What is the weirdest bait you have used to catch a fish????
Submitted by outdoinit on Fri, 2013-05-03 18:45
Was talking to my old boss last night and he was telling me that he just done a 5 day Abrolhos charter with Top Gun 2 charters and said one day the fishing was very slow.
He was munching on some lollie snakes, when he decided to put one on the hook (A Green one) he said.
The end result was he hooked the only fish on that drift and it also was the biggest spanglie for the whole 5 day trip and of course it was on the lollie snake..
what is your unusual bait???
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Bananna peel for sand whiting
Bananna peel for sand whiting works a treat.
FISH-ON
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Chewy lollies for bream
Chewy lollies for bream
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Sausage roll for Herring.
Sausage roll for Herring.
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Haha, was on a night charter
Haha, was on a night charter off Hillarys with like 20 mates, no one gettin anything and the skipper started cookin up some snaggas. "Oi skip, chuck us a snagga", barely been on the hot plate more than a few minutes then sent over on a set of gangs and landed a decent size slimey mack, only fish of the trip haha, was good coz everyone laughed as I baited it up but couldnt belive I caught a fish on it
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fishcrazy
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a cheezel
Caught herring on cheezels lol
Terry
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snagga
caught a sheila once with me snagga....
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Yea Same
but mine were Fat Pigs...
crezz
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trout on corn kernals works a
trout on corn kernals works a treat
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used to get herring using the
used to get herring using the foil wrapper from the wriglies chewing gum sticks. worked a treat
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makai
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Perch on marshmallows
On a 3 week walking trip in the remote Kimberley region I used marshmallows to catch perch on 5m of 6kg nylon line taken as an emergency handline. They were beautiful cooked in the coals, especially as we had been living on dried lentils and chickpeas for days as we had to carry all our food and gear on our backs.
bitten
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10kg pinkie on a coke canfish
10kg pinkie on a coke can
fish were going off i said we could catch these things on anything s i chucked a hook through a can and landed the biggest pinky of the lot
Paully
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mullet on cooked spaghetti
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i recently made a lure out of
i recently made a lure out of an orange reflector that i pulled off my pushbike wheel. tried to catch coral trout with it but didn't work. a few squid were interested but not keen enough to latch on. have caught plenty of bluebone groper on white bread. fried rice worrks really well as burley
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Bluetonic
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Some old timers in NZ used to
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Rag
Caught Bluefin tuna on red rag tied to the hook and dragged along at 5 knots.
Spanish macks on ring spanners used as lures
Herring on drinking straws
Salmon on bits of garden hose.
Whiting on cigarette butts
the list goes on
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One time at the mackies dad
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couple of baldies....
...on gravy beef
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put green peas in your burley
put green peas in your burley for herring , whiting and used roast chicken skin to land a 2kg silver cobbler...but they eat anything anyway :)
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chicken treat chicken
for nearly any fish!! works a treat and the stuffing is the best burley! caught everything from herring to pinkies and dhuies on it
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short length of straw over a
short length of straw over a hook for salmon/snook or piece of rag as well, corn kernells are often used for carps in the murray here in SA
Have also put a barrel sinker on the line, slides down onto a hook, scrape sinker surface with a knife so its silver and its a good/cheap lure.
Caught herring on hooks with no bait just retreiving it.
Want to get one of those Simpsons three eyed fish lures and see what I can catch (K-Mart used to have them in the Simpson Kiddy rod/reel packs but I can't find them anymore).
Makai did you cook the Perch on the coals or the Marshmallows (or both)
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for herring
rice bubbles, M Islands trevors on bare hooks
all aggressive fish love bigjohnsjigs
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blutonics right.
yep seen kiwis get snapper on beef liver stored in jars of kero- no refrigeraton required,
weird!.
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pommy land
stayed at a bed n breakfast in england when i was a kid they had a beautiful "strictly members only fly fishing" lake next to it , snuck down there at dawn and fossicked round till i found a couple of little frogs , pinned the poor thing on under a bubble float and caught two cracking rainbows. hid them in a jacket and ran home..
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foot skin
once i cut a little bit of thick skin from the heal of my foot to catch big yellow fin whiting.
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I caught a black bream on a
I caught a black bream on a spider once. Grabbed it like there was no tomorrow.
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Black bream burley
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Have caught tommies(herring)
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Salmon bait
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caught a spanish mack on a
caught a spanish mack on a length of salami, the burley trail was awesome, ganged under a balloon! GT's on squid jigs
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had a lady on board many years ago and for a joke said,
"you'll catch whiting with pieces of tomato," she sat there for about 3hrs and caught nothing while everybody else caught whiting.
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plastic bag
we usto just take our rod and a plastic bag down and rip little chunks of the bag and catch herring on them :)
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went fishing in the carnarvon
went fishing in the carnarvon boat harbour and caught a few small fish then i got ready to leave and had no bait left then i spotted a bream swimming by and i put my chicken burger on my size 4/0 hook no sinker on a hand lineand i pulled my 40cm yellowtail bream in
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cane toad
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Unusual Rig
Not exactly weird bait, but the rig was unusual. Once caught a shark off the Smokey Bay Jetty in South Oz on a handline on one of those squid jigs that you put a mulie on. The shaft prevented it biting off. Still have the jig with bite marks all over the shaft as a souvenir.
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Squid.... I know thats not
Squid....
I know thats not unusual to use as bait..... but it is when you catch a huge Sea mullet!!!!
Bugger was nearly 3 foot long, big scales.... Was about 10 years ago and still stuns me to this day!! Was caught near Turtle Bay of Dirk Hartog when I was on the Snapper boats!!