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Title: salted & dyed bait
Post by: spearfishen on Feb 08, 2007, 10:22 AM

has any 1 ever tryed to salt or dye frozen smelt or minnows  for pike bait

Title: Re: salted & dyed bait
Post by: Neptune 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...