What's the weirdest thing you've used for bait/lure etc and have caught?
Submitted by H.S. Chan on Sat, 2011-09-17 19:12
Just interested to see whats been used. Personally strangest for me was seeing someone using earplugs for tailor. flangies using moths, I think for herring, can't remember. But yea, what weird stuff's worked for ya?
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Ryan C
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Date Joined: 08/07/10
kfc
i once used a piece of KFC chicken skin for bait off the top of the old mandurah bridge and caught a bream over a kilo!! cheers
Paul_86
Posts: 1449
Date Joined: 27/03/09
Herring on a bit of manderine
Herring on a bit of manderine peel and also on a small little black bit of plastic out of a kinda suprise, didnt even have a hook on it, but got caught up in its mouth/gills haha.
tim-o
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A few years back on a night
A few years back on a night charter off hillaries, nothin was being caught after several drops and the skipper started cooken up some snaggas so I asked for one, half cooked, put it on a 3 gang for a bit of a laugh amongst me pissed mates and caught a slimey mack, used that for bait and nuthin else got caught all night, we all got fugn pissed tho, I was suprised this was allowed on a charter now thinkin about it, would ave been easy for a man over board that night.
I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
Carry
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Date Joined: 22/04/09
socket
Tuna and mackeral goin off near the mof wharf in dampier we had a hand line and chucked a 16mm long socket above the hook and turfed it out and got some doggy macks.(long time ago when you could get away with it )
We feel nothing but a certain difficulty in continuing to stand
carnarvonite
Posts: 8707
Date Joined: 24/07/07
Red rag
Used to tie a piece of red rag on to a 10/0 hook on cord line to troll for tuna, had better results with that than the Halco tuna lures and big spoons that you could buy then.
bitten
Posts: 803
Date Joined: 07/04/10
used rope and rag for tuna a
used rope and rag for tuna a lot but we were working out in a 1500 m of water west of barrow island and they were everywhere like shooting fish in a barrel also got a couple on a bare tuna circle just for a laugh
best one though was a 10.5kg pinkie on a coke can with a hook put through it pinkies were also going off then at koks island in shark bay
dan
THE GERMAN
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yeh carnarvonite
i fished the rowley showles when i was 18 years old working on a trawler and did the same, red rag worked a treat,on huge, gts, baracuda on the reefs out there was a awsome time as a young bloke!
bitten
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Date Joined: 07/04/10
oh i forgot the GT i got on
oh i forgot the GT i got on liverwurst pate squahed onto a tuna circle
they were so hungry they ate mars bars and cheese and porkchops that i threw into the water (no hook)
scottland
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Date Joined: 10/05/10
My brother
On a river2 sea baby vibe easily a pb
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alfred
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Date Joined: 12/01/07
Mullet on bananaPomfret on a
Mullet on banana
Pomfret on a bit of t shirt
Normal in Asia, but probably radical here, Grass carp on tapioca leaf
Wahoo
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Date Joined: 11/06/07
Old man caught a huge trevally off the beach once
on a cut piece of polony that had gone funky.
Fishin for a feed and fun.
roberta
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Date Joined: 08/07/08
Out with old farts
daughter had the biscuit out and towing her around in one of the bays at the back of GI. Stopped for lunch, old fart looked down into the very clear water (has he always does) saw a school of sand whiting (big) pulled out Polish sausage from his sandwich baited the hook and off we went, got a nice feed of big whiting for tea.
Old fart was out fishing with friends many years ago and for a joke told his friends wife that he always caught whiting with tomato, took out some tomato in the salad she had made, sat all afternoon fishing with bits of tomato on her hook, you guessed she didn't catch anything hahaah
Ginger Tablets Rock
Swan River Fisher
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Date Joined: 03/05/11
Jeezz out behind GI is a bit
Jeezz out behind GI is a bit risky, even infront of GI IMO.
Lol great stories
Ben
roberta
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Ben this stretch of beach where
you can get in, I steered the boat and old fart guided me in through the reef, you can only do it on a clear day, see the reef (good break in it on high tide,) but there is a nice stretch that runs along the beach where you can tow somebody, and plenty of whiting in there, as not many people can get in. Had to lift the leg of the motor as old farts motor has a long leg on it. Don't ask me the name of that stretch of beach, more the southern end.
