Weirdest Bait?

[DP]

A dill pickle on steel leader w/ 4/0 hook, the bluefish loved it.

DP
CAMP TAJI, IRAQ

[BigWillJ]

Ditto chicken breast strips...soaked in an attractant or not......most anything in the surf. Not much luck from a boat.

This memory from fresh water bank fishing. Used to catch any insects we could find for bait, but that's not the story.....this one time we didn't gather much bait. All dried up on some streamside rocks were a lot of shrimp shells. Dried up as all get out, hard, and brittle. Just the leftover shells. Looked like they'd been in the sun all day. Put 'em on the hook and caught some fish for a meal or two. Was young then, but still thought it was a cool discovery.

[Sudsy]

Hard salami for cats in the C&D Canal

[fishbill]

turkey lunch meat for baby flounder

[home cookin']

I've wondered whetehr those packs of salt herring they sell in the grocery store would work like bunker.

[Gilnockey]

As a young boy, I used pieces of uncooked bacon to catch my share of bluegills.

[Coastal1]

Second the Ivory Soap in blackwater rivers. Catfish love it and the boat and your hands smell good.

[Brianczaw]

Black berries for Carp.
Live seventeen year locust for Bass.
Live frogs for Pickerel.

We noticed carp in the gundpowder hanging under a mulberry tree. could get them to take corn, worm or anything. put 2 mulberries on the hook, kapow

[gwag]

Off shore Blue fin tuna fishing ,smashed bud can with circle hook

[kmeyer]

My wife caught a 20# CARP with macaroni and cheese (from KFC)

I have caught:

Trout on gummy bear heads and on a ZIPPER from a jacket

Spadefish using the clear gummies

northern pike on a silver Key chain

Kevin