Strange but true!

[Bass-ic Instinct]

Can anyone think of any unusual baits they have used to catch sea fish. For example when i was in Ibiza i caught many species of wrasse and bream on pieces of the breakfast sausages from breakfast and on french bread. If anyone has any unusual baits that were successful then please feel free to post them, no matter how weird it gets.

[Bass-ic Instinct]

As mentioned in a previous thread i have caught carp on raisens before, and a friend had a massive 19ld mirror carp on a Starburst Jooster. I caught a 2ld wrasse of rockmark on a slug once aswell, although my dad has told me that many large chub and trout have been caught out of the river Swale on slugs.

[ringer]

my mate used to catch torsk off the rigs when he worked on them using steak.cooked not raw.i've also caught coley on crab sticks.

[Bass-ic Instinct]

Nice, that sounds like resourceful angling. Last summer a shoal of mackerel turned up off the pier, i foul hooked a few reeling in but i couldnt get them in numbers. My dad then took a three hook flapper rig out of the rig wallet and hooked strips of a crisp packet he had cut up with scissors. Hey presto an instant feather rig! Whats more it worked to, so proof that Macky do like Beef and Onion Hoola Hoops! LOL

[Bass-ic Instinct]

Another time i saw a kid catch a flounder off Warkworth pier using sweetcorn on a hair rig??? Whatsmore he told me he catches them like that frequently. I did catch alot more than him on the more conventional ragworm but it did suprise me!

[Lobber]

Liquorice Allsort on a handline.. Hooked a coalie off Portpatrick as a nipper.

[Bass-ic Instinct]

Interesting, lol! I have fished the Yellow Isle and Dashers Den over there many times but have used more conventional baits. I have seen coalies caught on pieces of bacon before though, and i have seen another thread on here about using bacon for bass aswell. I would like to here that persons views!

[lewis888]

Done the improvised feathers thing a few times with a 3 hook flapper and a kitkat wrapper/crisp bag/slices of mackeral skin, I was getting annoyed turning up and marks and seeing mackeral so I've started carrying a few sets of feathers now.

Also used a slice of salami to catch a school bass in Rhodes a few years ago (still the only bass I've ever caught which is shamefull!!) :fish:

[Rajabatis]

Freelined frankfurter sausage slices for snappers off a pier in Florida. Chummed them with bread and chopped up sausage then a good slice of frankfurter as the hookbait lowered in at the same time as the chum. Deadly! The snappers were put on the barbie that evening.

[parkenator]

it would be interesting to know whether the fish were caught due to scent/flavour, or by sheer luck. If only there were some way to tell.

[DAVE H]

HAD dogfish on pepper ramie stick..

[rassick]

Never used it myself but ive seen a lad catch whities on chunks of strawberry jelly....

[smoothound54]

not bait as such but i once saw a cod gutted wot had eaten a perfect half pound block of margerine still in its wrapper

al

[Rajabatis]

not bait as such but i once saw a cod gutted wot had eaten a perfect half pound block of margerine still in its wrapper

al
Watch it! you will start a whole different thread here.:)

I found a bright yellow golf ball in a cod once. What was it thinking that was?:blink:

[Bass-ic Instinct]

I did see a pike caught in a winter league math on piece of corned beef cut to look like a fish. Dont laugh the bloke won his scetion on it! Me and my friend did catch mullet in a marina in Itally on Marshmallows aswell, funny that as i struggle to catch mullet in England. i also saw in Sea Angler mag that a bloke caught a bream on the remains of a pot noodel so it all goes to show just what fish will eat.

[makgas]

i also do a lot of carp fishing so been thinking fo giving some high sea flavered boiles ago
you never know it could work

[Bass-ic Instinct]

Do you think that sea fish could be taken on Boilies? I know how awfull squid and muscle active8 boilies smell, they took a lot of carp and even a few small catfish in france though. Perhaps a few on a hair rig could catch doggies or perhaps even wrasse or pollock?

[Bass-ic Instinct]

I have caught a carp in winter before on a dyed yellow herring intended for pike too. One of the weirdest i have seen though was a large roach of over 2ld taken on a deadbaited minnow intended for perch and chub in the river Avon by a friend! Do all fish have predatory instincts or is this a rare occurance???

[makgas]

Do you think that sea fish could be taken on Boilies? I know how awfull squid and muscle active8 boilies smell, they took a lot of carp and even a few small catfish in france though. Perhaps a few on a hair rig could catch doggies or perhaps even wrasse or pollock?

never know will we till its tyed but i think it will be only suitable for small fish as you say very smelly but easy to use on light sporting set ups

[Bass-ic Instinct]

I think as you say the best set up for fishing boilies in the sea would be carp gear. Perhaps even using the same rigs such as a bolt rig. I have often wondered about using a hair rig for using sof baits like muscles and clam. Perhaps somebody out there has already done this if so i would like to know

[makgas]

all my sea fishing is just about done on boats but there is a lot of potential using some carp rigs i think
what about using small 8/10 mm boiles as atractors as sink very well if fishing the some mark oftern eg peir

[Bass-ic Instinct]

Another tought is that boilies float, also they will provide great visual attraction due to there colour, which i had never thought of. There pretty tough to so i bet the crabs couldnt rip them to pieces unlike soft worm baits aswell???

