Creative Bait-Legal of course

[Reel Nurse]

Hey folks, couldn't get to sleep the other night, was obsessing over ice fishing:)

Anyway, thought it would be fun to ask the forum...what kind of creative/unconventional bait have you used other than standard shiners? I'm talking unconventional-hotdogs, worms, meat who knows what!

[RipSomeLips22]

hahahahhaha hotdogs work for perch, and so does whole kernel canned corn

[1Badboy]

hahahahhaha hotdogs work for perch, and so does whole kernel canned corn

pretty sure corn is illegal to use ...

[RipSomeLips22]

ive looked at the F+W regulations and i havent found anything that says you cant use it

[Troutmagnet]

pretty sure corn is illegal to use ...

Thought that was if you were hunting Couldn't resist.

[RipSomeLips22]

natural case hotdogs work best, stay on the hook longer!

[Champlain Islander]

hahahahhaha hotdogs work for perch, and so does whole kernel canned corn

Fish a bare bibitt with no bait. That is the best way to get a big catch.

[ice dog Jack]

My buddie caught a small laker using the ham from his sandwich!

[cbice]

Yup grilled natural casing franks are the way to go.  The grilled skin is the trick because they live the slightly burnt taste.  The crispy skin helps the hook stay on as well. 

[Fish-On-VT]

pretty sure corn is illegal to use ...

Corn... 

[RipSomeLips22]

ive read that book up and down and i cant find anything about corn anywheres

[flagfishon]

I've heard of guys dropping whole cans down a hole as chum.  That's illegal.  Because of the can(littering).

[1Badboy]

fish cant digest the corn so it kills them...not everything is in the law book either...
u cant shoot elephants in vt , but that's not in there either 

[swampdonkeyvt]

i asked a warden once if it was illegal. He said no but it is frowned upon because its hard for the fish to digest.

[Fish-On-VT]

Commission fisheries biologist Tom Bender at Benner Spring Fish Research Station conducted a study in 1992 that examined the impact of corn on trout. For the study, two groups of hatchery rainbow trout were held in separate tanks and tested for 54 days. In one tank, 20 rainbow trout (average size 8.3 inches) were fed a diet of whole kernel corn. In the second tank, 20 rainbow trout of the same size were fed a standard trout pellet diet.

During the 54 day study period, no mortalities occurred from trout of either study group. However, study results did show that the trout fed with a corn diet did not digest the corn particularly well. The growth observed by the corn-fed trout during the study period was only about half of that observed from the trout that were fed the standard trout pellet diet.

The conclusion from this study was that there appears to be little reason for concern about the short term health hazards for rainbow trout when whole kernel corn is used for bait. Although there are better diets for trout than whole kernel corn, this study confirms that mortality does not occur when trout ingest whole kernel corn.

I've also read similar articles to this 

[mudchuck]

crawdad tails, perch eyes, dough balls, roast beef, hot dogs, cheese, gummies...

[DyingBreed]

Caught some nice fish on choke cherries !!!   

[fishingidjit]

What happens when you eat corn ?It really doesn't hang around too long !