the dock and put her hand down into the water in a bunch of weeds. She would then stick one finger out of the weeds and wiggle it. When the bream would come along and bite on her finger, she would flip them out onto the beach. Just the thought of that vision makes me laugh.

i got a good laugh out of that too. everyone has probably heard about those guys who will stick their hands down over the side of a riverbank and wait for a catfish to take a bite and then make a fist to lock on and pull the fish out? crazy!!!

my story doesn't qualify as a bait story, but i once had a squawfish hit on a beadhead nymph i was tying onto a stimulator as a dropper/strike indicator combo. it was barely in the water and right up against my waders because the river current had pushed it there. i hadn't finished tying the knot yet so i had to twist the line around my finger to reel it in.

i am seeing a common theme with bluegills, and similar to all my experiences with them. pocket lint, bare hooks (anything shiny), bread... that bird poop story made me laugh though. stoopid fish!

Ive used rose petals for crappie in Yarrow Bay some years ago.My uncle had a boat house with some friends of his 60' yacht.There were crappie and bass everywhere.Cheese has always produced fish in small lakes around Wa State.

one time ai threw a small red berrie in front of a spawning bulegill... you guessed it that fish was vegitarian. anorther time I ran out of worms while bluegill fishingh so I started tearing out bluegill eyes and leaving them on my hook. it almost worked better than worms. keep in mind I did keep the eyeless bluegill

I personally didn't use it but I saw a guy in MT use a cigarette butt to catch a bluegill.

I used little yellow rubber ducks for pikes in Fairbanks AK.

GCB069 wrote:I used little yellow rubber ducks for pikes in Fairbanks AK.

"Rubber duckie your the one" Thats Ernie singing....:dj:

I used little yellow rubber ducks for pikes in Fairbanks AK.

I don't want to know the bi catch

GCB069 wrote:I used little yellow rubber ducks for pikes in Fairbanks AK.

This made me realize that I've got a rubber shark that was a bathtub toy of my son's a few years ago.. I keep it on the boat because I keep meaning to prove to myself that it would make a good swimbait for at least dogfish on the sound.
Next time I'm out, I'm going to rig it up!

Gisteppo wrote:Diamond lake, Oregon: Velveeta hole. Used a glob of velveeta cheese for trout. Kicked ass with it.

my grandma caught a 14 pound bullhead catfish using velveeta cheese

my weirdest bait was using bacon. caught a little channel catfish to lol

chunk of raw chicken fat (leftover bait from crabbing): for Puget Sound cod

one time i was going carp fishing at greenlake and forgot my bait so i grabbed half a loaf of banana bread from my moms car and it actually worked pretty well, we caught a couple over ten pounds

My brother and I were trolling Potholes one time and he was chewing "Extra" chewing gum, the one flavor that is kinda chatruese green, I don't remember the flavor, probably spearmint, anyway he through it over board and we saw a nice trout gobble it up. So I baited my hook with mine, and trolled and caught nice keeper off of that chewing gum.

ive used pieces of oh boy oberto summer sausage before and caught a bunch of pogies off the desmoines pier. everything loves oberto's lol:cheers:

in England we'd use chunks of bread and kernels of corn to catch bait fish (brits call them Roach) to fish for pike. The corn also worked for the crawdads there too. Not a real strange mix but its the weirdest for me.