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Offline spearfishen

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salted & dyed bait
« on: Feb 08, 2007, 10:22 AM »
has any 1 ever tryed to salt or dye frozen smelt or minnows  for pike bait

Offline Neptune

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Re: salted & dyed bait
« Reply #1 on: Feb 09, 2007, 10:24 AM »
I've salted bait before, it helps firm up smelt.

But sometimes those big toothy buggers seem to want the soft stuff over the salted stuff.  I primarily use my salted smelt/herring for Laker fishing...

 



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