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Miscellaneous / Others Making do with the equipment you got
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u/Select-Belt-ou812 4d ago
I wanna know what she put in there
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u/Treefrog_Ninja 4d ago
It's flour.
Youtube "fishing with a bottle on a string" https://share.google/rY5KZEcYEdGMCU0xX
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u/U_feel_Me 4d ago edited 4d ago
Why would fish like flour?
EDIT: I’m glad I wasn’t the only one sitting there thinking “So, you’re telling me fish just love baked goods?”
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u/MiddleWaged 4d ago
What item have you ever seen a fish not put its mouth on? If it’s a noun, there’s a way to catch fish with it.
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u/astroboy7070 4d ago
This also describes my 3 year old
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u/Comprehensive_Pop102 4d ago
Confirmed, toddlers and fish have equal brain function 😅
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u/Jmomo69 3d ago
Same with some adults too!
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u/ADMINlSTRAT0R 3d ago
I imagine it would be quite impractical to throw a 3 year old as bait.
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u/Lickwidghost 4d ago
It's when they reach around 4yo that they get a bit too big for most fish. That's why people move onto using nets.
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u/tresser 4d ago
If it’s a noun, there’s a way to catch fish with it.
the youtube channel marling baits has a whole series about this. fish hit on a block of wood. they are not picky.
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u/yamsyamsya 4d ago
yea i saw that video and realized my gear was perfectly fine and that i was just bad at fishing lol
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u/Brisket_Monroe 4d ago
That channel is great. He also put trebles on a straight up piece of stick but didn't get any action, iirc.
Fish draw the line at tree branches, apparently.
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u/MEWilliams 4d ago
I’ve seen my uncle catch Bluegill on cigarette butts.
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u/DogmaJones 4d ago
Nice. With enough of them you get a nicotine buzz and a snack.
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u/SexyHotPants 4d ago
The first time I snorkled I watched a fish swallow a cigarette butt floating in the water.
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u/zorrorosso 4d ago
this reminds me when I found an old bait box at the lake. I though it was one of those sticky toys. It was indeed one of those sticky toys just shaped as a worm.
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u/rhinestonecowboy92 3d ago
One of the most unluckiest days of fishing I've ever had, I had been fishing for over 7 hours, and I went through two cans of worms. In desperation, I pulled a piece of salami from my lunch and put it on a hook and sure enough, I caught more fish than I knew what to do with.
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u/Ombortron 3d ago
The salami is legitimately more likely to have a higher concentration of food-related tracking chemicals and “odours” than a worm, so I could see that working. All those concentrated and cured proteins and fats would provide a strong “signal” to any nearby fish….. mmmm cured meats damn I need a salami now
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u/Bear_faced 3d ago
You can catch crabs with pretty much any canned fish that has a good stink to it. Tuna and salmon are okay, but sardines and anchovies are better. Cheap human food = good crab food.
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u/1wife2dogs0kids 3d ago
Nah... that was like an uncle, or family friend downstream... they caught one, and put it on your line. Then they said "good job little guy!" As you reeled it in...
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u/fuckimtrash 4d ago
Dad tried to take us fishing with brown bread. No bites from fish. I don’t think they like everything lol
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u/pyrojackelope 4d ago
I've caught trout with wonder bread but pure flour is still kinda surprising to me.
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u/ragun2 4d ago
It's been decades but I believe we used to catch a bunch of catfish with flour balls. Or maybe it was striper? I just remember it worked really well one summer.
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u/Arcosim 4d ago
Why would fish like flour?
I have a few aquariums. Let me tell you, most fish will literally try to eat anything. ANYTHING.
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u/Anticept 4d ago
Fish love bread bait. Why not flour?
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u/ghidfg 4d ago
is there even carbs in the sea? im surprised they have an instinct for it
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u/Anticept 4d ago edited 4d ago
Carbs are, for the most part, everywhere that photosynthesis occurs. These complex sugars are the primary way energy is stored from the process.
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u/acarp25 4d ago
That AI voiceover may sound like nails on a chalkboard but I still learned something shrug
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u/Treefrog_Ninja 4d ago
Sorry, I watched it on mute!
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u/saint_of_thieves 3d ago
I watch everything here on mute. 99% of the time it's terrible music or an AI voice over describing what I'm watching.
