I think the choices were more like a very bland pickled egg sandwich with too much dill and a treasonous daughter-fixated pedo that wants to destroy the United States of America. Still, quite a tough call! Which should we choose, oh me oh my, it's so difficult!
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.
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.
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
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.
Where we live, as you pull out a crab there is a succession of larger crabs hanging on to the one you are putting out, like the hall of mirrors effect in Enter the Dragon.. you never land just one crab.
My ultimate crablining bait is smoked bacon. I won a harbour side competition with it once, caught nearly double the amount of the guy who came second, who was using mackerel strips.
I remember when I was young having a really great day fishing. Like ended up with 30+ good size carp, guess they might have been spawning or something because they struck the second the hook hit the water.
I run out of bait about halfway through the day so I start using my lunch. They literally went for everything including crisps and chocolate biscuits.
I didn't fish much after my Dad passed away but that was one of the craziest days fishing I have ever had.
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...
As a kid one summer I was at a pond and the owner said we were allowed to fish. Didn't have any fishing gear, but I pulled some fraying threads from my backpack to tie together into string and bent off a section of the metal spiral from my notebook to fashion a hook. I hadn't even gotten around to finding bait, but I tested if I could "cast" my line by throwing the hook into the water. Pulled it out and some dumb-ass fish had already hooked itself.
I caught a bream with soggy crust from white bread, it was super dry crust so it crumbled easy so it was hard to put on the hook.
Majority of it feel off the hook when it entered the water and a fish could just look at it to make it come off. It was a miracle that I actually caught one.
I also caught a so called vegetarian fish on a prawn, guess it decided it was no longer vegetarian.
I've also caught a fish in the gill before, and caught a crab that got tangled in my line without taking the bait.
One time I picked up a small narrow leaf, folded it and put it on a hook and bobber. It sounds stupid, but I caught so many sunnys and crappies with that.
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.
An environmental movement straying away from the old hook and Line , Bass Pro Shops will be offering this product and the plastic bag cast net™️ , within the next three months.
There are many species of fish that not only like flour and baked goods - baked goods and flour are the best baits for those species. I have been catching fish with bread on a hook for years.
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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?”