Ginger Tablets Rock
southcity104
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Date Joined: 27/01/09
Got a dhuey
on a rotten piece of cow hide straight out of a cray pot bait bascket.
"Its a life style job"
Carry
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Date Joined: 22/04/09
dog
Fly fishing off the beach at point samson as my fly was going behind me while casting i didnt realise my dog was chasing the fly the rod started bending backwards i caught the little bugger right in the tongue haha
We feel nothing but a certain difficulty in continuing to stand
Joodles
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Date Joined: 19/11/10
Rainbow trout on a PK chewie.
Rainbow trout on a PK chewie. (actually my sister did)
Hook_er
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Date Joined: 22/11/10
Cigarette
I was fishing the bremer bay estuary around ten years ago. We ran out of bait, so I decided to use an old cigarette butt. The water was so clear we could actually see the fish attacking it. I ended up catching two leather jackets and a king george, for some strange reason I have never tried it again it seemed to go off.
Also I spent hours in Thailand trying to catch tin foil barbs 40cm+ with prawn and even though there were thousands around they wouldnt even sniff the bait when it had a hook in it, but if you threw a loose piece in they would smash it almost before it hit the water. After hours of patience and no luck i noticed half a watermelon drifting down stream, the tin foils were absoloutley smashing it. I quickly ran into the hotels kitchen an demanded they sell me some watermelon. They ended up giving it to me and I smashed 4 in 10 minutes, giddy up.
H.S. Chan
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Date Joined: 04/01/09
Woah, some crazy stuff out
Woah, some crazy stuff out there. LOL who needs bait ay hahaha. The ciggie butts seem to work often so I've heard and seen.
Keeep the weird WTF stuff rolling in!
Spence
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Date Joined: 09/08/10
Brother once caught a
Brother once caught a yellowtail on a BARE hook that was hanging about 6-12 inches OUT of the water while he sat his rod down to chop some more bait the on jetty down in hopetoun.
I guess that's no bait...but still worth sharing I thought
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tailor marc
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Date Joined: 27/09/06
went out on Bodies boat a
went out on Bodies boat a while back and had a rainbow trout that i had caught at golden ponds in the bait bag. Rigged one up and caught a 9kg duie!!
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TonyT
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did you see paul worstelling
did you see paul worstelling on ifish tv catch lots of snapper with a ring spanner out of adelaide, that was the nuts .....
crasny1
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Date Joined: 16/10/08
White rag
tied to a hook poked through the back end. Trolled off new Plymouth in NX and caught more Kahawai (Australian Salmon) than any lures we used. Some Kiwi will remember the plastic white lure with 2 hooks sort of bolted on. Well the rag killed them.
Neels
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Dicko
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Date Joined: 07/10/10
Homemade Barra fly
Used to see heaps of barra sitting under the Eii wharf with their heads down and tails up, stationary. We had a roll of Jinkai 80lb leader, a 6/0 SL12 and a bit of frayed white rope. We cut a few bits off and tied it to the hook We dropped it in and let it sink about 2m, jigged once and Caught an est. 80cm barra first go!!!
We also regularly discard our BBQ leftovers at the end of the Parker Point wharf, the big Golden's come from nowhere to devour the scraps!!
nana nana nana nana fishing!!!
Cotty_CoralBayWA
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Date Joined: 06/02/11
5kg queenie on home made bait catcher
5kg queenie on home made bait catcher. Just 2 treble hooks with sinker on bottom, dag it through bait fish schools to get live bait. Actually jagged it in the side as it went past smashing th school. Lots of fun with the $10 kmart combo.
randall df223
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caught a little port jackson
caught a little port jackson shark in a crab drop net one day, does that count?
Fish! HARD!
Paul H
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Caught a lizard on a bit of
Caught a lizard on a bit of mussell I left on the pontoon on a hook once
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randall df223
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a lizard sneaked into our
a lizard sneaked into our esky bag at rotto one day on the beach and feasted on a grape until it got too cold and he went to sleep. scared the shit out of the missus when she reached in for a bottle of water! hehe
Fish! HARD!
sambo24
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Dunno if this counts, but
Dunno if this counts, but after a few bites in the river I was reeling in to bait up again and my line caught some old line which had obviously been left there a while ago. When I got the line in, I started pulling on the old stuff to get it out, it started to get heavier, and when I got it in there was a solid flathead on it which a lure in its mouth.
Went home with a flathead and a lure which was guaranteed to work