hotdogs????

[icefishingluva]

We use both hotdogs and minnows.  We would just cut them up into smaller pieces and attach them to a treble hook.  Caught a lot of gators that way.

icefishingluva

[fd757]

You cut them up and put it in a jar with stinky brine, catfish food.  They love that stuff!

[Grumpyoldman]

Anything that can be bait and chow is worth trying.

[jjc155]

oddly enough when I go bobber fishing with my kids in the summer I take a tin of Vienna Sausages and cut em up for bait. Works in the ponds and lakes we go to.

pretty much anything with some scent and meat to it will work in my experience

J-

[walleyemagic]

coneys or other name is snappy grillers  white hots 

http://www.hofmannsausage.com/home/

[steene]

I use them and have had luck with it all year round.  I dice them up different sizes and dehydrate them.  They stay on the hook a little better when dried and the grease releases slower that way.

The cheapest ones are what I buy.  $1 a pack works out to a lot of dried bait.

Cooked works as well, but dried is my preferred method.

[GOOSE_EGG]

you guys are all high. This sounds like something the guys on the jerry springer show would use for bait. I hope u are a better fisherman than hotdogs as bait.

[mrpike2]

i do the same as water wolf. works great. pike swallow it right down  nice and smooth.

[nocod]

never used hot dogs but have used half boiled potato soaked in maple syrup for carp(worked great).

[mi500]

i have used them lots of times for cats when i cant keep blue gills from nibbling my worms.  works great.

[rlvb]

i take some light wire and make a 3'' long stem/leader that is tied to a treble hook and has a small loop on the other end.i slide this stem up through a half hotdog down to the treble and attach it to my line. cast it out and let it set on the bottom. pike will pick it up off the bottom.if no bites i start reeling in and drag it on the bottom slowly and BANG.

[PsychologicalPerch]

If Hotdogs sound wierd I caught a bass on gummy worms after my friend and I ran out of senkos because the bass were deystroying them.

[mattg]

I too have seen people posting here about pike hitting them but as you said I'm still trying to figure out if that is a joke.

I once filleted two pike from the same area caught on the same day that had whole pieces of sausage (in casing) in their stomachs. NO LIE

[Mainehazmt]

I once filleted two pike from the same area caught on the same day that had whole pieces of sausage (in casing) in their stomachs. NO LIE

pre stuffed pike   

[miked]

I used hot italian sausage cooked a few times and caught eels in fresh water.

[triple240]

I've used bright colored pepperoni sticks and was hammering pikes like crazy !

[ICE DOG 69]

Seems like the only time I can get Pike to hit Hotdogs is when I ad relish , go figure...  I hate relish.

[stoutbait]

It worked for me actually out fished shiners. Rigged then horizontal about a foot off the bottom.

[NEW222]

As stupid as this sounds, I see that dried works, but to you others that use or have used, do you grill them, boil them, nuke them, or use them straight from the package?  I wanna try this. 

P.S. Will Oscar Meyer weiners work, as that is all I have.  All ours up here are a bit smaller, and not as good...