Author Topic: Interesting ice fishing bait (Read 2116 times)

Stuck-on-Seven · « **on:** Jan 26, 2009, 09:57 PM »

I figured i'd let you guys in on my top secret bait

....a couple years ago me and my cousin got bored and decided to fish the little pond behind his grandparents house.....we had no auger so we cut 5 holes with an axe...we got ready to put the tip-ups in and didnt know what to use for bait...we went back to his house and threw some venison in the microwave to thaw it out....cut it into chunks and went back and put it on the tip-ups....once we set them up we drove the quad back to his house and played madden on ps2...after every quarter of the game we went back and checked the tip-ups.....everytime we went back we had at least 2 flags.....we caught about 20 bullheads that day on venison...what a ball...i guess thats what happens when 2 kids get bored.... you stumble on some good bait

......redneck icefishing at its finest

LFDfireman64 · « **Reply #1 on:** Jan 26, 2009, 10:06 PM »

Spikehorn11 · « **Reply #2 on:** Jan 26, 2009, 10:51 PM »

I'd use scraps but couldn't bare myself to use the steaks I cut.

mike304 · « **Reply #3 on:** Jan 27, 2009, 06:59 AM »

Interesting. did you ever try it after that for anything else?

mercrat · « **Reply #4 on:** Jan 27, 2009, 07:10 AM »

I read a book about a guide in the adirondacks in the late 1800's where they used venision for bait when they ice fished.

NatefishNY · « **Reply #5 on:** Jan 27, 2009, 07:21 AM »

venison is like gold... i just cant do it... maybe scraps used for sausage or jerky

coldbum · « **Reply #6 on:** Jan 27, 2009, 07:36 AM »

Yeah, I can not imagine any bullhead would be worth a piece of venison.
In a pinch it might be useful but I will stick to minnows

MeatHunter737 · « **Reply #7 on:** Jan 27, 2009, 10:06 AM »

Funny this topic comes up...I work at a school, and garbage from the Bio lab was a bucket of sheep hearts... I instantly called my cousin wondering if we could use them for anything... (fishing, coyotes,etc) but after talking awhile we figured the embalming fluid would have ruined anything being interested....sadly to say I let it go to the dumpster

Black_Ice20 · « **Reply #8 on:** Jan 27, 2009, 11:01 AM »

HOTDOGS ON TIPUPS!!! ;)used to work pretty good when i was younger

adkbrookie · « **Reply #9 on:** Jan 27, 2009, 12:40 PM »

i've heard of guys that used to run setlines for brook trout using venision and getting some monsters, of course they probably didn't have any shortage of venison.

Stuck-on-Seven · « **Reply #10 on:** Jan 27, 2009, 02:39 PM »

Never used it for anything else....dont worry the meat was a pack that i think he probably forgot about and was all freezer burnt......and just that one pack of small steaks lasted us all day with leftovers.....i might have to try it again soon since i cant catch fish anywhere else...i might have forgotten what it feels like to pull a good fighting fish through the hole....and yes they fight awesome on tip-ups

TheThinIce · « **Reply #11 on:** Jan 28, 2009, 06:57 AM »

Anyone else use any non-traditonal interesting bait?

jeffd7766 · « **Reply #12 on:** Jan 28, 2009, 07:02 AM »

Not the most ethical....but i was young and realize it now.......but anyway when they would stock trout streams in the spring time, i would go around and collect cig butts ( the ones with the yellowish color filter) and i would use them for bait...i would take small hook and hook it through the end of the butt and then put a small split shot about 4-5 ft above the hook and cast it out. the butts float and drag the sinker across the bottom and the "stockys" will smash them because of the resemblance to the food they get in the hatchery.

mealworm · « **Reply #13 on:** Jan 28, 2009, 07:36 AM »

when i was about 5or6 there was a tiny pond if it was 60' across that was big but we used clover flowers the purple ones workrd better and we caught some pretty nice large mouths later they killed the pond and stocked with bows flowers didn't work for them

viper · « **Reply #14 on:** Jan 28, 2009, 12:46 PM »

Findng something for my son to do in the fall has worked out great for me. We/He collects crickets in our lawn ... not only does he have a blast, but we have bait for Ice Fishing. Pan Fish love it. It is a pain sometimes hookin em up gotta be careful, but it works great

zadvorney · « **Reply #15 on:** Jan 28, 2009, 02:37 PM »

Liver on a tip-up for pike.

mr.clean · « **Reply #16 on:** Jan 28, 2009, 02:51 PM »

Good thread,some times fish will take the strangest of baits. Just a reminder you are supposed to be in attendance when your tip ups are in the water. On a privately owned body of water (Farm Pond for example you probably can get away with setting up tip ups a checking every so often . But do not do this on other lakes/ponds.

Steve

rlowery · « **Reply #17 on:** Jan 28, 2009, 07:02 PM »

piece of my turkey sub for perch, (lettuce tomato and all)

leclairro · « **Reply #18 on:** Jan 28, 2009, 08:50 PM »

I don't think I could use my good venison for ice fishing unless it was a guarantee of some monster lakers

Stuck-on-Seven · « **Reply #19 on:** Jan 31, 2009, 09:12 PM »

Quote from: mr.clean on Jan 28, 2009, 02:51 PM

Good thread,some times fish will take the strangest of baits. Just a reminder you are supposed to be in attendance when your tip ups are in the water. On a privately owned body of water (Farm Pond for example you probably can get away with setting up tip ups a checking every so often . But do not do this on other lakes/ponds.

Steve

Yes this was just a small pond out in a field behind my cousins farm i would never do this on a lake....also a long long time ago i caught largemouths on cherry tomatoes....fresh picked out of the garden must have been the bright color or something that triggered the hit right on top of the water

topher7694 · « **Reply #20 on:** Jan 31, 2009, 09:18 PM »

black licorice Crows gumdrops used jigging through the ice and the ever popular Trix cereal for sunnies when I was a kid

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