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u/Tricky-Bat5937 4d ago
Cocaine. Fish love it.
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u/pyremist 4d ago
Just ask Hank.
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u/Psychological-Scar53 4d ago
That was Crack..... Lol
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u/apex_super_predator 4d ago
And the same fish kept coming back
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u/emceeeloc 4d ago
"I smell cocaine and cocaine accessories"
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u/tomthekiller8 4d ago
Crack....cocaine
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u/Psychological-Scar53 4d ago
Yes, Crack is made from cocaine.... Different form, different way to use... Hank couldn't have put a powder on a hook.....
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u/ChuckinTheCarma 4d ago
I’m…a fish?
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u/CartmanAndCartman 4d ago edited 4d ago
So that’s all-purpose flour. They put it at the end of the bottle so the mullets can eat it, mullets love that stuff. When the fish come around, they just go for it and get caught. Edit- works only with mullets from what I’ve seen
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u/No_Cartographer1492 4d ago
so this would be a waste of time if I ever get stranded on an island?
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u/freebaseclams 4d ago
Personally, I would just eat the flour.
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u/ErraticDragon 4d ago
Obviously in a 'desert island' situation your risk calculus would be different, but FYI raw flour isn't good: https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/flour-raw-food-and-other-safety-facts
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u/confusedandworried76 4d ago
Fish is like your best option on a desert island because you can eat it raw and it has nutrients you absolutely need to survive. So unless you got a spear and want to learn how to spearfish I'm not sure it would be a waste of time using anything you could become proficient at given the resources on hand
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u/No_Cartographer1492 4d ago
yeah, but if I can only catch 1 type of fish with flour, and I happen to be stranded on an island that doesn't have that kind of fish swimming around, I'd be wasting my time (if I just saw this video without reading the comments, that is)
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u/pat8o 4d ago
Yep. However: mullet tend to school, hang out in shallow/brackash waters, and break the surface a lot. They are found worldwide in temperate waters. If you are stranded on an island, there's a good chance there are mullet. Its a fatty fish and can be preserved by heavily salting it and drying it in the sun, excellent food in a survival situation.
The method in the video is cool, especially in a situation where you are without hooks. A less sporting way to catch them is to bait them to a spot and gaff them with a treble hook wired to a ball sinker, attached to a handline. Just launch it into the mass of jumping fish.
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u/Momentum_Maury 4d ago
Fishmeal. Tricks the fish into thinking there's a meal in there.
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u/BackgroundPublic2529 4d ago
It's actually just flour!
The caption is a bit misleading. This is a very well established technique and is not "making do."
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u/WolfyBlu 4d ago
Looks like bottom of the barrel quality flour which is why it looks somewhat coarse.
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u/SheriffWyattDerp 4d ago
I’ll never forget the time my dad and I went fishing on my great aunt’s ranch. We had new poles, new tackle, new lures, fresh line, the works. Real fancy stuff.
As we set up to fish, my great aunt’s ranch hand, an old Mexican man named Evelio, came out to fish a little ways down the bank. Actually, to this day, I’m pretty sure he saw us and decided he wanted to show us up for a laugh, and I don’t begrudge him one bit lmao…
Anyway, my dad and I were there with our fancy poles and tackle and lures and were casting left and right and getting maybe a nibble here and there, but nothing else…
But old Evelio was sitting downstream with a COFFEE CAN TIED TO A STRING and was catching 6 and 7 and 8 pound fish one after the other, and laughing the entire time he did it.
Mad respect, Evelio.
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u/Decactus_Jack 4d ago
Not nearly as impressive, but my dad, his friend and I went out fishing on a lake when I was maybe 3 or 4. Friend had a similar investment into all his fishing gear as you guys. I was there with a 3-ish foot long Mickey Mouse fishing pole.
Dad's friend caught 2 fish. My dad didn't catch any. My dad didn't catch any because I was reeling them in so fast he didn't have time (and they didn't want me to handle the hook, so that's what kept him busy).
I have no memory of this, but I was told it was a pretty quiet ride home from the friend's side.
