Strangest Baits that Work

[OldTimer]

Here are a few odd things I have actually caught fish on:

Pieces of a canned super-hot & spicy jalapeno cocktail wiener………………….. Bullheads

Bare chrome plated safety pin (on twine tied to a stick)………. Chubs (got a bunch) - won the bet too!

Small Vaseline soaked pieces of a well-used yellow bathroom sponge……….. Several good Rainbow Trout

And my oddest:

Leader wind knot………………… Smallmouth Bass…………………………….. I was fly fishing in the Muskoka’s with very small cork poppers in a heavy breeze, - on one cast I managed to both snap off my wee popper on an overhanging tree branch, and at the same time got quite a birds-nest of a wind knot in my leader. The line was just lying on the surface when a half decent size smallmouth hit the floating wind knot. A loop of the wind knot got around both the fishes lower jaw and its gill cover – I did land and release this fish, totally unharmed……………. Now that’s barbless!


Cheers,

OldTimer