Fishing with cheese???

[Bigcat]

I haven't read the proc for awhile and someone asked me today if you can fish with cheese in utah? I don't have a current copy of the regs so I wasn't sure. He was wondering if you could squirt easy cheese into the inside of a tube jig for scent? I fill my tubes with scent all the time but never thought of easy cheese. I know years ago velvetta was a regional favorite. Would easy cheese be legal or not?
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[flygoddess]

[font "Comic Sans MS"][black][size 3]I don't see why not where bait is allowed. It is easy to digest, which is why no corn (hard to digest)[/size][/black][/font]
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[Kent]

Totally legal where bait is allowed. Growing up we often fished with cheese.
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[TubeDude]

[cool][#0000ff]"Velveeta hackle" is still legal and still a great trout bait. It is also good for catfish, carp, perch and other species. Some surprising catches have been made on cheese, and you don't have to serve crackers with it either.[/#0000ff]
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[Tarponjim]

Velveeta!! It's deadly on stocker bows. And you can always eat it with crackers if the fish don't want it. Zeke's garlic floatin' cheese is handy to keep your bait above the weeds too. [laugh]
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[nugs]

oh this thread brought back memorys for me. i've had some of my best fishing days drifting cheese under the rockport dam as a kid
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[Marshall_Law]

Remember good ol' Targee cheese ? WHOA, now that's an old memory !
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[TubeDude]

[cool][#0000ff]You're still just a pup unless you remember Pokee Bait. That was a cheese based bait...with other "secret" ingredients...that really caught a lot of Utah fishies.[/#0000ff]
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[Fishrmn]

Ed's pokee bait. Sold by the "Chalet" in Provo canyon. Great stuff. He sold it in plastic bags.

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[JandSGuns]

Back in the late 80's early 90's I was a student at SUU in Cedar City (SUSC then) and I used to fish Newcastle about twice a week. In the fall power bait worked well. Once the ice came on I would switch to Velveta. One day in early December I was out fishing on the ice and an older gentleman came out and started fishing about 15 yards from us. We had some fish on the ice with our Velveta and thought we were doing pretty well. This guy drilled his hole and immediately started pulling fish out of his hole. In about 10 minutes he had his limit and was packing up to leave. We were dumb founded.

I got up the nerve and walked over and ask him his secret. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a small bottle of Kraft Old English Cheese spread – the kind you stuff celery with at Thanksgiving. He told me it had had a lot of oil in it and when you fished with it the oil seeped out into the water and would draw the fish in to the smell (?). He took a small dab and put it in the water and it looked like a small oil slick. He gave me what was left of his bottle and left. I fished with it and had my limit in about 20 minutes. For the rest of ice season that was the only bait I ever used and never got skunked. He told me to use the Old English or Hickory as they aroma was stronger.

The cheese is so soft you can only use it for ice fishing. I have tried to use it in the summer and it won’t stay on your hook. However, during the winter you mound up a little snow and keep the bottle packed in the snow to keep it firm. You bait you hook and dip it in the water and slowly let your line out and it does an excellent job.

I never would have believed it if I hadn’t witnessed it.
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[djremo]

wow!thanxs for the tip who would have thunk it!
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[fishinminnesota]

Where can you pick up a can of the stuff??
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