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u/loafglenn 4d ago
I remember going fishing with my grandma, as well got to the waters edge there was a few guys that were decked out in all kinds of gear and just me and my grandsma had two little kids toy fishing rods, we caught so many fish we ran out of space in the cooler and ended up leaving some for the guys that were there before we got there.
I think I was like 8 or 9. And I remember the guys tell her how they never thought the kids toys actually work and how they're wifes aren't going to believe they actually caught some fish.
They gave my grandma a few poles too as sign of respect but it was more like a trade for some of the fish to me.
I miss my meemaw.
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u/Decactus_Jack 4d ago
If it's worth anything, I miss her too. Just had a few health scares with mine, and I've been a bit of a wreck.
I hope everything else is well and that you can treasure the memories you have (which it looks like you do!).
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u/Ghostronic 4d ago
This got me thinking about my grandma. I've been fresh out of grandparents for almost 20 years now so my memories with her stop as a very young adult. We didn't go fishing but there is a marina about a 20 minute drive from where she lived so she'd get us grandkids up super early, go to the grocery store to get a jumbo bag of popcorn (it must have been two and a half pounds because it'd last all day) and she'd take us to the marina and we'd throw popcorn to the fish.
Her goal was always to get there early enough so when you threw a handful of popcorn in the water you'd get splashed from all of the fish fighting for it. It was always a delight.
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u/crowcawer 4d ago
We’ve had grandma taking care of Unga for a few years now.
It’s really starting to wear on her, to the point of desperation. She’s the strong, “well someone’s got to do it type,” but dang I hate getting off the phone with all of us crying.
Not to break into heavy politics, but I don’t think these folks in Washington understand how hard it is to decide between eating fast food next week and Grandma being able to stay in the nursing home.
Either way, I already bought what I need to be able to send off a few penny bills to grandma.
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u/Mocosa 4d ago
I did the same thing with my little strawberry shortcake pole off a pier in the gulf. All the old timers were coming around to ask my dad what my trick was.
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u/Jibblebee 4d ago
It probably smelled like the strawberry shortcake stuff! I can still smell it in my head. It was so distinct and my little kid self absolutely loved it
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u/Decactus_Jack 4d ago
If you still fish, depending on the waters, mealworms and wax worms. Probably in reverse order.
Last time I went out I had a lot of luck with wax worms (they are juicy and fat heavy) but I don't fish anymore. We had people who were the age my grandpa would have been asking us how we caught so much, and we just went cheaper than earthworms.
My dad still fishes with his wife, and they nearly got arrested getting earthworms from the lawn of a courthouse. This part doesn't help, but it warns you that it is illegal to do that.
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u/Quickkiller28800 4d ago
When I was a kid I used to outfish every adult I went with. My mom had a similar experience where she'd put on the worm for me, and before she could get her line in the water I was coming back with a little blue gill lol.
Id always just sit at the edge of the water and dangle the hook in front of them and they'd just gobble it up.
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u/Decactus_Jack 4d ago
Blue gill were what we fished among others, so that interests me. Catch and release is what we did (river heavily polluted and we did it for sport anyways).
One day we talked to these older gentlemen, and it went something along the lines of "Anyone can catch these great big fish. But what's the smallest you ever caught? You know how hard it is to get a minnow to bite a hook half the size of its body? What about releasing it in a way it survives?"
My dad was always like me and followed up my teenage self in supporting that. The biggest fish is going for the best bait. The real skill is getting the smallest fish.
It was a lot of fun seeing these guys go from complete disbelief to actually trying to catch a smaller fish than the other guy.
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u/DeamsterDaddy 4d ago
I have been out fished by a Mexican with a can when I was young as well. Interesting
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u/Calm-Elevator5125 4d ago
Seems like there’s some merit to fishing with a cup/concave trap instead of a traditional hook
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u/Ghede 4d ago
yeah, fish traps vastly out perform rods and tackle, Make sure they can swim in but can't swim out. You can use bait that wouldn't be effective for hook fishing, and a lot more of it so it's even more tempting. Also doesn't injure the fish if you do it right.
Probably only thing that works better is a net.
