04-11-2016, 04:53 PM
[#0000FF]There's no end to the baits and lures folks will try to catch fish. No denying the mussels though. The wipers do love 'em.
My best story along those lines goes back a few years...on a fishing trip to Irvine Lake, in southern California. I was fishing with a buddy who made his own "power bait"...a dough mixture with cheese, salmon egg nectar and some anise (licorice) scent. It was mixed with flour and a bit of cotton to give it "holding power" on the hook. It came out a brownish color...unappetizing to look at but the big trout in that lake really liked it.
We were bringing in and releasing a lot of nice fish and were surrounded by other folks in boats that were not catching much. When they asked what we were using we held up the small Skippy peanut butter jar in which we kept the bait. And they could see us rebaiting out of that jar. When they asked how we kept the peanut butter on the hook we told them about mixing in some flour and cotton.
The "rest of the story"? A couple of weeks later we read in an outdoor newspaper that people were using peanut butter on Irvine Lake...and were catching both trout and catfish on it. Go figure.
Stripers have the reputation of being finicky and preferring live or fresh bait. But while I was on a temporary work assignment in the New Orleans area I was shown how to catch river-run stripers on "aged" chicken guts...the stuff usually used for no-class cats. Go figure.
No surprise that wipers[/#0000FF][#0000FF] go for the mussels. I also know they go for anchovies. I'll bet they would also slurp up some squid.
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My best story along those lines goes back a few years...on a fishing trip to Irvine Lake, in southern California. I was fishing with a buddy who made his own "power bait"...a dough mixture with cheese, salmon egg nectar and some anise (licorice) scent. It was mixed with flour and a bit of cotton to give it "holding power" on the hook. It came out a brownish color...unappetizing to look at but the big trout in that lake really liked it.
We were bringing in and releasing a lot of nice fish and were surrounded by other folks in boats that were not catching much. When they asked what we were using we held up the small Skippy peanut butter jar in which we kept the bait. And they could see us rebaiting out of that jar. When they asked how we kept the peanut butter on the hook we told them about mixing in some flour and cotton.
The "rest of the story"? A couple of weeks later we read in an outdoor newspaper that people were using peanut butter on Irvine Lake...and were catching both trout and catfish on it. Go figure.
Stripers have the reputation of being finicky and preferring live or fresh bait. But while I was on a temporary work assignment in the New Orleans area I was shown how to catch river-run stripers on "aged" chicken guts...the stuff usually used for no-class cats. Go figure.
No surprise that wipers[/#0000FF][#0000FF] go for the mussels. I also know they go for anchovies. I'll bet they would also slurp up some squid.
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