what is the Strangest thing you have ever caught a fish on?
Submitted by Fisher Kid on Tue, 2012-10-23 17:25
What is the Strangest thing you have ever caught a fish on?
Mine is two 30cm bream on shaved ham.
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Fishing and catching are two different things. But i want to learn how to catch.
beau
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Date Joined: 24/01/10
I used to catch herring on
I used to catch herring on old used cigarette butts when I ran out of bait at the old palm beach jetty, I was alot younger then and didnt own or know much about lures
MattMiller
Posts: 4171
Date Joined: 15/06/09
Yep,
Herring will eat anything.
I used to catch heaps on just the handle piece of disposable razors as a lure. Same idea as lumo tube.
tailor marc
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Date Joined: 27/09/06
10kg Mulloway at steep point
10kg Mulloway at steep point on the rattiest old mulie then my uncle poured VB beer over it, took 2 mint to hook up he mulla at sunset.
9kg Dhuie in a cleaned rainbow trout i caught at golden ponds the day before
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stevebw23
Posts: 155
Date Joined: 12/11/11
offshore up north i caught
offshore up north i caught plenty of small baldchin groper, spangled emperors, spanish flags etc just using white bread on a hook as bait. was a bit tricky because i only had one chance to jag em because the bread would fall off after one bite. iv'e used this trick a few timies when iv'e had no bait
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grayzeee
Posts: 2283
Date Joined: 09/07/09
flathead on bits of white
flathead on bits of white plastic bag
If I spent half as long fishing , as I do reading this bloody forum , I'd be twice the fisherman I am.
EL SYD
Posts: 599
Date Joined: 16/08/10
shoe lace on a hook for
shoe lace on a hook for spanish makeral at lee point, been known to still use this trick
quadfisher
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Date Joined: 28/09/10
bbbig lure
Haha , last year at a albany beach the kiddies drove the quad through a small coastal creek
at the back of the dunes adjoining the beach,
as they did, they scared 2 huge herring ( caught in there) onto dry land
and proudly arrived back at camp , with no bait or fishing gear, but a nice feed for lunch!!
Bloody expensive way to get 2 herring ,
cost of quad and trailer/ divided by 2 fish.
quadfisher
twicther
Posts: 200
Date Joined: 31/12/11
Unusual bait
Ok it is normally edible but recently caught a 30+ cm mangrove jack on the Hamma lure by halco, g-train colour. I don't own shares but these babies speak for themselves, anyway had jack at my feet thinking it was a bit small for a feed when a decent barra took a swipe at it. Called out to my friend only 10 metres away to get over and have a flick to see if we could entice our larger predator to come along when, this time it had a real go taking the lure and somehow dislodging the lure from one lucky jack. Only happened this year chopper fishing in the Kimberleys so vivid in my memory, 830mm barra was a good memory from this day.
Jim
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Date Joined: 05/05/06
Tailor Marcs is the best, a
Tailor Marcs is the best, a 10kg dhuie in a golden ponds trout? or the other way around hehe, i had to read it 3 times!
Read somewhere that someone used a bit of foot skin to catch herring!!
Bend over
Bakerc
Posts: 61
Date Joined: 07/04/10
A mate and I took out 2
A mate and I took out 2 mates who love fishing but really have not a lot of idea. Took them off two rocks and it was really slow didn't catch much for a few hours one of them as a joke put a piece of the muesli bar he was eating on a hook and to our amazement he wound up his first dhuie of around 7-8kg. Couldn't believe it!
MattG
Posts: 104
Date Joined: 09/09/09
A couple of weeks ago while
A couple of weeks ago while fishing for kg's i got a cuttlefish on a peice of squid!
meglodon
Posts: 5981
Date Joined: 17/06/10
gardies at exmouth
walking along the back beach at exmounth when i was suddenly showered with gardies trying to escape queenies all you had to do was pickem up off the beach easiest bit of bait gathering i have ever done
Zoggy84
Posts: 234
Date Joined: 24/06/12
Mangrove jack on Knitting
Mangrove jack on Knitting wool up in hedland and a decent size flathead on a McDonalds Straw
The name is Zoe.
If any1 but the wife asks im fishing, if she asks im at work.
Searaig
Posts: 11
Date Joined: 12/09/12
Yellowfin tuna using a
Yellowfin tuna using a sharpened split pin as a hook and a dried out flying fish that had been on the deck for a few days, I have pics of the rig I used but can't seem to upload them
catchalittle
Posts: 1875
Date Joined: 04/09/08
dont know about fish but
dont know about fish but caught my wife with my charm
Nathan
SABRE
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Date Joined: 17/05/12
Chicken
We quite regularly use raw chicken when we fish and the herring seem to love it. Buy some drumsticks and just cut chunks off,works out cheap bait.
If fishing is a sport I,m an elite athlete
Rubber Chicken
Posts: 7
Date Joined: 25/10/12
herring on a bent safty-pin
herring on a bent safty-pin a piece of shoe lace and a blob of blu tack as bait..at ocean Reef Marina.. :D
KeenAsFisho
Posts: 24
Date Joined: 03/09/12
Up at jurien one year had a
Up at jurien one year had a piece of a chuppa chup stick on the end of the hook cleaning up on herring, a few years ago now this was (maybe '99) but between 3 of us we pulled in around 40 in 15 mins and never had to re-bait once!
Cheers
gdupagne
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Date Joined: 01/11/12
Get the herring on the boil
Get the herring on the boil and use a plastic wall plug. never have to rebait
snappermiles
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Date Joined: 05/11/10
caught pink snapper on chicken bones
we would eat the chicken and throw the bones overboard,
when we went home after a good night catching some nice pinks i cut the guts open and found the chicken bones! so next time we went out and they werent biting a tied a chicken bone onto a 7/0 and bam off she went!
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uncle
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Date Joined: 10/02/07
herring on rice bubbles
very hard to get a bubble on a hook though,sprinkle rice bubbles out the back of your boat,talk about snap crakle pop, herring will go ballistic
all aggressive fish love bigjohnsjigs
ironpirate
Posts: 47
Date Joined: 20/09/12
at angel island spending a
at angel island spending a overnighter and early in the morning was down at the water when the mackies started chopping up and scared five squid on to the beach stranded thanks mackies!!
wet lines
uncle
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Date Joined: 10/02/07
big trevs
on bare hooks swiped across the water out behind a staionary boat
all aggressive fish love bigjohnsjigs
Formerathlete
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Date Joined: 02/04/12
'Snagged Tailor'
Caught Tailor up north once on a cooked sausage with a gang through it!
Doooma
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Date Joined: 05/12/09
Up North
Tied a teaspoon to a hook as I didnt take any lures on a sailing trip... BAM..... massive spanish mackie!!!!
Was a major bastard getting the twists out of the bloody line though!!!! (no swivel)
Also the biggest Spangled Emperor I have EVER caught... using a whole crayfish head as bait!!! I wont say how big as most of you wont believe it.... but she was a beauty!!
high Noon
Posts: 22
Date Joined: 27/10/11
Once while bearling for
Once while bearling for sharks with chicken carcases a school of backrun salmon began to feed on the bearly. Used chicken bones to catch them.
crasny1
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Date Joined: 16/10/08
Nicotine chewing gum
Ran out of bait at the opening to the cut yrs ago. Lots of gardies. All I had was some Nicotine gum. Even gardies addicted to Nicotine as they hit the gum with gusto. Not mouthing it as normal but straight down the gob. Laughed for ages about this.
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jettyrat
Posts: 62
Date Joined: 08/11/11
Cardboard
Caught a tiger shark on a piece of cardboard with a rope gaff.