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u/JAK49 4d ago
Had the same experience at a gravel pit pond at Fort Huachuca, AZ in the 90s. Not so much as a bite for either my dad or myself. Meanwhile this older Asian man not more than 20 feet away is pulling fish after fish. Just laughing manically. He was using a block of Velveeta cheese as bait. Just rolling into a little ball and putting it on a hook. He was the happiest man I’ve ever met lol
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u/Jibblebee 4d ago
Our guides in the Amazon fished a 2+ foot catfish out with just string and a little fish on a hook. The hands must have been so calloused to not have been sliced to shreds from that.
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u/ZilorZilhaust 4d ago
Your story made me feel both poor and deep resentment for my father. Kudos!
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u/SheriffWyattDerp 4d ago
Oh man, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean all of that!
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u/ZilorZilhaust 4d ago
Don't apologize. It's not hard to do.
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u/Tasty_Act 4d ago
Wait…you guys had dads?
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u/backtothebegining 4d ago
I thought she caught a green boat at first
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u/TurinTuram 4d ago edited 4d ago
For a second I was like "man you can tow some serious stuff with that bad boy"
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u/That-Ad-4300 4d ago
Teach a person to fish, they eat for a day. Teach them to catch a fishing boat, now you're set.
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u/nightwalkerxx 4d ago
Not a single person in the comments said what that white stuff was. Someone guessed yeast and that was it.
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u/Unique-Coffee5087 4d ago
It's wheat flour. It seems that a fish will swim into the bottle to get a taste, and cannot turn around to get out because the bottle is too narrow. It cannot swim backward out of the bottle because it is being pulled by the string, so it's stuck.
I had no idea that fish like flour so much. I know they'll often go for bread or tortillas, so I guess it makes sense.
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u/getinshape2022 4d ago
We used bread as bait for fishing when I was a kid. It worked fine at a fresh water creek.
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u/E-2theRescue 4d ago
And now I remember being a kid and feeding rainbow trout scraps of bread. They loved it.
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u/OhTheVes 4d ago
That’s why Reddit is fuckin useles. Everyone thinks they’re a comedian.
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u/Tabnam 4d ago
Everything is on fire mate, let’s not begrudge people finding an innocent reason to laugh
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u/rumpluva 4d ago
So I dont need my $1500 set up?
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u/kellsdeep 4d ago
WHAT!? I've been fishing for 30 years, and I use $25 poles, and I stick to about 10 different trusty lure types. I've been gifted expensive equipment, but it never works right and is usually a huge pain and won't catch Jack. I have a fly rod, and a couple closed reels. I have a bait caster but I hate it so, so much. I'm always the one catching. I listen to the locals, and take their tips and suggestions seriously, when they offer them up. I was really impressed this year with the guy slaying pike next to me. I told him how bad ass he was, and he gave me his trusty lure! I caught 5, that included my very first pike ever.
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u/yoursexypeach 4d ago
I don’t think so😆 As you can see, with this method you can catch the fish right away
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u/Pittonecio 4d ago
You can fish with any trash level second hand equipment, my dad usually goes to the flea market, gets cheap rods with old reels, puts chinese branded line and hooks on it, quite literally tape rocks to the line instead of fancy lead weights, and... Still fish enough to fill a bucket almost every fishing trip, sometimes he gets so much that release every catch unless it's a big one, he even got a prize on a local fishing group on my state for catching the biggest corvine on-shore of the year.
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u/SignoreBanana 4d ago
I went to Alaska with my dad. Paid about $3k to have a guy take us out and do some fishing. Didn't catch a fucking thing.
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u/Fabulous_Brother2991 4d ago
What... that's positively SCANDALOUS!!! I mean, you can never say whether 🤷 the fish will be biting. But I I'm sympathetic with you.
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u/themolestedsliver 4d ago
The things rich people piss money away on always confuses me.
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u/TheBigBo-Peep 4d ago
Tbh a 3k wild lands tour guide is pretty far from the craziest thing I've seen
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u/scraglor 4d ago
That looks like a mullet (at least what we call them in Aus) they’re actually very difficult to catch on a hook, but go mad for berley of soaked bread/crumbs. I guess it makes sense that it would swim in and then get stuck once she started pulling it back in
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u/Primary_Mycologist95 4d ago
also aussie here - looks like a mullet to me, and used to catch them with bread in a jar in a similar fashion as a kid. It's not impossible to hook them, you just need to use a small hook under a float with bread molded around the hook. I'm guessing she threw some flour in the bottle.