[makgas]

ane thing is you could put them in a pan of hot water for a few seconds and they will harden the bait up
as you saud you san get floters es could be ised as atractors or as a floating bait

[Bass-ic Instinct]

Thats got me thinking, they could be used instead of beads and used in combination with perhaps live worm. I think this may be how to fish them most effectively although i am keen to give it a go now

[fishermann]

Not catching anything in Madiera, when standing next to locals who are pulling out fish whole sale.
When I found a chap who could speak a little English he told me they were using CHICKEN breast. :secret: Frangoo.:blink:
Tried it and never looked back.

Dave

[Bass-ic Instinct]

what are you catching over there on chicken breast? Could bacon possibly work too. I have seen coalfish caught off a pier on bacon strips over here so cant see why it wouldnt work.

[cap'nhaddock]

I've used red and yellow boilies threaded alternately onto the line above a 4/0 hook on a long flowing trace from a boat. I figured that if fish are attracted to red/yellow beads then big edible beads must be a winner. The pouting loved them. No idea what flavour they were, just grabbed two bags selected purely on colour. Haven't tried them again, I can catch pouting on cheaper baits !
Old chaps have told me about using snails as whiting bait, I've been told this by locals at Watchet, Ramsgate and down on Chesil so the practice must have been widespread.
I used to use garden worms and/or strips of pigs liver for flounders and eel from the Humber bank. Flounders I've caught back in the late 70's from the North Wall in Grimsby had peas and baby carrots in them, from the washings from the freezer factories adjacent I suppose, used to see a lot of veg on the beach when digging worm.
I won't even mention what a mullet expert said you should smear on cotton wool as a bait. But he used to catch a lot around the old sewer pipe.

[Bass-ic Instinct]

LOL!!! Congratz thats great. No wonder why people dont eat mullet??? I have caught a good wrasse on a slug before and can see that snails should work aswell. The carrots and peas thing, has something more to it. On a few occassions whilst carp fishing on match lakes i have been unable to obtain a tin of sweetcorn but the shop has had tins of sweetcorn and peas. For some odd reason i caught carp on the peas more than on the corn, suppose they hadnt seen it much before. The peas also caught bream, which never usually pester you on the carp gear. Earlier i said that i have seen a lad catch flounders on hair rigged sweetcorn, so perhaps veggies are a 'secret' flounder bait.

[fishermann]

what are you catching over there on chicken breast? Could bacon possibly work too. I have seen coalfish caught off a pier on bacon strips over here so cant see why it wouldnt work.

Different types of Bream, Red Snapper, small Puffers and a fish that looks very much like our Mackerel but smaller. These were also good live for the Snapper.

Dave

[PotNoodle]

you will all probably say im a liar but i swear this is the truth...while carp fishing in a lake close to where i live i had put a waggler float on, dipped the float in to test if i had put the right amount of shot on and i had a small but very welcome mirror carp on the unbaited hook

[gazthelad]

my pal off here robdog a few years ago down local river wen we was spinning for sea trout seen a big carp and it kept surfacing taking white things off the surface, on with a peice of a peters sausage roll past its face and bang it was on, it was in the 8 - 10 lb bracket, and 1st cast for it the carp took the bait.

[Cod_Fisher_Cc]

Few years ago i was fishing for cod with lug worm and rag. I ran out of bait and baited mars bar chunks i dont know what i was thinking but it worked because i caught 3 pollack!

[ultimangler]

caught 1lb bass off beach using a peice of tin milk bottle top found on the beach,must off liked the shine

[topnot]

you will all probably say im a liar but i swear this is the truth...while carp fishing in a lake close to where i live i had put a waggler float on, dipped the float in to test if i had put the right amount of shot on and i had a small but very welcome mirror carp on the unbaited hook

Probably thought the hook was a buzzer(?).Trout will take sparsly tied flies that are almost a bare hook ,as they imitate buzzers,a major food source of some fish.

[topnot]

My mrs caught fish(she doesnt know what type) on silver paper put onto a hook and ledgered,whilst fishing far up an estuary,she swears its true.
Ive heard of Mullet on chips,Bass on cheese,ive had Bass attack crab baits that were reeled in mental fast to avoid snags on the retrieve.
Ive heard of carp in the estuary not far from the sea on bread whilst Mullet fishing,ive heard stories of anglers catching fish on pink bubblegum. Ive used cooked cockles and caught fish. Bass on maggot while fishing for trout in a stream. Ive heard of a few Flounder caught by anglers while flyfishing for Bass. I heard of a Massive Conger attacking another hooked Conger of about 15lb...it came to the surface and was seen before disappearing with half the Conger......so a 15lb conger as a hook bait?...may be a waiting game LOL(it was what i read a few years back in a monthly angling mag,not on Arpil the 1st either LOL)

[Scrudgy]

Cooked mussels have caught me a dab and small coley.

Most unusual was catching a small coley on a cigarette butt - however, this was being worked like a lure - so it was only that it was a moving target that the fish went for it, so lets face it anything would catch the little blighters if it moved.