Strange but true!

**Bass-ic Instinct** · 10-03-2007, 23:04

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** · 10-03-2007, 23:06

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** · 10-03-2007, 23:18

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** · 10-03-2007, 23:31

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** · 10-03-2007, 23:33

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** · 11-03-2007, 00:29

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

**Bass-ic Instinct** · 11-03-2007, 00:35

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** · 11-03-2007, 01:30

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!!)

**Rajabatis** · 11-03-2007, 01:58

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.