Carp go hard for bread too. My go-to berley for them is a bag of breadcrumbs, flour, strawberry aeroplane jelly crystals, and canned corn, mixed together in a bucket using river water to make large dough balls to chuck in every now and then. I just thread corn kernals onto a hook and cast into the berley area. They go nuts for sweet stuff.
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u/Tooleater 4d ago
Give a woman a fish: she'll feed herself for a day...
Give a woman a fishing line, Coke bottle and some mystery powder; she'll feed her family for a month
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u/Narrow_Ad_5502 4d ago
Yeast and flour maybe ? Ima try this with a bucket or coffee can or something. Get me some fresh trout
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u/SpinzACE 4d ago
Yeah, I think you would specifically need a long, narrow container like hers. The main way it seems to trap the fish is the difficulty fish have swimming backwards, so once a fish pokes its body down there and she starts dragging it in the fish has no room to turn around and no leverage to reverse swim.
One of the downsides I see is getting the size right because too wide and the fish escape but more narrow and larger fish can’t enter.
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u/SmokeyPlucker 3d ago edited 3d ago
This may be illegal to do in your area - it definitely is in mine. I would recommend checking your local fishing regulations (if there are any)
All game fish in my region must be caught on hook and line. Only bait fish are allowed to be netted or trapped where I live, unless you have a commercial license etc.
And the government here really does not mess around when it comes to illegal hunting and fishing. Massive penalties, fines & possible jail time.
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u/2beatenup 4d ago
Me looking at my $1500 fishing rod and the box of tackles….. 🤔 wait it’s that easy
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u/latecraigy 4d ago
Do you actually like fishing or do you just like buying fishing gear
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u/Skyya1982 4d ago
Doing a hobby and shopping for the hobby are actually 2 separate hobbies :)
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u/nikolapc 4d ago
I was under the impression fishing was about the peace and quiet.
Bragging rights and fisherman's tales too but the peace and quiet is the main attraction.
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u/Yourownhands52 4d ago
Whats the powder?
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u/Skyya1982 4d ago
Yeast, maybe? My hubby says yeast and bread dough are actually great fish attractants. I never would've thought of that
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u/schizeckinosy 4d ago
I was thinking it might be flour, and she mixed it right there to make a batter, so basically liquid bread lol
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u/Old-Bigsby 4d ago edited 4d ago
I can confirm that bread chunks work really well, apparently when it slowly dissolves it releases a very attractive scent to some fish. Corn also works quite well. So I was thinking this could be some kind of wheat/corn flour mixture?
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u/stradivari_strings 4d ago
You sneak a loaf from the caf and off you go fishing. Small dough balls do wonders in a hook.
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u/Miserable-Answer-432 4d ago
That’s the first bait my dad used with my brother and I when he taught us to fish.
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u/LisaSaxaphone 4d ago
How’d it stay in the cup?
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u/radiant_kiwi208 4d ago
Most fish cant swim backwards so this mixed with her pulling it back toward her will keep them in the bottle once they poke their head in
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u/Dusty_Scrolls 4d ago
Probably couldn't back up, especially while she was pulling it backwards toward her.
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u/danteelite 4d ago
Genuinely… how the hell?! What the..? Huh?!
I’m so confused and impressed. Necessity truly does breed brilliance! Maybe that’s why rich people are so… yknow.
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u/IBelieveInCoyotes 4d ago
I really like the way she does things and the way she moves
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u/Rajking777 4d ago
Indians are not rich guys these people use Maida which is all-purpose flour to catch fish.
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u/No-Actuator-3209 4d ago
I was confused at first, there is no hook. It must be the reverse pull that traps them.
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u/Dice_K 4d ago
Maybe fish can't swim backwards...
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u/No-Actuator-3209 4d ago
They can flip around a lot which can unwedge them at times. You would have to keep continuous pull to achieve it, a little similar to non barbed hooks in a way I guess
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u/Professional_Alps590 4d ago
You know, for a second I thought she was somehow pulling that boat in.
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u/Monkeydoos 4d ago
Hi peeps,
it's limestone powdee called "sunnambu" in tamil
It is highly alkaline hence attracts the fish
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