08-11-2003, 01:43 PM
I know you wouldn't be suggesting that he do something illegal like chumming, right? [
] Anyway, I've always done much better with fresh carp meat than I have with rotten. White bass, carp meat, shrimp, liver, whatever. I think that it doesn't matter so much what you are using as it does where you are fishing. Most of the big channels that I've caught have always been hooked in the first half hour of fishing an area. I think that that have such a powerful sense of smell that they get to your bait rather quicky if they are nearby. Obviously there are exceptions to this, but that's been my experience. If you're in a boat and aren't catching any for an hour, move to a new spot. If you're on the shore and have room, do the same. The exception is worms. When I use worms, often I am catching bullheads so fast that I wouldn't ever expect to hook a channel. The bullheads will hit carp meat and other such baits very seldom, which gives you the chance to have a big channel gulp it up before they do. I don't mind catching mudcats too (as an alternative to getting skunked), so that's why I use a T-swivel and put a worm on one hook and carp meat on the other. Sort of the best of both worlds.
P.S. See my report on Utah Lake fishing last saturday.
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] Anyway, I've always done much better with fresh carp meat than I have with rotten. White bass, carp meat, shrimp, liver, whatever. I think that it doesn't matter so much what you are using as it does where you are fishing. Most of the big channels that I've caught have always been hooked in the first half hour of fishing an area. I think that that have such a powerful sense of smell that they get to your bait rather quicky if they are nearby. Obviously there are exceptions to this, but that's been my experience. If you're in a boat and aren't catching any for an hour, move to a new spot. If you're on the shore and have room, do the same. The exception is worms. When I use worms, often I am catching bullheads so fast that I wouldn't ever expect to hook a channel. The bullheads will hit carp meat and other such baits very seldom, which gives you the chance to have a big channel gulp it up before they do. I don't mind catching mudcats too (as an alternative to getting skunked), so that's why I use a T-swivel and put a worm on one hook and carp meat on the other. Sort of the best of both worlds. P.S. See my report on Utah Lake fishing last saturday.
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